POEM

POEM 1 – Read the following poem

The Seasons
Spring is a lovely lady
with flashing eyes of green
Her hair is decked with flowers
of growing things she’s Queen

Summer’s a lively school boy

who loves the sun and surf
And singing, clowning and prancing
Round the campfire on the turf

Autumn’s hair is golden

As the leaves begin to fall
She enjoys the fruit of the harvest
and mellow light over all

Winter’s a sleeping giant

Who slumbers long and deep
With slow but sure awakening
Another year to greet
 POEM 2 – Read the following poem
The Little Rose Tree
By Rachel Field

Every rose on the little tree

Is making a different face at me!

Some look surprised when I pass by

And others droop-but they are shy

These two whose heads together press

Tell secrets I could never guess

Some have their heads thrown back is sing

And all the buds are listening
I wonder if the gardener knows
Or if he calls each just a rose?
POEM 3 – Read the following poem
Alpine Glow
By Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Our lives are Swiss

So till, so cool
Till, some odd afternoon
The Alps neglect their curtains
And we look farther on

Italy stands the other side

While, like a guard between
The solemn Alps
The siren Alps
Forever intervene
 Do you know?
The Elements of Poem
1. Rhythm
Rhythm in poetry means the flow of sound produced by a language. Rhythm shows the long and short of sound or
movement. Rhythm communicates the emotion of the poet. It reveals the emotion of happiness, sadness, greatness
or other feelings.
2. Sounds
Poets often use the sounds of words to create effects in their poems. We call the words rhymes.
e.g. Glory be to God for dappled things (a)
For skies of couple color as a brindled cow (b)
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim (c)
Fresh fire coal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings (a)
Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough (b)
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim (c)
The rhyme scheme of the poem above is abcabc
3. Imagery
Imagery refers to the sensations that language creates in the mind.
e.g. One must have a mind of winter
4. Forms
Poets give form to their verse in various ways. Much poetry, especially written
in the 1900’s, has no rhyme scheme. Such poetry is often called free verse.
Name of Stanza (Verse) Numbers of Lines
Couplet 2 lines
Triplet 3 lines
Quatrain 4 lines
Quintet 5 lines
Sextet 6 lines
Octave 8 lines
 Remember!
• Most people feel the need for richer and more colorful statements in order to
present their ides with greater force. Such language is called figurative language.
The ways of making language figurative are called figures of speech. Figurative
language is one of the important elements in making a poem.
• Personification is a figure of speech that gives human forms, powers, or feeling to
animals, objects or ideas. It makes things appear like a person.
• A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is taken out of its
usual setting and placed with another word to suggest a likeness. Metaphor
doesn’t use the word “like/as” as in similes.
e.g. My love is a red, red rose. (metaphor)
My love is like a red rose. (simile)
 Remember!
• The function of poetry is to convey emotion or ideas to the
readers’ or listeners’ mind or ears. It may also use devices,
such a assonance and repetition to achieve musical effect.
• A poet is a person who writes poems.
• A poem is a piece of writing that partakes of both speech
and songs, that is nearly always rhythmical, usually
metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as
meter, rhyme and stanzaic structure.
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