Monday, November 3, 2008

7th Grade "Hope" poems

For Friday, 11/7, complete the first drafts of your "Hope" poems. These poems, inspired by Dickinson's "Hope is the Thing With Feathers," needs to present a metaphor in its opening line that will continue throughout the poem. In the Dickinson poem she likens hope to a bird and then uses the rest of the poem to explain the different ways hope is like a bird.

Your poem needs to begin with the line, "Hope is a ________________." Also, think about Dickinson's use of meter and rhyme scheme. There is a clear rhythm to her poem, almost a singsong quality. See if you can capture that as well.

Draft due Friday, 11/7

2 comments:

J dog said...

tom, are you going to post the blog question for wednesday??

MaiteCaballero said...

Tom, ill e-mail you mine ummm so u can see it befor friday, and tell me revisions