English Language ArtsLevel 8 Lesson 24

Mrs. Morrisey

Grammar Grabber

I will like more tea she said to the server

Grammar Grabber

“I would like more tea,” she said to the server.

Quickwrite: (5 min.)

Write the words to your favorite

song.

Quickwrite: (5 min.)

Write the words to your favorite

song.

Lesson ObjectivesLyric Poetry

What is Lyric Poetry?(a short poem of song-like quality)

More about Lyric Poetry?Rhyme scheme expresses personal and emotional feelings.

Does not have to rhyme or be set to music.

Examples: Sonnets & Odes

Styles of Lyric Poetry

BalladOdeSonnetHaiku

Let's look at some examples!

Dying by Emily Dickinson

I heard a fly buzz when I died;The stillness round my formWas like the stillness in the airBetween the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,And breaths were gathering sureFor that last onset when the kingBe witnessed in his power.

Dying by Emily Dickinson (cont)

I willed my keepsakes, signed awayWhat portion of me ICould make assignable and thenThere interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,Between the light and me;And then the windows failed, and thenI could not see to see.

The Shakespearean SonnetSONNET 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines,

SONNET 18 (cont)By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Steps to Writing Lyric Poetry

Step 1: Research the different types.

Step 2: Pick a topic to express a deeppersonal feeling.

Step 3: Choose a style that you feelcomfortable writing.

Step 4: Write each verse. Watch rhythm.

1. Definition of Lyric Poetry2. Examples of Lyric Poetry3. Steps for Writing Lyric Poetry

What did we learn in

this lesson?

Read “Mother to Son” and “Willow to Ginko”.

Write a lyric poem of your own.