1. What is poetry?

2. What is a poem? Words in a book? Words that rhyme?
Words that have rhythm?
Sounds and sights?
A word picture?

3. Robert Frost
“ A poem is what is left at the bottom of the kettle after all the water has boiled out. “

4. Archibald MacLeish
“A poem is
a wordless flight of birds.”

5. Is this a poem?

6. Is this a poem? Ice Cream. It melted. - Kenneth Hatcher

7. Is this a poem? so much depends upon a red wheel barrow
glazed with rain
Water
beside the white
chickens.
- William Carlos Williams

8. Homework: 1. Take your book home or re-read “The Red Wheelbarrow” online. 2. Write three reasons why you think “The Red Wheelbarrow” is a poem. 3. Reasons do not count are as follows: It’s in a book. The poet said it was a poem. I don’t know.

9. Ice Cream. It melted. - Kenneth Hatcher

10. Ice Cream. It melted. - Kenneth Hatcher