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Ms. Klanderman
IS THIS A POEM?
A Supermarket In California
by Allan Ginsberg
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked
down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking
at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon
fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at
night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
--and you, Garca Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15306
Is this a poem?
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Is this a poem?
Is This A
Poem??
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=yG24ohpacDk
Is This A
Poem?
The Road Not
Taken by
Robert Frost
The answer ?
They are all poems.
When you write a poem, it should have
More Formats
Haiku- A three line poem with specific syllable
lengths of 5-7-5.
Limerick- Usually a funny poem with a AABBA
rhyme scheme and specific syllable length.
Villanelle- A poem where certain lines are repeated
to make more of a refrain
Pantoum: Each stanza reuses different lines in a
specific pattern from the previous stanzas.
Haiku:
Falling to the ground,
I watch a leaf settle down
In a bed of brown.
Limerick:
There once was a lady named Cager,
Who as the result of a wager,
Consented to fart
The entire oboe part
Of Mozart's quartet in F-major.
ELEGY (SONG)
"My Immortal by Evanescence
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
[Chorus:]
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=VdAOjATmusc
Blue- personification
Green- visual imagery
Red-
Showing
VS.
Telling
Girlfriend
My girlfriend broke my heart.
She crushed my soul.
She destroyed my being.
http://www.youtube
.com/watch?
v=zXHPk-ctoYY
Puedo escribir los
versos ms tristes esta
noche.
Escribir, por ejemplo :
'La noche est
estrellada,
y tiritan, azules, los
astros, a lo lejos'.
El viento de la noche
gira en el cielo y canta.
Puedo escribir los
versos ms tristes esta
noche.
Lonely
I wish I wasnt lonely.
I wish I could escape my loneliness.
I would run fast.
I would leave
And my loneliness wouldnt be able to find
me.
I feel pain.
I wish to sleep forever.
I wish I could go on.
I want to be strong, but cant.
I will tell myself to keep going.
My heart has been crushed.
It is in little pieces.
All I feel is darkness.
My life is empty.
Can you show me the way?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/strand.html
Lines for Winter
by Mark Strand
for Ros Krauss
Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back
and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are.
Figurative Language
Poetry and songs frequently use
figurative language. Figurative
language uses comparisons,
description, and explanation to help the
reader understand. There are many
types of figurative language. The most
common forms found in poetry and
songs are:
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Using like or as to compare
two different things.
Examples:
Her hair was as orange as a
carrot
Life is like a box of chocolates
He would stride off, sending
patterns of frosty air before him
like the smoke of a cigar.
Orange-
Metaphor
A direct comparison between
two things. A is B.
Examples:
The stars are eye candy.
Freedom is a breakfast food.
Their love is the slap of a baseball
in a mitt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdrCalO5BDs
All I Need By Radiohead
This song uses metaphors.
I'm the next act
Waiting in the wings
I'm an animal
Trapped in your hot car
Sometimes the form of is is left out.Her face,a picture of bliss, gazed at the ocean.
Face=A
Picture of bliss=B
Pink - metaphor
Orange- Simile
Personification
Comparing the action/idea/emotion
etc. of something non-human to
something human.
Examples:
The podium proudly stood in front of the
class room.
The fire rushed back into every closet and
felt of the clothes that hung there.
Blue = personification
Orange= simile
Blue= personification
Green= sensory detail and/or
visual imagery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj-4t9drUlM
(mulleygrubs=depression)
A Dream Deferred
by
Langston Hughes
What happens to a
dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-And then run?
Does it stink like rotten
meat?
Or crust and sugar overlike a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Click the link below to read the lesson of the moth by Don Marquis.
After reading it, what do you think the poem symbolizes?
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2003/07/29
Rhyme Scheme:
A way to label a pattern of rhyme occurring throughout a
poem.
The cat was really big.
He ate lots of mice.
He liked to wear a wig.
He chewed on some dice.
A
B
A
B