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Poetry Project: Poetry Book

For the next unit, you will be reading, writing, memorizing, studying, discussing, and collecting poems. During the process, you will put together a poetry scrapbook. It is essential that you keep all handouts and worksheets neat, organized, and in your possession. I will take off for additional copies for those that are lost! Your poetry book must have a name and a title and an identifiable THEME.

Put your poetry book together neatly. You should have a grand total of 14 poems BE SURE TO LABEL EACH POEM!!!! DO NOT STEAL OFF OF THE INTERNET!!!!

I. Introduction Poem

Your first poem should introduce yourself. It should begin and end with the following line: "I am ______________ _____________." In between the first and last lines, you should write 5 truthful statements about yourself and 5 lies. Then, you should mix them up so that telling truth from fiction may be difficult.

Example:

I am Brian Baldowski.

Poetry is my favorite

I was once in a gang.

I am the only college graduate in my family.

My sister is on welfare.

My brother sells drugs.

Global warming greatly concerns me.

There are seven computers in my home.

My father is an alcoholic

I have 2,843,977,102 friends on Facebook

I am Brian Baldowski.

II. Concrete Poem

1. Concrete poetry uses the words and the form of the poem to convey the same meaning so that they are difficult to separate one from the other. Form is meaning.

2. Read the example, and then create your own concrete poem. Do not choose a simple object such as a circle, pencil, or a table.

A

poem

can play

with the wind

and dart and dance

and fly about in the mind

like a kite in the cloudy

white sky at so dizzy

a height it seems

out of reach

but is wait

ing to

be

very

gently

pulled

down

to

the

page

below

by

a

string

of

musical

words

III. Shakespearean Sonnet

A sonnet is a fourteen line stanza from consisting of iambic pentameter lines. The two major sonnet forms are the Italian and the English (or Shakespearean).

The English sonnet is a fourteen-line stanza consisting of three quatrains and a couplet (three sets of four and one set of two lines). Notice how the poet's thoughts are organized around these 4 sets of lines. The rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefggf.

Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnet 18) By William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

1. Find a copy of a sonnet that we have not discussed in class (in a book, on the internet).

2. Copy the poem.

3. Using this poem as a model, rewrite the poem using your own words. This, of course, is plagiarism; for this assignment, however, you are permitted to do so.

IV. Haiku Poetry

Haiku is a Japanese poetry form that has seventeen syllables and just three lines. It is a short poem that captures a moment in nature.

Line 1: 5 syllables

Line 2: 7 syllables

Line 3: 5 syllables

Example:

A bitter morning

Sparrows sitting together

Without any necks

Write 3 haiku poems about one aspect of nature; include a one-sentence description of what all 3 poems are about. For example, you could write 3 haiku poems about 3 different types of birds or three different types of flowers. Your one sentence description would tell both what the poems are about, and what point you are making in your poems.

V. Poetic Structure (at least 8 lines)

Write one poem that has an example of each of the following poetic devices. Make sure you identify or label these devices so I will know what lyrics you think are examples of each.

1. onomatopeoia

2. hyperbole

3. personification

4. alliteration

VI. Narrative Poem (at least 8 lines)

Write one poem that is an example of narrative poem (a poem that tells a story).

VII. Lyric Poem (at least 8 lines)

Write one poem that is an example of a lyric poem (a poem that expresses a feeling or an emotion).

VIII. Song Lyrics

Write out or cut n paste from the internet the lyrics to your favorite song. Then identify ALL poetic devices found in your song (e.g. rhyme, allusion, alliteration, hyperbole, etc.) No vulgar language! No vulgar language will be accepted. You will receive no points for this section of your poem book.

Example:

"Californication" Red Hot Chili Peppers

Psychic spies from China

Try to steal your mind's elation

Little girls from Sweden

Dream of silver screen quotations

And if you want these kind of dreams

It's Californication

It's the edge of the world

And all of western civilization

The sun may rise in the East

At least it settles in the final location

It's understood that Hollywood

sells Californication

Pay your surgeon very well

To break the spell of aging

Celebrity skin is this your chin

Or is that war your waging

Space may be the final frontier

But it's made in a Hollywood basement

Cobain can you hear the spheres

Singing songs off station to station

And Alderon's not far away

It's Californication

Born and raised by those who praise

Control of population everybody's been there

and I don't mean on vacation

IX. Limerick (or Lymerick) Write THREE of your own limericks

A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict meter, popularized by Edward Lear. The rhyme scheme is usually "A-A-B-B-A", with a rather rigid meter. The first line traditionally introduces a person and a location, and usually ends with the name of the location, though sometimes with that of the person. Though not a strict requirement, many limericks additionally show some form of internal rhyme, often alliteration, sometimes assonance or another form of rhyme. There are also examples of limericks on the internet.

Limericks - The form 

Limericks consist of five anapaestic lines.

Lines 1, 2, and 5 of Limericks have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. 

Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other.

|Examples: | |

|There once were some kids from McDuffie |The kids in room seventy-four |

|Who came to my class and looked goofy |Wrote limericks until they were sore |

|I had to tell them a hundred times |They found it quite fun |

|They need to make up some ryhmes |Until they were done |

|And get this project done in a jiffy. |And then yelled, “Let’s write some more!” |

The Limerick Page

|There was a small boy from Maine |There was an old man from Spain |

|Who couldn’t remember his name. |Who liked to fight bulls in the rain |

|His friends thought him dumb |But one day he fell |

|When he sucked on his thumb |And no one could tell |

|So he left town on a train. |That he was in very bad pain. |

|There was an old woman from Maine |There was a small boy from our school |

|Who liked to drive cars in the rain |Who really thought himself cool. |

|But one day she crashed |The girls thought him great |

|Which made a big splash |And a rather nice date |

|And then she was hit by a train. |But we think that he was a fool. |

|There once was a man from the street |There once was a man from the zoo |

|Who didn’t know what he should eat |Who didn’t know what he should do |

|So rather than snoring |So rather than zoom |

|He said, “This is boring!” |He fell on his broom |

|And wondered why he couldn’t sleep. |When he heard the monkey say boo! |

|There was an old woman from space |There once was a man from France |

|Who liked to drive cars in a race |Who didn’t know what he should dance |

|But one day she crashed |So rather than move |

|And got a bad rash |He sat on his roof |

|And that was the end of her face. |And wondered why he couldn’t prance. |

|There was a short man from Maine |There was a small boy from our school |

|Who didn’t like the rain |Who didn’t know how to be cool |

|So one day he raced |He wore disco pants |

|But forgot a shoelace |While trying to dance |

|Then he tripped and was in very bad pain. |And then picked his nose with a tool. |

|There once was a man from the street |A man from a far away place |

|Who didn’t know what he should eat |Thought he could fit in a suitcase |

|So rather than die |But then one day in May |

|He ate a whole pie |He tried it with some hay |

|Then decided to suck on his feet! |And found there was really no space. |

X. Free Verse Poem (at least 8 lines)

Write one free verse poem.

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