Homework due Friday, 5th May
POETRY
Have a look at the following poems. One of them is a shape poem, one is a narrative poem and one is a haiku poem. Can you decide which is which?
TASK:
Firstly, choose one of the poems and explain whether it is a narrative, shape or haiku poem. Give reasons for your answers.
Next, describe any poetic techniques you have found in the poem. (Rhyme, repetition, rhythm, descriptive language, simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration).
Then, find another example of a narrative, shape or haiku poem, copy it or print it and bring it to school.
1)
2) Beaches by Kaitlyn Guenther
Sand scatters the beach
Waves crash on the sandy shore
Blue water shimmers
3) The Broken-Legg’d Man by John Mackey Shaw
I saw the other day when I went shopping in the store
A man I hadn't ever, ever seen in there before,
A man whose leg was broken and who leaned upon a crutch-
I asked him very kindly if it hurt him very much.
"Not at all!" said the broken-legg'd man.
I ran around behind him for I thought that I would see
The broken leg all bandaged up and bent back at the knee;
But I didn't see the leg at all, there wasn't any there,
So I asked him very kindly if he had it hid somewhere.
"Not at all!" said the broken-legg'd man.
"Then where," I asked him, "is it? Did a tiger bite it off?
Or did you get your foot wet when you had a nasty cough?
Did someone jump down on your leg when it was very new?
Or did you simply cut it off because you wanted to?"
"Not at all!" said the broken-legg'd man.
"What was it then?" I asked him, and this is what he said:
"I crossed a busy crossing when the traffic light was red;
A big red car came whizzing by and knocked me off my feet."
"Of course you looked both ways," I said, "before you crossed the street."
"Not at all!" said the broken-legg'd man.
"They rushed me to the hospital right quickly," he went on,
"And when I woke in nice clean sheets I saw my leg was gone;
That's why you see me walking now on nothing but a crutch."
"I'm glad," said I, "you told me, and I thank you very much!"
"Not at all!" said the broken-legg'd man.
ARMAAN.
ReplyDeleteBeaches.
A beach by Kaitlyn Guenther is a haiku poem. it is a haiku poem because it has 17 syllables. Haiku poems are often written about nature and the nature in this poem is the sand and the beaches and the natural environment.
One of the literary devices I have spotted is the alliteration. I can see the alliteration where it says ‘sandy shores’ and ‘sand scatters’. Alliteration is when there are two or more words beginning with the same letter in this case the same letter is ‘s’.
I think that the ghost poem is the shape poem .
ReplyDeleteThe ghost poem has a lot of alliteration.
The next poem is haiku poem .
The poem has a lot of good words.
Finally the last poem is the narrative poem.
It has a lot of describing words, good speech and has a narrator.
I chose a shape poem which is the first one. I think is a shape, because looks like ghost which others don't have any shape.
the author uses a lot of alliteration to describe the story. I can also see descriptive language and a metaphor.
Gurjaipaul
ReplyDeleteThe 3rd poem is a narrative poem, because a narrative poem is a poem but it sounds like a story. That poem even, has narrative speech.
Task 2
In the poem there are rhyming words : Store, before
crutch, much,
see, knee,
off, cough,
to, new,
feet, street,
on, gone.
There is even repetition of the words. There is one sentence that is being repeated. That sentence is: Not at all, said the broken legg'd man. There is a sentence that has an onomatopoeia. That sentence is The red car came whizzing and knocked me off my feet.
Discussed and looked at in class. SG
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