Poetry Assignment
Attention Poets! Your Task is…To select one of the following topics: Teenagers, Love or War and create a booklet of various poems (different styles and forms) that will create a story structure for your reader to interpret. Your poems can be funny, sad, reflective or angry but must reflect an identifiable story, mood or tone and clear message.
These poems must be compiled into a booklet with the appropriate presentation to do your work justice! That would include…front cover, contents page, headings or titles for all poems and visual images or symbols that reflect the ideas in the poems.
Poetic Devices
Try to demonstrate as many as possible in your various poems:
- Imagery
- Rhyme
- Rhythm (various stanza patterns)
- Symbolism
- Metaphors or similes
- Assonance or consonance
- Onomatopoeia
- Repetition
- Alliteration
- Hyperbole
- Rhetoric
- Allusion
- Analogy
- Anthropomorphism/Personification
- Cacophony
- Euphemism
Some suggested forms and samples to assist you:
Prose poetry
Refinishing
Wood has no future. It saves all scratches. At twenty-three I helped a woman sand her table down to grain. I touched every inch of that table, used a belt-sander but took the corners by hand, not wanting to burn through. I had it clean in days, then set to clearcoating. I could count my years in its surface as the tiny histories of the people who had eaten there vanished.
When we lie together at night and I'm asleep, do I ever run my fingers down your back? I have the sensation sometimes of running underneath the skin, like a splinter.
Chad Davidson
Haiku
Why is there no rain
the land cries out for water
but cannot shed tears?
Sonnet
Quatern
Tread Lightly…by HOLLY ARMER
Please tread lightly upon my heart
for the pieces break with such ease
Bringing painful tears to my eyes
As I fall down upon my knees
Holding the softest part of me
Please tread lightly upon my heart
For words can cut so easily
Ripping my perfect world apart
Divulging my innermost soul
All I shall ever ask of thee
Please tread lightly upon my heart
For you could be my destiny
So take my hand and all of me
We'll begin a triumphant start
Wandering through eternity
Please tread lightly upon my heart
Ode
Ode to Tomatoes
by, Pablo Neruda
The street
filled with tomatoes,
midday,
summer,
light is
halved
like
a
tomato,
its juice
runs
through the streets.
In December,
unabated,
the tomato
invades
the kitchen,
it enters at lunchtime,
takes
its ease
on countertops,
among glasses,
butter dishes,
blue saltcellars.
It sheds
its own light,
benign majesty.
Unfortunately, we must
murder it:
the knife
sinks
into living flesh,
red
viscera
a cool
sun,
profound,
inexhaustible,
populates the salads
of Chile,
happily, it is wed
to the clear onion,
and to celebrate the union
we
pour
oil,
essential
child of the olive,
onto its halved hemispheres,
pepper
adds
its fragrance,
salt, its magnetism;
it is the wedding
of the day,
parsley
hoists
its flag,
potatoes
bubble vigorously,
the aroma
of the roast
knocks
at the door,
it's time!
come on!
and, on
the table, at the midpoint
of summer,
the tomato,
star of earth, recurrent
and fertile
star,
displays
its convolutions,
its canals,
its remarkable amplitude
and abundance,
no pit,
no husk,
no leaves or thorns,
the tomato offers
its gift
of fiery colour
and cool completeness.
Cinquain
Sunshine by Lori Martin
sunshine
warm on my face
tilted to catch spring breeze
refreshing, uplifting after
winter
winter
ice drapes on roofs
frigid air, frozen breath
car won't start, cloaked people scurry
cranky
cranky
suffocating
winter's chill seizes heart
seasonal depression's cure is
sunshine
Enclosed Triplet
FeelingsbyDivena Collins
How would we know if our feelings are low
So low that teardrops stain porcelain faces
When faces are painted a warm loving glow
Which glows through when a lover embraces
If his embraces are few how may we know
Shall love flow when a tender heart races.
How can it be when true love hurts so much
So much it can break in two loving hearts
When hearts may respond to a sensual touch.
For touch prevents them from falling apart
Playing a part of true lovers games as such
To stop love from hurting is a work of art.
It could be that love came much too late
That it was never to be for you and me
For the love we had then was our fate.
15 creative poems of varying styles and forms that compile into a story with a structure / Between 10 – 15 poems of varying forms that compile into a story structure / 8 – 10 poems of varying forms that suggest a story / 5 – 7 poems of varying forms and styles / 5 or less poems of only two basic styles
Extensive vocabulary chosen to contribute to the specificity, abstraction and style of poems. / Good vocabulary chosen to contribute to the specificity, abstraction and style of poems. / Some choice of vocabulary that creates a specific idea or style within the poems. / Limited choice of vocabulary chosen, so there is little originality or style within the poems. / Very basic vocabulary or description in the poems created. The ideas have no defined style.
Sophisticated examples of poetic devices or figurative language examples used to create certain meaning or effects. / Many examples of poetic devices or figurative language examples used to create certain meaning or effects. / Some good examples of poetic devices or figurative language examples used to create certain meaning or effects / A few good examples of poetic devices or figurative language examples used to create certain meaning or effects / A few basic examples of poetic devices or figurative language examples used to create certain meaning or effects
Poems are excellent text samples based on the ideas, features and structures of the poems studied, that meet the demands of a specific purpose (for a specific effect). / Poems are good text samples based on the ideas, features and structures of the poems studied, that meet the demands of a specific purpose (for a specific effect). / Some good poem samples based on the ideas, features and structures of the poems studied, that meet the demands of purpose (for effect). / A few poems that show ideas, features or some structure of the poems needed to meet the demands of purpose (for a specific effect). / A few poems that show some structure or limited ideas that sometimes meet the demands of purpose (for a specific effect).
Easily interprets the stated and implied meanings in poems and can use detailed evidence to support or challenge different perspectives. / Interprets the stated and implied meanings in poems and can use evidence to support or challenge different perspectives. / Interprets most implied meanings in poems and can use limited evidence to support a perspective or challenge an idea. / Interprets some meaning from poems but only uses limited evidence to support a perspective. / Cannot interpret meaning from poems and needs support to develop or see an alternative perspective.
Can use voice and language conventions to suit the situation (create a mood or read as intended). Can modulate voice or use sound or images for specific effects. / Uses good voice and language conventions to suit the situation (create a tone or read with expression). Can modulate voice or use some techniques to engage. / Uses some spoken language techniques for reading or presenting spoken information. Attempts to engage or create a mood. / Uses limited spoken language techniques for reading or presenting information. Has restricted skills in engaging an audience. / Very weak spoken language skills used for presentations, only reads and cannot effectively engage an audience.
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