THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY

Painting with wordsBy

Sharon White

HOW TO READ POETRY Follow these guidelines Read the poem out loud at least once Look form sentences , and pay attention

to punctuation.

CREATING IMAGES

Pictures

Figures of

speech

CREATING SOUND A Poet use sound just as a painter uses color. Like painters, poets uses color to share their special moment to the world.

DECIDING OF FORM

FORMS STANZAS

Like sculptors poets are concerned with shapes and form.

When they write and revise , poets are chiseling the words to create the shapes on the page which are called.

LINE BREAK A poet’s purposeful

choice of where to end one line and begin the next.

Line breaks can be a way to play with sound and meaning.

SPEAKER The “voice” of the poem is not necessarily

the poet.

PRACTICE A POEM’S RHYMES AND RHYTHMS HELP TO MAKE IT FAIRLY EASE TO MEMORIZE A POEM.

Read the poem aloud three or four times.

Look for rhymes, Rhyming words help your memory.

Memorize two lines at a time. Say the lines aloud several times then cover them and try to recite them from memory.

Try to picture the words ot the poem on the page.

LINE A line is a single row of words ,which

may or may not be in a complete thought.