Read Game 8 poems. Answer each question below. Remember to explain WHY you chose the winner based on poet's craft (rhyme, line breaks, punctuation, simile/metaphor, word choice, repetition) AND your personal connection to the meaning. Don't forget to write with M.I.N.T.S.!
Your post needs to include the following:
1. What is the meaning of the first poem? (Summarize in one sentence)
2. What is the meaning of the second poem? (Summarize in one sentence)
3. Based on the criteria, which poem did you choose and WHY?
***Please tell me everything you think, but use your best writing.
The first poem, How To Eat a Poem, is about a person who is trying to eat a poem for some reason?? It also has no rhyme scheme.
ReplyDeleteThe New Suit is about a kid who is going to a wedding with his new suit, but next year it will be smaller so he can't wear it.
I choose The New Suit as the winner because I made a connection with the person, and it has a better meaning. It also has no rhyme scheme again.
The first poem, How to Eat a Poem, is about a boy or girl saying that a fruit I think is ripe and saying how it is ripe.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, The New Suit, is about a guy who has a new suit and complaining how it might get wet or dirty.
I chose as the winner, The New Suit, because I liked how the person described his new suit and the ways it might get dirty. I also liked how the author entered after every reason why the jacket might get dirty. That is why I chose as the winner The new Suit.
The New Suit is about some one that wore a nice suit to a,party but the suit kept him from having fun. How to Eat a Poem was about some one telling you how to eat a poem. The New Suit is the poem I liked most because I thought it was kind of like life in some way not like someone telling you haw to eat a poem. It also did not rhyme and most poems I see do.
ReplyDeleteThe first poem, The New Suit, is about a boy who is going to a party in a brand new suit, and everyone is saying don't eat messy things, because they might ruin his suit. When he gets to the party and has no fun, he decides that next year he will wear old clothes and be ready to get messy.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, How To Eat A Poem, is about how to eat a poem. Eat it very messy, take a bite, don't be polite, it's always ripe.
I liked The New Suit because it is very entertaining. It is also not boring, and I like the way he describes things, Striped suit, a terrific tie, and I like how it says, Juice, drink it slowly since it dribbles. That is why I chose The New Suit.
The first poem, The New Suit,is about a boy who gets a new stripped suit for a party. In the poem the boys parents tell him to not to eat ice cream or cake because its messy. Then the boy agrees that next year he is whering some thing that can get messy.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem,How to Eat a Poem, is a funny poem stating how to eat a poem. The poet says to dig right in.
I choose, The new Suit as winner. It is funny and entertaining. The poet used no repition or ryhming, but this poem doesn't need it. This was good poem!
The first poem, The New Suit, is about a guy wearing a suit and trying not to drip anything on it. Also, he looks at the food and decides next year he's going to dress up in old clothes not new ones so he can party.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, How To Eat A Poem, is about a person telling how to eat a poem. He is describing how juicy and good it is. He says don't think about manners let the juice drip down your chin.
In my opinion, How To Eat A Poem is the winner. I picked because it was really funny and it reminded me of good times.
The poem, How to Eat a Poem, Is about someone telling them how to eat, without manners.
ReplyDeleteThe poem, The New Suit is about someone who is having a birthday party,and he can not get juice, or cake on his suit.
I think the winner should be The New Suit. I picked this, because I like how the poet gave imagery. I could see a boy at a party stuffed in a new suit, not having much fun.
The first poem, The New Suit, is about all the different kinds of suits that you can have The second poem, How to Eat a Poem, is about how to make a poem but in a eating way. I chose How to Eat a Poem because I like that I says it in a eating way, and the rhyme scheme isabcbdefghijklm.
ReplyDeleteThe New Suit is about a guy who wears a suit for a party and people are driving him crazy with all of their recommendations and then he says next year he will dribble and do everything he couldn't do with his new suit.
ReplyDeleteHow to Eat a Poem is about a person who is telling you that the poem is ready and how to eat it.
I choose The New Suit because I like the way he said all of their recommendations drove him crazy. I like the word choice for this poem like... dribble and explode.
The first poem, The New Suit, is about a guy who is at a party and he is not having fun because of his suit for example, it's to tight on him and he can't eat at all because he is afraid he might ruin his new suit.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, How To Eat A Poem, is about a person who is telling some one how to eat a poem for example, pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice.
My favorite poem is The Suit because I could picture how the guy felt. And how he wanted to take it off.
The New Suit is about a man talking about his new suit. He is saying that he needs to keep it clean and he can't do anything or he will get something on it.
ReplyDeleteHow To Eat A Poem is about a someone telling a person do not be polite just go on and do whatever.
I choose New Suit because it is a funny story and a good lesson. It also has great imagery.
