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The Memory Poem

The Memory Poem. Use of Imagery throughout At least one use of Sensory Detail At least one use of Enjambment.

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The Memory Poem

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  1. The Memory Poem Use of Imagery throughout At least one use of Sensory Detail At least one use of Enjambment

  2. What is an Image ?This is a question that philosophers and poets have asked themselves for thousands of years and have yet to definitively answer. The most widely used definition of an image these days is:"...an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time." (Ezra Pound)

  3. What are Sensory Details?When you want to "bring something to life" in your writing, or get concretely detailed (to show something with description rather than just generally tell about that something), you usually have to be a good observer of sensory detail which has a lot to do with adjectives (modifies/enhances nouns) and adverbs (modifies/enhances verbs), though one must always beware of clichés:sight--his brown hair hangs down to the middle of his sloping back.sound--the train he sits on clanks metallically beneath him.taste--his hair tastes like bad chemicals, sour and tinny.touch--his skin must feel like sandpaper.smell--there is something musty and moldy about him.psychic/intuition (ha ha)--he seems sad like a dog laying on a dusty sidewalk in Mexico--I sense his pain in the tired squint of his eyes.

  4. Sight: Sparkling sand with white-speckled shellsSound:Sounds chatter and laughter of childrenSmells:whiff of roasting hot dogsTaste:Taste salt waterTexture:Heat of sun on back

  5. EnjambmentIt keeps the poem moving forward and is often used to soften a rhyme. When a line ends with the rhyme it can sound too 'rhymy'...enjambment helps soften this by keeping the flow so it moves past the rhymed word and the rhyme almost appears to be an internal one.

  6. Other Requirements: • Must be at least 2 stanzas in length. • At least 3 lines per stanza. • May utilize rhyme or not, but you must conform to a consistent rhyme scheme if you choose to rhyme. • Be creative! • Be prepared to share Poem TODAY!

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