What is the poem about? | How does the poem look on the page?Poem 1: Them is a teardrop shape because I think she wanted us to think that this teardrop shape was a bead of sweat that is dripping off of this skateboarder. The reason that this makes sense is because you can sweat while you are skateboarding. It also looks like a skateboard, this also makes sense because since the poem is about a skateboard and a boy. But it can also be a face or head because a boy is involved and it could be his head. Poem 2: The poem is positioned the way that it is because the author wanted us to pause at different times so that the poem sounds correctly and that the poem has the right kind of rhythm. Without this rhythm the poem might not sound as good as it could be. I think that it is positioned on the left because it is read from left to right so it is then positioned on the left. Poem 3: The poem is positioned the way that it is because each action that this author talked about (e.g. thumping foot, different people talking, someone yelling out something) got it own line, or stanza. But if there is some kind of noise that this action is making (e.g. scratching noise, clapping noise, thumping noise) it had it right under the line in parenthesis underneath it. This poem was positioned on the left. I think that it was positioned on the left because you read right to left and it just made sense to the author to have it on the left. Poem 4: The poem is positioned on the page so that every strong/important/main word that is said has it's own line on the page. Then the rest of the sentence gets it's own line. This poem is positioned really weirdly and uniquely. It was actually hard to read if you didn't know how to put together words to make sense. It was weird because the words shifted from left to right. This poem was unique because I have never seen a poem like it before. |