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Poetry is Fun

Poetry is Fun. Turning Common Tired Phrases into Something Unique. Prewriting Exercise 3 Come up with as many cliché’s as you can Choose several of them to work through the exercise of writing a poem (see handout) Models of the type of poem created follow this slide. Prewriting Exercise 4

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Poetry is Fun

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  1. Poetry is Fun Turning Common Tired Phrases into Something Unique

  2. Prewriting Exercise 3 Come up with as many cliché’s as you can Choose several of them to work through the exercise of writing a poem (see handout) Models of the type of poem created follow this slide Prewriting Exercise 4 Choose one cliché that you think is not really true Create a poem that “proves” that the cliché is inaccurate This can be funny or serious (yo u pick the tone) Models of the type of poem created follow the Exercise 3 poems The Cliché is the Thing

  3. textbook sample I worked like a decent rooster, but Crowing wouldn’t get me to Sunday, so I went to bed when night cracked, and satisfied myself as I ate the red grindstone and painted three square dogs a day.

  4. I was up way before the rooster even thought about crowing Buzzing around like a crazy person trying to get things done Dawn was still in one piece before I ever got to bed Pigs better start growing wings So I can finally get some sleep Model Followed: Morning by Meredith B.

  5. To Be or Not to Be: Dumb as a Rock He was as dumb as a rock.Not really. Rocks aren’t that dumb… Staying in one place, anchored to earthLike Prometheus to the cliff as Eagles plucked at his liver…Rocks have seen eons pass, And they remain unchangedSilent witnesses to evolutionWhich of course, didn’t complete the cycle in West Virginia,As he sped his four-wheeler down the mountain passLooked back at us and said with that reckless grin,“Watch This!”Then he soared skyward, because he had missed the turn,And plummeted to those rocksUnmoved by his bravado.Rocks aren’t that dumb.- Richard Morrell (March 2006)

  6. Cliché by Antonio T. Your as dead as a doornail I hate that statement How can something that never lived be given life but with the utterance of a word But Bacteria live on doornails Even some diseases live on doornails Maybe that is what people are referring to when they say that Well, that is what it’s going to be from now on You are as dead as the bacteria that live on the doornail.

  7. Your Turn Create a poem, at least five lines, that in some way uses a series of clichés in a unique way, or that proves a cliché false.

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