Poetry

= = **Poems for your Portfolio:** ===Type these as one document and share them with me in Google Drive. Type one poem on each page and have the type of poem and a title for your poem at the top of each page. Here is a [|sample document]to show you what the first pages will look like. The MLA heading goes on the first page only.=== These will go into your Writing Portfolio (25% of your grade).
 * 1) Descriptive poem describing a person
 * 2) Descriptive poem about an animal using alliteration and onomatopoeia
 * 3) "This is Just to Say" parody
 * 4) Poem about object with human characteristics (3 examples of personification)
 * 5) An ode to something in nature
 * 6) A 16-line poem with rhythm and rhyme
 * 7) Poem with a color as a symbol (it must represent something other than just being that color--example: red often symbolizes anger or love)
 * 8) 3 [|Tanka] Poems
 * 9) One poem from your journal (114 was a poem; 115, 116, and 117 were stories or poems, so you can choose one of these if you did them as poems)
 * 10) [|Limerick]--more [|examples]
 * 11) Poetry Poker poem (edit it to make it make sense: you may want to cut some lines or parts out and add some new lines to do this)

=Poets and Poems we've read in class:= [|Jacqueline Woodson] "Describe Somebody" and "Almost a Summer Sky" from the book //Locomotion// [|Eleanor Farjeon] "Cat!" [|Walter de la Mare] "Silver" [|Georgia Douglas Johnson] "Your World" [|Nikki Giovanni] "The Drum (for Martin Luther King, Jr.)" [|Alfred, Lord Tennyson] "Ring Out, Wild Bells" [|Eve Merriam] "Thumbprint" [|Patricia Hubbell] "Concrete Mixers" [|Langston Hughes] "Harlem Night Song" [|Richard Garcia] "The City Is So Big" [|William Carlos Williams] "This is Just to Say" (here are some of his [|poems] read by the poet himself) [|Elizabeth Bishop] "Little Exercise" [|Pablo Neruda] "Ode to Enchanted Light" [|Emily Dickinson] "The Sky is Low, the Clouds are Mean" [|John Updike] "January" [|M. Scott Momaday] "New World" [|Alice Walker] "To My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties"

[|3 Poems for pages 238-39]

Cartoon from //The Argyle Sweater// series by Scott Hilburn

**Oxymorons** Oxymoron: two contrasting words used together as a contradiction that somehow makes sense

Examples: = =
 * She felt **alone in a crowd**.
 * I like to eat **jumbo shrimp**.
 * That answer was **almost exactly** right.
 * His eyes were filled with a ** cold fire. **

=Puns= Pun: a play on words using different meanings of words or using words that sound similar but have different meanings

[|Once a Pun a Time]--Punny Cartoons Cartoon from //A User's Guide to the Universe//

=Idioms= Idiom: an expression that is not meant to be taken literally. The expression has a different meaning from the words it contains.

[|The Idiom Site] [|The Idiom Connection]
 * Examples of idioms:**

Idiom Illustrations:
Choose an idiom to illustrate. On the left, tell how it would be literally interpreted and draw a picture. On the right, tell what the idiom actually means (its figurative meaning) and draw a picture.

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=GSMS Staff Favorite Poems:= [|Mr. Norris]: "If--" by Rudyard Kipling [|Mr. Carroll]: "Immortal Sails" by Alfred Noyes [|Mr. Lester]: "The O-Filler" by Alastair Reid [|Mrs. Karnes]: "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron [|Mrs. Cannon]: "Who Knows If the Moon's" by E.E. Cummings [|Mrs. Stevenson]: "Hug O' War" by Shel Silverstein [|Mrs. Tolliver]: "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe [|Mrs. Williams]: "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" by John Keats

=Find Poetry Online:= [|The Poetry Foundation] [|Poets.org] [|13 Poetry Collections for People Who Think They Don't Like Poetry] [|Poetry Daily]

=National Poetry Month Information and Events:= [|Poets.org] [|InfoPlease] [|NaPoWriMo] [|Poem in Your Pocket Day]

=Resources for Literary Devices:= [|Literary Devices definitions] [|Glossary of Poetic Terms] [|Poetry Glossary]

=Podcast Project:= Go to this [|SoundCloud] link to listen to our podcasts! (from 2014) == ===Here is my sample podcast. We will listen to it in class together. This type of file can only be opened with Audacity software. I will show you how the software works in class, and you will record in the library during class or during SmartBlock.===

Here are some sites to look for potential poems for your project. Remember to get your poem approved by Mrs. Williams before you begin working.
Poems on [|Poets.org] Top 500 Poems on [|PoetHunter.org] Poetry 180 from the [|Library of Congress] Browse Poetry from the [|Poetry Foundation]