STRATEGIES IN TEACHING

POETRY OR PROSE
Book Spine Poetry

It falls into the category of Found Poetry wherein

poems are made up of text lifted from different
sources.
Book spine poetry is so simple but creates
intriguingly artistic results. Just grab a bunch of books
with interesting titles and stack them up to create a
juicy column of poetry.
  Blackout Poetry is a mixture of poetry and art
BLACK OUT made by taking any form of printed text and
blacking out the unwanted words to create a
POETRY poem or stateme
  Studying modern-day songs is a great way to
teach about figurative language and poetic
devices while studying poetry.
Songs as Poetry  In this strategy, the students will be reading the
song lyrics, but omitting or re-writing some
parts.
Task:

Read a few lyrics of a popular song without using any

inflection or melody. The students will interpret the meaning
of the words.
After the students attempt interpreting the song’s meaning,
play it for the class. Have an open discussion about how the
meaning may have changed or how the inflection may have
exemplified the feeling in the words.
 Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
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OR ASK THEM TO RE-WRITE IT
COMPLETELY

 Ask them to create a prose or another poem using the song’s interpretation
The stars, they sing.
They sing a lullaby to the world that helps them fall asleep.
I, on this cliff, can see the world closing its eyes.
Lights turn off, windows close, doors lock.
The stars are an orchestra and the moon their conductor.
They sing together in harmony for the families on Earth to sleep to. But where
is my family?
Why am I listening to this lullaby alone?
As I stand on this cliff, looking down at the world, I walk towards the edge. The
lullaby gets to me and I start to doze off. My eyes flicker like a broken light.
Open… Close… open… close.
Standing on this cliff, I fall asleep… and falling with my sleep
my body towards the ground.
  Found poems are created from pieces of
literature that already exist. A found poems can
Found Poetry be inspired by the pages of a magazine,
newspaper, book or even another poem.
Making a tableau or a montage
 Tableau - a group of models or motionless
figures representing a scene from a story
 Montage - the technique of producing a new
composite whole from fragments of pictures,
text, or music.
Create Found Poems From Prose

 Prose teaching strategies can also include creating "found poems". Teachers encourage creative thinking
while also targeting comprehension skills by having students create "found poems" based on prose they
have already read.
 Provide students with a passage of prose and have them highlight between 50 and 100 words or phrases
that are the most interesting or meaningful to them. Next, students list the highlighted words in order on
a separate piece of paper, skipping lines between each word. Walk students through the process of rereading
their lists several times, eliminating words that do not fit with the poem until between 25 and 50 of the
most important words remain. Have students title their poems and present them to their peers.
 Martin Luther King Jr. - "I Have a Dream" -
Poem Generator

 Write your own "I Have a Dream" Poem by filling in the

text boxes.
 Use this poem generator to write your own "I Have a
Dream" Poem. When you are finished, click the button at
the bottom of the form to generate your poem.
 https://oakdome.com/k5/lesson-plans/word/i-have-a-dream-poem-generator.php
Copy and paste your generated poem
into a word processor. Change the font
size and style so that the poem fills a
single page. Add a border and / or
clipart. Add your name. Save and print
your poem.
I Have a Dream Poem - Finished Example:
 Sample Tableau:
Annabelle Lee (EAP)
TPS-FASTT A Method for Poetry Analysis

 TPS-FASTT is an acronym that stands for: • Title • Paraphrase • Speaker • Figurative Language • Attitude
(Tone) • Shift • Title • Theme • Following this format gives you a clear and formulaic way to analyze poetry
that might otherwise be confusing or difficul
TITLE: Examine the title before reading the poem.
Sometimes the title will give you a clue about the
content of the poem. In some cases the title will give
you crucial information that will help you understand
a major idea within the poem.

Paraphrase: Paraphrase the literal action within the

poem. At this point, resist the urge to jump to
interpretation. A failure to understand what happens
literally inevitably leads to an interpretive
misunderstanding

Speaker: Who is the speaker in this poem?

Remember to always distinguish speaker from the
poet. In some cases the speaker and poet might be the
same, as in an autobiographical poem, but often the
speaker and the poet are entirely different.
Figurative Language: Examine the poem for language that
is not used literally. This would include, but certainly not
limited to: literary devices such as imagery, symbolism,
metaphor, litotes, allusion, and sound devices (alliteration,
onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, rhyme). This can
also include irony and the connotative meanings of the
specific word choice.

Attitude (Tone): Tone, meaning the speaker’s attitude

toward the subject of the poem. Of course, this means that
you must discern the subject of the poem. In some cases it
will be narrow, and in others it will broad. Also keep in
the mind the speaker’s attitude toward self, other
characters, and the subject, as well as the attitudes of
characters other than the speaker.
Shifts Note shifts in speaker and attitude. Shifts can be
indicated in a number of ways including the occasion of poem
(time and place), key turn words (but, yet), punctuation (dashes,
periods, colons, etc), stanza divisions, changes in line or stanza
length, and anything else that indicates that something has
changed or a question is being answered.

Title Reconsider the meaning and impact of the title, now that
you have read the poem closely.

Theme: Now that you have closely examined the poem in many
different ways, consider what the poet is trying to communicate
to her or his audience. How have the various elements that you
have explored combine to create this theme?
HOW TO MAKE
HYPERPOETRY
I have gone out, a possessed witch,   

haunting the black air, braver at night;   

dreaming evil, I have done my hitch   

over the plain houses, light by light:   

lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.   

A woman like that is not a woman, quite.   

I have been her kind.