Unit 8 Lesson 6 Writing Poetry Portfolio Instructions: Write two poems using different forms. They can be from your own point of view about something you feel strongly about or from someone else's perspective.

Question

1. Pick two different types of poems to write.

2. After you write your poems, label each poem with the form. Example:
Poem #1 Haiku
Poem #2 Ode

3. Upload your two poems on slide 13.

+++Click the links below for explanations and examples of each.

Free verse
Lyric
Limerick

Haiku
Acrostic

Ode
Cinquain

Free Verse - a form of poetry without rhyme or regular meter

The Street
By Octavio Paz

Here is a long and silent street.
I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall
and rise, and I walk blind, my feet
trampling the silent stones and the dry leaves.
Someone behind me also tramples, stones, leaves:
if I slow down, he slows;
if I run, he runs
I turn :
nobody.

Everything dark and doorless,
only my steps aware of me,
I turning and turning among these corners
which lead forever to the street
where nobody waits for, nobody follows me,
where I pursue a man who stumbles
and rises and says when he sees me:
nobody.
Lyric - a type of poem that expresses the speakers’ feelings and has rhythmic, musical qualities

“Hope” is the thing with feathers
BY EMILY DICKINSON

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

Answer 1

Here are two poems in different forms, complete with their labels:

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Poem #1: Haiku

Whispers of the night,
Stars flicker like distant dreams,
Moonlight holds my thoughts.

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Poem #2: Ode

To the Ocean

O mighty Ocean, deep and vast,
Your waves embrace the shore, relentless,
In your depths, secrets of the past,
You sing a song, both wild and senseless.

Your tides dance with the pull of the moon,
A rhythmic lullaby, soothing and clear,
From dawn's first light to the softening tune,
You inspire both wonder and fear.

In storms, you roar with untamed delight,
Yet in calm, you mirror the sky's face,
O Ocean, keeper of day and night,
In your embrace, I find my place.

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Feel free to adjust any details or themes as you see fit for your portfolio!