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The Variety of Poetry

Guidelines

Objectives

Learn the different variety of poetry.

Understand the differences between each poetry
Analyze and discuss why the poet use a specific type of poetry to relay a
message
Discuss how poetry is in use today.
Identify the tools a specific poem needs in order to be a poem
To be able to form their own set of poems within each category

Questions

Rhyming Couplet and Quatrain:

How did the author portray her message to the readers?

Did any of the ideas have any connection to one another?

Haiku:
What if poets decide to use Haikus without adding some reference to nature in it?

Ballad:
What are the implied messages she is giving us?

What imagery did she use to magnify that message?

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Free Verse:
What if the narrator was talking in a different perspective?

Would the poem sound similar to this one?

Why Poetry:
Why should you learn about Poetry?

What Benefit do you get from learning it?

What modern media make use of poetic tools?

Guideline Homework:
What type of poetry do you prefer?

Write your own poems within each different types of poetry (In Haikus I expect both
traditional Haiku and Western Haiku).