Life Songs Wall Zone: Songs about life and various elements in it: emotions, hope, inspiration, society, relationships, and more.

Although you will expect me to I was wiser too than you had expected For I knew all along you were mine

50. "Echo" by Christina Rossetti

Talk to the children about different feelings. You might have a range of feeling words available or a range of photographs that represent feelings such as happy, sad, excited, surprised, angry, lonely, afraid. Have a discussion about personal experiences of these feelings, can the children remember a specific time they have felt like this? Where were they? What were they doing? Who were they with?

Movement Song’ by Audre Lorde is about the end of a relationship. While the sorrow felt after the speaker’s heart has been broken is clear, the poem ultimately ends with hope that the pair can both have a new beginning — albeit apart. 39. "Camomile Tea" by Katherine Mansfield We might be fifty, we might be five, So snug, so compact, so wise are we! Under the kitchen-table leg My knee is pressing against his knee. Juxtaposition is contrast—comparing dark with light, heroes with villains, night with day, beauty with cruelty. “All’s fair in love and war” is a famous example of juxtaposition—the idea puts two normally conflicting concepts side by side to make us reconsider the relationship they have to each other. One of the poems about true love and emotions. It showcases thecommitmentof a person and what he/she can do to help the person he/she loves to overcome the dark phase in life. There are two ways to begin working with poetic devices, both of them essential: the first is to read. Read classic poetry, modern poetry, free verse, blank verse, poetry written by men and women of all walks of life. Look at ways other artists have used these poetic devices effectively, and see which moments in their work resonate with you the most. Then ask yourself why and what you can do to bring that light into your own poetry.Anaphora is the act of beginning a series of successive sentences or clauses (sentence fragments) with the same phrase. It’s an older literary device that many writers instinctively still use today, knowing that it lends a unique emphasis and rhythm even if they don’t know the specific term for it. You may have even used it yourself without realizing it! A few years later, the psychiatrist Merrill Moore was given a copy of the poem, and he distributed 1,000 copies to his patients and soldiers during World War II. The poem thus became one of the great inspirational poetic messages of the twentieth century, particularly in the United States. If we can’t do it ourselves, we quote someone else’s words, instinctively and ritualistically associating poetry with the expression of emotion. In ‘I Love You’, Ella Wheeler Wilcox lays out the tiny moments that add up to why the speaker feels so passionately about her love, before going on to describe the colder attributes she’s not looking for in a relationship. This juxtaposition helps to make the initial love she describes all the more special. 64. "We Have Not Long to Love" by Tennessee Williams Now encourage the children to overlay the image they have created with a piece of tracing paper upon which to write words and phrases which explore the moment and the emotions evoked. Use these words and phrases to build up a draft of a free verse poem that helps the reader to picture the moment and feel the emotions you were feeling in the moment.