Write a free verse poem on a separate sheet of paper for Wednesday. READ ALL OF THE DIRECTIONS!

Harlem
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
What happens to a dream deferred?

      Does it dry up
      like a raisin in the sun?
      Or fester like a sore—
      And then run?
      Does it stink like rotten meat?
      Or crust and sugar over—
      like a syrupy sweet?

      Maybe it just sags
      like a heavy load.

      Or does it explode?


Langston Hughes, “Harlem” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted with the permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

Free verse is an open form (see Poetry analysis) of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. Although free verse requires no meter, rhyme, or other traditional poetic techniques, a poet can still use them to create some sense of structure. Much pattern and discipline is to be found in free verse: the internal pattern of sounds, the choice of exact words, and the effect of associations give free verse its beauty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse

Write a free verse poem of at least 10 lines on the theme of dreams.  Beneath the poem write three sentences about why you wrote the poem, three sentences about the poetic devices (include at least 3 poetic devices in your poem: ONE MUST BE IMAGERY AND THE OTHER MUST BE ONOMATOPOEIA! You may not use simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, end rhyme, masculine rhyme, or feminine rhyme as well), and three sentences about the specific form you chose and how the form does or does not follow all of the "rules" of the form.  Incorporate at least three vocabulary words from Unit 13/14.