“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn”. ~Thomas Gray

Types of Poetry The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then ~Roger McGough

Types of Poetry ABC Ballad Blank Verse Canzone Epigram Cinquain Couplet Elegy Epic Epitaph Free Verse Haiku Limerick Name Narrative Ode Pastoral Quatrain Senryu Tanka Shakespearean Sonnet Petrarchan Idyll Lay Verse

Haiku A Japenese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables Ex: The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then I am first with five Then seven in the middle Five again to end.

Name Poem E - exciting N- never boring G- great fun L- language I- interesting S- silly H- hilarious C- cheerful L- lazy A- alike S- smiling S- sweet

Couplet A couplet is a pair of lines of poetry that are usually rhymed. Ex: A Winter Scene Drifting snow, so sweet, so silent- but echos in the dark blue sky The trees, so dark, are now bright with the snow's lullaby They sway to the whisper of the sweet wintry wind While the animals hide and huddle, feeling cold and chagrined The snow stops falling, and there is hardly a sound Save the wind making the trees push the snow on the ground The sparkle of the snow reflects the light from the moon and the trees eat it up with a light silver spoon No footprints exist in the pure land of sparkly white but the prints of a doe who passes too quickly for sight The clouds come back in- slowly, they creep in Whispering to the trees that another snowfall will begin

Cinquain A poem with five lines and follows this pattern: Spaghetti Line1: A noun Line2: Two adjectives Line 3: Three -ing words Line 4: A phrase Line 5: Another word for the noun Ex: Spaghetti Messy, spicy Slurping, sliding, falling Between my plate and mouth Delicious  

Now its your turn! In your binder practice writing a haiku, name, couplet, and cinquain poem. When finished pair with a partner and share. Try giving your partner a theme for a poem and have them write one of the types you have practiced using the theme.

Limerick A short, funny poem consisting of 5 lines. Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme with each other and lines 3 and four rhyme with each other. Ex: 'Tis a favourite project of mine, A new value of pi to assign. I would fix it at 3, For it's simpler, you see, Than 3 point 1 4 1 5 9

Ode An ode is a poem that is written for an occasion or on a particular subject. An ode is a poem in praise of a person, place or object that is usually identified in the title. It describes a scene, focuses on a problem or a situation and arrives at a conclusion that returns to the original scene or statement. Originally, the ode was a serious poetic form, but modern odes often are written in praise of the ordinary.

Ode 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 honoured 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. - Pablo Neruda “Ode to My Socks”

ABC Poem An ABC poem has a series of lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines are made up of words and phrases. The first word of line 1 begins with an A, the first word of line 2 begins with a B etc. Ex: A lthough things are not perfect B ecause of trial or pain C ontinue in thanksgiving D o not begin to blame E ven when the times are hard F ierce winds are bound to blow

An Elegy is a sad and thoughtful poem lamenting the death of a person. Ex:   I do not understand as to why the people are weeping, crying, mourning and to exhibit their sympathy to match or exceed with the compassion of other in the same pursuit, shedding the tears for a poet who died writing poems on everything which even the sun could not see or imagine, but could not spell a few words for whom he lived, he tried everything possible, everything impossible by making it possible, and died and before the last collapse entered the endeavour of writing poetry,

Free Verse Free verse does not have a set pattern of rhyme or rhythm.  There are no rules about line length in free verse. Anything and everything can be the topic of a  free verse lyrical  poem.  The poem can tell a story, describe a person, animal, feeling or object.  They can serious, sad, funny or  educational.  What ever subject that appeals to the poet can end up in free verse. Ex: so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens

Epitaph An epitaph is a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written in praise, or reflecting the life, of a deceased person. Ex: To save your world you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? RIP

*submit a good copy (For Wed) for three of the poems you have tried. Now it’s your turn… Complete a rough copy for all of the poems you have read about during the last few classes. You should have one for each form of poetry listed below. ABC Haiku Name Limerick Epitaph Free Verse Cinquain Couplet Ode Elegy *submit a good copy (For Wed) for three of the poems you have tried.

Poetic Devices A poet is limited in the materials he can use in creating his works: all he has are words to express his ideas and feelings. The words must sound right to the listener, they must have meaning to the reader, they must be arranged in a relationship and placed on the page in ways that are easy to follow and assist the reader in their understanding, they must probe the depths of human thought, emotion, and empathy, while appearing simple, self-contained, and unpretentious.