1. Types of Poems

2. Objective understand the elements of poetry.
Today we will:
understand the elements of poetry.
identify various types of poems.
create an original poem.

3. How do these items relate to poetry?

4. Types of Poems Ballad Cinquain Concrete Diamante Free Verse Haiku
Limerick
Sonnet

5. Let’s look closer at the Types of Poems
Definition of Ballad Poems
Ballad Poems are poems that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain. A ballad is often about love and often sung. A ballad is a story in poetic form.
Example of Ballad Poems - Excerpt
The Mermaid by Unknown author
Oh the ocean waves may roll, And the stormy winds may blow, While we poor sailors go skipping aloft And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below And the land lubbers lay down below.

6. Example of Cinquain Poetry Type
Definition of Cinquain Poetry Type and Term
Cinquain Poetry Type has five lines.
Line 1 is one word (the title) Line 2 is two words that describe the title. Line 3 is three words that tell the action Line 4 is four words that express the feeling Line 5 is one word that recalls the title
American poet Adelaide Crapsey created the cinquain based on the Japanese haiku
Example of Cinquain Poetry Type
Tree Strong, Tall Swaying, swinging, sighing Memories of summer Oak

7. Definition of Concrete Poems
Concrete Poems are poems whose outlines depict a recognizable shape.

8. Definition of a Diamante Poem
Iris Tiedt created an unrhymed form of poetry that combines opposites in a single, seven-line poem: the word of the last line is the opposite of the word of the first line. The lines in between describe either the starting word or its opposite. On paper these poems look like a diamond, so we call them after the Italian word for diamond-- diamante.
Format
Line 1 – Noun (opposite of line 7)
Line 2 – 2 Adjectives that describe line 1
Line 3 – 3 Verbs ending in –ing that related to line 1
Line Nouns (2 that refer to line 1 and 2 that refer to line 7)
Line 5 – 3 Verbs ending in –ing that related to line 7
Line 6 – 2 Adjectives that describe line 7
Line 7 – Noun (opposite of line 1)

9. Examples of a Diamante Poem
Dogs Happy, Friendly Running, Jumping, Barking Paws, Tails, Claws, Teeth Hiding, Avoiding, Demanding Snobby, Skittish Cats

10. Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
Definition of Free Verse
Free Verse is a form of Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern. The early 20th-century poets were the first to write what they called "free verse" which allowed them to break from the formula and rigidity of traditional poetry.
Example of Free Verse
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

11. Definition of Haiku Poetry Type
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.  
Example of Haiku Poetry Type
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.

12. Limerick from the Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
Definition of Limericks
Limericks are short sometimes bawdy, humorous poems of consisting of five 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.
Example of Limericks
Limerick from the Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a gong, Who bumped at it all day long; But they called out, 'O law! You're a horrid old bore!' So they smashed that Old Man with a gong.

13. Definition of Sonnets
English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet.
A Couplet is a Stanza of only two lines which usually rhyme.
A Stanza consists of two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme and are used like paragraphs in a story.

14. O thou my lovely boy by William Shakespeare
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time's fickle glass his fickle hour; Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self grow'st. If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack, As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back, She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill May Time disgrace, and wretched minutes kill. Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure! She may detain, but not still keep her treasure. Her audit, though delayed, answered must be, And her quietus is to render thee.

15. Now, you will create your own “Love Poem” using one of the formats we have discussed.

16. Write a Tribute to a Person –
FAST FINISHERS
Write a Tribute to a Person –
Think of someone you feel strongly about--perhaps someone you love, admire, or miss very much.  Jot down the special things and places that remind you of that person.  Then, write a brief tribute, using images of the special things or places to emphasize what you miss about that person.

17. TOD
Why do you think it was popular to write love poems?