Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Poetry Unit - ENG1D

No. It doesn’t have to rhyme!
Let’s not even worry about rhyming!
Poetry has a specific use of words - sometimes, we call those words POETIC DEVICES (or LITERARY DEVICES)
Poetry sometimes has a FLOW (like rap lyrics) - is a way of fitting words together so that they sound good and have a musical quality - this is called a RHYTHM - the words are kind of like drums (percussion from the way you say them)

Haiku - very particular structure of poetry (5,7,5 syllables)
Some kinds of poetry have really specific structure (this is common for kids to study)

You know about the specific types of poems because they are EASIER to learn.

When you get into higher grades, poetry can be much more interesting and free and also, COMPLEX

Elizabeth Barrett Browning -

An Apprehension

Laine

read the poem over and tried to figure out what was going on - PLOT
tried to figure out how “she” was feeling - the POV character in the poem
the POV character is upset - someone died and the POV character is talking to God in prayer

Devon

read the poem over and looked at the wording - noticed inverted sentences
reordered the lines to make a more understandable sentence

Mitchell

read it over for understanding -
tried to see images of what was happening

Erin

looked for words that she didn’t understand and researched/defined/looked them up
reread with those definitions

We are able to use a plan not unlike what we did for short stories.

HEY! The same plan can apply entirely! (with a few changes)

Poetry is more complex and richer than the simple structures we learned as kids.

We can look for PLOT, SETTING, CHARACTER, THEME (it might not be so obvious or it might not even be there, but it’s something to look for)

When we know this, we can then start to think about poems as being MORE THAN JUST STRUCTURE

Group Assignment

Find 5 types of poetry that are STRUCTURAL (that kids might have studied).

Describe the structural element(s) (ie Haiku is 5,7,5 syllables, Japanese, often deals with nature, has a twist in the last line, etc) 3 minimum

Find ONE example of each kind of poem and include it.

You will put this into a PREZI or KEYNOTE or GOOGLE PRESENTATION or POWERPOINT