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Poetry Search With guided Questions:

Read through your anthology with a partner and find 2-3 poems. Once you select your poems discuss the following questions (and write your answers in your journal):

• Is there such a thing as a bad poem?
  
• No. Because poem is an expression of what the author thinks and if the reader doesn’t like it….so what? “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
• No. Because “one person’s trash is another’s treasure.”
  
• Yes, because you can have cheesy rhymes or something like that or the poem may not make sense.

• How much is to much or how do you know if you are writing to much?
• When the writing starts to ramble.
• When you leave nothing for the reader to think about.
• When it starts sounding like a short story. To many details.

• What is left out of a poem that makes it better?
  
  
• To much detail.
• Can a poem transform the “rules” of writing?
  
  
• They may use incomplete sentences.
• Some have very long sentences.

• What classifies a poem?
• Stanzas.
• Rhyme
• Length
• Line breaks

• What makes these samples poems?
  
  
• Rhyme
• Stanzas
• Line breaks
• Authors
• Length
• Words
• Letters
• Details
• Punctuations
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• Do they all have a certain structure? Can you figure out what it is?
  
  Why write poems? Why do you think this author wrote this poem?