1. POETIC FORMS LESSON #1

2. 30 Seconds to Mars  https://youtu.be/Zcps2fJKuAI https://youtu.be/Zcps2fJKuAI

3. Poem: 5 Ways to Kill a Man  What is one of the first things you notice about this poem?  What poetic devices seem familiar to you?

4. Allusion  An allusion is a figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds.  an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.  “I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.”  “He was a real Romeo with the ladies.”

5. Free Verse poetry  Free verse poems do not follow the rules, and have no rhyme or rhythm; but they are still an artistic expression. They are sometimes thought to be a modern form of poetry; but, the free verse types of poem have been around for hundreds of years.

6. Identifying a Rhyme Scheme  Rhyme scheme is a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza. The rhyme scheme, or pattern, can be identified by giving end words that rhyme with each other the same letter.

7. Poem: Gassed Last Night  What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?  A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D, A, A, B, B, C, C, C, D  Why do you think the author created the poem this way? Why does it change at the end? How does it affect the feeling of the poem?

8. Group Work  In groups of 4-5, read through a type of poetry, identify the important parts of your type of poem and present them to the rest of the class.