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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Noise & Image Poems

This week we learned that the poet William Carlos Williams was also a doctor! We also learned that poets use something called repetition in poems to help them create an image. We read the poem Winter by William Carlos Williams and were able to pick out images and detail.

After our writing today we had a really quick review of terms and concepts we've covered the past five weeks and realized that we're all really getting the hang of metaphors, smilies, free verse, rhyming and some special tricks like paranthesis that poets use in poems!

Today we also concentrated on the shape of our poems. As you can see from our examples, we know it's ok to write poems without making a complete sentence and some of our lines only have one or two words!

Here are some of the Noise Image poems we wrote! Enjoy!



Banging by Megan R.

im banging my head
like a clown im
banging my bike to
a pole like a
crazy person
im banging banging banging
all day long like
a ox.

Crashing by Gabriel G.

I was neaigating
In the rain then hit a
sudden reef when none expected
the boat ran in to us crashing
crashing crashing down into the sea.

boats crashing into each other.

Slamming by Joe G.

a skateboard slamming
on the ground with one ollie.
slamming the
rail well
doing a
5-0
a body
falling
falling
on the ground.

Noise Image Poem by Sebastion O.

Bang a desk
Bang a drum
Bang your lap
Bang a book
Bang a chair

Making noises.
Listening to the
bang.

Zapping by Ahmad I.

Zap zap zap zap goes the clap
Zap zap zap zap goes the map
Snap snap snap snap goes the zap
Yipi Mississippi flipi weres Micki zap
clap flap map they all go zap zap
clackety goes my snappy

The Cereal Box by Odysseus M.

Snap, Crackle, Pop rice crispies.
one snaps,
one crackle
and one Pops.

Why can’t I hear the cereal box?

Stomping Maddness by Velko I.

The kid is
stomping
stomping
stomping
on that ant
with a HEAVY hammer

Clums Pup by Deanne A.

My puppy bumping into the railing stairs
making a swoshing sound like
the wind barking.

The Horrible Crash by Charles M.

My brother
fell
fell
off
the
huge
queen
sized
bed the sound is a thud
like
a bowling ball.

Noise Image Poem by Jihad I.

The bird is falling
falling
falling
mama bird
flew up up up
to it’s nest.

Noise Image Poem by Tracy L.

it’s fourth of July
horray
horray
horray
it’s night time
boom
boom
boom
goes
the
firework
ow
ow
ow
i burned
myself

My plane ride by Ben G.

When I returned on a plane
I came
down
down
down
on the landing road


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