Shape Poem
This simple shape poem, in just one rhyming couplet, includes examples of personification, metaphor and imagery in its figurative language. [click to continue…]
EXAMPLES OF SHAPE POEMS / CALLIGRAMS
These are poems which, as the name suggests, are written in a shape which represents the subject of the poem. You may sometimes hear them referred to as concrete poems (which is more appropriate to geometrical shapes eg a pyramid or square), or patterned poems , which (are poems written in a particular format and creating a particular shape.) However, a ‘shape poem’ can be any shape that the writer chooses. If you need a more detailed explanation and would like some ideas and tips on writing these yourself, use the TEACHERS’ PAGE, DIFFERENT POETRY FORMS, SHAPE POEMS for more teaching. Alternatively, look at my example shape poems which are listed below.
This Christmas shape poem (In the shape of a Christmas tree) was purpose written to be used as a performance poem at the end of my rhyming Christmas nativity play “The Simplest Nativity Play Ever” and puts forward the point that God involved ordinary people in the real story of Christ’s birth. [click to continue…]
Having done a World War Two workshop with year five children at Queen Primary, they produced some fantastic poems of different forms, including acrostic & shape poems, using lots of figurative language, such as alliteration and metaphors. Click here to go to the page of World War Two poems that the children wrote.
An evacuee’s luggage label, courtesy of St Albans museum
This rhyming, rhythmical shape poem is written in a list format but in the shape of a suitcase and includes a metaphor and a couple of moments of alliteration. Thinking of the moment during World War Two when a child was evacuated to the country, I tried to put all of the thoughts and feelings that I imagined into this shape poem.
This shape poem is just a bit of fun, inspired by a true story of when I achieved a very odd ambition…. [click to continue…]