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REVIEW
“LAY ME OUT”
Directions: Each group will be given two
minutes to rearrange the sentences within the
paragraph as a stanza to create a poem. You
may add words on your poem to make it
more pleasing. Each group must have one
representative to read their poem.
Hoping, as I always should
be. You're the risk I am
willing to take. The only
person I would love to wait.
Even if it results nothing.
Example:
You're the risk I am willing to take
The only person I would love to wait.
Hoping, as I always should be
Even if it results nothing.
Example:
You're the risk I am willing to take
The only person I would love to wait.
Hoping, as I always should be
Even if it results nothing.
I will never renounce,
Coz’ my love knows no bounds.
Example:
I will never renounce,
Coz’ my love knows no bounds.
For you're the risk I am willing to take
The only person I would love to wait.
Hoping, as I always should be
Even if it results nothing.
Example:
You’re the only person I would love to wait.
For you're the risk I am willing to take
I will never renounce,
Coz’ my love knows no bounds.
Hoping, as I always should be
Even if it results nothing.
Hoping, as I always should
be. You're the risk I am
willing to take. The only
person I would love to wait.
Even if it results nothing.
Hoping, as I always should be.
You're the risk I am willing to
take. The only person I would
love to wait. Even if it results
nothing.
Free Verse
Free Verse
Free verse is an open form of
poetry because it is free from
the limitations of a regular
meter or rhythm.
Free Verse
A free verse poem doesn't rely
on any form, meter, or rhyme
scheme, yet still conveys
powerful feelings and ideas.
Free Verse
Rather than letting a certain
structure define the poem, the
poet lets the poem structure
itself through the interplay of
language, sound, and literary
devices.
Characteristics of Free Verse:
Free verse poems have no
regular meter or rhythm.
Characteristics of Free
Verse:
Free verse poem do not
follow a proper rhyme
scheme.
Characteristics of Free
Verse:
Free verse poem do not have
any set of rules.
Additional Details about Free
Verse:
It is also called vers libre,
which is a French word
meaning “free verse”.
Additional Details about Free
Verse:
Walt Whitman pioneered the
free verse movement in the
1800s and is even referred to
today as the “father of free
verse”.
Additional Details about Free
Verse:
The opposite of free verse is
formal verse, or poetry that
uses both a strict meter and
rhyme scheme.
Additional Details about Free
Verse:
Most poets nowadays are
writing in free verse.
Not only do poets writing in free verse
have the freedom to write unrhymed
lines of any length, but they also often
use enjambment in unconventional
ways, inserting line breaks in the
middle of sentences and even in the
middle of words.
A Noiseless Patient Spider
by Walt Whitman
“A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space…
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.”
A Noiseless Patient Spider
by Walt Whitman
“A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space…
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.”
A Noiseless Patient Spider
by Walt Whitman
“A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space…
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.”
Amoretti XXX: My Love is like to ice, and I to fire
BY EDMUND SPENSER
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice,
And ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.
Amoretti XXX: My Love is like to ice, and I to fire
BY EDMUND SPENSER
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice,
And ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.
Amoretti XXX: My Love is like to ice, and I to fire
BY EDMUND SPENSER
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice,
And ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.
Amoretti XXX: My Love is like to ice, and I to fire
BY EDMUND SPENSER
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: A
How comes it then that this her cold so great B
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, A
But harder grows the more I her entreat? B
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat B
Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold, C
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat, B
And feel my flames augmented manifold? C
What more miraculous thing may be told, C
That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice, D
And ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold, C
Should kindle fire by wonderful device? D
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, E
That it can alter all the course of kind. E
Creating a Free Verse Poem
Directions:
Collaborate with your group and create a
free verse poem. Each group will be
assigned a different topic and will be
given seven minutes before presenting
their free verse poem.
Creating a Free Verse Poem
Topics
Topics
Group 1
Love
Topics
Group 1 Group 2
Love Happiness
Topics
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Love Happiness Hope
Topics
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Love Happiness Hope
Group 4
Dreams
Topics
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Love Happiness Hope
Group 4 Group 5
Dreams Fear
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Love Happiness Hope
Group 4 Group 5
Dreams Fear
Why do most poets
today write in free
verse?
Thanks you
for
listening!
