1. What is poetry? Notes

2. Poetry is…  The use of language in creative ways to evoke emotion.  Meant to be both read and heard.  Heavily reliant on techniques like rhythm, rhyme, metaphor, simile, symbolism, etc.

3. Poetry Myths  All poems must rhyme. FALSE!  All poems are sad or about love. FALSE!  No one writes poetry anymore. FALSE!  Poetry is un-cool. FALSE!

4. Poetry includes… PPPPoems SSSSong Lyrics/ Rap SSSSlam poetry RRRRhymed and Non-rhymed

5. I Am Music Lyrics By: Common People say I got soul; look at all the records I hold, The lives I've affected, connect and control. With me in your basement, your mind got blown. I provide the vibe to keep the dancers on poles. Through me the black experience is glorious told From a school that's old bold. So I rock gold And platinum. So cats, I hold notes and cash for them. On streets I rap for them, in ghettos I blast for them, Mash with them, at the party and all. Peep the universal language that's embodying all. Put the Billie Holiday, Bob Marley in y'all. Y'all feel most high when I be in y'all’s system. With the rhythm, I up-jump the boogie. Shame I rely on record labels to push me. Since G. Bush, I been y'all way to escape Through eight-tracks, wax CDs and tapes. I am music.

6. Introduction to Poetry By: 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, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

7. i carry your heart By: e e cummings i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

8. What is they feedin’ our kids? By: Idris Goodwin  Slam Poet  Meant to be heard, not read http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IENR53 OgcFY

9. Sonnet #18 By: William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Should I say you’re like a summer day? You’re prettier and even better, calmer: Because sometimes it gets windy and the buds on the trees get shaken off And sometimes summer doesn't last very long Sometimes it's too hot And sometimes the sun isn’t so bright. And beauty fades Either because of accidents or old age. BUT your sunshine is forever. You won’t lose your beauty. Death will never brag that he owns you You will be eternal. As long as men can breathe and see Then this poem lives, and it keeps your beauty alive.

10. In Class Assignment 1.What surprised you about these poems? 2.Which poem did you like best? Write two sentences telling me why you liked this poem. 3.Which poem did you like the least? Write two sentences telling me why it was your least favorite.