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What do you want to know about poetry?
 * why people write poetry
 * the different ways poetry can be organized
 * different styles
 * where do the ideas for poetry come from
 * where did poetry originate

Day 2 How do authors write the beginning of this genre? Why do you think?
 * Matt-intro to explain why those particular poems were collected
 * Katy-basic facts about protagonist, exposition to story
 * Isabel-organized chronologically to author's life, most logical way to organize
 * Poetry can be organized into several different ways: author, genre of poem and "short-story." Each type is organized differently according to the content of the poems.

Find 2 master techniques in common in all of your works. Give examples. Why would all authors use these? Answer something you wanted to know
 * Grammar
 * ex. Matt-every word lowercase (shows age), no punctuation/grammar according to line-break (shows continuation of thought)
 * Imagery
 * ex. descriptions of characters, looks, thoughts, places, describes mood for places, feelings (words help you imagine what they feel)
 * Since its not prose, poets need to show emphasis on certain points, or what is a continuation of certain thoughts, describes who narrator is
 * Why do people write poetry?
 * authors are often lonely or sad and find happiness and comfort in writing-immediate way of expressing yourself, more general way of expression
 * passionate feelings
 * authors want others to understand how they view the world, poetry is the best way because it is very symbolic and you can understand how they see it and then come to different realizations of your own life.

How does the middle of this genre work?
 * The middle is basically the same, continues the same theme
 * same storyline

Answer something you all want to know.
 * where do ideas for poetry come from?
 * 1) take ideas from personal life, write about it in a unique world so that other people can also see
 * 2) from people's own life, their own life experiences and what's going on in their life. They sort of add that into their poems
 * Best way to end a poetry book that is based around themes
 * 1) Choose one very powerful, over arching theme and end it with one or two very powerful poems

Research something about your genre. [|for more info click here] What master techniques are becoming most important? why?
 * poetry from Greek word, "poasis" means making or creating
 * the oldest poem is the epic of Gilgamesh, written around 3000 B.C in Mesopotamia
 * Aristotle described the three genres of poetry
 * epic
 * comic
 * and tragic
 * Imagery, he wants to paint pictures in his readers minds, where his ideas come from. He wants to make people see what he sees.
 * The master techniques of simile, metaphor, and extended metaphor also link the poems to the imagery that is being created

sure, why not?
 * Are we ready for test writing?**

1. How do authors end this genre? 2. Research 3. What are the most important master techniques in this genre? 4. What are the key differences in this genre?
 * Isabel - death of the author (collection of poems)
 * Matt- using a small, powerful poem(s)
 * Katy- end it with a conclusion to that person's life
 * American poetry originated as a way for colonists to make their voices heard and added to literature
 * the colonists would write poems about the new world
 * an example of a poem is "the tenth muse" by: Anne Dudly Bradstreet
 * imagery
 * simile
 * metaphor
 * line break
 * length
 * how it's organized
 * different styles - examples: free verse, pantoums, etc.