LAST WEEKWe listened to Michael Buble and consequentially examined metaphors.

A desire to examine a Eminem song was expressed and was STRONGLY considered.

Unfortunately this is how long the song was...

"Lose Yourself"

Look, if you had one shot, one opportunityTo seize everything you ever wanted in one momentWould you capture it or just let it slip?Yo

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavyThere's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghettiHe's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs,But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down,The whole crowd goes so loudHe opens his mouth, but the words won't come outHe's choking how, everybody's joking nowThe clock's run out, time's up over, bloah!Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravityOh, there goes Rabbit, he chokedHe's so mad, but he won't give up thatEasy, noHe won't have it , he knows his whole back's to these ropesIt don't matter, he's dopeHe knows that, but he's brokeHe's so stagnant, he knowsWhen he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it'sBack to the lab again, yoThis whole rhapsodyHe better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

[Hook:]You better lose yourself in the music, the momentYou own it, you better never let it goYou only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blowThis opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo(You better)

The soul's escaping, through this hole that is gapingThis world is mine for the takingMake me king, as we move toward a new world orderA normal life is boring, but superstardom's close to post mortemIt only grows harder, only grows hotterHe blows us all over these (people) is all on himCoast to coast shows, he's known as the globetrotterLonely roads, God only knowsHe's grown farther from home, he's no fatherHe goes home and barely knows his own daughterBut hold your nose 'cause here goes the cold waterHis (people) don't want him no more, he's cold productThey moved on to the next schmoe who flowsHe nose dove and sold nadaSo the soap opera is told and unfoldsI suppose it's old partner but the beat goes onDa da dum da dum da da

[Hook]

No more games, I'm a change what you call rageTear this (puppy) roof off like 2 dogs cagedI was playing in the beginning, the mood all changedI've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stageBut I kept rhyming and stepped right into the next cypherBest believe somebody's paying the pied piperAll the pain inside amplified by the factThat I can't get by with my 9 to 5And I can't provide the right type of life for my familyCause man, these (unhappy) food stamps don't buy diapersAnd it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my lifeAnd these times are so hard, and it's getting even harderTrying to feed and water my seed, plusTeeter totter caught up between being a father and a prima donnaBaby mama drama's screaming on andToo much for me to wannaStay in one spot, another day of monotonyHas gotten me to the point, I'm like a snailI've got to formulate a plot or I end up in jail or shotSuccess is my only (puppy) option, failure's notMom, I love you, but this trailer's got to goI cannot grow old in Salem's lotSo here I go it's my shot.Feet fail me not, this may be the only opportunity that I got

[Hook]

You can do anything you set your mind to, man Eminem

SilverSlowly, silently, now the moonWalks the night in her silver shoon;This way, and that, she peers, and seesSilver fruit upon silver trees;One by one the casements catchHer beams beneath the silvery thatch;Couched in his kennel, like a log,With paws of silver sleeps the dog;From their shadowy cote the white breasts peepOf doves in silver feathered sleepA harvest mouse goes scampering by,With silver claws, and silver eye;And moveless fish in the water gleam,By silver reeds in a silver stream.

Walter de la Mare

Hints and tips for learning poems

What is the story? What is going on and can you discuss it as you would a TV show you wanted to tell your friends about. What are the key points to remember and convey?

Split the poem in small manageable parts and use the rhyming scheme. Remember the first word which rhymes and it is easier to recall the second word that goes with it.

Slowly, silently, now the moonWalks the night in her silver shoon;

Hints and tips for learning poems

Say the lines out loud. Poetry is like a song. It is connected by sounds which you can link together in order to remember them.

Slowly, silently, now the moonWalks the night in her silver shoon;

Hints and tips for learning poems

Poetic techniques

Imagery: Mental pictures which the poet creates in words.

Similes: An image made when a poet compares one thing to another thing using the words 'like' or 'as'.

Metaphor: An image made when a poet compares one thing to another thing without the words 'like' or 'as'.

Poetic techniques

Symbol: A type of image that represents or stands for something else.

Personification: This is when a poet writes of non-human things as if they were human.

Poetic techniques

The sounds of poetry

Onomatopoeia: This is when the words used sound like what they describe.

The sounds of poetry

Alliteration: This is when consonant sounds are repeated at the beginning of words that are closely connected.

She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure.For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shoreThen I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Consonance: This is when consonant sounds are repeated in the middle of words that are closely connected.

Assonance: This is when vowel sounds are repeated in the middle of words that are closely connected.

The sounds of poetry

Assonance

I bomb atomically—Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be droppin' these mockeries. ("Triumph.“)

Consonance

"some mammals are clammy“ Dawn goes down He struck a streak of bad luck

Rhyme: This is when the sounds of words are repeated, usually at the end of lines.

So think Alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme – beginning middle end.

Rhythm: This is the beat or pace of words in a poem.

Sad poems will be slow and happy or exciting poems will be fast.

The sounds of poetry

Homework

Learn the poem off by heart.

Learn the poetry techniques and th e

sounds of poetry.