5 Choosen poems and my own limerick

 Poem 069: The Space Heater

This poem is about a heater, near a patient's bed in a hospital. There are a lot of emotions of the patient portrayed in the poem.

“I wanted the doctor to turn it off

but I couldn't seem to ask, so I just

stared, but it did not budge ”

 

Poem 095: The Halls

A poem about a worker who left who office, he either left on his own will or got fired.

“Five more books in a box to be carried out to the car;

your office door closes behind you and at that moment

you turn invisible—not even a ghost in that hall

from the hall’s point of view.”

 

Poem 132: Leaving the Island

 A poem about the end of summer vacation 

 

"We roll up the rugs and strip the beds by rote,
Summer expires as it has done before.
The ferry is no simple pleasure boat"

 

Poem 160: Something

Poem about a person finding out that they have cancer and the shock followed by the news

“The minute the doctor says colon cancer

you hardly hear anything else.

He says other things, something

about something. Tests need to be done,

but with the symptoms and family something,

excess weight, something about smoking,

all of that together means something something

something something, his voice a dumb hum

like the sound of surf you know must be pounding,

but the glass window that has dropped down

between you allows only a muffled hiss

like something something”

 

Poem 039: Snow

Poem about a person lying to their brother and being questioned about it

“I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in the snow.
For some reason, I told him that a troop of angels
had been shot and dissolved when they hit the ground.”
 

 

 

My limerick 

 

When the sun goes lower

The time feels slower

On a sand dune

Under the moon

He handed a flower

 

 

Allusion

Quoting a dictionary: allusion /əˈluːʒ(ə)n/ (noun) = an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. e.g. "an allusion to Shakespeare"

Allusion in poetry: https://archive.naplesnews.com/entertainment/poetry-and-allusion-ep-402865374-334647851.html/

Task: Research the allusions in Carol Ann Duffy's allusion-heavy Christmas poem from 2009 (text also on Tera) + add any other annotations you consider apt

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/the-12-days-of-christmas-2009-poet-435367

Task (starts in class, should be finished at home, presentations in class):
The poem divided into 3 parts, each group of three looks deeper into their third (but reads the whole and annotates everything to some extent). Annotating using a colour code you have developed for reading texts is important here, too, as preparation for annotating Paper 1 texts before you start writing-

Group 1 (stanzas 1-4): Pradny, Timo, Frederik

Group 2 (stanzas 5-8): Steven, Olabanji, Anastasia)

Group 3 (stanzas 9-12): Neel, Enes, Sithil

Traditional song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tReKR_ar5Ls

Reviewing my chosen poems and my own poem

 I choose 6 poems, I tried it pick out things that didn't really correlate with each other so I could have a wide variety of topics.

Poem 021: Wheels 

What I mainly like about this poem and the reason I choose it is because of the different types of car models which were discussed in the poem.

Favorite Verse - " in a yellow Baracuda with a girl leaning into him", I choose it simply because it's quite funny for me because it reminds me of a scene from fast and furious. 

Poem 056: Red Wing

What I found interesting about this poem is how the author is describing what I believe to be a life of a construction worker, or just workers in general. I didn't really notice any rhyme in it, however.

Favorite Verse -  "here's to tomatoes onions and corn", I chose this verse because I think this describes construction workers/ workers best, they work really hard, and when they're on break they are basically cheap and easy meals since they don't have much free time.

Poem 060: Football

The reason I choose this poem is quite easy, I just like football, and when I saw the title I instantly clicked. There isn't much rhyme in this poem either but I do believe there are many hidden meanings in some words which I have yet to fully crack all.

Favorite Verse - " I have eaten pancakes for instance with that clear corn syrup..", I choose this simply because to me I find it quite odd and funny. The first part up until this verse was mainly just speaking about football but then however out of nowhere this verse popped up, and it made me laugh since I went from reading about football to someone's opinion on pancakes. Nevertheless, I believe there is a hidden meaning in this verse that I still haven't deciphered.  

Poem 066: The Moon

I choose this poem based on the title, it sounded quite interesting. It is a nice and simple poem with not much rhyme, however, even though it was short I really enjoyed it.

Favorite Verse - "I go off to see the moon in the pines far in the woods I sit against a pine", This verse to me seems quite relaxing especially when I envision the scene which has been set by the author, this is the reason I choose it as my favorite verse from the author.

Poem 085: Fight

This poem was quite interesting there was definitely a lot of rhyme used in this one. There is definitely wordplay as well in the poem but not as much as the other poems used.

