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Subject Teacher: ROSALINDA TAPANAN-CAIBIGAN

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SLM 2 SHARING INNER SELF THROUGH POETRY

Content Standard: Performance Standard:

The learners have an understanding of The learners shall be able to produce a
poetry as a genre and how to analyze short, well-crafted poem.
its elements and techniques.

Most Essential Learning Competency:

 Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices in specific forms
of poetry.
 Write a short poem applying the various elements and literary devices exploring
innovative techniques.

Time Frame: 2 weeks

Learning Targets:
At the end of the lesson, the learners should be able to:
1. Enumerate the elements, techniques, and literary devices used in poetry,
2. Understand the importance of elements, techniques, and literary devices used in poetry, and
3. Create a poem based on the theme: “Life is vulnerable as a heart.” With the application of
the lesson.
4. Demonstrate in writing the essential learning of the content standard.
5. Appreciate the poems of known poets

Start Up

Read these poems and answer the analysis questions below.

Poem 1: If I can stop one heart from breaking

Let’s get
started! If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one painting Robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain. – Emily Dickinson

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 Poem 2: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
-Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
He gives his harness bells a shake
His house is in the village though;
To ask if there is some mistake.
He will not see me stopping here The only other sound’s the sweep
To watch his woods fill up with snow. Of easy wind and downy flake.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Analysis: (Attachment 1)
1. What can you say about the sample poems above?
2. List down your observations regarding word choice and usage, structure, etc.
3. To gauge your knowledge on poem writing, write a short poem about nature.

Boost Yourself!
Introduction to Poetry
Note that…

1. Poetry is another way of expressing self.

2. It liberates the soul of the writer.
3. It is a word composition arranged in a rhythmic pattern.
4. It is used to express one’s creative thoughts and feelings through a specialized and
heightened language

Characteristics of Poetry:
1. It expresses creative thoughts in much briefer way than a short story and novel.
2. It uses elements such as rhythm, imagery, verse and meter, and poetic devices.
3. It has a musical quality.
4. It has structure.
5. It is used to express intense personal emotions and experiences.
6. The content of a poem shows the universal truth and connotes a deeper meaning.
7. It does not use everyday language.

Elements of Poetry
Note that…
Poetry contains unique devices and form that make it different than other genre of
literature.
1. Stanzas 6. Rhyme Scheme
2. Lines 7. Alliteration
3. Rhythm 8. Onomatopoeia
4. Rhyme 9. Imagery
5. Repetition

Structure and Form

- Form – a poem’s shape, the way the words and lines are laid out on the page.
Stanzas – a group lines in a poem (like a paragraph)
◦ Each stanza is a separate emotion or idea
◦ Each contribute to the overall meaning of poem
- Lines – the main unit in a poem
◦ May or may not be a complete sentence
◦ Varies in length

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Conventional/Traditional forms
◦ Fixed rules – such as a set number of lines or a repeating pattern of rhythm or
rhyme
◦ Examples: limericks and haikus
Free Verse – open form
o Has rhythm like everyday speech
o Does not have a regular rhyme pattern

Graphical Elements- help convey meaning

o Include position, appearance of words, capital letters, lines and stanzas on a page.

There are many different types of poetry just as there are many different types of
fiction.
• tells a story
• contains characters, setting, conflict, and 5 stages of plot.
• Written in stanzas, contains rhythm, rhyme, imagery and figurative language
• Has a recognizable rhyme scheme
• For example: “The Walrus and the Carpenter” by Lewis Carrol

Check this out!

POEM DESCRIPTIONS AND SAMPLES

Humorous Poems
Limericks: Example of Limerick:
◦ A short poem made up of 5 lines There was an old man with a beard, a
◦ Rhyme scheme (pattern of rhyme): aabba Who said, “It is just as I feared!”- a
◦ has a sing-song rhythm Two Owls and a Hen, b
Four Larks and a Wren, b
Have all built their nest in my beard!

Haikus – Japanese Poem

Contains 17 syllables arranged in
3 lines, syllable pattern per line 5, 7,5
Creates a clear picture evoking a strong
emotional response
Example of Haiku:
Winter solitude – (5 syllables)
in a world of one color (7 syllables)
the sound of the wind. (5 syllables)
- Bosho

Nature is a common topic of haikus

Free Verse
Contains not regular pattern for rhythm or rhyme
Used to capture sound and rhythm of regular speech

Example: “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins

This is the beginning of sadness,
I say to myself, as I walk through the universe in my sneakers,
It is time to say goodbye to my imaginary friends,
time to turn the first big number.

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Let’s look at this stanza of the poem.  Identify the type of figurative language used. 
Which senses are being appealed to?

