Poetry
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Poetry
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Poetry. Book Talks!. 5th: Nicole, Haley Poem talk: Miss Van Ryn. Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins. I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem And watch him probe his way out, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Poetry
Book Talks!
5th: Nicole, HaleyPoem talk: Miss Van
Ryn
Introduction to PoetryBilly Collins
I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poemAnd watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's roomand feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterskiacross the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to doIs tie the poem to a chair with ropeAnd torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hoseTo find out what it really means.
What Is Poetry?
In your writer’s notebooks:● What is poetry? Rap?
Song?● What makes poetry
different?● What kinds of poems
have you read?● What do you like?
Dislike?● What’s the point?
O Me! O Life!By Walt Whitman
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who
more faithless?)Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever
renew’d,Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.That YOU are here—that life exists and identity,That the powerful play goes on, and YOU may contribute a verse.
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Poetry Books● Read through several poems in the books that
are around your desk. ● Pick 4 lines of poetry to read to the class that
stand out to you. (interesting, thought-provoking, confusing, funny, exciting, etc)
● As a class:○ Title and author○ Why did you pick these 4 lines?
Today’s AgendaChoice Reading Books Talks/Poem Talk Poetry Read Aloud “Is Poetry Dead” article “Where I’m From” poem Time to Write!
Book Talks!5th hour: Kaylee and Michael
6th hour: MadiPoem Talk: Miss Van Ryn
“Is Poetry Dead?”“All the things that poetry used to do, other things do much better.”
In your writer’s notebooks: Do you agree or disagree? Why? Give examples.
poeTRYFocus: “Where I’m From”
Book Talks!
5th: Levi6th: Collin, ShelbiePoem Talk: Miss Van Ryn
poeTRYFocus: “Where I’m From”
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.T. S. Eliot
“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is
distorted.”- Percy Byron Shelley (19th Century British Poet)
