Poetry How to build a poem: Poetry Toolbox

Poetry Defined Poetry: writing that uses language and structure to create an emotional response

Poetry Toolbox: Meaning Descriptive Imagery: words that paint a vivid picture in your mind! Similes Metaphors Personification Meaning Music Rhyme Rhythm Descriptive imagery Similes Metaphors Personification Alliteration Onomatopoeia

Similes & Metaphors Similes: figure of speech that compares 2 UNLIKE things using the words like or as Metaphors: figure of speech that compares 2 UNLIKE things WITHOUT using the words like or as

Personification How does the word “person” fit into the definition of “person”ification?? What does personification add to a poem? Meaning Music Rhyme Rhythm Descriptive imagery Similes Metaphors Personification Alliteration Onomatopoeia

Poetry Toolbox: Music Writer’s use tools to create rhyme and rhythm in a poem. What is the difference between the two? Meaning Music Rhyme Rhythm Descriptive imagery Similes Metaphors Personification Alliteration Onomatopoeia

Poetry Toolbox: Rhyme & Rhythm Rhyme: words or lines in a poem with similar ending sounds Rhythm: recurring movement of sound or speech

What do you hear? Rain in Summer – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, in the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain! How it clatters along the roofs, Like the ramp of hoofs! How it gushes and struggles out From the throat of the overflowing spout Across the window pane It pours and pours; And swift and wide, With a muddy tide, Like a river down the gutter roars The rain, the welcome rain! The sick man from his chamber looks At the twisted brooks; He can feel the cool Breath of each little pool; His fevered brain Grows calm again, And he breathes a blessing on the rain From the neighboring school Come the boys, With more than their wonted noise And commotion; And down the wet streets Sail their mimic fleets, Till the treacherous pool Engulfs them in its whirling And turbulent ocean. In the country, on every side, Where far and wide, Like a leopard’s tawny and spotted hide, Stretches the plain, To the dry grass and the drier grain How welcome is the rain

Poetry Toolbox: Music Watch this video!video What did you notice?

Alliteration: the same sound repeated at the beginning of words Helps writers achieve rhythm by directing a reader’s attention to certain sounds, which affects the words that are stressed Examples? Tools for Making Music

Show What You Know Let’s try to use alliteration to write a tongue twister! Be prepared to try them out on your classmates.

Tools for Making Music Meaning Music Rhyme Rhythm Descriptive imagery Similes Metaphors Personification Alliteration Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds Onomatopoeia videovideo –(How many examples can you find?)

Show What You Know Let’s enhance our writing Add onomatopoeia to your tongue twister! Be prepared to try them out on your classmates.

Free Verse Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern NO SET LINE LENGTH NO SET RHYTHM NO RHYMING PATTERN WAY OF CONVEYING IDEAS AND FEELINGS CAREFULLY CRAFTED WORD PICTURE

Using the Writer’s Toolbox 6 Room Poetry: tool used to help writers with descriptive imagery Walk through 6 “rooms” to add sensory cues to your poetry Use the other tools from your toolbox as you walk through the rooms (i.e. in “sounds” room, consider ways to use onomatopoeia or alliteration to add rhyme and rhythm) Meaning Music Rhyme Rhythm Descriptive imagery Similes Metaphors Personification Alliteration Onomatopoeia

Using Writer’s Toolbox Heart Mapping: tool writers use to organize what is really important to them Brainstorm ideas about things that are important to you

Show What You Know Using your heart map, select a topic about which you would like to write a poem. Walk through the 6 Rooms to help you describe your topic. Write a free verse poem. Look back at your poem and add figurative language to enhance the descriptive imagery and music of your poem. CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE A POET!