How would you define Poetry?
Many people are able to identify what poetry is but are unable to explain it to someone else.
Imagine that we had a group of grade one students visiting from a nearby Elementary School and they were curious about poetry. How would you explain it to them?
In the comment section post an explanation of what poetry means.
Feel free to look up common definitions online to get you started but remember that your definition needs to be clear enough for a student in grade one to understand.
Next find a quote about poetry that you really like. Include the quote, the author and why you believe it illustrates what poetry is.
Here are some quotes that I like:
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher
I find this quote interesting because I think poetry is sometimes able to express emotion and thought better than any other form of writing. Reading a poem from a war survivor will leave you feeling more empathy than reading the facts of that war.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Shelley,A Defence of Poetry, 1821
I find that poets seem to be able to find beauty in all things, even the unimaginably disturbing.
Finally, find a poem that you like and put it in your response as well. Make sure you include the author, identify one poetic device used and explain why you like it.
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poetry is ones expression of how they feel or what they see or their interpretation of something.
ReplyDeleteEric Bremner
I feel that poetry is a way of expressing powerful feelings in a way that many people can participate in because not everyone can draw, paint or make music so the poet uses words instead of paint and the canvas is you. "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either." - Robert graves because it explains that people don't write poetry for money they do it because it makes them feel good. my favorite poem of all time is
ReplyDeleteHere comes the sun - George Harrison
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right
Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right
It's all right
I like this poem because of when it was written, George Harrison was sitting in his back yard when the sun was rising
I'm not really know many English poems but I have learn many Chinese poems. I really like them. For example,one by Bai Ju Yi
ReplyDeleteAn early cricket chirps,
then pauses;
the dying lamp gutters
then flares again.
Outside my window
I know it is raining--
the leaves of the banana
first know its drumming.
It's sad because the author have to say goodbye to his friend. He is a very famous poem author we have to study his poem since we were five.I really like his poem because in Chinese poem it's not easy to understand but if you understand it.You will find that it is so amazing. You will have the same mood with author.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. ~Eli Khamarov, The Shadow Zone
ReplyDeletePoetry is expressing ideas and feelings of people. The writer usually chooses words for their sound and beauty as well as their meaning.
ReplyDelete“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary” Kahlil Gibran
I like this quote because it expresses all the different aspects of poetry. It is simple and true.
Constantly Risking Absurdity by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
above the heads
of his audience
the poet like an acrobat
climbs on rime
to a high wire of his own making
and balancing on eyebeams
above a sea of faces
paces his way
to the other side of the day
performing entrachats
and sleight-of-foot tricks
and other high theatrics
and all without mistaking
any thing
for what it may not be
For he's the super realist
who must perforce perceive
taut truth
before the taking of each stance or step
in his supposed advance
toward that still higher perch
where Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap
And he
a little charleychaplin man
who may or may not catch
her fair eternal form
spreadeagled in the empty air
of existence
I really like this poem because it is comparing the challenges of writing a poem to the challenge of an acrobat. One poetic device would be the “Beauty” which is a pun. But basically the whole poem is about taking risks in life.
I like this poem because this pem is cute also I love ferrets. Their strange animals.Ferret Soccer
ReplyDelete(to the tune of "Frère Jacques")
Ferret soccer!
Ferret soccer!
Come with me.
Let's go see.
I have heard that, mainly,
ferrets play insanely.
That sound great!
I can't wait!
Ferret soccer.
Ferret soccer.
There's a kick,
hard and quick.
Aiming at the goalie,
but he's moving slowly.
Hit his snout.
Knocked him out!
Ferret soccer.
What a shocker.
Holy cow!
What's up now?
Took a new approach and
aimed it at the coach and
he's out cold.
That was bold!
Ferret soccer.
Off their rocker.
This is bad.
They've gone mad.
Sending balls a-flying.
Audience is crying.
Got us too.
Big boo hoo.
Game is over.
Game is over.
Ferrets win.
See them grin.
