Bunnies, Peaches and Teachers

Bunnies, Peaches and Teachers 
~by Ms. Martha :)


Patrick was the teacher’s name

His ideas and lessons were never lame

On his blog he recorded the plan

And asked his students to become a fan

If a student needed help big or small, he said “I’m game!”

One rainy day that was not very sunny

Patrick and his class ran into a bunny

The students gasped ‘cause the bunny was slim

So they looked for a carrot or cabbage to feed him

But the carrots were green and the cabbage looked funny

I have a plan said the famous English teach’

I’ll use my iPhone to draw him a peach

“A  peach?” said the class

As they gathered on mass

“But how can you expect the bunny to reach?”

Now Mr. Patrick knew the thing about bunnies at school

Was they were often teachers trying to trick a fool

So as he created the peach in digital form

He prepared his class for the likely storm

Secretly he knew the peach was a magical tool

 Blake was the teacher’s name

His ideas and lessons were never lame

The thing about Blake, that only Patrick knew,

Was that he really liked to eat stew

And rabbit disguises where his claim to fame.

So he called up Ms. Tami to ask her advice

She said ‘Give him a peach, even just a slice’

Although he thought the advice very funny

He had no idea what to do with the hungry bunny

The only pets he had ever owned were a family of mice

After hours of drawing the perfect peach

Patrick realized it was out of the bunnies reach

‘Silly me!’ he remarked, as he smacked his hand to his head

How can a real life bunny use digital food to be fed?

If I want to solve this dilemma, I must ask Mr. Elliott for his expert scientific teach!

When asked for help, Mr. E was quite plain

Only cabbages and carrots will bring any gain

So off to the market with IPhone in tow

Patrick purchased some carrots, the entire row

When he called his wife to tell her the plan, all she said was “Insane!”

“Today is Thursday” Mr. Patrick thought

“We have to do lit circles or their brains will rot

But first we have to change this bunny

Without social studies they might go funny

It is my duty to save the day! I will bring all the carrots I bought.”

He rushed into class with the sac of food

Everyone was in a foul mood

The bunny had chewed up all of their books

And now it was giving them starving looks

When given the carrots he gobbled them up, so rude!

With a flash of light and a puff of smoke

Blake turned back into a regular bloke

“What are you doing?” he cried!

“At this rate your brains will be fried.

If we don’t read Animal Farm my heart will be broke!”

Each student quickly went back to his seat

Surprised by all the carrots Mr. Blake did eat

They opened their books

Under glaring looks

Amazed by Mr. Patrick’s amazing feat!

After that day when it was not very sunny

Only student’s remembered what was really funny

Mr. Patrick went back to his lit circles and blogs

Mr. Blake insisted on Cornell notes for everyone’s logs

Regardless of photos, stories and tales he never admitted that he once was a bunny.

TYPES OF POETRY

Narrative : poems that express feelings of the poet by a story.

Example : 

Lost Sailors All

Lines in the sand
from cutlasses drawn by seasoned hands
now lifeless sunsalt fingers at dawn. Gold,
bitten by yeast-weakened jaws once pearls
the sails unfurled in sunsets red
as blood too in the hold of wind.

And with the wind
that platter hope of peace they thought would come
now strains its sinews in approaching days.
Fine fools and fellows till the drink ran out
shaking dice in hour glasses, stretching
arms in tight-packed glances, lopping
tall poppy abandon, painting the snapping canvas
crimson, over a creaking deck.

When night comes, with the fall of men
some sit battered by the bow,
stern eyes fixed to the gallows, the tallow
path of a wave-rocked lantern
hanging a rattling voice of chains,
clanking a hymn to the sea.

And then one day, with seaspray breath
one thought among them anchors on the breeze;
an unpicked seachest on a burning ship:
'Whose grasp is it that spins the wheel?
Who drives the wind?'

