Metaphor for a Family ... Metaphor Unit Poems ... Creating Mental Pictures with Metaphors

From there, you can then begin to try and describe such things FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO WORDS, because they are events across time and space in your own way, using your own metaphors.

Index of Poems ... Using their tails. Seals and eels ; Searching for meals. Catfish, flatfish ; Chasing fat fish. Bass and wrasse ; Swimming in mass. Hagfish, hogfish ; Trailing dogfish.

Using poems to teach reading will allow the students to be both participants and spectators in the experience. Poetry has an advantage here ... In some there may be similes and metaphors to explore;

It's as if, reading and assimilating the qualities of a voice's language, we're translating the written word into the spoken one, using our eyes to listen . . . . Look Who's Talking:

Metaphors in Various Discipline ... Metaphors We Compute By - John M. Lawler- lecture delivered to the Informational Technology Division of the University of Michigan

After we have reviewed the terms, students write their own poems using similes, metaphors and imagery. Have students write and decorate their poems on different colored hearts.

Do the poems rhyme? Rhyme can carry a poem along. But using approximate rhymes or carefully putting together words that harmonise with each other, without rhyming, can also get the same result.

POEMS BY YOU ABOUT YOU ... Hand out the two poems entitled I AM, (see below--feel free to print them out ... Using the model, create an original poem as a class, incorporating ideas from the students.

There are three barely noticeable, interrelated metaphors in the first line, if we assume that only human beings may have loves and become widows when they die, and mourn for them.