Poetry 7 th Grade Language Arts Poetry Why

Poetry 7 th Grade Language Arts

Poetry • Why does poetry exist? • Poetic Terms • Styles of Poetry

Poetry, part 3: Styles of Poetry • • Acrostic Haiku Limerick Epic Poem Sonnet Ode Cinquain Shape (concrete) Poem

ACROSTIC: poem where the first letters of each line spells the title “Go Brendan!” ~ by Brendan O’Connor (2007) Gradually, Over time the ninjas awoke so… Brendan Ran Extremely fast! Not even a cheetah could catch him, Dashing like the wind. Across the dreaded Ninja camp.

HAIKU: an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of 3 lines of 5/7/5 syllables or 17 syllables in all. It is usually written in the present tense and focuses on nature Through frozen rice fields, Moving slowly on horseback, My shadow creeps by. Basho (1644 -1694) http: //www. big. or. jp/~loupe/links/ehisto/eb asho. shtml

Haikus (cont. ) “The Perfect Golf Swing” By Alex Royals (2007) Slicing through the grass The club as sharp as a knife Gone far, far away.

LIMERICK: a rhyming, humorous or nonsense poem of 5 lines consisting of an AABBA rhyme scheme; the style originated around Limerick, Ireland There once was a tall kid named Tyler Boasting constantly he was a “baller. ” He started to slam The ball with a jam, But he slipped in a puddle of water. A A B B A There once was a teacher named Murray, Who taught science in such a huge hurry. When she passed out a frog To Robbie the hog, He gobbled it down – it was blurry! A A B B A

EPIC POEM: a long (book or story length) poem celebrating the adventures of a hero from The Iliad, Book XXII Thus did he stand ponder, but Achilles came up to him as it were Mars himself, plumed lord of battle. From his right shoulder he brandished his terrible spear of Pelian ash, and the bronze gleamed around him like flashing fire or the rays of the rising sun. Fear fell upon Hector as he beheld him, and he dared not stay longer where he was but fled in dismay from before the gates, while Achilles darted after him at his utmost speed. As a mountain falcon, swiftest of all birds, swoops down upon some cowering dove- the dove flies before him but the falcon with a shrill scream follows close after, resolved to have her- even so did Achilles make straight for Hector with all his might, while Hector fled under the Trojan wall as fast as his limbs could take him. Achilles http: //www. prometheus -imports. com/g-achilles -trojan-wars-bb-l. jpg

SONNET: a poem consisting of 14 lines (3 quatrains + 1 couplet) with the rhyme scheme of the author’s choosing Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd: But thy eternal Summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. William Shakespeare

ODE: a poem that praises or glorifies a person, place, or thing “Ode to Storm” by Hunter Gruhler (2007) You might think this is strange As most people do. My best friend isn’t a “me” or a “you. ” Her name is Storm, And guess what she can do. She can sit, she can speak And has a mean little bark. She’s my best friend And doesn’t like the dark. She chews on my socks, My shoes, and anything other— She likes to hide from me And run from my little brother. Can you guess from all the clues What I’ve written above? It’s my dog Storm The best friend that I love!

Cinquain: a five-line stanza; in certain styles a cinquain contains 22 syllables (2, 4, 6, 8, 2) “Triad” ~ Adelaide Crapsey These be Three silent things: The falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead. Adelaide Crapsey (1878 -1914) http: //www. amazon. co. uk/gp/product/images/08739534 28/ref=dp_image_text_0/203 -04370169853551? ie=UTF 8&n=266239&s=books

Cinquains (cont. ) “First Love” ~ by Sean Egan (2007) Forget The butterflies. The rumbling inside, all Those flowing thoughts and take a chance With her!

Cinquains (cont. ) “Critics” by Thomas Washington (2007) Critics Can check players’ Stats, but there is one thing They cannot research, and that is My heart.

Shape Poetry (concrete poetry): poem written within a design reflecting the poem’s topic or theme I am a very special shape I have three points and three lines straight. Look through my words and you will see, the shape that I am meant to be. I'm just not words caught in a tangle. Look close to see a small triangle. My angles add to one hundred and eighty degrees, you learn this at school with your abc's. Practice your maths and you will see, some other fine examples of me. http: //members. optushome. com. au/kazoom/poetry/concrete. html

Shape (Concrete) Poetry (cont. ) “AMPERSAND” http: //www. funnypoems. co. uk/kids /odes-ends/m 07 ampersand. asp

Free Verse poetry without a rhyme scheme Fog by Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

Free Verse - cont After the Sea-Ship by Walt Whitman After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds; After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks, Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship: Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying, Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves, Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves, Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface;