Poetry

How to build a poem: Poetry Toolbox

Poetry Defined

• Poetry: writing that uses language and structure to create an emotional response

Poetry Toolbox: Meaning

• Descriptive Imagery: words that paint a vivid picture in your mind!

• Similes• Metaphors• Personification

Meaning

Music

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Descriptive

imagerySimiles

Metaphors

Personification

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Similes & Metaphors

• Similes: figure of speech that compares 2 UNLIKE things using the words like or as

• Metaphors: figure of speech that compares 2 UNLIKE things WITHOUT using the words like or as

Personification• How does the word “person” fit into the

definition of “person”ification??

• What does personification add to a poem?

Meaning

Music

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Descriptive

imagerySimiles

Metaphors

Personification

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Poetry Toolbox: Music

• Writer’s use tools to create rhyme and rhythm in a poem.

• What is the difference between the two?

Meaning

Music

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Descriptive

imagerySimiles

Metaphors

Personification

Alliteration Onomatopoeia

Poetry Toolbox: Rhyme & Rhythm

• Rhyme: words or lines in a poem with similar ending sounds

• Rhythm: recurring movement of sound or speech

What do you hear?Rain in Summer – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How beautiful is the rain!After the dust and heat,In the broad and fiery street,in the narrow lane,How beautiful is the rain!

How it clatters along the roofs,Like the ramp of hoofs!How it gushes and struggles outFrom the throat of the overflowing

spout

Across the window paneIt pours and pours;And swift and wide,With a muddy tide,Like a river down the gutter roarsThe rain, the welcome rain!

The sick man from his chamber looksAt the twisted brooks;He can feel the coolBreath of each little pool;His fevered brainGrows calm again,And he breathes a blessing on the rain

From the neighboring schoolCome the boys,With more than their wonted noiseAnd commotion;And down the wet streetsSail their mimic fleets,Till the treacherous poolEngulfs them in its whirlingAnd turbulent ocean.

In the country, on every side,Where far and wide,Like a leopard’s tawny and spotted

hide,Stretches the plain,To the dry grass and the drier

grainHow welcome is the rain

Poetry Toolbox: Music• Watch this video!

• What did you notice?

• Alliteration: the same sound repeated at the beginning of words

• Helps writers achieve rhythm by directing a reader’s attention to certain sounds, which affects the words that are stressed

• Examples?

Tools for Making Music

Show What You Know

• Let’s try to use alliteration to write a tongue twister!

• Be prepared to try them out on your classmates.

Tools for Making Music

Meaning

Music

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Descriptive

imagerySimiles

Metaphors

Personification

Alliteration Onomatopoeia

• Onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds

• Onomatopoeia video – (How many examples can you

find?)

Show What You Know

• Let’s enhance our writing• Add onomatopoeia to your

tongue twister!• Be prepared to try them out

on your classmates.

Free Verse Poetry

• composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern

• NO SET LINE LENGTH• NO SET RHYTHM• NO RHYMING PATTERN• WAY OF CONVEYING IDEAS AND FEELINGS• CAREFULLY CRAFTED WORD PICTURE

Using the Writer’s Toolbox

• 6 Room Poetry: tool used to help writers with descriptive imagery

• Walk through 6 “rooms” to add sensory cues to your poetry

• Use the other tools from your toolbox as you walk through the rooms (i.e. in “sounds” room, consider ways to use onomatopoeia or alliteration to add rhyme and rhythm)

Meaning Music• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Descriptive

imagerySimiles

Metaphors

Personification

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Using Writer’s Toolbox

• Heart Mapping: tool writers use to organize what is really important to them

• Brainstorm ideas about things that are important to you

Show What You Know

• Using your heart map, select a topic about which you would like to write a poem.

• Walk through the 6 Rooms to help you describe your topic.

• Write a free verse poem.• Look back at your poem and add

figurative language to enhance the descriptive imagery and music of your poem.

• CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE A POET!