1. “Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn”. ~Thomas Gray

2. Types of Poetry
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then ~Roger McGough

3. Types of Poetry ABC Ballad Blank Verse Canzone Epigram Cinquain
Couplet
Elegy
Epic
Epitaph
Free Verse
Haiku
Limerick
Name
Narrative
Ode
Pastoral
Quatrain
Senryu
Tanka
Shakespearean
Sonnet
Petrarchan
Idyll
Lay
Verse

4. Haiku
A Japenese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
Ex:
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then
I am first with five Then seven in the middle Five again to end.

5. Name Poem E - exciting N- never boring G- great fun L- language
I- interesting
S- silly
H- hilarious
C- cheerful
L- lazy
A- alike
S- smiling
S- sweet

6. Couplet A couplet is a pair of lines of poetry that are
usually rhymed.
Ex: A Winter Scene
Drifting snow, so sweet, so silent- but echos in the dark blue sky
The trees, so dark, are now bright with the snow's lullaby
They sway to the whisper of the sweet wintry wind
While the animals hide and huddle, feeling cold and chagrined
The snow stops falling, and there is hardly a sound
Save the wind making the trees push the snow on the ground
The sparkle of the snow reflects the light from the moon
and the trees eat it up with a light silver spoon
No footprints exist in the pure land of sparkly white
but the prints of a doe who passes too quickly for sight
The clouds come back in- slowly, they creep in
Whispering to the trees that another snowfall will begin

7. Cinquain A poem with five lines and follows this pattern: Spaghetti
Line1: A noun
Line2: Two adjectives
Line 3: Three -ing words
Line 4: A phrase
Line 5: Another word for the noun
Ex:
Spaghetti
Messy, spicy
Slurping, sliding, falling
Between my plate and mouth
Delicious

8. Now its your turn!
In your binder practice writing a haiku, name, couplet, and cinquain poem.
When finished pair with a partner and share.
Try giving your partner a theme for a poem and have them write one of the types you have practiced using the theme.

9. Limerick
A short, funny poem consisting of 5 lines. Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme with each
other and lines 3 and four rhyme with each other.
Ex:
'Tis a favourite project of mine,
A new value of pi to assign.
I would fix it at 3,
For it's simpler, you see,
Than 3 point

10. Ode An ode is a poem that is written for an occasion
or on a particular subject. An ode is a poem in praise of
a person, place or object that is usually identified in the
title. It describes a scene, focuses on a problem or a
situation and arrives at a conclusion that returns to the
original scene or statement. Originally, the ode was a
serious poetic form, but modern odes often are written
in praise of the ordinary.

11. Ode
Mara Mori brought me a pair of socks which she knitted herself with her sheepherder's hands, two socks as soft as rabbits. I slipped my feet into them as if they were two cases knitted with threads of twilight and goatskin, Violent socks, my feet were two fish made of wool, two long sharks sea blue, shot through by one golden thread, two immense blackbirds, two cannons, my feet were honoured in this way by these heavenly socks. They were so handsome for the first time my feet seemed to me unacceptable like two decrepit firemen, firemen unworthy of that woven fire, of those glowing socks.
Nevertheless, I resisted the sharp temptation to save them somewhere as schoolboys keep fireflies, as learned men collect sacred texts, I resisted the mad impulse to put them in a golden cage and each day give them birdseed and pieces of pink melon. Like explorers in the jungle who hand over the very rare green deer to the spit and eat it with remorse, I stretched out my feet and pulled on the magnificent socks and then my shoes. The moral of my ode is this: beauty is twice beauty and what is good is doubly good when it is a matter of two socks made of wool in winter.
- Pablo Neruda “Ode to My Socks”

12. ABC Poem An ABC poem has a series of lines that create a mood,
picture, or feeling. Lines are made up of words and phrases.
The first word of line 1 begins with an A, the first word of line 2
begins with a B etc.
Ex:
A lthough things are not perfect B ecause of trial or pain C ontinue in thanksgiving D o not begin to blame E ven when the times are hard F ierce winds are bound to blow

13. An Elegy is a sad and thoughtful poem
lamenting the death of a person. Ex:
  I do not understand as to why the people are weeping, crying, mourning and to exhibit their sympathy to match or exceed with the compassion of other in the same pursuit, shedding the tears for a poet who died writing poems on everything which even the sun could not see or imagine, but could not spell a few words for whom he lived, he tried everything possible, everything impossible by making it possible, and died and before the last collapse
entered the endeavour of writing poetry,

14. Free Verse
Free verse does not have a set pattern of rhyme or rhythm.  There are no rules about line length in free verse. Anything and everything can be the topic of a  free verse lyrical  poem.  The poem can tell a story, describe a person, animal, feeling or object.  They can serious, sad, funny or  educational.  What ever subject that appeals to the poet can end up in free verse.
Ex:
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens

15. Epitaph An epitaph is a commemorative inscription on
a tomb or mortuary monument written in
praise, or reflecting the life, of a deceased
person. Ex:
To save your world you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
RIP

16. *submit a good copy (For Wed) for three of the poems you have tried.
Now it’s your turn…
Complete a rough copy for all of the poems you have read about during the last few classes. You should have one for each form of poetry listed below.
ABC
Haiku
Name
Limerick
Epitaph
Free Verse
Cinquain
Couplet
Ode
Elegy
*submit a good copy (For Wed) for three of the poems you have tried.

17. Poetic Devices
A poet is limited in the materials he can use in creating his works: all he has are words to express his ideas and feelings.
The words must sound right to the listener,
they must have meaning to the reader,
they must be arranged in a relationship and placed on the page in ways that are easy to follow and assist the reader in their understanding,
they must probe the depths of human thought, emotion, and empathy, while appearing simple, self-contained, and unpretentious.