what is poetry? let’s brainstorm…
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What is poetry?
Let’s brainstorm…
www.wordle.net/create
Today’s Learning Objective
How do poets paint a picture in our mind?
Imagery in writing involves…
The Senses:
Sight, hearing, touch, taste & smell
Colors, shapes or images
Figurative language
…To create a “mental picture”
Examples of Imagery
The red wheelbarrow
The creeeeaking door
The razor-sharp edge of broken glass
The bit t er taste of ginger root
The putrid smell of rotting garbage
Langston Hughes(1902 -1967)
Photo by Nikolas Muray
Get ready to sketch!
The City
In the morning the city
Spreads its wings
Making a song
In stone that sings.
In the evening the city
Goes to bed
Hanging lights
About its head.
“The City”by Langston Hughes
In the morning the citySpreads its wingsMaking a songIn stone that sings.
In the evening the cityGoes to bedHanging lightsAbout its head.
What did you see in your mind? What did you sketch?
Literary Devices(also known as figurative language)
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
What’s a simile?
Simile
Comparing 2 things using “like” or “as”
The rain was like a little mouse
Quiet, small and gray.
It pattered all around the house
And then it went away.
From “Rain Poem”
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Write a simile about life.
Life is like…
What’s a metaphor?
Metaphor
Comparing 2 things using the verb “to be”
To be = I am/was… We are/were…
You are…They are…Erin & Al are…She is/was…He is…It is…The thing is…
The world is
a glass overflowing
with water.
From “Ode to Enchanted Light”
by Pablo Neruda
Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a barren fieldFrozen with snow
From “Dreams”by Langston Hughes
Metaphors are harder to use
Try to describe the weather with a metaphor.
How about a parent or sibling?
Personification
Giving an inanimate object human or animal qualities
Pencils too pointed break their points and then laugh at you.
Proud pencils get furious waiting to be sharpened.
Pencils in pockets and boxes shove each other and nearly come to fighting.
From “Pencils”
by Carl Sandburg
Practice Personification…
Think of something that is difficult to do…
Does that thing laugh at you?
Does it seem like it has a life of its own?
Let’s review!How do poets paint a picture
in the reader’s mind?
What literary devices do poet’s use to create imagery?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Works Citedhttp://www.wordle.net/create
http://michelemiller.blogs.com/marketing_to_women/2004/04/eye_of_the_beho.html
ClipArt from Microsoft
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photography-boy-smell-flower-image5191417
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_I.html#imagery_anchor
Heard, Georgia. 1998. Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Press.
Perfect, Kathy A. 2005. Poetry Lessons: Everything You Need. New York: Scholastic.
http://poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83
http://www.geh.org/ar/strip18/htmlsrc/m197701891477_ful.html
Presentation by K. Coolman
Nov. 17, 2009