POETRY REVIEW

GAME –
TRASHKETBALL
Instructions
■ Each group will have a captain!
■ The captain will be responsible for bringing their boards (answers) to the me.
 If the group is wrong, the captain returns to the group to discuss and
tries again.
– 1st place – 3 shots
– 2nd place – 2 shots
– 3rd place – 1 shot
■ Points gained for each successful shot:
– Farthest line – 5 pts
– Middle line – 3 pts
– Closest line – 1 pt
READY??
How many
stanzas are in
this poem?

How many
lines are in
stanza 2? 
 Neither Out Far nor in Deep (By Robert Frost)

The people along the sand

What is the All turn and look one way.

rhyme They turn their back on the land.

scheme of They look at the sea all day.

As long as it takes to pass
this poem?  A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground like glass
Reflects a standing gull.
The first story I ever write
is a bright crayon picture
of a dancing tree, the branches
tossed by island wind.

I draw myself standing beside the tree,

with a colorful parrot soaring above me,
and a magical turtle clasped in my hand,
and two yellow wings fluttering
on the proud shoulders of my ruffled IDENTIFY FIGURATIVE
Cuban rumba dancer's
fancy dress.
LANGUAGE IN THE POEM.
(THE TYPE OF FIGURATIVE
In my California kindergarten class,
the teacher scolds me: REAL TREES LANGUAGE & WHERE)
DON'T LOOK LIKE THAT.

It's the moment

when I first
begin to learn
Turtle Came to See Me
that teachers
BY MARGARITA ENGLE
can be wrong.
Who is the
audience of
this poem?
 Acquainted with the Night
by Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night.

I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.

What does I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

“night” I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet

symbolize in When far away an interrupted cry

Came over houses from another street,

this poem? But not to call me back or say good-bye;

And further still at an unearthly height,
O luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

I have been one acquainted with the night.
■ A – bad people
■ B – death
■ C - life
■ D – a lover
 The Red Wheelbarrow
BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

so much depends
upon

How many a red wheel

stanzas are in barrow

this poem?  glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens
 To A Terrific Dad (By David L. Helm)

To a dad who is terrific,

What is the To a dad who’s real neat.

rhyme To a dad who makes the best of things,

scheme of
Even when they’re not so sweet!
To a dad who’s growing older,
this poem?  To a dad who’s going gray.
To a dad who just gets smarter,
It would seem from day to day!
 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

What do the My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

”woods” Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

symbolize in He gives his harness bells a shake

this poem?
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of the easy wind and downy flake.

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.
■ A - fire
■ B - animals
■ C - distractions
■ D - society
 Operating Room By John Reed

Sunlight floods the shiny many-windowed place,

Coldly glinting on flawless steel under glass,
And blaring imperially on the spattered gules(1)
Where kneeling men grunt as they swab the floor.
Identify Startled eyes of nurses swish by noiselessly,

figurative Orderlies(2) with cropped heads swagger like murderers;

And three surgeons, robed and masked mysteriously,
Lounge gossiping of guts, and wish it were lunch-time.
language in Beyond the porcelain door, screaming mounts crescendo(3)
the poem.  Case 4001 coming out of the ether,
Born again half a man, to spend his life in bed.

(the type of figurative 1. The color red

language & where) 2. A hospital attendant responsible for the nonmedical care
of patients, order, and cleanliness
3. A gradual increase in loudness or intensity
 The Road not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the
undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

What are the And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

“two roads” Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

symbolizing in And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.
this poem? Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the
difference.
■ A - highway
■ B – lives
■ C - a journey
■ D - choices
 The Road not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the
undergrowth;

What could
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
be a possible Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
theme And both that morning equally lay

statement for In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

this poem?
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the
difference.
HOW MANY STANZAS
ARE IN THIS POEM?
HOW MANY LINES
ARE IN STANZA 2?
How many
stanzas are in
this poem?

How many
lines are in
stanza 3?
 The Rose That Grew From Concrete – Tupac

What could Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?

be a possible
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
theme it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
statement for when no one else ever cared

this poem?
Who is the
audience of
this poem?
 Ah! Sun-flower
BY WILLIAM BLAKE

Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,

What is the Who countest the steps of the Sun:

rhyme
Seeking after that sweet golden clime

Where the travellers journey is done.

scheme of
this poem?  Where the Youth pined away with desire,

And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow:

Arise from their graves and aspire,

Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.

 WHO WON!!?

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PRIZE Choices:
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EXIT TICKET:
(YOUR ATTENDANCE/GRADE FOR TODAY)

■ On your sticky note – Write a complete sentence on what you feel your weakness is
in poetry.
■ I will be checking this before you leave!- This is your grade for today!!!
■ Keep it with you so you know what to study!!!

■ Example: I believe my weakness in poetry is finding how many stanzas are in a

poem.