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Poetry: the Reading and Writing Connection
Jennifer Nabers The Latin School of Chicago
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Presentation Information
• Web Resources: – www.delicious.com
– Choose the drop down menu PEOPLE – Choose “Go to a User” – Enter “poetry2008”
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Challenges to teaching poetry
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For teachers: fear.
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For students: boredom.
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For your curriculum: time
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Dictation
• Open your poetry notebook.
• Start on a new page.
• Follow my directions.
• It’s okay to ask questions.
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Poems are not hierarchical---every
word matters.
Baron Wormser & David Capella A Surge of Language
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Exercise in the Cemetery
At dusk I walk up and down among the rows of the dead. What do the thoughts I think have to do with another living being? In the eastern sky, blue-green as a bird’s egg, a cloud with a neck like a goose swims achingly toward the zenith.
Jane Gentry
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W&C’s Ten questions to ask about words.
• What word intrigues you the most? • Is there a word that confuses you? • What word surprises you? • What word seems metaphorical? • Is there a word that seems unnecessary? • What word is most important? • What is the most physical word in the poem? • What is the most specific word in the poem? • What is the strongest sound word in the poem? • What is the most dynamic verb in the poem?
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Every poem is a prompt.
• Dictate the poem. • Discuss the poem • Examine the structure line by line. • Assign a prompt that uses the same/
similar structure.
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W& C’s Creativity Guidelines
1. Give the task a chance. 2. Feel free to discard. 3. Don’t denigrate your effort. 4. Share with others (once you feel
comfortable). 5. Don’t worry about what should be
because there is no should be.
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Prompt for our poem.
• Write a poem that’s 3 sentences long. – The FIRST sentence sets the setting – The SECOND sentence asks a question. – The THIRD sentence gives us an image from
that world.
– For YOU: being at ISACS. – For your kids: lunch room, lockers, etc.
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The first poem I dictate:
In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
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3 Great Poetry Activities
1. Compare narrative to lyrical poems.
– A narrative poem is a poem that tells a story.
– A lyrical poem portrays feelings, perceptions, or state of mind.
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Ed by Louis Simpson
Ed was in love with a cocktail waitress, but Ed’s family, and his friends, didn’t approve. So he broke it off.
He married a respectable woman who played the piano. She played well
enough to have been a professional.
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Ed’s wife left him… Years later, at a family gathering Ed got drunk and made a fool of himself.
He said, “I should have married Doreen.” “Well,” they said, “why didn’t you?”
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Can we think of a prompt for Ed?
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The Long Rain by John Haines Rain falls in the quiet woods.
Smoke hangs above the evening fire, fragrant with pitch.
Alone, deep in a willow thicket, the olive thrush is singing.
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Can we think of a prompt?
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#2: Teach poetic forms
The ODE
• A lyric poem that focuses on one object or one subject.
• Pablo Neruda’s Odes to Common Things is an invaluable resource.
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Teaching and writing Odes
• Read a selection of contemporary odes. • If you think your kids are up to it,
compare/contrast to a classical ode such as Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn.
• Use Nancie Atwell’s tips for Neruda-esque Odes.
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Tips for Neruda-esque Odes
• Choose a subject you have strong feelings about.
• Describe the subject inside and out. • Exaggerate its admirable qualities. • Tap all 5 senses. • Use metaphors and similies. • Directly address the subject of the ode. • Balance your feelings with description. • Keep the lines short. • Choose strong words.
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from Ode to a pair of scissors
Prodigious scissors (looking like birds, or fish), you are as polished as a knight’s shining armor.
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Another fun form: Sestina
• The sestina is "song of sixes," a medieval verse form of six six-line stanzas, in which the poet repeats six end-words in a prescribed order, reintroducing the six repeated words (in any order) in a closing three line envoy.
• Example: Elizabeth Bishop’s Sestina. • Students can try a tritina.
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Tritina
• 3 repeating end words • 4 total stanzas – 3 lines each in the first 3 stanzas:
• ABC • CAB • BCA
– Last stanza is one line that uses each word.
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#3: Photograph Poems
• From John O’Conner’s Wordplaygrounds • Students bring in a picture that has
meaning. • Ask students to “carefully descibe the
photo, describing everything in the frame.”
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Add drama to the poem
• “Write about what is NOT in the frame: the photographer, missing signs of the setting, the occasion, an important person who is not pictured.”
• “your poem should reconcile or explain why the contents of the frame do not contain all the information necessary to understand the event fully.”
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