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SENSES
+The Found Poem
A found poem is a poem that did not originally start out as a poem but as prose
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+Parents ~ Julius LesterLinda failed to return home from a dance Fridaynight.On Saturdayshe admitted she had spent the night with an Air Force Lieutenant.The Aults decided on a punishmentthat would “wake Linda up.”They ordered her to shoot the dog she had owned about two years.On Sunday, the Aults andLindatook the dog into the desertnear their home.Theyhad the girl dig a shallow grave.ThenMrs. Ault
Grasped the dog between her hands andMr. Aultgave his daughter a .22 caliber pistoland told her to shoot the dog.Instead,the girl put the pistol to her right temple and shot herself.The police said there were no charges that could be filed against the parentsexcept possiblycruelty toanimals.
+New York Times (1976, Feb. 7, p. 29):Coed kills herself to spare pet dog doomed by father
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 6 (AP) –Linda Marie Ault killed herself, policeman said today, rather than make her dog 'Beauty’ pay for her night with a married man.
"I killed her. I killed her. Its just like I killed her myself," a detective quoted her grief-stricken father as saying. "I handed her the gun. I didn't think she would do any-thing like that."
The 21-year old Arizona State University coed died in a hospital yesterday of a gunshot wound in the head.
The police quoted her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ault, as giving this account: Linda failed to return home from a dance in Tempe Friday night. On Saturday she admitted she had spent the night with an Air Force lieutenant.
The Aults decided on a punishment that would "wake Linda up." They ordered her to shoot the dog she had owned about two years.
On Sunday, the Aults and Linda took the dog into the desert near their home. They had the girl dig a shallow grave. Then Mrs. Ault grasped the dog between her hands, and Mr. Ault gave his daughter a .22 caliber pistol and told her to shoot the dog. Instead, the girl put the pistol to her right temple and shot herself.
The police said there were no charges that could be file against the parents except possibly cruelty to animals.
+Literary Devices
Review: metaphor, simile, alliteration, symbol, personification
+Assonance and Consonance
ASSONANCE: Repetition of vowel sounds (a,e,I,o,u,y)- i.e. My eye will cry for thine heart
CONSONANCE: Repetition of consonant sounds (everything except the above)-i.e. grip, grape, grope, gripe
+Internal Rhyme
Rhyming that occurs within the line i.e. the land of sand was bleak i.e. a piece of me emerges
+Onomatopoeia
A word that imitates the sound it represents
Buzz, crackle, hiss, quack, meow, vroom, etc
+Write your own Found Poem
Find any prose sentence or passage that has poetic potential
Copy it into lines of poetry, placing what you consider the most interesting words at the ends of lines to give them greatest emphasis
Strip out any unnecessary words
Rearrange words, compress phrases, and repeat key words – you can do anything except add words
+The Five Senses Poem
Loneliness is grey
It smells like an empty house
It sounds like a vacant room
It tastes like liver
It feels like a toothache
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Fives Senses Poem – Mad Lib Style
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