Free Verse Poetry and Haiku

Free verse poetry can be defined as:

• Poetry that has a particular meter and rhyme.

• Poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms.

• Type of poetry composed by 3 verses. The first and last one made up by 5 syllables and the second one by 7 syllables.

Check the characteristics that belong to the free verse poetry:

• Free from limitations of regular meter.

• The poet can give his own shape to a poem however he or she desires.

• Does not follow regular rhyme scheme rules.

• It is prohibited to use rhyme, cadences, and rhythms to get the effects that the poets consider are suitable for the piece.

A Noiseless Patient Spider (By Walt Whitman),

A noiseless patient spider,

I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,

Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,

It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,

Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you O my soul where you stand,

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space…

Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,

Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.”

Is an example of:

• Free Verse Poetry

• Haiku

As a 21-year-old university student she wrote, illustrated and self-published her first poetry collection, milk and honey. Next came its artistic sibling, the sun and her flowers.

Her work touches on love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, and migration. She feels most at home when creating art or performing her (free verse) poetry on stage.

• Walt Whitman

• Rupi Kaur

• Kuri Reins

• Jane Austen

Haiku is a short _________ form of poetry.

• Chinese

• Japanese

• Vietnamese

• Korean

Haiku can be defined as:

• Poetry that has a particular meter and rhyme.

• Poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms.

• Type of poetry composed by 3 verses. The first and last one made up by 5 syllables and the second one by 7 syllables.

A Haiku:

• Doesn't need to rhyme.

• Must rhyme.

Because ______ plays a large role in Japanese society, it is usually the main subject of a haiku.

• nature

• family and friends

• animals

• love

According to Matsuo Basho one of the means of poetry is to:

• Guide us to wisdom and calm.

• Inspire us to be better citizens.

• Makes us feel closer to home.

One of the greatest Haiku writers:

• Walt Whitman

• Matsuo Basho

• Haruki Murakami