Poems of Insects (Powerpoint 2010)

Poems of Insects:

Poems of Insects By: Esme Fireflies Grasshoppers Crickets Butterfly Wings Dragonfly Turn on your computer speakers!

“Fireflies”:

The poem, “Fireflies”, is mainly about fireflies being compared to insect calligraphers. They are “fine artists in flight, adding dabs of light.” The fireflies are artists in a way because they use their light as their ink, flying in the night and adding to the scene. “Signing the June nights, as if they were paintings” “Fireflies” By Paul Fleischman I agree with the author of “Fireflies”, that fireflies are kind of like insect calligraphers, with the light coming from their tails to draw. “Six-legged scribblers of vanishing messages” “Insect calligraphers practicing penmanship”

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBX6xWtvmJE “Grasshoppers” Grasshoppers Sap's rising Ground's warning Grasshoppers are Grasshoppers are hatching out hatching out Autumn-laid eggs splitting Young stepping into spring Grasshoppers Grasshoppers hopping hopping high Grassjumpers Grassjumpers jumping jumping far Vaulting from leaf to leaf stem to stem leaf to leaf plant to plant stem to stem Grass- leapers leapers Grass- bounders bounders Grass- springers springers Grass- soarers soarers Leapfrogging Leapfrogging longjumping longjumping grasshoppers. grasshoppers. By Paul Fleischman

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“Grass By Paul Fleischman The poem, “Grasshoppers”, describes grasshoppers laying eggs and jumping. I think this poem is interesting because it has two people saying different parts at once. Some parts have two people reading the same things. In one part of the poem, what is performed is sort of like a round or cannon. “Grasshoppers are hatching out autumn-laid eggs” “Vaulting from leaf to leaf, stem to stem, plant to plant” h oppers”

“Crickets”:

“Crickets” By Valerie Worth The poem “Crickets” is mostly about how crickets “talk in the tall grass all late summer long.” The meaning of this is that the crickets chirp and communicate in the grass during the summer. “When the summer is gone, the dry grass whispers alone.” That means that when summer passes, the sound of crickets no longer is there, so the grass is silent, whispering alone. I think that the grass is really never whispering alone, because underground, life still blooms and whispers with the grass above it.

“Dragonfly”:

“Dragonfly” By Rebecca Kai Dotlich The poem, “Dragonfly”, is mainly about a dragonfly being compared to a ballerina. Now, how can a dragonfly be like a ballerina? For one thing, a dragonfly can fly very fast in the air. It can hover, fly backwards, sideways, or forwards in a very quick-like motion. It is sort of like dancing on air, so this dragonfly is called a “sky ballerina.” “This glimmering jewel, glides in a gown of lucid blue” I think this means the dragonfly’s gown is the sky, a “lucid blue.” I agree with the author of the poem, “Dragonfly”, that dragonflies are like a sky-ballerina in a way because of the way they move.

Butterfly Wings:

Butterfly Wings By Aileen Fisher Butterfly Wings is a rhyming poem asking you how it would be like if you were a butterfly that was coming out of its chrysalis and discovering its wings. This poem also has a simile, that compares “floating on the air” to “a boat at sea.” “How would it be on a day in June to open your eyes in a dark cocoon” “And soften one end and crawl outside, and find you had wings to open wide” “And find you could fly to a bush or tree or float on the air like a boat at sea…” I like this poem because it rhymes, it has a simile, and it asks you a question. I like poems that have these components.

Explanation of Genre:

Explanation of Genre These five poems are poems because they contain stanzas, rhyme, and have rhythm. All of these poems are narrative, since they tell a story.

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