1. Poetry
Ajarn Steve

2. Poetry Poetry is difficult to define.
Poems use words to paint a picture in your head.
A good poem brings out strong emotions in people.

3. Poetry Traditional Poetry:
A piece of literature written in meter; verse.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
(A traditional poem rhymes.)

4. Poetry
Meter: poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses. (Source: Dictionary.com)
Verse: A single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry. (Source: American Heritage Dictionary)

5. William Shakespeare

6. Langston Hughes

7. Edgar Allan Poe

8. Robert Frost

9. Emily Dickinson

10. Simple, Four Line Rhyme Rhyming a,b, c, b: Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.

11. Simple, four line rhyme Rhyming a,a,b,b: Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky.

12. Simple, four line rhyme Rhyming a, b, a, b:
The rain was like a little mouse,
Quiet, small and gray.
It pattered all around the house
And then it went away.

13. Simple, four line rhyme Rhyming a, a, a, a: Rain, rain, go away
Come again another day
Little children want to play
So rain, rain, go away.

14. Cinquain
A short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing respectively two, four, six, eight and two syllables.

15. Jumbly, rumbly, hot and mushy
Cinquain
Example:
Popcorn
Jumpy, bouncy
White, yellow and bumpy
Jumbly, rumbly, hot and mushy
Popcorn.

16. Haiku
Japanese poem of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables.
Syllable: a unit of spoken language that consists of one or more vowel sounds alone. “Sun” is one syllable and “sunshine” is two syllables.

17. Swim in has hardened now, but
Haiku
Example:
The pond I used to
Swim in has hardened now, but
It is mine year round.
Andrea Baccigalupi (age 9)

18. Free Verse Poetry
Free verse: is a type of poetry that is written without using strict meter, rhythm or rhyme, but is still recognized as poetry.
Source: Wikipedia

19. Free Verse Poetry Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers,
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.
Langston Hughes

20. Free Verse Poetry
Free Verse Poetry has had a huge influence on hip hop and rap music.

21. Sonnet
A poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter (stress is on the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and 10th syllables of each line), restricted to a definite rhyme scheme.
Shakespeare wrote sonnets.

22. Ballad
Ballad: A ballad is a narrative poem, usually set to music; thus, it often is a story told in a song. Any story form may be told as a ballad, such as historical accounts or fairy tales in verse form.
Source: Wikipedia

23. Ballad
The Ballad of the Landlord, which was written by Langston Hughes is an excellent example of a ballad.

24. Haiku Poetry Line 1: 5 syllables Line 2: 7 syllables

25. Fluffy, lumpy, cotton balls
Haiku Poetry
Clouds float slowly by
Fluffy, lumpy, cotton balls
Silver, gray, and white

26. Haiku Poetry Bursting in bright hues Splashing colors all about
Autumn leaves must fall

27. Of purest green, fern boast their
Haiku Poetry
Forest finery
Of purest green, fern boast their
Delicate beauty

28. Haiku Poetry
In Haiku Poetry, the author’s purpose is to transform a seemingly common nature-related topics into something special or extraordinary using words.

29. Haiku Poetry
Haiku Poetry stresses the use of interesting and descriptive words in the elaboration of its subject.
Nouns: clouds, cotton balls, hues, colors, autumn, leaves, forest, finery, ferns, beauty.)

30. Haiku Poetry Verbs: float, bursting, splashing, fall, boast.
Adjectives: fluffy, lumpy, silver, gray, white, bright, green, delicate.

31. Haiku Poetry: Sample Topics
Types of weather:
Tornado
Hurricane
Spring rain
Thunder storm
Snow storm

32. Cinquain Cinquain is a highly structured form of poetry.
Must pay attention to word choice, word meaning, syllabication, and parts of speech, while at the same time expressing a meaningful message.

33. True Cinquain 1 word title (noun) 2 syllables
2 descriptive words (adjectives)4 syllables
3 words that express action 6 syllables
4 words that express feeling 8 syllables
1 word (synonyms or reference to title in line 1) 2 syllables

34. True Cinquain Example Friend/ship Pre/cious, awe/some
Bright/ens gloom/y mo/ments
Rain/bow’s treas/ure trove dis/cov/ered
Al/ways

35. Poetry Webites http://www.poetry.com http://famouspoetsandpoems.com

36. Poetry Websites http://www.poets.org http://www.poetry-portal.com

37. Author’s Note I did not write any of the poems in this presentation.
When it was possible, I correctly cited the author of each poem.