5 W/A

Poetry

October 4, 2006

1. Poetry (from http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/5/79.05.03.x.html)

____Poetry is a patterned form of verbal or written expression of ideas in concentrated, imaginative, and rhythmical terms.

2. Meter

____Meter is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry.

3. Rhymed Verse

____ Rhymed verse consists of verse with end rhyme and usually with a regular meter.

4. Free Verse

____ Free verse consists of lines that do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme.

Poetry can take many forms. Poems can be long, short, funny, serious, happy or sad.

Here are some examples by poet and children’s author Ogden Nash:

Celery

Celery, raw
Develops the jaw,
But celery, stewed,
Is more quietly chewed.

The Dog

The truth I do not stretch or shove
When I state that the dog is full of love.
I've also found, by actual test,
A wet dog is the lovingest.

A Caution To Everybody

Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.

The Abominable Snowman

I've never seen an abominable snowman,
I'm hoping not to see one,
I'm also hoping, if I do,
That it will be a wee one.