Senses Poetry

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SENSES

+The Found Poem

A found poem is a poem that did not originally start out as a poem but as prose

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+Parents ~ Julius LesterLinda failed to return home from a dance Fridaynight.On Saturdayshe admitted she had spent the night with an Air Force Lieutenant.The Aults decided on a punishmentthat would “wake Linda up.”They ordered her to shoot the dog she had owned about two years.On Sunday, the Aults andLindatook the dog into the desertnear their home.Theyhad the girl dig a shallow grave.ThenMrs. Ault

Grasped the dog between her hands andMr. Aultgave his daughter a .22 caliber pistoland told her to shoot the dog.Instead,the girl put the pistol to her right temple and shot herself.The police said there were no charges that could be filed against the parentsexcept possiblycruelty toanimals.

+New York Times (1976, Feb. 7, p. 29):Coed kills herself to spare pet dog doomed by father

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 6 (AP) –Linda Marie Ault killed herself, policeman said today, rather than make her dog 'Beauty’ pay for her night with a married man.

"I killed her. I killed her. Its just like I killed her myself," a detective quoted her grief-stricken father as saying. "I handed her the gun. I didn't think she would do any-thing like that."

The 21-year old Arizona State University coed died in a hospital yesterday of a gunshot wound in the head.

The police quoted her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ault, as giving this account: Linda failed to return home from a dance in Tempe Friday night. On Saturday she admitted she had spent the night with an Air Force lieutenant.

The Aults decided on a punishment that would "wake Linda up." They ordered her to shoot the dog she had owned about two years.

On Sunday, the Aults and Linda took the dog into the desert near their home. They had the girl dig a shallow grave. Then Mrs. Ault grasped the dog between her hands, and Mr. Ault gave his daughter a .22 caliber pistol and told her to shoot the dog. Instead, the girl put the pistol to her right temple and shot herself.

The police said there were no charges that could be file against the parents except possibly cruelty to animals.

+Literary Devices

Review: metaphor, simile, alliteration, symbol, personification

+Assonance and Consonance

ASSONANCE: Repetition of vowel sounds (a,e,I,o,u,y)- i.e. My eye will cry for thine heart

CONSONANCE: Repetition of consonant sounds (everything except the above)-i.e. grip, grape, grope, gripe

+Internal Rhyme

Rhyming that occurs within the line i.e. the land of sand was bleak i.e. a piece of me emerges

+Onomatopoeia

A word that imitates the sound it represents

Buzz, crackle, hiss, quack, meow, vroom, etc

+Write your own Found Poem

Find any prose sentence or passage that has poetic potential

Copy it into lines of poetry, placing what you consider the most interesting words at the ends of lines to give them greatest emphasis

Strip out any unnecessary words

Rearrange words, compress phrases, and repeat key words – you can do anything except add words

+The Five Senses Poem

Loneliness is grey

It smells like an empty house

It sounds like a vacant room

It tastes like liver

It feels like a toothache

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Fives Senses Poem – Mad Lib Style

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