2. Define poetry.

3. Compare it. What is it similar to? You might want to use a simile: Poetry is like_________________________.

4. Associate it. What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of poetry. Is it a person, place, thing, event in your life, etc…

5. Analyze it. What are its parts or essential elements? If you were going to make a recipe for recipe, what would the ingredients be? Don’t know, be creative and make it up.

6. Apply it. What can you do with poetry? How can it be used? What might you do with poetry in your life?

7. Argue for or against it. Would the world be a better place with poetry or without it? What would the world be like if poetry in any form did not exist?

8. What is Poetry by Eleanor Farjeon What is Poetry? Who Knows? Not a rose, but the scent of the rose; Not the sky, but the light in the sky; Not the fly, but the gleam of the fly; Not the sea, but the sound of the sea; Not myself, but what makes me See, hear, and feel something that prose Cannot: and what it is, who knows?

9. Bivalves by Christopher Morley The pearl Is a disease of the oyster. A poem Is a disease of the spirit Caused by the irritation Of a granule of Truth Fallen into that soft gray bivalve We call the mind.