Poetry

A Portable Paradise

And if I speak of Paradise,
then I’m speaking of my grandmother
who told me to carry it always
on my person, concealed, so
no one else would know but me.
That way they can’t steal it, she’d say.
And if life puts you under pressure,
trace its ridges in your pocket,
smell its piney scent on your handkerchief,
hum its anthem under your breath.
And if your stresses are sustained and daily,
get yourself to an empty room – be it hotel,
hostel or hovel – find a lamp
and empty your paradise onto a desk:
your white sands, green hills and fresh fish.
Shine the lamp on it like the fresh hope
of morning, and keep staring at it till you sleep.

© Roger Robinson, from A Portable Paradise 
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A Portable Paradise

And if I speak of Paradise,
then I’m speaking of my grandmother
who told me to carry it always
on my person, concealed, so
no one else would know but me.
That way they can’t steal it, she’d say.
And if life puts you under pressure,
trace its ridges in your pocket,
smell its piney scent on your handkerchief,
hum its anthem under your breath.
And if your stresses are sustained and daily,
get yourself to an empty room – be it hotel,
hostel or hovel – find a lamp
and empty your paradise onto a desk:
your white sands, green hills and fresh fish.
Shine the lamp on it like the fresh hope
of morning, and keep staring at it till you sleep.

© Roger Robinson, from A Portable Paradise 

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Today's plan
Feedback
  • Reading HAVO exam
  • Art and Philosophy

Test Thursday 20 March
  • Work on your poetry folder: finish your Protest Poem
  • The quality of your folder is part of your grade.


  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration
  • Hyperbole
  • Personification
  • Understatement

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Today's plan
Feedback
  • Reading HAVO exam
  • Art and Philosophy

Test Friday 21 March
  • Work on your poetry folder: finish your Protest Poem
  • The quality of your folder is part of your grade.


  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration
  • Hyperbole
  • Personification
  • Understatement

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Poetry analysis and writing
  • In the next few classes you will work on your poetry file.
  • You will analyse various types of poetry and literary terms, and try your hand at writing your own.
  • After each class you will hand in your work with your teacher.
  • For your test you will be asked to write a collection of poems using the given forms and literary terms.

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Assemble three poems
1. Collect the lines around the school.
2. Solve the rebus.
3. Put the words in the right order. 

Pay attention to the layout of the poems as well.

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Line search
  1. On the first, second and third floor there are poetry lines on coloured paper. There are 9 lines including the title. Try to find them all.  
  2. When you come back to class try to put the lines in the order you think is the most logical.  
  3. Remember most poems have a rhyming scheme. 
  4. You will probably recognise the theme of the poem! 

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Today's plan
1st hour
practise reading exam

2nd hour
Work on your poetry folder (2)

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Haiku


An old silent pond . . .
A frogjumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.

- Matsuo Bashō




love between us is
speech and breath. loving you is
a long river running.

- Sonia Sanchez

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Second hour
Work on your poetry folder (2)



  1. Learn about literary terms (last page)
  2. Create four haiku applying a literary term in each poem.
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration
  • Hyperbole
  • Personification
  • Understatement

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Haiku
  • short poem about an experienced moment
  • 5-7-5 structure
  • unrhymed

  • seasonal/nature references (kigo)
  • cutting words (kireji)
  • concrete imagery

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Today's plan
Work on your poetry folder (2)

Create:
  • form poem
  • include a literary term
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration
  • Hyperbole
  • Personification
  • Understatement

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A Portable Paradise

And if I speak of Paradise,
then I’m speaking of my grandmother
who told me to carry it always
on my person, concealed, so
no one else would know but me.
That way they can’t steal it, she’d say.
And if life puts you under pressure,
trace its ridges in your pocket,
smell its piney scent on your handkerchief,
hum its anthem under your breath.
And if your stresses are sustained and daily,
get yourself to an empty room – be it hotel,
hostel or hovel – find a lamp
and empty your paradise onto a desk:
your white sands, green hills and fresh fish.
Shine the lamp on it like the fresh hope
of morning, and keep staring at it till you sleep.

© Roger Robinson, from A Portable Paradise 

1. The poem objectifies paradise so that it can become something, as the title says, ‘portable’ – able to be carried around. What is the connotation of this?

2. The poem embeds the speech of the grandmother within the speech of the narrator. Why do you think Robinson has chosen to construct the poem like this?