The first poem, The new Suit was about a boy who got a new suit that was striped, terific tie, buttoned shoes and brown socks. I liked this story because it was entertaining.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem,How To Eat a poem, was about someone saying you dont need to be polite to eat a poem. The rhyme scheme is ABCBDEFGHIJKLM. I chose this poem because it is entertaining and gives a image of a juicy poem ready to be eaten. And that is my opinioun.
The first poem,The New Suit,is about a boy or man who wears a nice suit,but no one even tells him it looks nice.All they do is tell hem not to spill anything on it.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem,How to Eat a Poem,is about a someone telling the person to eat messy and to not use manners.
I chose The New Suit because it tells a funny story about how a man doesn't get credit for wearing a nice suit.Also,I liked the imagery because it made me think of a strict parent telling her boy to not spill anything on his clothes.
The first poem, The New Suit, is about a boy who wears a new suit and says he has to drink juice slowly, not to eat cake and ice cream, and so on. The second poem, How to Eat a Poem, is about a person saying to eat the poem. I think the winner is How to Eat a Poem because it talks about eating, and I like eating things. The author gave me an imagery of somebody eating a poem and somebody wearing a new suit, and not getting it dirty.
ReplyDeleteThe first poem, The New Suit, is about a boy who gets a new suit. He can't get it dirty so he can't do everything that his friends do. He says that next year he is going to use a old suit that he could not get dirty so he can do evrything his friends get to do like eat ice cream.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, How to eat a poem is about someone telling us how to eat a poem. you eat it different then food. you dont have to throw away the core or anything.
I liked the poem, The New Suit, better than the poem, How to eat a poem. It was more interesting. I liked how it explained what he could do and what he could not do. That is why I liked The New Suit better.
The first poem, The New Suit, is about a boy who gets a new suit and can't eat ice cream, can't drink juice, can't have chocolate, or cake in it at all, but next year he will wear old clothes
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, How to Eat a Poem, is about who isn't polite and doesn't think about manners.
DeleteI choose the poem The New Suit because it is funnier. Also, I like the way the author uses imagery. Lastly, because I like that he says that next year will be different and he will wear old clothes so he can enjoy the thing he can't in the new suit.
The first poem,How To Eat A Poem, is about a person telling you how to eat a poem.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem,The New Suit, is about a guy who goes to a partie in a nice suit so he doen't want anything to drip on his suit so he evoids eating and doing fun stuff with snacks then he says he will wear a old suit so he can do fun stuff.
I vote for How To Eat A Poem becuase it has good Imagery I could iamgine poem juice going down somebody's chin. GO HOW TO EAT A POEM!!!!!
The first poem,The New Suit, is about a suit that is really nice. But you can't get anything on it.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, How to Eat a Poem, is telling you how to eat a poem. And Their comparing it to other foods.
The winner is ..... The New Suit. I like it because it gives examples of what you can't get on it. And it tells you what it has on it. Thank you for that awesome game.
The New Suit is about a man who has a nice looking outfit on and everyone is telling not to eat any food like ice cream and cake.
ReplyDeleteHow To Eat a Poem is about how someone isn't using table manners and is diving in to all his food.
I lked The New Suit because it had no rhyme scheme,it makes more sence and it has a little bit of humor.
The first poem,The New Suit, is about a someone who wears a new suit to a party and he can't enjoy himself because if something gets on his suit things will get to be bad.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem ,How To Eat A Poem, is about how you can eat a poem and not worry to be polite or throw part of it away. My favorite poem was How to eat a poem because of the rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme of this poem was AABCDEEEEEEE.
The first poem, The New Suit, is about a guy going to the party in a nice suit and every body is telling him to be careful in his nice suit don't spill this don't do that.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, How to Eat a Poem, is about how to eat a poem you don't need to be polite you don't need a knife spoon fork there is nothing to pick off you just eat it.
I picked, The New Suit, because it had imagery it really paints what the suit looks like.
The first poem, The New Suit, is about a guy at a birthday party with a suit and tie with buttoned shoes with socks. But he really want's ice cream , cake, and everything else a birthday party has.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, How to Eat a Poem, is about somebody saying do not waste stuff and eat it. Also, it is saying to lick the juice down your chin.
I think the winner is... The new Suit because I can picture it in my mind. Also, I like birthdays with ice cream and cake. The rhyme scheme is ABBC. Bye.
The first poem, The New Suit, is about a man who is at a party and everybody is telling him not to eat ice cream, and not to eat cake. Also, he decides that next year, he will wear old clothes, so he can eat all the sweets he wants.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, How to Eat a Poem, is about a person explaining how to eat a poem and that you don't need anything to help you eat it. Also, you can eat it whenever you want to and there is nothing that you need to throw away.
