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NEW POETRY CLUB
NEW POETRY CLUB 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, so this is the second poetry club I've created. The last poetry club got through three poems before it died...but it had an AMAZING discussion, especially on the poem "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe. If you want to join the poetry club, first please find time to read the discussion for that poem, found on pages four through six. It really was an amazing, deep discussion. Here is the link: http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/176516?page=3
NOTE: It is never too late to join. Anyone can drop in at any time.
Anyway, let's get started! Here is how it will work, for now.
In a nutshell: we choose a poet and one of their poems, discuss it, then at some point, once we've had a good discussion, a prompt will be given and we will write our own poems based on the prompt, which will relate to the poem. Or it may simply say, "Write a poem inspired by this one." Then, once we've done all that, we move on to a new poem.
First, we vote on a poet. You can start listing ideas for nominations. At some point, I'll lsit all the nominees, we vote, majority wins.
Whichever poet we choose, we will start out with one of their poems. if you don't mind, I would like to post the first poem. After that, whoever wants to post the poem can do so.
Once the poem is posted, a schedule will be made, resembling something like this:
1. Share the poem. (READ)
2. Vocab Person, define words. (DEFINE)
3. Discuss the poem, its meaning, its feeling, how we would have changed it, whatever you want to discuss about it! (DISCUSS)
4. Prompts are given, we discuss it and write our own poems. (WRITE)
5. Discuss each other's poems, compare it, etc. (WRITE)
If you're wondering what Vocab Person is, that's if one of you would like to volunteer for listing any possibly unknown words (not necessarily words you don't know, but words somebody else might not know) and their definition. That would help to understand the poem.
So, please join! Even if you won't be able to be extremely devoted to it...the more people the better!
-Owlgirl
submitted by Owlgirl
(April 14, 2016 - 7:39 pm)
(April 14, 2016 - 7:39 pm)
I only knew about the Shakespeare day thing cuz of the Google Doodle...it's funny how much stuff you become aware of because of Google Doodles.
(April 23, 2016 - 4:02 pm)
You said we could pose questions to everyone, right? Here's my question:
Oliver lists a lot of adjectives we shouldn't think of the world as: adorable, useful, explanation, education. What are some adjectives you would use to describe the world, then? Besides any she's already said.
I would say: natural, wild, truth.
Natural and wild cause of what Oliver said about it being frisky, and what Owlgirl said about it existing for only itself.
Truth because it doesn't try to deceive you, trick you, impress you, be anything for you. Wow, somehow this is going into what Owlgirl said about it existing for itself. Again. Owlgirl, I think you managed to find the heart of this poem. Everything I think leads back to your conclusion.
(April 24, 2016 - 12:10 pm)
(April 24, 2016 - 12:16 pm)
No, SmolBean, that does actually make sense.
(April 25, 2016 - 4:09 pm)
About the blue rain part, I think that it's emphasizing the point of the beauty of the thunderstorm. The lightning has beauty when it lights up the tree. The rain has beauty, and it is also important to the tree.
(April 25, 2016 - 4:12 pm)
(April 25, 2016 - 4:12 pm)
(April 25, 2016 - 4:12 pm)
I think of the earth as:
Colorful, fresh, regenerating, a new birth, sometimes harsh, forceful, Call of the Wild-y, overall a force of earth co-exsisting with a force of life.
(April 25, 2016 - 4:48 pm)
I would describe it as: remarkable, reviving, harsh reality, truth (like Hermi said), interdependence, Colors of the Wind-y, unpredictable, constantly changing.
(April 25, 2016 - 6:58 pm)
(April 25, 2016 - 5:41 pm)
You guys are so good at this!
(April 26, 2016 - 6:34 am)
I would say the world is petrichor. I just learned that word today, and I am happy I can use it and sound smart.
Petrichor is the earthy smell after rain.
(April 26, 2016 - 12:25 pm)
Sorry 4 not posting. I 4got about this thread.
What this poem means to me is you shouldn't consider the world all serious like, with facts and figures and and education and lists of its uses. You should just enjoy it and accept it at least if you have the time. Esepcially 4 us, since we're only kids.
I think the verse is all about being a neutral force, with the lighting having both good and bad things. Well more like positive and negative. Negative=the fact that it is lightning and strikes stuff, which is obviously destructive. Positive=How beautiful it makes the tree look when it is all lit up.
I really like the descritption and imagery. Can we talk about that too? Especially the first part of the second verse, with the blue rain (imagery, and a little exaggeration cuz the rain isn't really blue) and the white feet of the trees (imagery and personification. Feet=roots)
Yall are going really deep with your interpretations. I loved all of it, but I will just say a little of what I liked. I liked or agreed with what Rose bud said about it being lots of questions and that Oliver gives her view of the world and asks for the reader's view at the same tiime. Owlgirl said the second one too.
What Smolbean said about it being a dance.
What Owlgirl said about the world existing for itself.
What Hermi said about it being wild and free.
What Owlgirl said when she compared that one line to All the World's A Stage.
What Smolbean said about the trees being hungry for water. (I didn't get that part at first either.)
What Rose bud said about it being Call of the Wild-y.
What Hermi said about it being truth.
(April 26, 2016 - 5:01 pm)
Hey Hootsie? Do you also answer to Hoot-toot-riot and The Evil Villianess Hootie-Tootie? I have I friend with a nickname very similar to yours who also loves and writes poetry. If you aren't her, please don't be offended, I'm not calling you a 'Villianess'!
(April 26, 2016 - 7:31 pm)
No, sorry I am not the Hootsie you are referring to. I don't know what you mean with the "hoot toot riot." Sorry!
(April 26, 2016 - 8:31 pm)