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What is poetry?

What is a poem? Words in a book? Words that rhyme? Words that have rhythm? Sounds and sights? A word picture?

Robert Frost “ A poem is what is left at the bottom of the kettle after all the water has boiled out. “

Archibald MacLeish “A poem is . . . a wordless flight of birds.”

Is this a poem?

Is this a poem? Ice Cream. It melted. - Kenneth Hatcher

Is this a poem? so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain Water beside the white chickens. - William Carlos Williams

Homework: 1. Take your book home or re-read “The Red Wheelbarrow” online. 2. Write three reasons why you think “The Red Wheelbarrow” is a poem. 3. Reasons do not count are as follows: It’s in a book. The poet said it was a poem. I don’t know.

Ice Cream. It melted. - Kenneth Hatcher

Ice Cream. It melted. - Kenneth Hatcher