Poetry Portfolio

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Poetry Portfolio
Poetry Portfolio
Silence and Meditation

• English
• Grade 8
• Ms. Ryan

English Grade 8 Ms. Ryan
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What is Poetry?

• Poetry is the most emotionally charged means of
  written expression and it consists of words
  arranged in patterns of sound and imagery to
  spark an emotional, and intellectual response
  from us. Poetry is the language of the
  imagination, of feelings, of emotional self
  expression, of high art. Prose explains, but
  poetry sings. The language in poetry is musical,
  precise, memorable and magical.
• Definition of Poetry (Russell, 2005, pp.
  176-177)
• www.2.nkfust.edu.tw/emchen/CLit/Poetry.htm

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Poetry Eleanor Farjeon

• What is Poetry? Who knows?
• Not a rose, but the scent of the rose
• Not the sky, but the light in the sky
• Not the fly, but the gleam of the fly
• Not the sea, but the sound of the sea
• Not myself, but what makes me
• See, hear and fell something that prose
• Cannot and what it is who knows?
• (from Eleanor Farjeaons Poems for Children,
  1938)

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My definition of poetry

• Poetry is beauty. It is words creating sound and
  pictures. It is a form of expression that soothes
  the soul, ignites fire, creates passion and
  sometimes hides its meaning.

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Types of Poetry
Haiku Sonnet Free Verse Cinquain Acrostic
Character Poem Limerick
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Haiku

• Lyric, unrhymed poem of Japanese origin
• Has 17 syllables divided into three lines
• Usually on subject of nature and mans
  relationship to nature.
• Uses metaphor to give fresh new look at something
  that may be ordinary

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Example of Haiku

• The moon is a week old-
• A dandelion to blow
• Scattering star seed.
• By Ruby Lytle

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Cinquain

• A five-line stanza possibly of medieval origin.
• Often has two, four, six, eight, and two
  syllables respectively in five lines.

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Example of cinquain

• Listen..
• With faint dry sound,
• Like steps of passing ghosts,
• The leaves, frost-crisps, break from the trees
• And fall.
• By Adelaide Crapseys November Night)

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Sonnet

• Very old form of poetry containing 14 lines
• It must be written in one of various standard
  rhyme schemes
• It must be written in iambic pentameter
• (duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH)
• give copies of sonnet

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continued

• Most familiar kind of sonnet is the
  Shakespearean.
• A every A rhymes with every A
• B every B rhymes with every B and so on.
• A This type of sonnet consists of 3 quatrains
  
• B a quatrain is four consecutive lines of
  verse that make up
• C a stanza or division of
  lines in a poem
• D
• C
• D
• E
• F
• E
• F
• G these last two lines rhyme and are called a
  couplet
• G

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Theres more to a sonnet..

• It is also an argument- that builds in a certain
  way
• First quatrain
• an exposition of the main theme and main metaphor
• Second quatrain
• Theme and metaphor are extended, sometimes an
  imaginative example is given

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• Third quatrain
• Peripeteia (a twist or conflict) is often
  introduced using a But (often leading from the
  9th line)
• Couplet
• Summarizes and leaves the reader with a new,
  concluding image.

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Limerick

• 5 line humorous poem.
• First, second and fifth lines rhyming and ..
• Third and fourth lines rhyme.
• Rhyme scheme aabba
• One of most popular poetic forms for children
• The fun of the limerick lies in its rhyme and
  humor

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Example of Limerick

• Imagine a skunk who proposes,
• To his true love, surrounded by roses.
• It may turn out just fine,
• When she falls for his line,
• But I wonder if flowers have noses?
• By Sarah Fanny
• www.2.nkfust.edu.tw/emchen/CLit/poetry

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My Limerickby Ms. Ryan for Alaja

• There once was a Lady named Ga-Ga (a)
• She talked baby talk and said Ba-ba (a)
• She wore clothes that were neat (b)
• Some were even made of meat (b)
• Thats all for now.Ta-Ta! (a)

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More limericks by Paul McCannwww.home.vicnet.net
.au/poems/ps/htm/acrostic_examples.html

• Old Man with a Beard
• Edward Lear
• There was an Old Man with a beard,
• Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
• Two Owls and a Hen,
• Four Larks and a Wren,
• Have all built their nests in my beard!'

• a lady named Cager
• 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.
• author unknown, from website above

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Free Versenotes by Spencer Johnson
ww.docstoc.com/docs/5952272/definition-examples-o
f-free-verse-poetry

• No set rules
• No special pattern
• Sounds like natural speech
• Tells story or paints a picture
• Written like a poem
• Uses carefully chosen words to describe
  experiences or feelings
• must make sense to the reader
• give how to write free verse

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Example of free verseby students at Camborne
Public Schoolwww.docstoc.com/docs

• The Wind
• The Wind is a ghost
• That haunts the night
• Grabbing the leaves,
• The Paper and grass,
• Howling and Growling
• Right through the town
• It moans and groans
• All alone.

• Snowflakes
• Snowflakes
• pretty little tears
• freezing in the sky
• leave behind a blanket
• SNOW

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Acrostic www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/
interactives/acrosticwww.college.holycross.edu/fa
culty/dhummon/acrostics

• A poem in which special letters spell another
  word
• Most often the special letters come at the
  beginning of the line
• Go To student interactive acrostic poem

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Example of an acrostic

• A Peace Sign
• By Paul McCann
• People need love care and friendship .
• Every word that we let slip.
• All the prayers that come from our heart
• Could be the sign for peace to start
• Everyone must play their part .
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More acrosticby Paul McCannwww.home.vicnet.net.a
u/poems/ps/htm/acrostic_examples.html

• About Ireland
  By Paul McCannIts in the
  emerald of her colour green.Remembered in
  history as dark Roisin.Erin you are dressed in
  the mystic of time.Love speaks of your beauty in
  manys a rhyme.About you are stories beyond
  wealth to hold.Now that's why your people are so
  rich in soul.Dwelling is the truth that can't be
  bought or sold.

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Character or Bio Poemswww.eduref.org/Virtual/Less
ons/Language_Arts/writing

• Poems with sentence starters
• Used to identify self or character in a novel

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Character Poem or Bio Poems

• Emotion) is (Color).
• It smells like_____.
• It tastes like_____.
• It sounds like_____.
• It feels like______.
• It looks like______.
• (Emotion)is_______. (give a metaphoric
  statement)

• Fear is red.
• It smells like fires.
• It tastes like rotten peaches.
• It sounds like car horns.
• It feels like being scared of the dark.
• It looks like Freddy Krueger
• Fear is falling into a hole.

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Format for bio poem

• Line 1 Your first name onlyLine 2 4 traits that
  describe youLine 3 Sibling of...(or son/daughter
  of)Line 4 Lover of...(three people or
  ideasgtLine 5 Who feels...(three items)Line 6
  Who needs...(three items)Line 7 Who
  gives...(three items)Line 8 Who fears...(three
  items)Line 9 Who would like to see...(three
  items)Line 10 Resident of (your city, street or
  state)Line 11 Your last name only.