Poem Response Choices

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Poem Response Choices

• What is a Found Poem, a Blackout Poem, a Free
  Verse Poem, and an Acrostic Poem?

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Poetic Form - The Found Poem

• A found poem uses language discovered in a
  non-poetic context and turns it into poetry.
• Found poems take existing texts and refashion
  them, reorder them, and present them as poems.
• The literary equivalent of a collage, found
  poetry is often made from newspaper articles,
  street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or
  even other poems.

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What are Blackout Poems? A type of Found Poetry
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How can I create a FOUND poem?

• Choose text directly from either a literary work
  or another genre. Create a poem from the text.
  For example, the death scene in Romeo and Juliet
  could be condensed to something like
• A perfect plot, Not perfectly executed, Fooled
  the lovesick Romeo, Poison to ease his pain,
  Caused hers. No gain. A Tale of Woe.

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Free Verse Poetry

• Free verse is one of the simplest, and yet most
  difficult, type of poetry to write.
• While it doesnt constrict the poet with rules
  about form, it requires him or her to work hard
  at creating a piece that is beautiful and
  meaningful without any specific guidelines about
  rhyme and meter.

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Free Verse Poetry

• Carefully chosen words can help you create a poem
  that sounds like the situation, emotion, or
  object you are trying to portray.
• For instance, short words with sharp consonants
  cause the reader to stop-and- go in a choppy
  cadence Cut, bash, stop, kick, lick, bite,
  punch, jump, stick.

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• Free Verse Example
• Thrill Ride
• Up. Up.Click, click.Wind blowssharp in my
  ears.My heart jumps. Skips.Its up. Its up
  higher.
• Its up, up the highest.Hands grasp at the
  clouds.
• Then a forever pause. Still. Waiting.
• Finally. Whoosh!Steep dropdown,down,down.

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Acrostic Poetry
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• Blackout Poetry Credit to
• Austin Kleon 2/6/2009
• http//www.slideshare.net/austinkleon/novel-blacko
  ut-poems