Ballads : the music for a poem, usually about love.
Example : 
Ballad of the Black Slave

This is the ballad of the black slave, Who has been beaten and disgraced, Who has been called the n-word and negro, Who has received no pay. This is the ballad of the black slave, Who prays for freedom every night, Who is going to rebel, For what he thinks is right. Now this is the ballad of the freed slave, Who has seen much blood shed, Who has fought for equal rights, And who has won his freedom. Epic : extended narrative poems that were written by old poets or a poem that celebrates heroes in the past. Example :  Epic Poem This poem is epic so I named it so it's more epic than wind and snow which are in there own respects quite epic snow could be described as ghetto and wind can take on epic forms like a spinning tiger with legs made of iron bars that would be pretty epic infact I think that happened in outer mongolia to a young girl how got hit by the iron bars sadly she died but the type of death was one we all wish for over exposure to pure epicness like viewing a snail with a lightsaber who flies over mountains made of cheese that's bleedin' epic imagine it if you can can you? Lyric : poem that could be sung into music. Lyric does not tell a story but it expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. Example : Dying  I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. Sonnets : a poem that has 14 lines that expresses the poet in thoughts, ideas, and sentiments. Example : FROM fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. Odes : poem to praise or thanks someone or something. Example : Ode to Cheese

Ode To Cheese,
Which Makes Us Smile,
When Camera's go Clack.
Ode To Cheese,
Which make us taste,
The greatest of flavors, the wackiest of whack.
Ode To Cheese,
Blue, Gorgonzola,
American and Cheddar.
Ode To Cheese,
Beja and Feta,
In all types of weather.
Ode To Cheese,
For those on a diet,
or trying to get fatter.
Ode To Cheese,
with crackers and wine,
with grapes can flatter.
Ode To Cheese,
when you're sad and happy,
Cheese just fits.
Ode To Cheese,
Mountains and Mountains,
or bits and bits.

Ode to the Cheese,
To appreciate,
eat,
and take pictures. 

Free Verse : poem that its verses do not follow in fixed pattern.
Example : 
Connotation


Friends
Means sharing, bittersweet
A brand name of love. It is a tie for all time,
Longer than the shadows we forget
Yet shorter and better than life, or for some longer,
Stronger. It balances you, with a pole in
One hand and a rope in the other, you choose what to use it for.
It is forever.

Friends
Remembers everything anyone ever felt,
Holds it in a cubbyhole somewhere for next time
When it is spoken or thought, from kindergarten
Elation to maturing despair. No friend is ever
Alone in action or reaction, left
Without a silent commiserating presence of
Invisible brick, a personal wailing wall
For those who need its strength
And stability.

Friends
Is a loaded word and pointed. It limbos out from
Under walls, vaults barricades, threads mazes
To erect cellophane boundaries of its own.
It lets you see what could lie beyond
But that you gave up
When you spoke its name.


Significance : It's important to get to know all of the types of poems because we get to see how different they are. We don't learn everything at the same time but little bit by little. Therefore, learning these types of poem could pretty much help us in the future if the category is about poetry. Although poems are not always the same but they all express feelings of the poets.

LINES

Definition : a unit of language in which in a poem or a play is divided.


Example : 
[a stanza is a series of lines.]


With his own sword,
Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta'en
His head from him.
~by William Shakespeare 


the line between the lines are called lines. [the other type of lines that i was talking about.]


Significance : Like a stanza, lines separate the ideas that was given by the poet in a poem. Lines make a poem easier to read as to understand. Lines sometimes don't help much with all the imagery or the symbols of the poem but basically, lines separate the lines in a poem. 

SYMBOL

Definition : an object or anything that stands for something else that's more abstract.


Example : 
O Rose, thou art sick. 
The invisible worm 
That flies in the night 
In the howling storm 




[Chinese characters is another great example for symbolism.]


Significance : Try to be careful with symbol because sometimes the readers won't understand what's your nonsense saying is all about. Symbolism is partly like an extended metaphor but for symbolism, we don't compare. In symbolism, the words we choose could mean more than what they mean. Words are more powerful than the picture because if we apply imagery for symbol, sometimes we won't get any clue.

ONOMATOPOEIA

Definition : a word that imitate a sound.

