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1 What Is and Is Not A Poem
1 What Is and Is Not A Poem
Poetry, 1
Sample A
A dozen local brown eggs
A half-gallon of 2% milk
A loaf of freshly baked Italian bread
4 Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 lb. Capellini pasta
2 medium sized eggplants
Sample B
4 vine-grown tomatoes
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Coffee filters
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Fabric softener
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Sample C
and cheeks
who pays any attention
come;
to the syntax of things
weeks
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
Sample D
lady i swear by all flowers. Dont cry
At length the Parsonage was
discernible. The
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
garden sloping to the road, the house
standing
your eyelids flutter which says
on it, the green pales and the laurel hedge,
everything declared they were arriving. Mr.
we are for each other:then
Collins and Charlotte appeared at the door,
laugh,leaning back in my arms
and the carriage stopped at the small gate,
for lifes not a paragraph
which led by a short gravel walk to the house,
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What IS a poem
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Closure: Discuss this with your partner, and write one response in the space below.
Based upon your work with the samples, what do you think poetry is really about? How is it
different from other writing?
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