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NIE POETRY CONTEST POETRY IDEAS

Here are a few poetry lesson  ideas that are taken from the Art on the Move Curriculum.
Please feel free to use  on any works or create your own

1. Select an object, mood, character or theme that you associate with in the paintings. Using the word you selected, write a poem using a simile, or  create a poem using the same idea with a metaphor.
(Sportsmen by Joseph Crilley,  We All Hang Together by John Sharp, Coffee and Fruit by Maximillian Vanka and Music by Candlelight by Anne Yost)

2. Using a list of descriptive words related to a painting, write a poem that fits into  the shape of an object in the painting.
(Music and Candlelight by: shape of the guitar, Ranstead Street by Walter Baum; a building shape)

3. Write a poem about a building from the point of view of a person looking out into the scene.
(Ranstead Street by Walter Baum, Snowstorm Mill by,  Winters First Snow by,  Wycombe at Night by)

4. Investigate Cowboy poetry. Read some works created and discuss its importance and influences. Create your own poem from the perspective of a cowboy/pioneer.
(Home on the Range by Charles Hargens)

5. Create free verse poem based on your observations of the painting . Describe what you see within the painting in writing for five minutes. Rewrite your favorite phrases and revise to create a free verse poem.

6. A Limerick is a type of poem that usually begins by stating the location. Create a limerick based in
The settings from the paintings. (Home on the Range, Swimming Hole, Wycombe at Night and Winters First Snow)

7. Read the Poem ìStopping by the Woods on a Snowy Eveningî by Robert Frost and compare it to Snowstorm Mill and Homestead at Springtown or Wycombe at Night or Winters First Snow and write a poem about the painting that capture the artists feeling of the scene

8. Have students create a Haiku poem based on  one of the paintings.
(Orpheus, Swimming Hole, Jazz Series.)

9. Create a poem about an object in one of the works and personify  the object as if it were a friend of yours.
 (Jazz Series, Ranstead Street)

10. Write a narrative poem consisting of four-line stanza about  each person in the  art work.
Home on the Range, Swimming Hole, Orpheus, Jazz Series)

11. Read and  respond to Langston Hughesís poem, I Too,  Sing America.  Write your own poem about Jazz Series #4 using a similar format.

12. Create a Diamante poem  about the work Orpheus describing the faces in the painting.

13. Take a Piece of paper and write a descriptive phrase about the painting. When finished, fold paper over so th eline is covered and pass to the next student who writes a descipritve phrase and fold paper over again and continue through the class.  Read and edit finished poem.