Haiku

has been around for centuries and has evolved through time. With poetry there are various styles and techniques that a poet uses to make their own individual master piece. As stated before there are many different styles of poems such as a sonnet, haiku, acrostic, and many more. From the diverse styles of poetry, rap falls within the guidelines for poetry. Yet, there is a large group of people who do not see rap as poetry. According to Dictionary.com poetry is “the art of rhythmical composition,…

an old Italian folk song performed with a dance. Villanelle has five tercets and a final quatrain. The villanelle poem usually has a three part structure; introduction, development and conclusion and typically focuses on some type of obsession. A haiku is a Japanese form of poetry designed to be very compact. Haikus can focus on everyday experiences, feelings or even nature, but because haikus have limited space, they must use simple words and grammar. Haikus do not rhyme and are very short the…

Ahlberg, A. (2008). The Baby in the Hat. Somerville: Candlewick Press. Historical Fiction, Grade Level PreK – 3. Can one action change your life? For the boy who caught the baby in a hat, one action changed his life forever! Though the story is simple, the captivating illustrations elevate the sense of adventure and capture the historical London setting. The boy hero takes his reward and the adventure begins! In a twist of luck or fate, he falls from the London Bridge and into a ship where…

Rosie does not understand Japanese culture as she has been greatly influenced by the American culture. This causes her to regard her mother’s habits, such as, haiku writing and permissive behaviour towards her husband, as peculiar. When visiting the Hayano family, the sudden departure of Rosie’s father is regarded as rude and Mrs. Hayashi apologizes for her husband. Rosie does not understand why her mother does…

this revolutionary concept. But encourages the viewer/reader to take a look at the individual components differently and think about how they interact with one another. The Japanese tradition of haiga, a form of art/poetry in which a painting and a haiku are presented together as one image. Artist Nonoguchi Ryuho is the so-called founder of this crossbreeding of art forms, where the subtle interaction between written text and visual composition play a role in the strong effect it has on the…

in all cultures. There is a grand variety of styles that poetry can be represented through. There are some types of poetry where one follows rigid guidelines like sonnets, where one follows a specific rhyme scheme and an iambic pentameter, or a haiku, which has three lines and the first and last line have five syllables while the second line has seven. Additionally, some poets follow no requirements, and write as they please, like free verse poetry. However, poetry possesses much more than…

Envision the answer. (Haiku) The Moral of the Story I once knew a whistling man and whistle is all he would do. This very true story I would like to share with you. Ted whistled in the morning when he woke up and he whistled on his way to work, in his old truck. He whistled…

Today marks the twentieth anniversary since I have graduated from high school. My husband and I have taken a trip back to my hometown, Auburn, New York, for our high school reunion. I can remember it as if it was yesterday: walking across the stage in my crisp, white gown, moving the tassel on my cap from one side to the other, feeling the greatest feeling of fulfillment mixed with gratification. A lot has changed in my life since that moment, twenty years ago, when a diploma fell within my…

“What’s in a name?” (Shakespeare 2.2.42) Juliet asks in her famous line, a declaration of her devotion to Romeo which paradoxically emphasizes the importance of names in the Romeo and Juliet in general. Written four centuries later, Water By The Spoonful echoes this sentiment by allowing characters to name themselves online and, therefore, control and dictate their identities. Both Shakespeare and Hudes select names pregnant with meaning as a tool for characterization; however, while Shakespeare…

From the beginning of time, teachers are who made this world where it is today. A world consisting of a life changing medical findings, astonishing technology advances, and a world where injustice is debated throughout countries until they are solved for the better. All of these findings would be non-existent if teachers had never shared their wisdom with others. From the times of when Jesus Christ had walked the lands to share the word and teach his followers the righteous, from when Greek…