I think that the winner is The New Suit. The reason I chose this poem is because of it's great imagery. The author gives a lot of detail that helps you understand what the suit is like.
The first poem, The New Suit, was about how somebody got a new suit for their birthday party and there were causions about what not to do and what not to eat.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, How to Eat a Poem was about, somebody telling someboy else how to eat a poem, they said things like you don't need manners just bite in and you don't need utencils to eat.
I chose How to Eat a Poem because it was about eat ing a poem and that juice may run down your chin.
The first poem,The New Suit,is about how a kid gets a new suit and he's trying not to spill anything on it,but he wasn't enjoying the party because he wasn't being his self.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem,How to Eat a Poem,is about a person not using manners or anything because a person is telling him not to.P.S it is not really telling you to eat a real poem it's saying how to read it.
I think the winner is,The New Suit,because I like how it's a life lesson.P.S. the life lesson is too enjoy yourself. There is no rhyme scheme.
New suit is about a person that has just got a new suit and is trying to be careful not make a mess. How to eat your poem is about telling you things need to read your poem.I like , How to eat your poem because it is relating food to a poem.
ReplyDeleteThe poem, The New Suit, is about a boy who got a new suit for his birthday.He put his new suit on and could not have any fun because it was new so he did not get to play with his friends at his party.
ReplyDeleteThe poem, How to Eat a Poem, is about person who is telling somebody that how to eat a poem and it says lick the juice off your chin and it also is saying do not be polite
I chose the poem, The New Suit, because it made me feel like I was at my birthday party and in my new suit and all my friends playing and me just sitting there and not playing and watching my all my friends play.That is why Chose this poem.
The first poem,The New Suit,is a bout a boy who is going to a party in his new suit he really likes his new suit and so does everyone else so there telling not to be messy and he ends up not having any fun.Then he decides next year he is going to wear old clothes and enjoy himself.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem,How To Eat a Poem,is about how to eat a poem.It is also tiny direction on how to eat a bad poem.
I chose New Suit.I really liked this poem it is very entertaning.I also liked the way he descibed his outfit,striped suit,terrific tie,button shoes,and brown socks.The other thing he descibed that I liked was,and nothing about chocolate bombs explode!That is why I chose that poem.
The poem, The New suit, is about a guy that buys a suit for a party and the people at the party don't like it. I really like this poem a lot. I could imagine really well a guy walking into a house and everybody just stares at his clothes. I thought this poem was awesome.
ReplyDeleteThe poem, How to Eat a Poem, is about a guy telling you how to eat a poem. I think the poem is very cheesy. I think it is cheesy because he is telling you how to eat a poem.
I chose........ The New Suit. I chose that one because it explains everything very well and the author made it very easy to imagine in your head. I love how it say in the poem, "Whos that stuffed breathless guy inside the tight suit?" I love this poem and definently think it will go farther in the tournement!!!!!
The first poem,The New Suit,is about a boy who is going to a party and he has a new suit that he is wearing.It is driving him crazy that people are telling to not get anything on his new suit.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem,How to Eat a Poem,is about the writer telling you how to eat a poem and how there is nothing like a pit because it is just a poem on a paper.Also,it tells you that you will never make a mess eating a poem.
I chose The New Suit as the winner because it is a fun entertaining poem.Also,it has great because you can see the kid right there in your head slumping down in the corner at the party wishing he had worn old dirty clothes,so that people would stop telling him to be careful not to spill anything on his suit.That is why I chose The New Suit.
The first poem, How to Eat a Poem, is about how good poems are, and how you can express yourself in the best way if you write one. No one knows your feelings because they think it's not real. Even though you know it is, nobody else will.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem, New Suit, is about a boy who is wearing a suit for his birthday. He gets really annoyed because people keep telling him how to do things. He realizes that he should have worn plain clothes.
I liked How to Eat a Poem best because it had a rhyme scheme. For example: it went like this, A BB C, and the rest didn't rhyme. I also included imagery when it said "You do not need a knife or fork or spoon, and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It also used a metaphor, comparing a poem, to a fruit. I thought the fruit was a peach.
The first poem, The New Suit, is about a boy who gets a new suit to go to a party.But he must not get anything on his new suit.
ReplyDeleteThe second poem,How To Eat A Poem, is about somebody telling us how to eat a poem and that you don't need a knife,fork,spoon,plate,napkin or tablecloth. It is not like an apple or fruits.
I liked the poem How To Eat A Poem better than The new suit because it had great imagery.Also I thought it is a very silly poem.
The first poem, The New Suit, is about a man who got a new suit and he wore it that night and tried to not get all dirty.
ReplyDeletethe other poem,How to eat a poem , is about a poem and how you don't eat it but you read it.
The poem who should win should be The New Suit because I like how the poem says everything that he is wearing.