Setting The Stage
Learning poetry's special characteristics can help students understand, appreciate, and compose poetry. One defining characteristic of poetry is the use of line breaks to create rhythm and rhyme, suggest meaning, and produce a particular appearance.
Line breaks can be a source of dynamism, providing a method by which poetic forms imbue their contents with intensities and corollary meanings that would not have been possible to the same degree in other forms of text.
e.e. cummings' line breaks are used in a poetic form that is intended to be appreciated through a visual, printed medium. William Carlos Williams was also a master of the line - his verses are often comprised of short lines that could have been written as one line.
Response Stance
Students discuss the line breaks - Why are they where they are? How do the line breaks affect a poem's sound, meaning, and appearance?
Invite studentst to discuss what would make a poet deliberately choose when to break a line.
Invite students to experiment with line breaks and how they affect rhythm, sound, meaning, appearance, and can substitute for punctuation in poetry. Explore ReadWriteThink's Line Break Explorer interactive where they can move words around and manipulate line breaks in a poem online.
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Julia G
ReplyDeletei love to line break it so fun!!
line break is inportant because it makes more people like the words and want to read it all the time! its more funner when you read it!
Hi my name is Alexa s
ReplyDeleteI thinl line break is fun
Hi my name is Jordan E I think line bracks are fun to read and to switch around I think that is cool.
ReplyDeleteStephen.w I think line break is very cool.It is fun to move the words.
ReplyDeleteEmma D.
ReplyDeleteI think line break is important because
its fun to move around.
Sumreen M
ReplyDeleteI think poets use line breaks because its fun to read.
morgan.m
ReplyDeleteline break is so cool.because it is a pome and then you mess it up.
Madison R
ReplyDeleteline braker it's really cool it's fun because you get to mess up the words. And you get to do other things to and the bubble poem, was really cool because there was like bubbles all over the pe poem place and the poem was in a bubble.
Natasha s, I guess they do cut up sentences because its really easy and so you do not miss not one thing,
ReplyDeleteisabella c
ReplyDeletei like line brake is fun to do and it is fun to write.
Well i think that there trying to tell us something but in different words on the paper because there poet's.I think that there trying to show there emotions by the paper so you will under stand.
ReplyDeletehello my name is zack.b I like the poem the walrus and the carpenter it has good rymeing it is like a story and i think the poet lewis Carroll is telling us that dont chust strangers. bye
ReplyDeleteTHe poem about the test was written the way you may talk if you were really nervous. Line breaks were used to cause
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