Painting with words By Sharon White

 Follow these guidelines  Read the poem out loud at least once  Look form sentences, and pay attention to punctuation.

Pictures Figures of speech

A Poet use sound just as a painter uses color. Like painters, poets uses color to share their special moment to the world.

FORMSSTANZAS  Like sculptors poets are concerned with shapes and form.  When they write and revise, poets are chiseling the words to create the shapes on the page which are called.

 A poet’s purposeful choice of where to end one line and begin the next.  Line breaks can be a way to play with sound and meaning.

 The “voice” of the poem is not necessarily the poet.

 Read the poem aloud three or four times.  Look for rhymes, Rhyming words help your memory.  Memorize two lines at a time. Say the lines aloud several times then cover them and try to recite them from memory.  Try to picture the words ot the poem on the page.

 A line is a single row of words,which may or may not be in a complete thought.