1.What is poem?

a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always
rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and
stanzaic structure.
2.What is the poet/poetess?
a person who writes poems.
3.How does a writer become a poet?

Poems are little machines made of words. If you want to make them go, it'll take some
work, but you can learn to be a master-tinkerer in the workshop of your poems. By
learning as much as you can about the poetry written today and by writing constantly,
aggressively, and passionately, you can become a successful.
4.How many types/kinds of a poem are there?
-what are these?

Blank verse (The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

Burlesque (Hudibras by Samuel Butler)
Cacophony (The Bridge by Hart Crane)
Canzone (A Lady Asks Me by Guido Cavalcanti)
Conceit (The Flea by John Donne)
Dactyl (The Lost Leader by Robert Browning)
Elegy (Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard by Thomas Gray)
Epic (The Odyssey by Homer)
Epitaph (An Epitaph by Walter de la Mare)
Free verse (The Waste-Land by TS Eliot)
Haiku (How Many Gallons by Issa)
Imagery (In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound)
Limerick (There Was a Young Lady of Dorking by Edward Lear)
Lyric (When I Have Fears by Allegory (Time, Real and Imaginary by Samuel
Taylor Coleridge)
Ballad (As You Came from the Holy Land by Sir Walter Raleigh)
John Keats)
Name (Nicky by Marie Hughes)
Narrative (The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe)
Ode (Ode to a Nightingale by Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Pastoral (To a Mouse by Robert Burns)

Petrarchan sonnet (London, 1802 by William Wordsworth)

Quatrain (The Tyger by William Blake)

Refrain (Troy Town by Dante Rosetti)
Senryu (Hide and Seek by Shuji Terayama)
Shakespearean sonnet (Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare)

Sonnet (Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats)

Tanka (A Photo by Alexis Rotella)
Terza rima (Acquainted with the Night by Robert
5.Haveyou read the poemThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam?
NOT YET
6.If you can,would you like to make/compost yor original poem?
YEAH I WILL
7.Have you ever made your own poem during elementary grades?
NEVER
8.How many stanzas are there in the poem rubaiyat?
90 STANZAS
9.Who is Omar Khayyam?
Omar Khayyam was one of the major mathematicians and astronomers of the
medieval period. He was acknowledged as the author of the most important treatise on
algebra before modern times. This is reflected in his Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra giving a geometric method for solving cubic equations by
intersecting a hyperbola with a circle. His significance as a philosopher and teacher, and
his few remaining philosophical works, has not received the same attention as his
scientific and poetic writings.
10.When and where was he born?
He was born on May 18,1048 in Nishapur,Iran.