List of Poems I come from Class Poem Revision Insect Lord Buddha Speaks ( 6 line poem) Name Poem- due at end of class Friday Ode: first draft due Monday

Writing Time 10 minutes: Begin your name poem. Look at your graphic organizer and think about how you want to organize your ideas What is a great first line? – Start with name? – Start with the phrase “If you see… – Other ideas?

Imagine you are on a deserted island and there are only a few options for food. What foods could you not live without? In your notebook, list 5 foods you would choose if you had to narrow it down to just a few favorites.

If your house were on fire, and every living thing were going to make it out alive, what item or items would you make sure to grab? Try to think beyond your cell phone, laptop or ipod. What other items of significance do you own? Why are these important to you? In your journals, jot down a list of 5 possessions that are meaningful to you, that you would be sure to save (and do not include your electronic devices).

What is an Ode? A poem addressed to a particular subject A poem written usually in praise of a particular subject A poem that illustrates the author’s feelings about the given subject A poem addressed to a particular subject A poem written usually in praise of a particular subject A poem that illustrates the author’s feelings about the given subject

Ode to Tomatoes by Pablo Neruda The street filled with tomatoes, midday, summer, light is halved like a tomato, its juice runs through the streets. In December, unabated, the tomato invades the kitchen, it enters at lunchtime, takes its ease on countertops, among glasses, butter dishes, blue saltcellars. It sheds its own light, benign majesty. Unfortunately, we must murder it: the knife sinks into living flesh, red viscera a cool sun, profound, inexhaustible, populates the salads of Chile, happily, it is wed to the clear onion, and to celebrate the union we pour oil, essential child of the olive, onto its halved hemispheres, pepper adds its fragrance, salt, its magnetism; it is the wedding of the day, parsley hoists its flag, potatoes bubble vigorously, the aroma of the roast knocks at the door, it's time! come on! and, on the table, at the midpoint of summer, the tomato, star of earth, recurrent and fertile star, displays its convolutions, its canals, its remarkable amplitude and abundance, no pit, no husk, no leaves or thorns, the tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.

How does Neruda feel about tomatoes? How would you describe the tone of the poem? What words or lines help you understand his attitude about tomatoes? What are some of the concrete details in this poem? (Concrete details are phrases and words that help the reader get a sense of imagery. They help you see, smell, taste, feel and hear what the reader is trying to convey.) There are a few examples of personification (giving human attributes to an inanimate object) within this poem. What are some of them?

Ode to my Socks What is an ode?

Ode to My Socks by Pablo Neruda Mara Mori brought me a pair of socks which she knitted herself with her sheepherder's hands, two socks as soft as rabbits. I slipped my feet into them as if they were two cases knitted with threads of twilight and goatskin, Violent socks, my feet were two fish made of wool, two long sharks sea blue, shot through by one golden thread, two immense blackbirds, two cannons, my feet were honored in this way by these heavenly socks. They were so handsome for the first time my feet seemed to me unacceptable like two decrepit firemen, firemen unworthy of that woven fire, of those glowing socks. Nevertheless, I resisted the sharp temptation to save them somewhere as schoolboys keep fireflies, as learned men collect sacred texts, I resisted the mad impulse to put them in a golden cage and each day give them birdseed and pieces of pink melon. Like explorers in the jungle who hand over the very rare green deer to the spit and eat it with remorse, I stretched out my feet and pulled on the magnificent socks and then my shoes. The moral of my ode is this: beauty is twice beauty and what is good is doubly good when it is a matter of two socks made of wool in winter.

Assignment Due Monday Using your in-class writing from today, create an “Ode” poem to an important possession or a favorite food. Be sure to include at least one metaphor and one simile Try to personify the object within your poem. Focus on using concrete details in your writing. The reader should be able to see/hear/smell/taste/feel what you are writing about. Remember to think about the attitude of your poem and how your word choices should reflect that.

In your Notebooks: Go back to your list of important items and foods. Circle one or two. Think about this item. Why is it important to you? Does it have any sentimental meaning? How does it make you feel? Now jot down describing words for this object. Make sure you have words that can describe how this item feels/looks/smells/sounds/tastes. The more senses you can describe, the better. Go back to your list of important items and foods. Circle one or two. Think about this item. Why is it important to you? Does it have any sentimental meaning? How does it make you feel? Now jot down describing words for this object. Make sure you have words that can describe how this item feels/looks/smells/sounds/tastes. The more senses you can describe, the better.

The center piece of your plaque will be your ode. We will work on these plaques this week. They are due on Tuesday and we will present them for your final.

Questions What is Neruda’s attitude toward his socks? What lines or words suggest this to you? Identify 3 metaphors within the poem Find one example of personification within this poem. Find a concrete detail that helped you see or feel something within the poem Questions What is Neruda’s attitude toward his socks? What lines or words suggest this to you? Identify 3 metaphors within the poem Find one example of personification within this poem. Find a concrete detail that helped you see or feel something within the poem

In your journals: Write a list of your favorite places at SW. Maybe it is a classroom, a place where you had lunch, a place you went for refuge in your busy day….any place where you felt good. Think about this place. Why was it important to you? Does it have any sentimental meaning? How does it make you feel? Iis there a person who you associate with this place? Now jot down describing words for this place. Make sure you have words that can describe how this place feels/looks/smells/sounds/tastes. The more senses you can describe, the better. Write a list of your favorite places at SW. Maybe it is a classroom, a place where you had lunch, a place you went for refuge in your busy day….any place where you felt good. Think about this place. Why was it important to you? Does it have any sentimental meaning? How does it make you feel? Iis there a person who you associate with this place? Now jot down describing words for this place. Make sure you have words that can describe how this place feels/looks/smells/sounds/tastes. The more senses you can describe, the better.

Choose your subject Describe it: – Appearance: color, size, shape, does it look like something else( simile) – How does it move? Fast as…, slow as… give it a human movement – Taste and smell – Sound? Loud as… soft… purrs, roars, giggles, squeaks – Feels like?

Why do you like it? What purpose does it have in your life? What does it do for you? How does it make you feel?

Did someone give this to you or make it for you? Who made it? Why is this important

Write phrases that describe how this object makes you feel Make a list of all the attributes of this object (attribute: a good quality)

Try to Address the subject directly Oh socks! You keep me warm, Or: My socks keep me warm

Think about shape Experiment with the shape of the poem Try writing only two words on a line come on! And on The table, at the midpoint Of summer,

Or put in couplets Come on and, one The table, at the midpoint Of summer, the tomato, Star of earth, recurrent

Now write Think about the arrangement