Hello loyal readers of which there are none because I’m not popular and no one wants to hear about the boring life of a 13 year old nobody-wait, I’m getting distracted. Anyways, in this post, I’ll be talking a bit about poetry. That’s right, that one subject you learn in elementary school but forget everything that you learned the next year. So, we did a quick poetry unit in the middle of our quilt unit, you can go check that post out after this post. So, first, we started with the basics. We made a list and wrote all of the terms that we learned in it. You can check mine out right here.
Ok, so we were introduced to our final project first, which is an entire book filled with poetry that we write. And guess what, it’s about WORLDVIEW! We all made 11 poems and created our own books revolving around worldview poems. Here’s a run through of all of the poems I wrote:
#1 – Similes
This Poem was pretty simple because it was the first poem we write. Pretty much, all we did was use similes to contrast with our worldview. For example, “As complicated as a maze” or “As simple as a recipe” or something not as cheesy.
#2 – Extended Metaphor
This Poem was almost as easy as the simile one. An extended metaphor is pretty much a long simile. You compare some part of your worldview (or the entire thing) to something you think best suits it. For me, I picked a water slide.
#3 – Haikus
Haikus are not hard. They’re pretty simple to write. Wait, I just wrote one! Ok, so for Haikus, we were tasked with creating more poetry about more aspects about your worldview. I picked playing the Oboe, Basketball, and homework. If you’ve read my about me page, then you’ll know why I picked these topics. If not, then what are you doing with your life? I’m just kidding, although you really should go read it if you want to understand the references that I make. Anyway, a haiku is pretty much a poem that follows the syllable pattern 5-7-5.
#4 – Found Poem
A found poem is a little difficult to write. It’s a poem made of passages that you take out of a piece of literature. First, you have to have the right literature. You should have a theme in mind before choosing your literature. Then, you have to selectively take out some passages that you think fit your theme. I was originally going to do mine on “Californiacation” by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, but because that has rhyming already, it was not allowed. So pretty much, I grabbed a random book and picked out some passages. That book turned out to be 1984 by George Orwell.
#5 – Imagery Poem
Imagery is when you try to incorporate descriptors in your literature that trigger the senses. Touch, taste, hear, sight, and smell. For example, “I walked along the dusty road, the rocks crackling under my shoes.” is an example of imagery. Our poem was, as you can probably guess, about appealing to the senses. Mine was about myself, walking down a dirty, dangerous alleyway. You can read the explanation in my book for further information.
#6 – Sound Poem
A Sound Poem is just a bunch of random noises that are somehow connected. I kid you not. Long story short, mine was just basketball noises because that’s probably the noisiest part of my worldview.
#7 – Experience Poem
An experience poem is, as the name suggests, a poem about an experience that you’ve had. The goal is to have a theme to the poem and to create effect. Mine was about a huge part of my life, Piano. Even though I’ve gone through way too many recitals, I decided to write about my first ever recital.
#8 – Personification
If you’ve studied poetry before in the slightest way, you’ll probably know what Personification is. It’s giving human-like qualities to a non human object or thing. In this case, our worldview. So pretty much, we imagined our worldviews as people. Pretty weird if you ask me.
#9 – Self Portrait
The point of this poem is to use all of the skills you’ve learned so far. We made a big, 25 line poem about ourselves and various aspects. We used a questioning sheet to brainstorm ideas and made those answers into poetry.
Alright, so that leads us to our final product. A big ol’ poetry book. And with that, I will leave you.