Putting a Stereotype to Poetry
Stereotypes are inherently simplistic
- they attempt to characterize many people based on a few attributes. As
such, they lend themselves to poetry. We're going to use stereotypes to
create a style of poetry to help understand how oversimplified a view of
life they can project.
A cinquain is a 5-line poem that follows
a pattern:
Line
|
Syllables
|
Description
|
1
|
2
|
Subject
|
2
|
4
|
Subject Description
|
3
|
6
|
Action Words
|
4
|
8
|
Your feelings on the subject
|
5
|
2
|
Another word for the subject
|
For example:
Police
Big Irish Men
Run, Eat Doughnuts, Shoot Punks
Throw thugs from the streets into jail
Five-oh
|
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