POETRY

1. POETRY UNIT #2

2. POETRY • A unique form of writing about experiences, thoughts, and feelings • Divided into lines and stanzas • Uses compressed language • Uses figures of speech (literary devices) • Uses imagery to appeal to readers’ emotions and imagination • Variety of structures • Various lengths, rhymes, rhythms, stanza formation

3. My beard grows to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.

4. TYPES OF POEMS

5. FREE VERSE • A form of modern poetry that does not follow a set rhythm.

6. WARNING Inside everybody’s nose There lives a sharp-toothed snail. So if you stick your finger in, He may bite off your nail. Stick it farther up inside, And he may bite your ring off. Stick it all the way, and he May bite the whole darn thing off.

7. ConCRETE POEM • A poem whose shape or visual appearance contributes to its meaning.

8. FOUND POEM • A poem created from words selected from public communications (newspapers, magazines, menus, signs, etc.) and then re-arranged into lines and stanzas.

9. LYRIC POEM • A poem that expresses intense personal thoughts, moods, or emotions.

10. Ballad • A narrative poem with a song-like form that usually tells of a love story, historical event, or heroic tale.

11. HAIKU • A seventeen-syllable poem set out in three lines in a five-seven-five syllable pattern. • Haikus often capture a moment in nature.

12. Sonnet • A fourteen-line poem that usually follows a set rhyme scheme and rhythm.