How do you craft and revise a poem?
Review the lists of metaphors and similes you wrote yesterday.
Make sure that these metaphors and similes describe who you are and what you feel. Take a partner and reread each other's work. Ask them if they think it portrays you. Are you showing the emotions and characteristics you want to portray?
Reread a poem and check how line-breaks and stanza breaks change the pace, rhythm and meaning of the poem. Pay attention to where your voice naturally pauses. You can experiment with your line-breaks, reading new versions of your poem to yourself to hear the difference that changing the line-break makes. You can also reread to see if there are any longer pauses between ideas or thoughts. Longer pauses denote a stanza break.
If you're having trouble identifying where to put the line breaks, read your poem to your partner. Ask him/her to help identify where the first few break lines could be.
Share your poem with the class. When a poem is read, comment on how the line-breaks influenced the pace of the poem. Comment on how the line-breaks and stanza breaks helped to express the meaning of the poem.
Check your spelling, rhyme scheme, imagery, and tone of the poem for homework.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment