Poetry Ideas

Alliteration
alliteration -- tongue twisters, then poetry, then prose
Game:  Alliteration -- dice -- ____ alliterative words starting with _____

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Assonance: 

http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/assonance.htm

• "It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!"
  (advertising slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners, 1950s)

• "If I bleat when I speak it's because I just got . . . fleeced."
  (Al Swearengen in Deadwood, 2004)

"Soft language issued from their spitless lips as they swished in low circles round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds, dragging their long tails amid the rattling canisters."
(James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 

• "The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent and ragged, their legs drying in knots."
  (Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm, 1977)

• "Do not go gentle into that good night,
  Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
  Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. . . .
  
  "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
  Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
  Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
  (Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night")

• "Strips of tinfoil winking like people"
  (Sylvia Plath, "The Bee Meeting")

• "Assonance, (or medial rime) is the agreement in the vowel sounds of two or more words, when the consonant sounds preceding and following these vowels do not agree. Thus, strike and grind, hat and man, 'rime' with each other according to the laws of assonance."
  (J.W. Bright, Elements of English Versification, 1910)

• "Rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance combined often produce tongue-twisting linguistics. Big Punisher's 'Twinz' includes this couplet . . .: 'Dead in the middle of little Italy / Little did we know that we riddled a middle man who didn't know diddly.' . . . Keying in on a single sound, he runs a staggering series of rhyme variations ('middle,' 'little,' 'riddled,' 'middle,' 'diddly'), which he further builds upon with consonance (d) and assonance (i) and alliteration (dand l). This is what happens when a poet is in complete control of his rhymes."
  (Adam Bradley, Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop. BasicCivitas, 2009)
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Haiku
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/03/143053082/haiku-traffic-signs-bring-poetry-to-nyc-streets?sc=fb&cc=fp

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top_teaching/2011/04/poetry-in-140-characters

Deseret News (Feb/March) and KUER sponsor haiku contests

Haiku
13:01  Tales of Ba Sing Se   iTunes

Metaphor
metaphor:  What is Grass?  Whitman

Odes

 http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top_teaching/2011/04/explore-poetry-that-turns-the-ordinary-into-extraordinary-write-an-ode#tp

Prompts

http://piclits.com/compose_freestyle.aspx?PoemTemplateId=541

Publishing

Voice Thread

http://piclits.com/compose_freestyle.aspx?PoemTemplateId=541 

Rhyme
Princess Bride -- rhyming

Slam
Kaylee -- poem (slam)
Poetry slam examples:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfTa4B7wQ_8&feature=player_embedded#at=84

and another:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKyIw9fs8T4&feature=share

Soliloquy
Mock to be or not to be
Thanks, Hayley:
Not all are usable.
http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/engramja/hamlet/examples_of_hamlet_soliloquy.htm 

Titles
Casey at the Bat
The Highwayman
The Willow and the Gingo
Hope is a Thing with Feathers
Love and Friendship   -- comparison, imagery,  symbolism
Refrain:  Night funeral in harlem -- Langston Hughes
We Real Cool -- for Outsiders

Way easy, but good practice:  http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/poetry_engine.htm#

"Valentine for Ernest Mann" by Naomi Shihab Nye

http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/BaliEng240/archives/2007/10/valentine_for_e.html

Chocolate Kisses and origami boxes
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/week-one-selling-value-literacy-judy-jester