Example : splat, roar, bang, bam, whack, ka-boom

Significance : Onomatopoeia helps to describe a sound that cannot be described by words. It's interesting because each sound could fit in a poem differently depends on assonance or alliteration. Onomatopoeia sometimes could be hard to put in a poem because of the sound it is describing or it could be misunderstood by the readers.

ASSONANCE

Definition : the pattern of the vowels that are repeating in the end of words

Examples : 

And frightful a nightfall folded rueful a day

Nor rescue, only rocket and lightship, shone,      

And lives at last were washing away:

To the shrouds they took,—they shook in the hurling and horrible airs. 

Is out with it! Oh,      

We lash with the best or worst   

Word last! How a lush-kept plush-capped sloe      

Will, mouthed to flesh-burst,

Gush!—flush the man, the being with it, sour or sweet,

Brim, in a flash, full!—Hither then, last or first 

Significance : Assonance are the almost the same as alliteration except for the part ending and beginning. Reading assonance poems could be as fun as reading alliteration, although it's sometimes pretty hard to recognise the rhyming part at the end more than at the beginning. 

ALLITERATION

Definition : the pattern of the consonants that are repeating in the beginning of words.

Example :
Cipher Connected
By Paul McCann


Careless cars cutting corners create confusion .
Crossing centrelines.
Countless collisions cost coffins.
Collect conscious change.
Copy?
Continue cautiously.
Comply?
Cool .

Significance : Alliteration makes poems more fun trying to memorise and show them to your friends. Alliteration is also used for tongue twisters.

METER

Definition : a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Example :
This is the | forest pri | meval, the | murmuring | pine and the | hemlocks

Significance : Meter makes rhythm to poems and sometimes, it stresses on the important words and makes the poem meaningful to the readers. Meter brings feeling to the audience when the speaker is reading it aloud.

ELEGY

Definition : a melancholy type of poem that is for the dead ones, especially a funeral song. Elegies are mostly for grieving.

Example :

No one knows what really happened to her,

All they know that she was naked and dead,

Some people say it was foul play some people say,

It was a blood vessel in her head,

But then i began to have these wierd dreams about her,

Some beautiful some horrible,

But how do we know whats real and whats a fantasy,

When Angie's not here to tell.


Significance : Elegy shows sorrow and melancholy emotion to honor a person who had died. Elegy is for use of lament and honoring someone who died. Elegy shifts grief to comfort and melancholy to soothing. 

COUPLET

Definition : a pair of lines of meter in poetry.

Example :
I have two cats, one mean one nice.
They chased some mice.

Significance : Couplet is a type of poetry. Couplets could sometimes be complex in rhyme scheme. For example, Shakespearean sonnets end with a couplet.

PERSONIFICATION

Definition : A figure of speech in which objects or abstractions are given human characteristics.

Example : Where ever I go, my shadow keeps following me.

Significance : Personification makes poetry more interesting and helps to describe a certain of moods.

SPEAKER

Definition : the narrator of the poem: the person who's telling the story. It could be the 1st person as the main character in a poem. It's not always the poet who's speaking in a poem.

Example :

At the Seaside
~Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore. My holes were empty like a cup, In every hole the sea came up, Till it could come no more. This poem was written for children although Robert is a grown up guy. Significance : The speaker helps the readers to connect and experience to the poem in different perspective.

TONE

Definition : the mood of a poem.


Example : 

A Patch of Old Snow

There's a patch of old snow in a corner,

That I should have guessed

Was a blow-away paper the rain

Had brought to rest.

 

It is specked with grime as if

Small print overspread it.

The news of a day I've forgotten --

If I ever read it.

The tone that has been use here could be sadness.

Significance : Tone is the feeling of the poet that is expressed by them poem. Word choices could affect on tone big time because if the words are not used right then they could make the readers confuse. Tone is somehow a part of imagery although tone speaks for the poem and imagery evokes the sense of the readers, they both trying to make the readers experiencing the poem. 

[when the readers are confused]

                                                                                

               [when the readers understand it]

INTERPRETATION

Definition : the understanding of something.

