Elements of Poetry

•Review

Haiku• Form of Japanese poetry• Often about nature• Consists of three lines• The 1st and 3rd lines have 5 syllables, the 2nd has

7 syllables

As the wind does blowAcross the trees, I see the

Buds blooming in May

Question Poetry• Consists only

of questions• Sometimes the

questions are centered around the same topic/idea

• Sometimes they are not

Twenty QuestionsDonald Justice

Is it raining out?Is it raining in?

Are you a public fountain?Are you an antique musical instrument?

Are you a famous resort, perhaps?What is your occupation?

Are you by any chance a body of water?Do you often travel alone?

What is your native language, then?Do you recall the word for carnation?

Are you sorry?Will you be sorry?

Is this your hankerchief?What is your destination?

Are you Aquarious?Are you the watermelon flower?

Will you please take off your glasses?Is this a holiday for you?

Is that a scar, or a birthmark?Is there no word for calyx in your tongue?

Found Poetry: Definition - #1

Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and re-framing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or by altering the text by additions and/or deletions.

The resulting poem can be defined as either treated: changed in a profound and systematic manner; or untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the original.

•New Forms!

Limerick• A short humorous poem• Five lines• Lines 1, 2, and 5 have seven to ten syllables,

rhyme and have the same verbal rhythm. • The 3rd and 4th lines have five to seven

syllables, rhyme and have the same rhythm.

Hickory, Dickory Dock, A mouse ran up the clock,

The Clock struck One, The mouse fell down,

Hickory Dickory Dock.

Cinquain (sin-qwain)• Five line poem• 1 has one word (the title) • Line 2 has two words--description• Line 3 has three words--action• Line 4 has four words—create emotion• Line 5 has one word which recalls the title.

DinosaursLived once,

Long ago, butOnly dust and dreams

Remain

Diamante (die-a-mon-te)

• Five lines of poetry• First and last are nouns with opposite meanings• Second and fourth lines are adjectives that describe

the nouns (second describes first noun, fourth describes last noun)

• Third line is four gerunds (-ing verbs)—the first two verbs describe the first noun, the second two describe the last noun

WinterFrosty, Frozen

Snowing, Blowing, Flowering, GrowingSunny, Breezy

Summer

Your turn• You’re going to write three poems using three

different forms

• Explain worksheet/circle choices

• Get in folder group – share the directions with each other – work time 25 minutes

Share• Star your favorite poem and share with the group

• One from each group share