poem

Ask yourself the following questions that apply to your focus question. Make notes as you go, and you will find it easier to organize your thoughts for the first draft.

• The poem's basic content
  1. What is the context of the poem? Identify the speaker(s) and any background information that would help explain the poem's basic message.
  2. How are the thoughts organized?
  3. Does the poet contrast any ideas? Does he/she juxtapose any for effect?
  4. What feelings does the speaker reveal?

Now that you have collected your thoughts along with those of the critics, the next step is to organize the materials in preparation for writing. Before determining which pattern of organization you use, you must give careful thought to the essay's specific purpose. In other words, before you can select and arrange the specific details, you must know what main idea you are trying to get across to your reader. A a check to see if your understanding of the essay's purpose is clear, try stating the main thoughts in a single sentence.

Respond to each of the following in a well-considered post in your blog. Limit your selection of detail to a separate poem for each response.

1. Explain how image and symbol reinforce theme in a poem.
2. Explain how facts about a writer's life are relevant to your understanding of a poem.
3. Explain how a poem can reflect a poet's personal psychology.
4. Explain how your own experiences affect your interpretation of a poem.

This exercise is simple: write a poem about a family member meeting a famous person.

1. Use pencil crayons to draw a picture of your mother's kitchen.
2. Put the oven in it, and also something green, and something dead.
3. Write a poem about your mother's kitchen.
4. You are not in this poem, but some female relation - aunt, sister, close friend - must walk into the kitchen during the course of the poem.
5. Completed poems, with a suitable image(72 dpi, png, light

Write a ten-line poem. Find a proverb, adage, familiar phrase, or brainy quote that you have changed in some way as well as five of the following words: cliff, blackberry, needle, cloud, voice, mother, whir, lick. You have ten minutes. No rhyming. P.S. We will be practising poetry posting permanently. Please create categories in your sidebars to begin sorting it all into manageable hierarchies. (Dashboard=>Manage=> Links=>Link Categories).

Turn off moderation from your Dashboard==>Options ==>Discussion. Begin your post with the first line of a poem. Now you go to someone else's blog and comment the next line. (Meanwhile your post will collect lines for your poem.) Try to post one line on everyone's blog. When you commented on all posts go back to your post and cut and paste as much as you like into a new poem. Post your finished poem.