Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Observational Poem

How to write a poem with vivid imagery is less challenging if you take time to observe the world around you.

In your notebooks please write the following with 4-5 lines in between:

What I see:

What I smell:

What I hear:

What I taste:

What I feel/touch:


Post-observational reflection question:

How can you relate what you saw, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted to the way you feel about school? Education in general? The way you feel about your life in this current moment?

Optional HW: (but there's extra credit involved)
Please compose a 3-5 stanza poem on your observations. Try to have a larger statement on your life within your imagery. Please TYPE

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Getting to the Point

Allusion- when a poem makes a reference (usually a big event, time period, or person).

Inaugurations have recently adopted the trend of commissioning a well-known poet to compose a poem for the occasion, hence the term occasional poetry.