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Writing Experience:
Writing Concrete Poetry
Concrete poetry is an artistic
expression of written language. Concrete poets make designs out of letters
and words. Even though the visual pattern (shape) can really catch our
eye, it is the language itself that makes a poem poetic.
There are different kinds of concrete
poetry. We will try a type of concrete poetry that combines two couplets
with a visual image. A couplet has two lines in which each line ends with
words that rhyme. Read the two couplets below:
A click, a sputter, a whoosh--
to roar! line 1
A flick, a shudder, a push-- to
soar! line 2
The wings held steady; the nose
held high; line 3
The plane is ready to touch the
sky! line 4
In the first two lines, the words
roar and soar rhyme. In the second two lines, the words
high and sky rhyme. Lines one and two form the first couplet.
Lines three and four form the second couplet. These are then grouped on
the page in such a way that it appears the plane is starting its engines,
moving down the runway and then lifting up into the sky. See the concrete
poem below.
Writing Experience:
Writing Your Own Concrete Poem
- Draw a sketch of a simple image that comes to
your mind when you think of Yeager's supersonic flight.
- Write the first couplet about the early part of
his flight. If you want, you can use the pairs of rhyming words listed
on the next page.
- Write the second couplet about the last part of
his flight. If you want, you can use the pairs of rhyming words listed
on the next page.
- Now combine your two couplets (four lines) and
shape it like your sketch.
Writing Experience:
Writing Your Own Concrete Poem
Rhyming Pairs List
| light - night |
cold - hold |
wing - sing |
| high - sky |
dry - fly |
low - slow |
| day - way |
ice - slice |
navigate - debate |
| star - far |
flight - sight |
awake - make |
| plane - wane |
wave - crave |
slowly - lowly |
| course - remorse |
hour - power |
cloud - loud |
| ahead - instead |
ocean - motion |
roar - more |
| air - care |
crazily - lazily |
sleep - deep |
| rise - eyes |
blue - new |
bright - fight |
| land - stand |
near - here |
dream - stream |
| hope - scope |
out - about |
twilight - by night |
| turbulence - ebullience |
buffet - tough it |
sound - bound |
Add some rhyming pairs of your own below:
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