Click on the question mark for help on this screen. Welcome to concrete poetry. You can choose a shape or draw your own and then choose words to fill it. Click the question marks on each screen for help if you get stuck. Click START to begin.
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Another precursor to concrete poetry is Micrography, a technique for creating visual images by Hebrew-using artists who create pictures using tiny...
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Concrete poetry is appropriate for high school English students. Because of the visual nature of this type of poetry, students, who otherwise may find putting words on paper quite tedious, face the creative challenge of pressing words into a given form.
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It is fun to include alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, personification and/or hyperbole in concrete, shape and form poems. Create a rubric.
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Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction. This lesson plan is adapted from Charles Suhor's "Creating and Understanding Concrete Poetry," Substitute Teachers' Lesson Plans, Urbana: NCTE, 1989, pp. 33-34.
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In the 1950's poets in Switzerland and Sweden and Brazil started, independently, to develop "Concrete Poetry" (partly as an adaptation of "concrete painting", a minor European school of the 1940's). In such poems, the arrangement of words and phrases on the page indicated the poem's meaning.
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Football / Is very fun / You can play it in the sun / It's also extremely cool / And, to play it, you don't have to be a mule / I like to play it too...
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A concrete poem is a poem that forms a picture of the topic or follows the contours of a shape that is suggested by the topic. These can be used effectively with reports in science or social studies. For example, my students have used them in catastrophe reports.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL: Write a poem about yourself using this form or another poetry form. Line 1: __ Your name ; Line 2: _, _, _ SHAPE (or CONCRETE): Shape poems are made up of words that have been placed in such a way that they make the shape of an object and also use words to describe the object.
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Bibliography of Concrete-Visual Poetry Concrete Poetry - Poems; Poems about the subject/theme of Concrete Poetry. Concrete Poetry #15 Thomas Muller...
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