Poetry“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words

that burn”.  ~Thomas Gray

Types of Poetry

The only problemwith Haiku is that you just

get started and then~Roger McGough

Types of Poetry

ABC Ballad Blank Verse Canzone Epigram

Cinquain Couplet Elegy Epic Epitaph

Free Verse Haiku Limerick Name Narrative

Ode Pastoral Quatrain Senryu Tanka

Shakespearean Sonnet

Petrarchan Sonnet

Idyll Lay Verse

Haiku

A Japenese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

Ex:

The only problem

with Haiku is that you justget started and then

I am first with fiveThen seven in the middle Five

again to end.

Name PoemE - excitingN- never boringG- great funL- language I- interesting S- silly H- hilarious

C- cheerful L- lazy A- alikeS- smilingS- sweet

Couplet

A couplet is a pair of lines of poetry that areusually rhymed.

Ex: A Winter Scene Drifting snow, so sweet, so silent- but echos in the dark blue sky

The trees, so dark, are now bright with the snow's lullaby They sway to the whisper of the sweet wintry wind

While the animals hide and huddle, feeling cold and chagrined The snow stops falling, and there is hardly a sound

Save the wind making the trees push the snow on the ground The sparkle of the snow reflects the light from the moon

and the trees eat it up with a light silver spoon No footprints exist in the pure land of sparkly white

but the prints of a doe who passes too quickly for sight The clouds come back in- slowly, they creep in

Whispering to the trees that another snowfall will begin

Cinquain A poem with five lines and follows this pattern:

Line1: A nounLine2: Two adjectives

Line 3: Three -ing wordsLine 4: A phrase

Line 5: Another word for the noun

Ex:Spaghetti

Messy, spicySlurping, sliding, falling

Between my plate and mouthDelicious

Now its your turn!

• In your binder practice writing a haiku, name, couplet, and cinquain poem.

• When finished pair with a partner and share.

• Try giving your partner a theme for a poem and have them write one of the types you have practiced using the theme.

Limerick A short, funny poem consisting of 5 lines. Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme with each

other and lines 3 and four rhyme with each other. Ex:

'Tis a favourite project of mine,

A new value of pi to assign. I would fix it at 3,

For it's simpler, you see, Than 3 point 1 4 1 5 9

Ode

An ode is a poem that is written for an occasionor on a particular subject. An ode is a poem in praise ofa person, place or object that is usually identified in the

title. It describes a scene, focuses on a problem or asituation and arrives at a conclusion that returns to theoriginal scene or statement. Originally, the ode was a

serious poetic form, but modern odes often are written in praise of the ordinary.

OdeMara Mori brought mea pair of sockswhich she knitted herselfwith her sheepherder's hands,two socks as soft as rabbits.I slipped my feet into themas if they were two casesknitted with threads of twilight and goatskin,Violent socks,my feet were two fish made of wool,two long sharkssea blue, shot throughby one golden thread,two immense blackbirds,two cannons,my feet were honoured in this wayby these heavenly socks.They were so handsome for the first timemy feet seemed to me unacceptablelike two decrepit firemen,firemen unworthy of that woven fire,of those glowing socks.

Nevertheless, I resisted the sharp temptationto save them somewhere as schoolboyskeep fireflies,as learned men collectsacred texts,I resisted the mad impulse to put themin a golden cage and each day give thembirdseed and pieces of pink melon.Like explorers in the junglewho hand over the very rare green deerto the spit and eat it with remorse,I stretched out my feet and pulled onthe magnificent socks and then my shoes.

The moral of my ode is this:beauty is twice beautyand what is good is doubly goodwhen it is a matter of two socksmade of wool in winter.

- Pablo Neruda “Ode to My Socks”

ABC Poem

An ABC poem has a series of lines that create a mood,picture, or feeling. Lines are made up of words and phrases.

The first word of line 1 begins with an A, the first word of line 2 begins with a B etc.

Ex: A lthough things are not perfectB ecause of trial or painC ontinue in thanksgivingD o not begin to blameE ven when the times are hardF ierce winds are bound to blow

Elegy

An Elegy is a sad and thoughtful poemlamenting the death of a person. Ex:

  I do not understand as to why the people are weeping, crying, mourning and to exhibit their sympathy to match or exceed with the compassion of other in the same pursuit, shedding the tears for a poet who died writing poems on everything which even the sun could not see or imagine,

but could not spell a few words for whom he lived, he tried everything possible, everything impossible

by making it possible, and died and before the last collapse entered the endeavour of writing poetry,

Free Verse

Free verse does not have a set pattern of rhyme or rhythm. There are no rules about line length in free verse. Anything and everything can be the topic of a free verse lyrical poem. The poem can tell a story, describe a person, animal, feeling or object. They can serious, sad, funny or educational. What ever subject that

appeals to the poet can end up in free verse.

Ex: so much dependsupon

a red wheelbarrow

glazed with rainwater

beside the whitechickens

Epitaph

An epitaph is a commemorative inscription ona tomb or mortuary monument written inpraise, or reflecting the life, of a deceased

person. Ex:

To save your world you asked this man to die:Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

RIP

Now it’s your turn…Complete a rough copy for all of the poems you have read

about during the last few classes. You should have one for each form of poetry listed below.

ABCHaikuName

LimerickEpitaph

Free Verse Cinquain Couplet

Ode Elegy

*submit a good copy (For Wed) for three of the poems you have tried.

Poetic Devices

A poet is limited in the materials he can use in creating his works: all he has are words to express his ideas and feelings.

• The words must sound right to the listener, • they must have meaning to the reader, • they must be arranged in a relationship and placed on the

page in ways that are easy to follow and assist the reader in their understanding,

• they must probe the depths of human thought, emotion, and empathy, while appearing simple, self-contained, and unpretentious.