1. Why poetry?

2. Why poetry?
In terms of stories and fiction, why do we have both tv shows (Stranger Things, Once Upon a Time, the Flash) and movies: The Amazing Spider-Man, Cinderella, Finding Nemo?
Different formats carry stories, thoughts, ideas, concepts, images, experiences, emotions, and stories differently. Serialized tv show vs complete movie. Short movie versus loooooong show. What can each provide?
So we also have novels, series, short stories, plays and… poems.
What can poems do, that novels and short stories cannot?
Carry a thought or an idea, an image, a single scene, an experience. They can also play. In short we don’t mind if you don’t have a point, if the sound and rhythm is good. Some poems are more like music- rhythm, rhyme, consonance. I might not want to read an entire book that’s only point is puns and jokes and sound games and rhyme. But I would LOVE to read any poem with puns and jokes and sound games and rhyme.
Also consider traditions of pictures. When and why are pictures included in books? Why is that?

3. Poetry according to miss skinner

4. 1. Poems are like kool-aid
Concentrated.
BIG impact.
Small container.

5. Poems are made up of elements:
Imagery (5 sense, movie-in mind) more like drive-by, frame-by-frame book)
Specific detail
Metaphor
Simile
Rhyme Onomatopoeia
Meter Tone
Mood Alliteration

6. Poems are like a clear window onto a view you’ve never seen before
It’s the poet’s job to show you something new.

7. Sound, wordplay, and rythmg find their homes in poems
Puns, alliteration, repetition, rhyme, rhythm.
“Whose woods these are I think I know.    His house is in the village though;    He will not see me stopping here    To watch his woods fill up with snow.   Robert Frost
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Invitation If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer… If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! - Shel Silverstein

8. “Introduction to Poetry” - Billy Collins
- How does Billy Collins want us to approach poetry?
- What does he want students to get out of poetry?
“Uppity” -Eileen Miles
- What’s the purpose of poetry, to her? Why does she write it?
Poetry is a PATH through a hard thing. See from all angles. Thought process- putting into words. Have to see all of it. As many opinions of “to me” as there are people. OR mountain is a big main point and you simmer down to 1 road, to the point.

9. How does Billy Collins want us to approach poetry?
Be curious, want to do it, patiently look for light-switch. Not need to, because a teacher told you to.
Not beat it to death: not look at it so much to find meaning it loses meaning altogether
Experience the poem, not just read it
Wants us to explore rather than wring one thing out of it
He doesn’t want us to overanalyze it
He wants us to try to see the world through what the poem was saying, or think what the author was thinking.