Chapter 5 Poetry

CHAPTER 5,

Poetry is wonderful, I had a great time growing up and learning about poetry all, my teachers made it interesting. In chapter 5 I was remembered that there are different types of poetry that are used in the classroom for the students to learn. The terms that teachers use are:

Narrative- A poem that tells stories, it can be in rhyme or in free verse, however I have seen most people do it in rhyme

Lyrical- A peom that is in melody and focuses on description or observations...Most Children's poetry is written in this form

Free Verse- A nonrhyming poem, but usually rhymes although it is not always patterned

Limericks- A poem that has 5 lines that is thought to be Irish and the 5th line is usually a humorous concluding statement

Haiku- A Japanese ancient three line form poem where the 1st and 3rd lines have 5 syllables and the 2nd line has 7 syllables

Concrete- Written in the shape of the poem's subject

Acrostic- Form in which a word is written vertically, and each letter starts a line

Poetry Novels- Series of free verse that tell a continuous story

The one thing that I did not enjoy learning from the poetry notes that we went over in class was where it mentions to revise all ready written poetry... If students were to do this we as educators would not be doing our job and the students wouldn't be turning in their own work.