Poetry Unit
Over the next few weeks we will looking at Poetry in many different forms - reading, discussing and writing our own. Figurative language is as good a [place as any to start - and lets look at it with music, or more specifically lyrics.
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Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry is an ancient form that has gone through numerous and drastic reinvention over time. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define.