2-28-11 Concrete Poem

1. Daily Journal: The house was made of…
Include the words: Wobbly, wagon, twinkle, squint, gabby.

2. Lyrics

3. Sonnet is due

4. Concrete Poem (Visual Poem): poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on.


Triangle

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.

2-25-11 Sonnets

1. Daily journal: If you could invite three people (living or dead) to the dinner table, who would it be and why?

2. Lyrics

3. Assonance poem is due

4. Write a sonnet
How to Write a Sonnet

Iambic Pentameter Information

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 often 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 wander'st 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.

2-24-11 Assonance

1. Daily Journal: Describe a time in your life when you were really scared of something

2. Lyrics

3. Word Clouds due

4. Assonance writing assignment: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds and is used to set the mood or add to the meaning of the writing. It is hard to spot sometimes as it is very subtle.

“The Wreck of the Deutschland” by Gerald Manley Hopkins:

And frightful a nightfall folded rueful a day
Nor rescue, only rocket and lightship, shone,
And lives at last were washing away:
To the shrouds they took,—they shook in the hurling and horrible airs.
Is out with it! Oh,
We lash with the best or worst
Word last! How a lush-kept plush-capped sloe
Will, mouthed to flesh-burst,
Gush!—flush the man, the being with it, sour or sweet,
Brim, in a flash, full!—Hither then, last or first

Your assignment is to write 12 lines of poetry that contain assonance. You can structure your poem however you'd like.

2-23-11 Onamatopeia Poem

1. Daily Journal: Write whatever you'd like

2. Lyrics Assignment

3. Alliteration Poem is due

4. Onamatopeia word cloud assignment
Create a word cloud that includes at least 5 examples of onamatopeia
Go to http://www.wordle.net/ and create your word cloud
Publish it and copy the HTML code
Make a new post on your blog
Click the Edit HTML link and paste that code into your post

THE BELLS
By Edgar Allen Poe

Here the loud alarum bells-
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to sprak,
They can only shriek, shreik,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and the frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor,
Now- now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging,
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows:
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells-
Of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells. bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!

2-22-11 Alliteration

1. Daily Journal: What is your earliest childhood memory? Write as much detail as possible.

2. Lyrics Assignment

3. Five Senses Poem is Due

4. Alliteration Poetry

Examples of alliteration in Shakespeare:

Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade he bravely broached his bloody boiling breast

Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 30″
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 12″
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard

Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”
Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow

4. Your assignment is to write an 8 line poem (2 stanzas of 4 verses) that contains alliteration in each line. The poem should have an ABAB CDCD rhyming pattern.

2-18-11 Sense of Time Poem

1. Daily Journal: A man/woman walks out into the cold night air. His/her hands are shaking from what just happened…

2. Lyrics: Alex

3. SENSE OF TIME POEMS
When writing these poems, select a different time for each one: Day of the week, month, season or holiday.

TITLE Pick a period of time from the list above and write it as a title
LINE 1 Assign a color to that time period
LINE 2 Describe the color with an example. The color of . . .
LINE 3 What does this time period feel like?
LINE 4 What does this time period sound like?
LINE 5 What does this time period smell like?
LINE 6 What does this time period taste like?
LINE 7 Sum up your feeling about the time period in a sentence.


EXAMPLE

February
February is bright red
The color of cherries and valentines
February feels like slick satin slipping
Between your fingers
It sounds like hot rock ‘n’roll
It smells like perfume and cologne
February tastes like sweet chocolates
February is here and gone in a flash

2-17-11 Parts of Speech Poem

1. Daily Journal: Write whatever you'd like

2. Cinquain poem is due

3. Daily lyrics: Stu

4. Parts of Speech Poem

LINE 1 One article and one noun
LINE 2 One adjective and one conjunction and one adjective
LINE 3 One verbal (ed or ing word) and one conjunction and one verbal
LINE 4 One noun that relates to the noun in the first line (It can be two or three words).

EXAMPLES

The Church
Big and Tall
Singing and Praying
House of God