1. Introduction to Poetry
4th Grade

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Famous Poets
Kipling
Keats
Silverstein
Dickenson
Poe
Sandburg
Prelutsky
Browning
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3. Messy Room by Shel Silverstein
Whosever room this is should be ashamed! His underwear is hanging on the lamp. His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair, And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp. His workbook is wedged in the window, His sweater's been thrown on the floor. His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV, And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door. His books are all jammed in the closet, His vest has been left in the hall. A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed, And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall. Whosever room this is should be ashamed! Donald or Robert or Willie or-- Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear, I knew it looked familiar!
Messy Room by Shel Silverstein

4. Words by Mrs. Dattola Words, words Not just any words Words in my mind
Words on my lips
Words on the page
Words in my audience’s voice
Words found in verse
Words well chosen
Words with hidden meaning
Words with clear pictures
Words by Mrs. Dattola
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5. 10 easy tips to help you write better poetry By Gary R. Hess
Use a Thesaurus.
Freestyle isn’t always best; try a poetry form.
Learn about types of rhyme.
Take your time.
Read your poetry aloud.
Read more poetry.
Analyze famous poets.
Write more poetry.
Gain more experiences.
Seek and listen to critics.
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6. Two types of Poetry Lyrical
poetry ruled by measured beats, such as with musical songs
Free Verse
poetry not ruled by musical beats and patterns
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7. Lyrical Poetry It is the arrangement of words in
means having the form and musical quality of a song,
a rhythmic flow words.
It is the arrangement of words in
regularly measured, patterned, or
rhythmic lines or verses.
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8. Different Types of Lyrical Poetry
Fibonacci
Haiku
Free Verse
Diamante
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Limerick
Quatrain
Cinquain

9. Figurative Language Example: Similes and Metaphors noun
Part of Speech:
noun
Definition:
The use of words as way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions; not literal
Example: Similes and Metaphors
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10. A Quote from Ralph Fletcher…
“I could feel that swarm of feelings buzzing in my chest day and night. I needed some kind of container to hold all of them. Poetry became that container.”
Page from Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
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11. Syllable noun Part of Speech: Definition:
A unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound
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12. Meter noun Part of Speech: beat, rhythm
Part of Speech:
noun
Definition:
beat, rhythm
Synonyms:
accent, cadence, division, melody, rhyme, step, stress, swing, tempo, throb, time, tune, verse, vibration
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13. Listen for the beat and rhythm in the following poem:
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill ran up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
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14. Listen for the beat and rhythm in the following poem:
Little strokes
Fell great oaks.
-Benjamin Franklin
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15. Cinquain
The modern cinquain is based on a word count of words of a certain type.
The traditional cinquain is based on a syllable count per line –
Line syllables
Line syllables
Line syllables
Line syllables
Line syllables
triangles pointy edges revolving, rotating, angling Triangles are all different. 180o
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16. A Quote from Ralph Fletcher…
“Think of a poem as an X-ray. Just as an X-ray penetrates to examines the bones inside your body, poem can probe the “bones” of your inner being.”
Page 17 from Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
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17. Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.
Part of Speech:
noun
Definition:
a word agreeing with another in terminal sound:
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EXAMPLE:
Find is a rhyme for  mind and  womankind.

18. Stanza noun Part of Speech: Definition:
One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
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**Compared to a paragraph in conventional writing**

19. Quatrain
A Quatrain is a stanza or poem of four lines, the four lines can be written in any rhyme scheme.
Alternating Quatrain:
a four line stanza rhyming "ABAB.“
From W.H. Auden's "Leap Before You Look“
The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
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20. A Quote from Ralph Fletcher…
“Try ‘poem speak’. Speak to someone inside the poem. Poem-speak is like condensed milk, which is made thicker and sweeter when the water is removed.”
Page 17 from Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
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21. Verse noun Part of Speech: One line of a poem Definition: Thursday

22. Diamonte
A diamante is a seven line poem, shaped like a diamond.
Line 1: one word (subject/noun that is contrasting to line 7)
Line 2: two words (adjectives) that describe line 1
Line 3: three words (action verbs) that relate to line 1
Line 4: four words (nouns) first 2 words relate to line 1 last 2 words relate to line 7
Line 5: three words (action verbs) that relate to line 7
Line 6: two words (adjectives) that describe line 7
Line 7: one word ( subject/noun that is contrasting to line 1)
square symmetrical, conventional shaping, measuring, balancing boxes, rooms, clocks, halos encircling, circumnavigating, enclosing round, continuous circle
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23. A Quote from Ralph Fletcher…
“An image is like a picture. If you want to create strong images, get in the habit of observing the world so you can create your own pictures using words. Pay attention. Be alive to what’s going on around you, as well inside you, because both will provide you with images for your poems.”
Page 21 from Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
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24. Imagery noun Part of Speech: Definition:
Part of Speech:
noun
Definition:
The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
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25. Meter noun Part of Speech: Rhythmic pattern of syllables Definition:
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26. Haiku The most common form for Haiku is three short lines.
first line five (5) syllables
the second line seven (7) syllables
the third line contains five (5) syllables.
Haiku doesn't rhyme. A Haiku must "paint" a mental image in the reader's mind. This is the challenge of Haiku - to put the poem's meaning and imagery in the reader's mind in ONLY 17 syllables over just three (3) lines of poetry!
The Rose
Poet: Donna Brock
The red blossom bends
and drips its dew to the ground.
Like a tear it falls
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27. A Quote from Ralph Fletcher…
“Convey feelings through images. Poets carefully select objects or images for their poems. If you pick the right ones, you don’t have to use the word for the feeling you’re trying to get across to the reader.”
Page from Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
Tuesday 4/10

28. Line Breaks noun Part of Speech:
Definition:
where a large space is added to emphasize a pause or silence.
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29. Limerick Poet: Edward Lear
A limerick is a verse of five lines, usually humorous. The last word of lines one, two, and five must rhyme with each other, and the last word of lines three and four must rhyme with each other. (And not with lines 1,2 and 3).
Poet: Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said 'It is just as I feared! -    Two Owls and a Hen,    Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!
Line 1
Long
Rhyme 1
Line 2
Line 3
Short
Rhyme 2
Line 4
Line 5
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30. A Quote from Ralph Fletcher…
Read Pages from Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out for Ralph Fletcher’s thoughts on Free Verse Poetry.
Wednesday 4/11

31. Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
Free Verse
Free verse is a form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical patterns.
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
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32. Free or not Free?
Poets have explained that free verse, despite its freedom, is not free. Free Verse displays some elements of form. Most free verse, for example, self-evidently continues to observe a convention of the poetic line in some sense. Some poets have considered free verse restrictive in its own way.
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33. Free or Not Free?
T. S. Eliot wrote, "No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job."
Robert Frost later remarked that writing free verse was like “playing tennis without a net.”
William Carlos Williams said being an art form, verse cannot be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principles.
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34. Poetry Try It…You may like it!!