1. Introduction to Poetry Ms. Cerda

2. Types of Poetry Acrostic & Name ABC Free verse Haiku Tanka Refrain Limerick Imagery Narrative Quatrain

3. Acrostic & Name A Name Poem, or Acrostic Poem, tells about the word. It uses the letters of the word for the first letter of each line.

4. Method Line 1 - (type your first name) Line 2 - "It means" (write 3 adjectives that describe you) Line 3 - "It is the number" (type any number you want) Line 4 - "It is like" (describe a color but don't name it) Line 5 - "It is " (name something you remember experiencing with family or friends that makes you smile to recall) Line 6 - "It is the memory of" (name a person who is or has been significant to you) Line 7 - "Who taught me" (write 2 abstract concepts, such as "honesty") Line 8 - "When " (write about something that person did that displayed the qualities in line 7) Line 9 - "My name is" (type your first name) Line 10 - "It means" (state something important you believe about life in 1-2 brief sentences)

5. Examples Name Poem Nicky by Marie Hughes Nicky is a Nurse It's her chosen career Children or Old folks Kindness in abundance Year after year Acrostic Poem Hockey Hockey is my favorite sport On the ice or street Cool and fun Keep on playing Exercise and stronger You should try

6. ABC 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.

7. Example - author unknown 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

8. Free verse Free Verse is a form of Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern.

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10. Haiku Haiku Poetry Type is a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haiku poetry originated in the sixteenth century and reflects on some aspect of nature and creates images.

11. Examples None is travelling by Basho None is travelling Here along this way but I, This autumn evening. The first day of the year: thoughts come - and there is loneliness; the autumn dusk is here. Haiku Tercet Stanza by Basho Ah, summer grasses! All that remains Of the warriors dreams.

12. Tanka Tanka is a Japanese poetry type of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the rest of seven. Tanka is the oldest type of poetry in Japan.

13. Example To live is to break by Ueda Miyoji To live is to break One's heart for the sake of love; A couple of doves, Beaks touching on their way, Are stepping out in the sun.

14. Refrain Refrain Poetry Term is a phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after each stanza.

15. Example The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted nevermore.

16. Limerick Limericks are short sometimes bawdy, humorous poems of consisting of five Anapaestic lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 of a Limerick have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other.

17. Imagery Imagery Poems draw the reader into poetic experiences by touching on the images and senses which the reader already knows. The use of images in this type of poetry serves to intensify the impact of the work.

18. Example The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock By T. S. Eliot Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question… Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.

19. Narrative Narrative Poetry is found in different types of poetry such as Ballads, Epics, and Lays. All of these examples are different kinds of narrative poems some of which are the length of a book such as the Song of Hiawatha or the Iliad.

20. Example Hiawatha's Departure from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited. All the air was full of freshness, All the earth was bright and joyous, And before him through the sunshine, Westward toward the neighboring forest Passed in golden swarms the Ahmo, Passed the bees, the honey-makers, Burning, singing in the sunshine. Bright above him shown the heavens, Level spread the lake before him; From its bosom leaped the sturgeon, A sparkling, flashing in the sunshine; On its margin the great forest Stood reflected in the water, Every tree-top had its shadow, Motionless beneath the water. From the brow of Hiawatha Gone was every trace of sorrow, As the fog from off the water, And the mist from off the meadow. With a smile of joy and triumph, With a look of exultation, As of one who in a vision Sees what is to be, but is not, Stood and waited Hiawatha.

21. Quatrain A Quatrain Poetry Type or literary term is a stanza or poem of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme. Lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme. Rhyming lines should have a similar number of syllables.

22. Example The Tyger by William Blake Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

23. What is the difference between: A Haiku A Tanka