PPT-Poetry Poetry A poem is created by putting words together in an interesting way to express

Poetry entertains the ears and the eyes Poems Everywhere Poems can be found in many places You might have a collection of poems in one book all written by the same author like this book by Shel. A. Pretty Word for "Life.". Page 742. Ms. Levine's Two Cents. on…. Writing Poetry.. Nouns and verbs MOVE.. Get rid of articles.. Dig deep for a story, not a grocery list.. All art, (including poetry & writing), is purposed to communicate. Melissa Daniels and Alexandra Baines. Introduction to Poetry . ~ Billy Collins. I ask them to take a poem. and hold it up to the light. like a color slide. or press an ear against its hive.. I say drop a mouse into a poem. Making Words our Brush and Palette. Lesson 1 Defining Poetry. Define the term ‘poetry’. What makes poetry different from prose?. What do you like/dislike about poetry?. Activity 1) Set up a page in your Writers’ Notebook for poem ideas. From Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. Poetry is…. One of the three major types of literature (the others being prose and drama). “Literature that makes use of highly concise, musical, and emotionally charged language.”. Questions:. 1. . It refers to the time and place that the event(s) in the story take . place. 2. This element refers to the topic that the writer writes or comments on in his or her writing. . 3. . It refers to the tension, the fight or the struggle between the various characters or forces in the story. Yippee!. What is it?. Poetry is one of the three major types of literature; the others are prose and drama. Most poems make use of highly concise, musical, and emotionally charged language. Many also make use of imagery, figurative language, and special devices of sound such as rhyme. Poems are often divided into lines and stanzas and usually employ regular rhythmical patterns, or meters.. An Introduction for 4. th. Grade Connections. Lines and Stanzas. Single lines in a poem.. Several lines are organized into stanzas.. 2 lines = Couplet. 3 lines = . Tercet. 4 lines = Quatrain. 5 lines = . ―. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. . – . Robert Frost . ―…the best words in the best . order. . – . Samuel Taylor Coleridge . ―Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing . Terms and Types. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”. . -William Wordsworth. “Poetry is the human soul entire,. Please have your group’s collage on your table.. I am allowing ten minutes to go about the room and share the collages in preparation for tomorrow.. Then I’m taking up the collages.. Theme Collages . Poetry is a literary form characterized by a strong sense of rhythm and meter and an emphasis on the interaction between sound and sense. . The study of the elements of poetry is called . prosody. .. Elements of Poetry Poetry is not ____________. Prose is: ordinary ______________ people use in speaking or writing Poetry is: a form of _______________ expression _______________ intense Acrostic. Limerick. Haiku. Concrete. Prose. Elegy. Why do we read and write poetry?. Video . clip 1:. . https://. www.youtube.com/watch?v=omveFR-2hmg. Video clip 2: . https. ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQU3EphIpMY. poet. .. Sometimes, poems have rhyming words in them.. Poetry is meant to be read aloud.. Rhyming Words. Some poetry has rhyming words at the end of lines. When words rhyme, they start with different sounds, but sound the same at the end of the words. So ‘cat’ rhymes with ‘bat’ and ‘hot’ rhymes with ‘lot’. .