Poem Response Choices

What is a Found Poem, a Blackout Poem, a Free Verse Poem, and an

Acrostic Poem?

Poetic Form - The Found Poem

• A found poem uses language discovered in a non-poetic context and turns it into poetry.

• Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems.

• The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems.

What are Blackout Poems? A type of Found Poetry

How can I create a FOUND poem?• Choose text directly from either a literary work or

another genre. Create a poem from the text. For example, the death scene in Romeo and Juliet could be condensed to something like:

A perfect plot, Not perfectly executed,

Fooled the lovesick Romeo, Poison to ease his pain,

Caused hers. No gain.

A Tale of Woe.

Free Verse Poetry

Free verse is one of the simplest, and yet most difficult, type of poetry to write.

While it doesn’t constrict the poet with rules about form, it requires him or her to work hard at creating a piece that is beautiful and meaningful without any specific guidelines about rhyme and meter.

Free Verse Poetry

Carefully chosen words can help you create a poem that sounds like the situation, emotion, or object you are trying to portray.

For instance, short words with sharp consonants cause the reader to stop-and- go in a choppy cadence: Cut, bash, stop, kick, lick, bite, punch, jump, stick.

Free Verse Example:

Thrill Ride

Up. Up.Click, click.Wind blowssharp in my ears.My heart jumps. Skips.It’s up. It’s up higher.It’s up, up the highest.Hands grasp at the clouds.Then a forever pause. Still. Waiting.Finally. Whoosh!Steep dropdown,down,down.

Acrostic Poetry

Blackout Poetry – Credit to:Austin Kleon 2/6/2009http://www.slideshare.net/austinkleon/novel-blackout-poems