Geometric Poetry

How to create "geometric" poems using online tools ?
Come creare poesie "geometriche usando strumenti online? 
This is an interesting tool: an automatic  square generator, six lines with six words based on Lewis Carrol's style, CLICK AND TRY

SQUARE-POEM-GENERATOR

My Square Poem

I	often	play	Candy Crush	I	curse it
often	hate	wherever	I	saw it	first
play	wherever	stupid	really	such	game
Candy Crush	I	really	feel	imprisoned	in it
I	saw it	such	imprisoned	be kind	free
curse it	first	game	in it	free	me

POEM COLLAGE

Poem Collage is a tool that gives you the opportunity to write your 

own poem and then clicking  on the GENERATE button to obtain 

a series of draggable lines you can rearrange as you want. You can 

also use it to recreate a poem.

POEM COLLAGE

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

SENTENCE TREE
Sentence tree is a text manipulator, you can write a passage or a poem and have the text arranged in vertical, see this poem taken from "Vertical  poetry"written by R. Juarroz and translated by W.S. Merwin
If a thing changes form
it changes taste at the same time, 
not only its taste to others
but also its taste to itself,
the flavor proper to its mode, 
the relish of its unpeopled gut.
And if in the procession or dissipation of forms 
this thing should find its own,
should meet it again in the sealed cloud of its origin, 
its taste would be the same as before,
but only outwardly,
 never to itself again.  

SENTENCE TREE
Reordered Text

If
a
thing
changes
form
it
changes
taste
at
the
same
time
not
only
its
taste
to
others
but
also
its
taste
to
itself
the
flavor
proper
to
its
mode
the
relish
of
its
unpeopled
gut
And
if
in
the
procession
or
dissipation
of
forms
this
thing
should
find
its
own
should
meet
it
again
in
the
sealed
cloud
of
its
origin
its
taste
would
be
the
same
as
before
but
only
outwardly
never
to
itself
again

      VISUAL POEMS

VISUAL POETRY

• VISUAL POETRY IS A NICE AND INTERACTIVE TOOL
• Enter your poem or other text in the "Text" field, Choose minimum size, maximum size, text color, and background color.  Click anywhere on the page, hold down the mouse and draw a picture. "Save" to save your drawing as an image. An example about the symbolism in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Diamante poems 
Poesia Diamante

Cartaceo-Template-Modellol cope

1. Online tool   
2. Online tool
3. Online tool

1. Diamante poems created with tool n.2   (classe 2E)

 (creative)Po(classe 2E)
Piclits is a wonderful online tool on which you can create different kinds of compositions on a chosen picture that inspires you.
Piclits è un meraviglioso strumento online che ti permette di realizzare diversi tipi di composizioni su una immagine scelta da te e che ti ispira particolarmente.


http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx

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Using a Diamante to summarize

Un diamante per riassumere

http://www.classtools.net/education-games-php/diamond9

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Triangle Poem

A site where you can create your personal triangle poem, see this example

http://www.piclits.com/viewpoem.aspx?PoemId=1397

A Triangle Poem can also be considered a  concrete poem that is a poem that forms a picture of the topic or follows the contours of a shape that is suggested by the topic. Concrete poetry, shape poetry or visual poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words suggest a precise shape.

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................................................................................New Activities

ACTIVITY N. 1

After a fast listening of the poem "True Beauty" by Jean Pullman, the students, with the help of the mosaic, try to reorder  it creating a set of meaningful sentences starting with:
True beauty is.....
 Shapes created by E.La Torre on http://www.imagechef.com/ic/draw/

 Original poem:
True beauty
True beauty is in the way she laughs
True beauty is in her eyes
True beauty is how she acts
True beauty is inside
True beauty is unseen
True beauty is only felt
True beauty is not mean
True beauty is herself
True beauty can't be cruel
True beauty is bare
True beauty within you
True beauty is always there
True Beauty can't be covered with makeup
True beauty means true love
True beauty can't be baked up
True beauty is the flight of a dove
True beauty has no flaws
For True beauty is all that matters after all
(Jean Pullman)
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CHICAGO SAMBA

Chicago Samba is a poem written by Aldo Kraas, 

the students try to understand the meaning and message of this poem reading the words in the triangle.

They discuss and guess the topic, then after reading the original poem they will compose one dedicated to their home town or their favourite city.

Original poem
CHICAGO SAMBA
I live in chicago
A very windy city
But tonight I will dance the Chicago samba
Once again
But when I dance the chicago blues
I sweat like crazy
And I feel like a kid again
But when I hear the chicago samba being played by the local musiciams
In the streets of chicago I get very excited
Because I know that their music cam be heard also from faraway
And bring me back memories of home 
Aldo Kraas
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