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Choice Make up Name Cynthia in the Snow by Gwendolyn Brooks It SHUSHES It hushes The loudness in the road It flitter twitters And laughs away from me It laughs a lovely wh. 1 miles I AM POEM. I am caring and loving.. I wonder if I am reaching any of my students.. I hear my name being called one hundred times a day.. I want my students to stay away from drugs and gangs.. I pretend that I can make a difference.. “Farewell, Love” . – by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Farewell . love and all thy laws forever;. Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.. Senec. and Plato call me from thy lore. To perfect wealth, my wit for to . To explicate means “to unfold” [Latin root]. Explications interpret a poem (or other brief passage) intensely and persistently, talking carefully about the words, explaining the patterns of imagery, the meaningfulness of rhythms, the power of sounds all in order to analyze the possible meaning and relationships of the words in the piece.. The . Feeling Poem . Line one: Name an emotion. . Line two: “Smells like. . .”. . Line three: “Tastes like. . .”.   . Line four: “Sounds like. . .”. . Line five: “Feels like. . . .”. It can be about any subject. Write the letters that spell your subject down the side of your page.  When you have done this then you go back to each letter and think of a word, phrase or sentence that  starts with that letter and describes your subject. The following poem is an example of acrostic poems  written in this format. Pick a word and write your own!. Coole. By W. B. Yeats. Coole. Park. Coole. Park, in County Galway, was the home of Lady Augusta Gregory, a playwright and nationalist whom Yeats met in 1898. They grew to be close and Yeats spent his summers with her at . ACRONYM: STIFS. S. peaker. T. one. I. magery. F. igurative Language. S. ound. S. TIFS. Speaker. Identify . the Speaker. Who . is the speaker addressing? . What . is the speaker’s topic or argument? . Initial reading of the poem. Write any questions that pop into your head while doing the initial reading.. Identify any words that you do not understand and look them up. Write the definitions on the poem.. Australopithecus. What is an Acrostic Poem?. An acrostic poem is a type of poetry where the first, last or other letters in a . vertical line . spell out a particular word or phrase. The most common and simple form of an acrostic poem is where the first letters of each line spell out the word or phrase.. All that you need to know when it comes to reading a poem!. Title. Look at the title and make predictions about what the poem might be about. . What type of connotations or associations do you attach with the title?. What is an Epitaph Poem?. Epitaph poetry is used to honor those who have passed away and is written on their tombstone.. A good epitaph poem sums up an important message about the person’s life, or a core aspect of their personality.. Larger than life hero (. Epic hero. ).. Often part God.. Hero goes on a long journey or quest (. Epic quest. ). . Begins . in medias res. .. Begins with an invocation to a . muse. (. Epic invocation. . kubo. , . kahit. . munti. . . Ang. . halaman. . doon. ay sari-sari.. Singkamas. at . talong. , . sigarilyas. at . mani. . . Sitaw. , . bataw. , . patani. . . Kundol. , . patola. , . upo’t.