https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3BnXBNXPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKuywA9DtnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4WqXeOK3CY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmjvMXO4AGA

For each of the following sounds, list one characteristic for each of the FIVE senses.

SIGHT TOUCH TASTE SMELL HEAR

Sound #1

Sound #2

Sound #3

Sound #4

MRS. WHITE’S RULES OF POETRY

1. The “two-read” policy.

2. Read it in your head FIRST. Then proceed to read aloud

3. Poetry is interpretive- everyone is entitled to a different

opinion

4. Poetry is not for sissies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KKim3HmBk4

5. Give every poem a chance.

“January”

John Updike

Read #1

The days are short,The sun a spark,Hung thin betweenThe dark and dark.

Fat snowy footstepsTrack the floor.Milk bottles burstOutside the door.

The river isA frozen placeHeld still beneathThe trees of lace.

The sky is low.The wind is gray.The radiatorPurrs all day.

--John Updike

January has

Short, Dark

Days

The days are short,

The sun a *spark,

Hung thin between

The dark and dark.

The poem takes place in the 30s or 40s. Someone is trying to get inside & out of the snow. January is ___.

Fat snowy footsteps

Track the floor.

Milk bottles burst

Outside the door. What year was the poem probably

written?

Nature is frozen. Everything is still, waiting for ______.

The river is

A frozen place

Held still beneath

The trees of lace.

Metaphor for what?

How does winter make you feel?

The sky is low.

The wind is gray.

The radiator

*Purrs all day.

How does this make you feel?

Read #2

The days are short,The sun a spark,Hung thin betweenThe dark and dark.

Fat snowy footstepsTrack the floor.Milk bottles burstOutside the door.

The river isA frozen placeHeld still beneathThe trees of lace.

The sky is low.The wind is gray.The radiatorPurrs all day.

--John Updike

Modern Poetry

Starbucks David Byrne

I look for the Buck?

I'm looking for the Starry Eyes?

Instead I'm blinded by Free Wi-Fi.

 

Zombies in the gloom,

Faces lit with Cell phones, iPads,

And Laptops!

 

My Name, they inscribed

On my paper cup.

The ultimate Accolade.

 

I'm the Star in Starbucks!

DUE MONDAY

**This is your first MAJOR

grade of the 3rd Nine Weeks

Note: Late Poems will be deducted 11 points a day

and not be accepted after next Friday.

Create your own Imagery Poem about an experience in your life

Riding the bus, your first kiss, skydiving, cutting the grass, learning to drive, running, playing a sport

Poem must contain at least 30 Lines & 3 Stanzas

Poem must contain rhyming couplets

Must use all 5 senses

You may Type or Hand write NEATLY in INK