Poetry Portfolio

English

Grade 8

Ms. Ryan

Poetry Portfolio

English Grade 8Ms. Ryan

Silence and Meditation

What is Poetry?

• Poetry is the most emotionally charged means of written expression and it consists of words arranged in patterns of sound and imagery to spark an emotional, and intellectual response from us. Poetry is the language of the imagination, of feelings, of emotional self expression, of high art. Prose explains, but poetry sings. The language in poetry is musical, precise, memorable and magical.

Definition of Poetry (Russell, 2005, pp. 176-177)

www.2.nkfust.edu.tw/~emchen/CLit/Poetry.htm

Poetry – Eleanor Farjeon

What is Poetry? Who knows?

Not a rose, but the scent of the rose;

Not the sky, but the light in the sky;

Not the fly, but the gleam of the fly;

Not the sea, but the sound of the sea;

Not myself, but what makes me

See, hear and fell something that prose

Cannot; and what it is who knows?(from Eleanor Farjeaon’s Poems for Children, 1938)

My definition of poetry

Poetry is beauty. It is words creating sound and pictures. It is a form of expression that soothes the soul, ignites fire, creates passion and sometimes hides its meaning.

Types of Poetry

HaikuSonnetFree VerseCinquainAcrostic Character PoemLimerick

Haiku

• Lyric, unrhymed poem of Japanese origin

• Has 17 syllables divided into three lines

• Usually on subject of nature and man’s relationship to nature.

• Uses metaphor to give fresh new look at something that may be ordinary

Example of Haiku

The moon is a week old-

A dandelion to blow

Scattering star seed.

By Ruby Lytle

Cinquain

• A five-line stanza possibly of medieval origin.

• Often has two, four, six, eight, and two syllables respectively in five lines.

Example of cinquain

Listen…..

With faint dry sound,

Like steps of passing ghosts,

The leaves, frost-crisp’s, break from the trees

And fall.

By Adelaide Crapsey’s “November Night”)

Sonnet

• Very old form of poetry containing 14 lines

• It must be written in one of various standard rhyme schemes

• It must be written in iambic pentameter(duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH)

** give copies of sonnet

continued

• Most familiar kind of sonnet is the Shakespearean.• A every A rhymes with every A • B every B rhymes with every B and so on.• A This type of sonnet consists of 3 quatrains • B a quatrain – is four consecutive lines of verse that make

up• C a stanza or division of lines in a poem• D• C• D• E• F• E• F

– G these last two lines rhyme and are called a couplet– G

There’s more to a sonnet..

• It is also an argument- that builds in a certain way

• First quatrain: – an exposition of the main theme and main

metaphor

• Second quatrain:– Theme and metaphor are extended,

sometimes an imaginative example is given

• Third quatrain:– Peripeteia (a twist or conflict) is often

introduced using a “But” (often leading from the 9th line)

• Couplet:– Summarizes and leaves the reader with a

new, concluding image.

Limerick

• 5 line humorous poem.

• First, second and fifth lines rhyming and ..

• Third and fourth lines rhyme.

• Rhyme scheme: aabba

• One of most popular poetic forms for children

• The fun of the limerick lies in its rhyme and humor

Example of Limerick

Imagine a skunk who proposes,

To his true love, surrounded by roses.

It may turn out just fine,

When she falls for his line,

But I wonder if flowers have noses?

By: Sarah Fanny

www.2.nkfust.edu.tw/emchen/CLit/poetry

My Limerickby Ms. Ryan for Alaja

There once was a Lady named Ga-Ga (a)

She talked baby talk and said Ba-ba (a)

She wore clothes that were neat (b)

Some were even made of meat (b) That’s all for now….Ta-Ta! (a)

More limericks by Paul McCann

www.home.vicnet.net.au/~poems/ps/htm/acrostic_examples.html

Old Man with a BeardEdward Lear There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, 'It is just as I feared!Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!'

a lady named Cager

There once was a lady named Cager,Who as the result of a wager,Consented to fartThe entire oboe partOf Mozart's quartet in F-major.

** author unknown, from website above

Free Versenotes by Spencer Johnson

ww.docstoc.com/docs/5952272/definition-examples-of-free-verse-poetry

• No set rules• No special pattern• Sounds like natural speech• Tells story or paints a picture• Written like a poem• Uses carefully chosen words to describe

experiences or feelings• must make sense to the reader • ** give how to write free verse

Example of free verseby students at Camborne Public School

www.docstoc.com/docs

The WindThe Wind is a ghost

That haunts the night

Grabbing the leaves,

The Paper and grass,

Howling and Growling

Right through the town;

It moans and groans

All alone.

Snowflakes

Snowflakes

pretty little tears

freezing in the sky

leave behind a blanket

SNOW

Acrostic www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic

www.college.holycross.edu/faculty/dhummon/acrostics

• A poem in which special letters spell another word

• Most often the special letters come at the beginning of the line

• Go To student interactive acrostic poem

Example of an acrostic

A Peace Sign

By Paul McCann

People need love care and friendship .

Every word that we let slip.

All the prayers that come from our heart

Could be the sign for peace to start

Everyone must play their part .

 

More acrosticby Paul McCann

www.home.vicnet.net.au/~poems/ps/htm/acrostic_examples.html

About Ireland By Paul McCann

Its in the emerald of her colour green.Remembered in history as dark Roisin.Erin you are dressed in the mystic of time.Love speaks of your beauty in manys a rhyme.About you are stories beyond wealth to hold.Now that's why your people are so rich in soul.Dwelling is the truth that can't be bought or sold.

Character or Bio Poemswww.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/writing

• Poems with sentence starters

• Used to identify self or character in a novel

Character Poem or Bio Poems

• Emotion) is (Color).• It smells like_____.• It tastes like_____. • It sounds like_____. • It feels like______. • It looks like______.• (Emotion)is_______.

(give a metaphoric statement)

Fear is red.

It smells like fires.

It tastes like rotten peaches.

It sounds like car horns.

It feels like being scared of the dark.

It looks like Freddy Krueger

Fear is falling into a hole.

Format for bio poem

Line 1 Your first name onlyLine 2 4 traits that describe youLine 3 Sibling of...(or son/daughter of)Line 4 Lover of...(three people or ideas>Line 5 Who feels...(three items)Line 6 Who needs...(three items)Line 7 Who gives...(three items)Line 8 Who fears...(three items)Line 9 Who would like to see...(three items)Line 10 Resident of (your city, street or state)Line 11 Your last name only.