Acrostic Poem

Beautiful butterflies forming

Under a delicate chrysalis

Taking exactly the right amount of

Time to come out and ready themselves with great

Effort to flap their wet wings and prepare to fly.  

Ready set go, they are on their way to

Find golden beads of nectar to feed on in a fanciful garden.

Life will be short but meaningful.  The bright

Youthful colors make this graceful insect fascinating to watch.

What is an I Poem?

After reading the books that are in the I poem form I decided an I poem is a poem that comes from a first person point of view.  The person that is writing the poem steps into the role and writes about their view.  An I poem is very descriptive.  It also contains a lot of emotions.  An I poem gives a lot of information to help the reader understand the past or the future or to help the reader grasp what something looks like.  I poems really help the reader to understand how the object, person, or place are feeling and what they are thinking.

I think that I poems would be a very good type of poetry to teach students about first person perspective.  I think that by reading I poems in the classroom helps the students to understand how these objects are feeling.  It gives students the chance to see writing through someone else’s eyes.

I also enjoyed reading Dr. Frye’s article.  I think it gives a very detailed scaffold for how to teach your students to write an I poem.  I know that poetry is hard to teach and as a teacher you do not just want to throw the students in and not explain anything.  All that would happen from this would be frustration.  I feel that by providing students with the background information they need, and by supplying many examples of the poetry you want them to write, the students will really be able to succeed at putting together their ideas.  Once they have their ideas they can use the scaffolding that has been provided and they can dive right on in, hopefully feeling comfortable about what they are creating.