Example : In the picture, one might see the women are drinking and others might see it as a skull.

Significance : Interpretation brings different perspective and experiences to poetry. Readers will be sent with different messages in a same poem.

RHYME

Definition : is a repetition of similar sound in two or more words, especially in the end of words or lines of verse.

Example :
cat and hat
smirk and jerk
flower and power

Significance : Rhyme is the fun part in poem. Rhyme makes the poem sounds more catchy. It also helps the readers memorising better and easier.

RHYTHM

Definition : rhythm in writing is like the beat in music. The word rhythm comes from Greek, it means "measured motion." Rhythm is the repetition syllables in poetry. 


Example : 
The wind in her hair 
The chair that sat there 
Eyes on eyes 
Fire and lye 
in the river sky 

Significance : Rhythm is important to poetry because rhythm helps to make a poem sounds more musical and eventually better. Rhythm is slightly different from rhyme. Rhythm also helps to remember either a poem or a line better. 

SIMILE

Definition : a figure of speech that compares two things using a word such as like, as or than.


Example : You sound like my grampa.


Significance : Simile is one of the figure of speech that is indispensable to language art. Even though simile and metaphor are likely the same but simile indirectly compares the two similar things or ideas but still let them have their distinct. Simile is still being used a lot in poetry because of its expressiveness as a figure of speech.


[ you would probably how often everyone use simile once in a while. ]

EXTENDED METAPHOR

Definition : a comparison of two unlike things throughout a stanza or the whole poem, often by many comparisons of unlike objects and ideas. 

Example :

FOG by Carl Sandburg


The fog comes in on little cat feet.
It sits looking over the harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then, moves on.


Significance : Extended metaphor could be used in a poem which would make a poem's image seems to express better. Though, if a poet uses extended metaphor not so well and there is more confusion created rather than clarity, then it's always a better choice for the poet to use simple comparison like metaphor or simile. 

METAPHOR

Definition : a figure of speech that directly compares two different things.

Example : Love is a rose.


Significance : I think metaphor makes a poem more interesting because it could impact of how we think something is true or not. In the example above, love is compared to rose which means they're one thing. The use of metaphor enables us to generate new meanings from old.

STANZA

Definition : stanza is one of the divisions of a poem. It's constructed of two or more lines by a common pattern of rhyme, and number of lines. Stanza is separated by a space.


Example :
STANZA ONE:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, (line 1)
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;

STANZA TWO:
Then took the other, as just as fair (line 6)
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,


STANZA THREE:
And both that morning equally lay (line 11)
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

STANZA FOUR:
I shall be telling this with a sigh (line 16)
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. 


Significance : Stanza is indispensable in a poem. Stanza helps to make the poem looks clearer and separate the ideas that is sent in a poem better. 


[ a poem with no clear stanza would look like that in the picture. ]

IMAGERY

Definition : in poetry, imagery is what brings words to life. Imagery draws the readers into experiencing the poems and sense it. Despite that image means the same thing as picture but imagery needn't be only visual. Imagery evokes the five senses of the readers so they can respond to what the poet wrote and feel about the poem.


Example :
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells


Significance : Imagery is important to a poem because it's all about the experience, feelings of the poem and the senses that helps the readers to respond to what the poet wrote about the poem. 

POETRY

Definition : a kind of ART of rhythm that is written or spoken. It's use to express feelings and emotion other than literal meanings of the words that used in a poem. Poetry rhymes and is written to catch reader's sense and imagination.




Example : 
Roses are red,
And apples are too.
But violets are violet,
Violets aren't blue.

WHY IS POETRY IMPORTANT TO LANGUAGE ART? 

Poetry is a type of literature that is written to entertain and to provoke reader's imagination. Poetry is raw emotions and feelings that are expressed by a poem. Poems sometimes could be sing into music, it is called a ballad. I think poetry is important to language arts because poetry is a prose of rhyme words that express emotions and feelings of a person, people, objects [if uses personification], describing an object, etc. 

[ it is like art but WORDS. ]