Wednesday, January 9 ~ What is poetry?

EQ: What is poetry?

WARM UP:
There, Their, They're

TODAY:

Agree/Disagree

1. Poetry must rhyme to be good.
2. Poetry is for expressing emotions.
3. Poetry makes you sound "deep."
4. Music lyrics classify as poetry.
5. A poem always has a hidden meaning. 
6. Poetry can be more powerful than a conversation.
7. Society needs poets and poetry.
8. Poetry helps shape our values.

Here are a couple of my favorites:

A Loaf of Poetry   

by Naoshi Koriyama

you mix
the dough
of experience
with
the yeast
of inspiration
and knead it well
with love
and pound it
with all your might
and then
leave it
until
it puffs out big
with its own inner force
and then
knead it again
and
shape it
into a round form
and bake it
in the oven
of your heart

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Mother to Son by Langston Hughes (Watch MLK read it here.)

Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So, boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps.
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now—
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

J2: What are your feelings on poetry? What do you like? What do you loathe? Do you have a favorite poet? Favorite poem? If so, share it with me. Have you written your own poetry? If so, share it with me.

HOMEWORK: NO!