Poem Study.

WALT: Find out about famous poets.

I am studying about famous poet writers and William Shakespeare.

List 3 New Zealand poets

1. Arthur Henry Adams

2. Fleur Adcock

3. Rob Allen

List 3 famous poets around the world

1. Maya

Angelou

2. Emily

Dickinson

3. Shel

Silverstein

Who is William Shakespeare? William Shakespeare was an English poetry writer.

Where was he born? Stratford-upon-Avon United Kingdom

When was he born? 26th April 1564

When did he die?  23rd April 1616

What famous stories did he write? Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard III, The Winters Tale, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, Richard II, Measure for Measure, King Henry IV Part I, The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Troilus and Cressida, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Henry VI Part 2, Ciorolanus, The Merry Wife’s of Windsor, Pericles, Henry VIII, Cymbeline, Ages of Men, King Henry VI Part 3, King John, Dreams: (From Volumes 4, 8, 12 and 16 of the Collected Works of C.G Jung.), Timon and Athens, Henry IV Part 2, Henry VI Part I, The Phoenix and Turtle, Dreams and the Search for Meanings and King Edward III.

Read one of William Shakespeare’s poems and write what you think of it.

Are poems fun or boring to you? Fun

Why? Because they’re funny and when they rhyme.

What does the term rhyme mean? Two different words that sound the same.

What does the term rhythm mean? A strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound.

What does the term imagery mean? Visual images.

What is a haiku? A Chinese poem of seventeen syllables in three lines of five, seven and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.