POETRY
Have a look at the following poems.
One of them is a shape poem, one is a narrative poem and one is a haiku poem.
Can you decide which is which?
TASK:
Firstly, choose one of the poems and explain whether it is a narrative,
shape or haiku poem. Give
reasons for your answers.
Next, describe any poetic techniques you have found in the poem. (Rhyme,
repetition, rhythm, descriptive language, simile, metaphor, personification,
onomatopoeia, alliteration).
Then, find another example of a narrative, shape or haiku poem, copy it
or print it and bring it to school.
1)
2)
Beaches by Kaitlyn
Guenther
Sand scatters the beach
Waves crash on the sandy shore
Blue water shimmers
3) The Broken-Legg’d
Man by John Mackey Shaw
I saw the other day when I
went shopping in the store
A man I hadn't ever, ever
seen in there before,
A man whose leg was broken
and who leaned upon a crutch-
I asked him very kindly if
it hurt him very much.
"Not at all!"
said the broken-legg'd man.
I ran around behind him for
I thought that I would see
The broken leg all bandaged
up and bent back at the knee;
But I didn't see the leg at
all, there wasn't any there,
So I asked him very kindly
if he had it hid somewhere.
"Not at all!"
said the broken-legg'd man.
"Then where," I
asked him, "is it? Did a tiger bite it off?
Or did you get your foot
wet when you had a nasty cough?
Did someone jump down on
your leg when it was very new?
Or did you simply cut it
off because you wanted to?"
"Not at all!"
said the broken-legg'd man.
"What was it
then?" I asked him, and this is what he said:
"I crossed a busy
crossing when the traffic light was red;
A big red car came whizzing
by and knocked me off my feet."
"Of course you looked
both ways," I said, "before you crossed the street."
"Not at all!"
said the broken-legg'd man.
"They rushed me to the
hospital right quickly," he went on,
"And when I woke in
nice clean sheets I saw my leg was gone;
That's why you see me
walking now on nothing but a crutch."
"I'm glad," said
I, "you told me, and I thank you very much!"
"Not at all!"
said the broken-legg'd man.
