1. Monday, March 24 th Poetry Term Examples Poetry Term Examples Figurative Language & Imagery Discussion Figurative Language & Imagery Discussion Writing Time Writing Time Write at least one of the choices. Choose your words carefully. Write at least one of the choices. Choose your words carefully. If you finish, write another poem or illustrate your first poem If you finish, write another poem or illustrate your first poem Homework: Poetry Terms Test on Thursday (or possibly Monday)

2. Bellringer: Poetry Terms Add this example to the definitions in your notes Figurative language—language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meanings of words. Figurative language—language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meanings of words. Example: “I will speak daggers to her, but use none.” ~Hamlet Example: “I will speak daggers to her, but use none.” ~Hamlet

3. Figurative Language The Eagle, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1851) He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

4. Imagery Language that emphasizes sense impressions that helps the reader see, hear, feel, smell, and taste things described in the work. Language that emphasizes sense impressions that helps the reader see, hear, feel, smell, and taste things described in the work. The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. ~ Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro

5. New World, by N. Scott Momaday

6. Haiku Haiku means “beginning-verse” in Japanese—perhaps because the form may have originated in a game. Haiku are so short that they depend upon imagery to trigger associations and responses in the reader. In Japanese, it has seventeen syllables arranged in three unrhymed lines, usually following a pattern of five, seven, and five syllables. In English, this pattern is usually ignored, but the idea of the intensity of a particular moment is preserved. Two concrete images are usually linked (many have to do with the season and/or nature). Haiku means “beginning-verse” in Japanese—perhaps because the form may have originated in a game. Haiku are so short that they depend upon imagery to trigger associations and responses in the reader. In Japanese, it has seventeen syllables arranged in three unrhymed lines, usually following a pattern of five, seven, and five syllables. In English, this pattern is usually ignored, but the idea of the intensity of a particular moment is preserved. Two concrete images are usually linked (many have to do with the season and/or nature). HaikuNot haiku The falling flowerNow that our love is gone I saw drift back to the branchI feel within my soul Was a butterfly.a nagging distress. -Arakida Moritake

7. More Haiku examples Heat-lightning streak— through darkness pierces the heron’s shriek. In the old stone pool a frogjump: splishhhhh. -Matsuo Basho -Matsuo Basho On the one-ton temple bell a moonmoth, folded into sleep, sits still. I go, you stay; two autumns. -Taniguchi Buson -Taniguchi Buson only one guy and only one fly trying to make the guest room do. Cricket, be careful! I’m rolling over! -Kobayashi Issa -Kobayashi Issa Haiku Ambulance A piece of green pepper fell off the wooden salad bowl: so what? -Richard Brautigan -Richard Brautigan Making jazz swing in Seventeen syllables AIN’T No square poet’s job. -Etheridge Knight -Etheridge Knight

8. Writing Choices Color me (red). List fifteen things you can think of when you think of the color ___. Include the sound of ___, the feeling of ___, and the taste of ___. Color me (red). List fifteen things you can think of when you think of the color ___. Include the sound of ___, the feeling of ___, and the taste of ___. Come to your senses. Choose a human emotion or other idea. Think about it and experience it with all five senses. Write a line that tells what color it is. Then write some other lines to describe it using just one of the senses (taste, smell, sight, sound, and feel) in each line. Come to your senses. Choose a human emotion or other idea. Think about it and experience it with all five senses. Write a line that tells what color it is. Then write some other lines to describe it using just one of the senses (taste, smell, sight, sound, and feel) in each line. Write four haiku. Confine your poems to what can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched. Include few adjectives, shun needless conjunctions, and set your poems in the present. Write four haiku. Confine your poems to what can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched. Include few adjectives, shun needless conjunctions, and set your poems in the present.