“The summer still hangs heavy and sweet Personification: summer

hangs
with sunlight as it did last year.” Simile: as it did last year
Touch: heavy
Taste: sweet
Sight: sunlight
“The autumn still comes Personification: showering
showering gold and crimson Simile: as it did last year
as it did last year.” Sight: gold and crimson
“The winter still stings Personification: Still stings
cold and clean and white Simile: as it did last year
as it did last year.” Touch: stings, cold
Sight: white
The spring still comes Personification: Spring still comes
like a whisper in the dark night. Simile: Like a whisper
Onomatopoeia: whisper
Sound: whisper
Sight: dark night
Other Elements
1. Tone refers to the attitude and mood of the poem.
It is the overall atmosphere of the poem which influences the emotional response of the
reader.
2. Theme is defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may
be stated directly or indirectly.
Sample Poem: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You by Pablo Neruda

I do not love you except Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
because I love you;  Maybe January light will consume
I go from loving to not loving you, My heart with its cruel
From waiting to not waiting for you Ray, stealing my key to true calm.
My heart moves from cold to fire. In this part of the story I am the one who
I love you only because it's you the one I love;  Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I
I hate you deeply, and hating you love you,
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood. 
Note that…

1. Rhyme is the link between music and poetry.

2. It adds music quality to the poem which gives the readers reading pleasure.

Types Characteristics Sample

True rhyme Rhyme that occurs “Here Captain! Dear Father! This arm beneath
on the words your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.”
(Oh Captain My Captain, Walt Whitman)
Internal rhyme Rhyme that occur “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I
within the lines pondered, weak and weary.”
(The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe)
Off rhyme or Not a true rhyme but “In the sun and in the snow,
slant rhyme the sound of the Without pleasure, without pain,
words are alike On the dead oak tree bough.”
(The Gallows, Edward Thomas)

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Line and Meter
1. The line is the line of words in poetry.
2. The verse is the line of the poem arranged in a metrical pattern.
3. Stanza is referred as the “unit of poetic lines”.
4. Vertical Measure refers to the number of lines within a stanza or the number of stanzas in
a poem.
5. Horizontal Measure refers to the number of syllables in each line.

Different stanza forms:

Forms Number of Lines
Couplet 2
Tercet 3
Quatrain 4
Quintet 5
Sestet 6
Septet 7
Octave 8

Note that….
1. The meter is poetry’s measured accents and syllables arrangement.
2. It is systematic sound pattern of a poem.

Metrical Patterns Characteristics

Accentual Meter Lines have the same number of stresses and varied count
syllables
Syllabic Meter Lines have the same number of syllables and varied count of
stresses
Accentual-Syllabic Lines have the same number of syllables, both stressed and
Meter non-stressed; arranged in fixed order
Free Verse Lines have irregular number of stresses and syllables

Keep reading…. Keep learning…

Genre
Three types of Poetry

Type Characteristics Sample forms

Descriptive Poem Focuses on details Didactic poem
Narrative Poem Tells a story Epic, ballad
Lyric Poem Expresses the feelings and Ode, sonnet, dramatic
thoughts of the poet monolog

Different Forms of Poetry

Poetry Forms and their Characteristics
Forms Characteristics
Blank Verse A poem of consistent length and meter but do not employ rhyme
Haiku Brief Japanese verse form of poem consisting of three lines and
seventeen syllables
Epic A narrative poem about a hero
Limerick A poem consisting of five lines wherein lines one, two, and five and
lines three and four are rhyming
Free Verse A poem without standard rhyme patterns, line length
Sonnet A poem consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter; makes use
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 of rhyme

Example of Blank Verse: Hamlet (By William Shakespeare)

But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,

So far from cheer and from your former state,
That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,
Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must. …

Hamlet gives us a perfect example of a typical blank verse, written in iambic pentameter.
Shakespeare employed the deliberate effort to use the syllables in a particular way. He
brought variation by using caesuras (pause) in the middle of the line, as in the third line.
Shakespeare has other literary pieces that are also good sources of blank verse
examples.

Example of Haiku: To a Leg of Heron (By Basho)

To a leg of a heron
Adding a long shank
Of a pheasant.

The theme of this poem is to laugh at one self. This is a perfect example of haiku poetry,
as it is perfectly following the pattern of syllable counts. It is also giving an amusing and
ironic touch, since reality is the major aspect of this form of poetry.

Examples of Epic from Literature

The Epic of Gilgamesh (~2000 BCE)

Perhaps, the Epic of Gilgamesh is the first example of an epic. It tells the story of the life
of an Assyrian king, Gilgamesh. Like all other epics, the narrative of this epic revolves
around the themes related to gods, human beings, mortality, legacy and seduction. Like
other epics, it is also composed in a grand style. Gilgamesh is a young arrogant king due
to his being half-god and half-human. His strength and masculine beauty become a
constant source of trouble for others. Therefore, gods grow sick of Gilgamesh’s arrogant
and troublesome attitude and decide to teach him a lesson. He is made to fight
his antagonist, Enkidu, and then go on a long journey to bring the plant of life — a journey
on which he learns the lessons of life. Although the epic is written nearly 4,000 years ago,
critics are unanimous that it is a human work.

Example of Limerick: There was an Old Man with a Beard (By Edward Lear)

“There was an Old Man with a beard,

Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”

Edward Lear was considered to be the father of limericks. This is one of the very good
examples of limerick poems, following its typical format with the first, second, and fifth
lines rhyming together, and longer in length; while the remaining two are shorter, and
give a faster read.

