Block Day, Jan. 10-11 ~ Poetry Posters

Opening Discussion: A Loaf of Poetry by Naoshi Koriyama

you mix
the dough
of experience
with
the yeast
of inspiration
and knead it well
with love
and pound it
with all your might
and then
leave it
until
it puffs out big
with its own inner force
and then
knead it again
and
shape it
into a round form
and bake it
in the oven
of your heart

Discuss: Do you have any further thoughts on the value and extent of what counts as poetry? Is it okay to leave poetry unpunctuated? Does the lack affect the meaning of this one?

Poetry Devices & Posters

• Finish & hang your poster (It must include the term, definition, example & illustration)
• Poster work time 
• When you finish posters and Carousel notes, complete J4. 

HW: Journals 4 & 5

Journal 4

1. Identification: First name all the devices in the poem below.
2. Short Answer: Consider Collins' use of random stanzas. Why do you think he chose to split up the text this way? Does it add anything to the meaning or rhythm of the poem?

"Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins

 I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light(1)
like a color slide(2)

or press an ear against its hive.(3)


I say drop a mouse into a poem(4)
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room(5)
and feel the walls for a light switch.


I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.


But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.(6)


They begin beating it with a hose(7)
to find out what it really means.

HW: Finish J4 & J5 (Regular students will only do J4).

J5 ~ (Honors only) Over the weekend, scour your own music. Decide what 

lyrics you would deem most artfully poetic. Record the name 

& artist of the song. Then write a brief description of why you 

believe this song is beautifully poetic.