The following senses list poem talks about how the use of rhythm and rhyme can be important in poetry. It includes a small amount of alliteration and assonance, as well as some personification and metaphors.
SENSES POEMS
Many of my poems are inspired by the senses. Poetry is led by the senses in the respect that we write poems about what we see, hear, touch, smell, taste and feel automatically. The senses are a part of our life and influence every thought that passes through our mind, so senses poetry is far more natural than we sometimes realise.
However, many poems are very specifically focussing on the senses, and I have written some of these senses poems specifically for use in schools to encourage children to use their senses when studying something to write poems about. This category therefore includes all of my poems which are specifically about the senses. I have included a brief description of each poem, together with details of what figurative writing and poetic techniques it includes in the hope that you will find something to suit your purposes easier.
I have put together a page of winning children’s poems by Fitzwilliam Primary School on the topic of Victorian child miners. They include lots of figurative language such as alliteration, personification, similes and metaphors, and different poem forms such as acrostics, list poems and senses poems. [click to continue…]
This rhyming, rhythmical senses poem looks at all the different ways that we can use our senses within our surroundings.
This is a very simple poem that I wrote when I remembered holding a shell to my ear as a child and believing that I could hear the sound of the seaside inside it.
A poem doesn’t need to be purely descriptive: use your own experiences, thoughts or associations as ideas for things to say in your poem.
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This highlighted version of my Seaside Senses poem shows the examples of metaphors, personification, alliteration , assonance, consonance and word play which can all be found within this simple 8 line list/ senses poem. [click to continue…] |