Please read these poems for Tuesday!

"American Hero" Essex Hemphill
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" William Wordsworth
"Fire and Ice" Robert Frost
"Hope is a Thing with Wings" Emily Dickinson

Thank you!

Post your Emotions Poem Here

Please post your "_____ is" poems here to share with the class.

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Good Day, Students! I hope that the freezing weather isn't keeping you from exercising your brain muscles. In class, we wrote about images, music, taste, and emotions- all experiences that are prevalent in a poem. A lot of the time, good poems make us feel, hear, smell, or see whatever the author is writing about. We did it backwards today by responding to a sensory stimulus, instead of making sure that we were writing to evoke a sense from our readers. Please discuss your understanding of the importance of using the senses in poetry, using the questions below if you get stuck.

• Why does it matter that authors let us experience scenes like the humming of an engine or the slippery silk of a ballgown?
• What builds strong imagery?
• Do you think that poems are written in response to events in an author's life? Why?
• Which phrase sounds better- and why?
• and then the fish jumped out of the water.
• and then the scaled water-beast broke through the still surface of the pond.

Please refer to the following rules before completing your first post and responses:

• No name calling
• Be inquisitive, not contrary
• Do not use profanity or anything else in your writing you don't want the principal to read
• Please keep initial posts to 100-250 words, and responses to 50-100 words.