Poetry

Writing a poem. Look at the questions and take notes. 

1) Things that make you happy, lifted, positively emotional / things that make you sad, angry, upset; things you wish to change or on the contrary - maintain; things that you find beautiful; things that make you anxious or worried

2) Dream. Where would you like to be right now? What to do? Who with?

3) Do you have very special memories from the past you could write a poem about?

4) Look at your key words and decide what the topic is going to be. 

5) What is the place? 

6) What's the time? Determine whether your poem is written in the past, present, future or it has mixed tenses. 

7) Write 5 important nouns needed for your poem. Find rhyming words for them. Rhyming words do not have to be nouns, they can be any.  

8) Write 5 important adjectives ....  Find rhyming words. 

9) Your poem should have at least 8 lines and 4 rhyming lines. You can make 1 and 3rd rhyme, 1st and 2nd or 1 and 4th. 

10) While you write, read your lines with a voice to find the best rhythm. 

Good luck! 

1) Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

2) William Shakespeare "Seven Ages of Man"

3) Emily Dickinson "Hope is the Thing with Feathers"

4) Robert Frost "The Road not Taken"

5)  E.E Cummings "I carry your heart with me"

Words: HERE

6) Walt Whitman "I hear America singing" 

words: HERE

7)  Walter D. Wintle "Thinking"

words: HERE

8) Rudyard Kipling "IF"

words: HERE

9)Maya Angelou  "I know why the caged bird sings"

10) Mary Oliver "Wild Geese"

Writing a poem

1) Things that make you happy, lifted, positively emotional / things that make you sad, angry, upset; things you wish to change or on the contrary - maintain; things that you find beautiful; 

2) What is the general topic or issue?

3) What is the place? 

4) What's the time? Determine whether your poem is written in the past, present, future or it has mixed tenses. 

5) Write 5 important nouns needed for your poem. Find at least one rhyming word for each. 

6) Write 5 important verbs.... Find rhyming words. 

7) Write 5 important adjectives ....  Find rhyming words. 

8) Description (Choose => describe the feeling, place, nature, weather etc.)