1. Painting with words By Sharon White

2.  Follow these guidelines  Read the poem out loud at least once  Look form sentences, and pay attention to punctuation.

3. Pictures Figures of speech

4. A Poet use sound just as a painter uses color. Like painters, poets uses color to share their special moment to the world.

5. FORMSSTANZAS  Like sculptors poets are concerned with shapes and form.  When they write and revise, poets are chiseling the words to create the shapes on the page which are called.

6.  A poet’s purposeful choice of where to end one line and begin the next.  Line breaks can be a way to play with sound and meaning.

7.  The “voice” of the poem is not necessarily the poet.

8.  Read the poem aloud three or four times.  Look for rhymes, Rhyming words help your memory.  Memorize two lines at a time. Say the lines aloud several times then cover them and try to recite them from memory.  Try to picture the words ot the poem on the page.

9.  A line is a single row of words,which may or may not be in a complete thought.