3. Robinson has chosen to include all types of imagery – smell, taste, touch, sound, and sight – in this poem. Can you find an example of each and explain what feelings it evokes?

4. Robinson is a Black British poet, writer, and performer. Who might be the ‘they’ referred to in line 6 that might want to ‘steal’ paradise? What does it mean to ‘steal’ paradise? What does it allude to in a historical or cultural sense?

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Today's plan
Work on your poetry folder (2)


Analyse and write:
  • protest poem
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration
  • Hyperbole
  • Personification
  • Understatement

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Revolution will not be televised
1. When do you think this poem was written? 

2. Did you “get” the poem? Is it still possible to understand and appreciate the poem without understanding all of the words?

3. Focus on what Heron repeats and what is the meaning of the last sentence. Explain what you think the title of the song means. 

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Revolution will not be televised

  • How is Kendrick Lamar's performance connected to the poem by Gil Scott Heron? What evidence do you see?

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Poetry File
  • 2 sonnets
  • 4 haikus
  • 1 carpe diem
  • 2 name Poems
  • 1 shape poem
  • 2 limericks
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration
  • Hyperbole
  • Personification
  • Understatement

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Autonomy now proposal in Word
 1. Write down what the topic is and what important knowledge and/or skills you would gain when you do your assignment. 
2. Describe how you’re going to do the assignment step by step. You have four classes. Think of what you’re going to do each class.
3. Include which research in English language sources you will use.
4. Clearly describe what the final product will be. Will you make a short film, do a presentation, sound file, or will it be in writing? Write down how many words or how much time you intend to use. You can only work on this in class. How will you prevent the use of ChatGPT? Write on paper in class?





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Shape/Concrete Poem
conventional elements of a poem?
  • meaning of words, rhyme, rhythm, etc.

shape poem
  • typographical arrangement of words


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Poetry File
  • 3 assembled poems
  • 1 blackout poem
  • 4 haikus
  • 1 form poem
  • 1 sonnet
  • 1 protest poem
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration
  • Hyperbole
  • Personification
  • Understatement

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Sonnet
  • Shakespearean (English)
  • Petrarchan (Italian)

Characteristics:
  • 14 lines
  • iambic pentameter
  • strict rhyme scheme

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  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration
  • Hyperbole
  • Personification
  • Understatement

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Carpe Diem
carpe diem quam minimum credula postero (Odes of Horace (Book 1, No. 11)
  • seize the day and put no trust in the future

no specific form, but a topic
related to memento mori

Assignment
Write a carpe diem with at least 8 lines.







Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And the same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.

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Poetry File
  • 2 sonnets
  • 4 haikus
  • 1 carpe diem
  • 1 shape poem
  • 2 limericks
  • 2 name poems
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration
  • Hyperbole
  • Personification
  • Understatement

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Limerick
Characteristics:
  • 5 lines
  • rhyme scheme AABBA
  • line 1, 2, 5 have three anapests - da dum da da dum da da dum
  • line 3 and 4 have two anapests - da dum da da dum
 

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There was an young man of Darjeeling
Endowed with such delicate feeling.
When he read on the door
"Do not spit on the floor",
He jumped up and then spat on the ceiling!

It's been told an old man had sent emails,
To some various dubious females,
He was asked what they said,
But he just shook his head.
I would rather not go into details.

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Name poem
- 2 kinds of name poetry


Line 1 - your first name
Line 2 - "It means" then 3 adjectives that describe you
Line 3 - "It is the number" then any number you choose
Line 4 - "It is like" describe a color but don't name it
Line 5 - "It is " and name something you remember experiencing with family or friends that makes you smile to recall
Line 6 - "It is the memory of" and name a person who is or has been significant to you
Line 7 - "Who taught me" 2 abstract concepts (such as "honesty")
Line 8 - "When he/she" then refer to something that person did that displayed the qualities in line 7
Line 9 - "My name is" your first name
Line 10 - "It means" and in 1-2 brief sentences state something important you believe about life.

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Name poem
acrostic
Give me your patience, sister, while I frame
Exact in capitals your golden name;
Or sue the fair Apollo and he will
Rouse from his heavy slumber and instill
Great love in me for thee and Poesy.
Imagine not that greatest mastery
And kingdom over all the Realms of verse,
Nears more to heaven in aught, than when we nurse
And surety give to love and Brotherhood.

- first stanza, John Keats


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