That was such a thrill. Hey,
I can't wait until they
play again.
Let's go then.
--Kenn Nesbitt
The reson I thought this poem was cool because the poem has alot of thrill. Its a bit devious, what the ferret does. I enjoyed the poem. by (Amanda Rosychuk)>>..
the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or bright thoughts.
ReplyDeleteA poem may appear to mean very different things to different readers, and all of these meanings may be different from what the author thought he meant and yet all these ideas could be right. “A poem is never finished, only abandoned” Paul Valery. This makes perfect sense because a poem can be one word or it could be a million words. You can always add on to a poem or you could remove something from a poem and yet it still work.
ReplyDeleteFreedom flies in your heart like an eagle by Audie Murphy
Dusty old helmet, rusty old gun,
They sit in the corner and wait -
Two souvenirs of the Second World War
That have withstood the time, and the hate.
Mute witness to a time of much trouble.
Where kill or be killed was the law -
Were these implements used with high honor?
What was the glory they saw?
Many times I've wanted to ask them -
And now that we're here all alone,
Relics all three of a long ago war -
Where has freedom gone?
Freedom flies in your heart like an eagle.
Let it soar with the winds high above,
Among the spirits of soldiers now sleeping,
Guard it with care and with love.
I salute my old friends in the corner,
I agree with all they have said -
And if the moment of truth comes tomorrow,
I'll be free, or By God, I'll be dead!
I like this poem because it talks about freedom and how there was not much of it back then. Yet freedom is in our hearts and soul. People lost there freedom to a war that they did not know what they were fighting for, lost there lives over a war they never should of been in. We have a lot of freedom know and we should be thankful for it.
Rajan Singh
Poetry is a form of art that expresses thoughts and feelings of the writer. By Robyn
ReplyDeletePoetry is an art of expressing your thoughts, emotions by using meaning, rhyme, rhythm. It is a part of history that will never be forgotten and it will continue from generation to genration. Poetry a kind of “fancy” words that communicate to our soul.
ReplyDelete“Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous;
love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails...But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7,13
I found this poem really interesting because it defines the true meaning of love. Because I think in our generations, people doesn’t really care about the word “love” and it talks not only about love for couples, but it also talks about love in general like love for enemy, or people that did something wrong to you.
-Kimbert
Poetry is a piece of writing in which the words are chosen for their sound and the images they suggest, not just for their obvious meanings.
ReplyDelete“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, homesickness, lovesickness. “
--Robert Frost
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_poetry.html#ixzz1LVlSBmGm
I find this quote interesting because this quote real tells the meaning about the poem I choose.
A Tranquil Night – Bai Li
Abed, I see a silver light,
I wonder if it’s frost aground.
Looking up, I find the moon bright;
Bowing, in homesickness I’m drowned.
This is a Chinese poetry. I like this because this poet is writing about a people who leave his home and going travel to learn. He is like me. I am leave my home come to Canada to learning.
"Poetry is an art of expressing someone's feeling about nature, love, emotions, etc. Poetry is also define as an masterpiece of everyone's soul."
ReplyDeleteI like this poem cuz it gives the reader an idea how good and attractive every single words that the poem says and it expresses how beautiful the art of poetry.
Poetry is sexy
Its lyrics aim to please
Poetry is sexy
Engaging in its tease
Poetry is sexy
It radiates with verb
Poetry is sexy
Every idyllic word
Poetry is sexy
Refined for purity
Poetry is sexy
Stripped of subtlety
Poetry is sexy
When read between the lines
Poetry is sexy
Laced with frilly rhymes
Poetry is sexy
Both singular and plural
Poetry is sexy
Every exclamatory swirl
Poetry is sexy
Grammatically raw
Poetry is sexy
Even typos and all
Poetry is sexy
Consummated publicly
Poetry is sexy
When performed properly
Poetry is sexy
Irrespective of its font
Poetry is sexy
Fashioned any way you want
-Brian Dorn
-Kimbert