Favorite Verse - " Nothing on earth can diminish my glee", I choose this because I liked the choice of words and how the writer made a sentence that could easily be quite basic into a more complicated and interesting sentence.

Poem 102: When Death Comes

I choose this topic because it seemed like an interesting topic to me. What I liked about the poem is how the author used metaphors in most of her sentences.

Favorite Verse - " When it's over, I don't want to wonder",  quite an interesting perspective I feel as though personally after death I wouldn't like it if it was just all black I would rather have something better maybe a replay or an afterlife rather than just darkness.

My own poem:

There was once a man

with a cold-hearted plan

he didn't like apples 

nor chapels 

He thought he would never change 

until he meet 

Mary James

Until one horrible evening 

when everything went south

it was almost like 

the apples had the last laugh 

no mary to be seen 

nor berry the house dog

the man in an instance filled with rage 

as his life was now filled with Kage

his life was now over as he thought 

until he woke up from the dream 

that he was lost in

Beauty in a poem

 

From dawn to sunset

Beauty is what beauty does

Lends a helping hand

© Erika

Poetry

Start getting an idea what poetry is by reading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry (and following more interesting links from there)

and take notes as to what you believe is more relevant to your understanding of poetry (meter, rhyme, poetic features, different forms, etc).

Glossary of poetic terms:

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072405228/student_view0/poetic_glossary.html

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-terms?category=forms-and-types

Read:

An article about poetry's role in protest politics:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/15/poetry-protest-politics

And one about war poetry:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/apr/02/war-poetry-brian-turner-iraq?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Place to listen to poetry online: https://www.poetryoutloud.org/competing/listen-to-poems/

A fun poem about the pronunciation of English (practice reading this!)

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you

On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.

Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps.

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard but sounds like bird.

And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,

For goodness sake don't call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

A moth is not a moth as in mother

Nor both as in bother, nor broth as in brother,

And here is not a match for there,

Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and lose--

Just look them up--and goose and choose

And cork and work and card and ward

And font and front and word and sword

And do and go, then thwart and cart,

Come, come! I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful Language? Why man alive!

I learned to talk it when I was five.

And yet to write it, the more I tried,

I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.

(borrowed from a source that has since vanished)

Performance poetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_poetry

An example of spoken poetry: Sarah Kay "If I Should Have a Daughter":

https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter

Some more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u3t7glrN0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWbERIVc7BM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE-c4Bj_RT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Y9zgOSUnk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_zXjfBPfTk&t=6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVvagvG8Ys8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04rfgNvvXz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2_uKaugPI

Google for "spoken word poetry" if you want more, or google an author you liked more than the rest.

Introduction to poetry: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/001.html (text 1.43 in PhilpotNew, so leave this out at this point, we'll do it as part of PhilpotNew)

More on meter and the like:

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xmeter.html

Rhythm:

http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/poetry/rhythm.html

+ dictionary of poetry terms:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903237.html

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_poetic_terms_s.htm

http://www.hinduwebsite.com/general/poetry.asp

Scansion, rhythm and meter: 

https://www.writingforward.com/poetry-writing/poetry-rhythm-and-meter

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiOXVoDBul4

How to write a limerick:

http://www.creative-writing-now.com/how-to-write-a-limerick.html

http://www.oedilf.com/wiki/index.php/Writing_a_Limerick

Concrete poetry = pattern poetry = shape poetry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry

Google for examples:)

Acrostic: https://www.wikihow.com/Write-an-Acrostic-Poem

Haiku: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Haiku-Poem

Sonnet: http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm

How to write a poem: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative1/poetry-writing-tips-how-to-write-a-poem/

Task: Try your hand at writing some forms of poetry. Comment on other people's creations.

This is for inspiration: https://penandthepad.com/arrange-lines-poem-20713.html

Homework based on this:

Read a lot of poetry, e.g. at Poetry 180 (US Library of Congress poetry collection): http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html

I want you to read as many poems from the site as possible, preferably aloud with a friend, choosing them because of their titles, or their subject matter, and then create blog posts with short reflection on each poem, Each person should reflect on at least 5 poems, including one general idea from the poem that you thought interesting, and one specific line (quotation) that you liked + a short explanation why you liked it.

This is a sample reflection by a Mr Kew, from whom I borrowed this task:

Poem 1 – “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins

One idea that I really like in this poem is how the poet shows us how to enjoy poetry and experience it rather than focusing only on its “secrets.”

One line in this poem that I really like is “They begin beating it with a hose / to find out what it really means” because it is humorous, but also makes us think about the way that poetry analysis should not be like torture.