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Example of Free Verse:
Fog (By Carl Sandburg)

“The fog comes

on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.”

Here, it can be observed that there is no form or rhyme scheme present in the verse.

Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes

BY   W I L LI AM S H AK E S P E AR E
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, With what I most enjoy contented least;
I all alone beweep my outcast state, Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
And look upon myself and curse my fate, (Like to the lark at break of day arising
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,      For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,      That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Experimental Texts

Typography
Concrete Poetry/Shape Poetry
It is a poem whose layout or typography implies the subject of the poem

Genre Crossing Text

Prose Poem is a kind of poetry that is written in paragraph which contains language play,
images, and with instances of poetic meter.
Refinishing
-Chad Davidson

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 clear
coating. 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.

Performance Poetry/Spoken-Word Poetry

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 It is being recited in front of the audience in public spaces after writing. It uses vernacular
language and appealing oral elements like music, recordings, and other elements of
signification.

Example: If I should Have a Daughter (https://genius.com/Sarah-kay-if-i-should-have-a-

daughter-ted-talk-annotated)

Answer Activity 1 - 6
(To be submitted after two weeks)

References:

Buhisan, AJF G., et al (2016). Creative Writing K-12 Compliant Worktext for the Senior High School. Manila
Philippines: JFS Publishing Services, (pp. 21-47)

Menoy, Jesus Z. (2016). Creative Writing. Mandaluyong Philippines: Books Atbp. Publishing Corp., (pp. 45-77)

A Bird Came Down the Walk, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56593/a-bird-came-down-the-walk-

359 . Retrieved last June 13, 2020.

Kay, Sarah. If I Should Have a Daughter. https://genius.com/Sarah-kay-if-i-should-have-a-daughter-ted-talk-

annotated. Retrieved last June 22, 2020.

Ice Cream, Shape Poetry. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/385198574351798734/. Retrieved last June 22, 2020

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Attach the provided tag by your adviser.
If the space is not enough, provide extra sheets.

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-Rosalinda T. Caibigan

Activity 1
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 Name: ______________________________________ Score: _____________
Grade & Section: _____________________________ Date: ______________

Analysis on Poem 1 and 2 – page 1

Refer to the Analysis Questions given. (p. 1)

Activity 2
Name: ______________________________________ Score: _____________
Grade & Section: _____________________________ Date: ______________

Rhyming Words
Name one-syllable, two-syllable, three-syllable, four syllable, and five syllable words that
rhyme with the given words. An example is given for your reference.

WORD ONE- TWO- THREE- FOUR/FIVE

SYLLABLE SYLLABLE SYLLABLE SYLLABLE
Ex. rhyme time enzyme overtime anti-cyber-crime
1. love

2. hate

3. fall

4. fair

5. right

Activity 3
Name: _____________________________________ Score: _____________
Grade & Section: ______________________________ Date: ______________

Elements of the Poem

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Identify the elements of the following poems.
POEM THEME TONE VERTICAL HORIZONTAL
MEASURE MEASURE
1. Sonnet 29:
When, in
disgrace with
fortune and
men’s eyes
By William
Shakespeare
2. There was an
Old Man with a
Beard (By
Edward Lear)

3. Hamlet (By
William
Shakespeare)

4. Stopping by
Woods on a
Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost

5. “On Turning
Ten” by Billy
Collins

Activity 4
Name: ______________________________________ Score: _____________
Grade & Section: _____________________________ Date: ______________

Free Verse Writing

Write short free verses about love and hatred on the space below.
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 LOVE HATE

Activity 5
Name: _____________________________________ Score: _____________
Grade & Section: _____________________________ Date: ______________

Experimental Text in Poetry

Shape Poetry: Create a diamante poem similar to the example below. Be guided by the
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instructions.

A diamante poem is made up of seven lines using a set structure that follows.
1 – Beginning subject
2 – Two adjectives modifying line 1
3 – Three gerunds about line 1
4 – a short phrase about line 1 and a short phrase about line 7
5 – Three gerunds about line 7
6 – Two adjective modifying line 7
7 – Ending subject (the opposite of the beginning subject)

Example:
English
Universal, international
Connecting, networking, uniting
Our second language, our first language
Identifying, interesting, ennobling
Indigenous, national
Filipino

Place your output below.

Activity 6
Name: _____________________________________ Score: _____________
Grade & Section: _____________________________ Date: ______________

_Poem Analysis

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Write in this box your summary and analysis about the poem below.

A Bird, Came Down The Walk - (359)

By Emily Dickinson
A Bird, came down the Walk -
He did not know I saw -
He bit an Angle Worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,
And then, he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass -
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass -
He glanced with rapid eyes,
That hurried all abroad -
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought,
He stirred his Velvet Head. -
Like one in danger, Cautious,
And he unrolled his feathers,
And rowed him softer Home -
Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
I offered him a Crumb,
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon,
Leap, splash less as they swim

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