L.A. Poetry Unit Report
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Poetry
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
-Jack Kerouac
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Poems show a quality of beauty and intensity of emotion regarded as characteristic.
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Rhyming Couplets
In winter, when the fields are white, I sing this song for you're delight
In spring, when woods are getting green, I'll try and tell you what I mean:
In summer, when the day is getting long, perhaps you'll understand the song.
In Autumn, when the leaves are brown, take pen and ink, and write it down.
A Rhyming Couplet is two lines of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought.
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Free Verse
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle light
In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
A free verse is poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
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Simile
Flint
An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby as red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud.A diamond is a brilliant stone, To catch the world's desire; An opal holds a fiery spark; But a flint holds a fire.
-Christina Rossetti
A simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
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Metaphor
Dreams
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow
-Langston Hughes
Metaphors are a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
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Personification
Fear
Fear knocked on the door.
Faith answered; No one was there.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
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My Original Poem
My Dad
My Dad is caring no matter what he's wearing,
He is very kind;
And always somewhere on my mind.
My Dad hunts down his prey like a fox,
And tickles them 'till they hide in a box!
When my Dad spy's an unwanted cookie,
It says eat me, eat me, with a brookie.
-Katherine B-6
A brookie is a cookie wrapped in a brownie.
