Read the opening lines from neil degrasse tyson’s “death by black hole.” without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole. where else in the universe can you lose your life by being ripped apart atom by atom? read the beginning stanza from billy collins’s “man listening to disc.” this is not bad— ambling along 44th street with sonny rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft calipers of these earphones, the beginnings of these two pieces are similar because they both

50 ! your poem must include the following: ● poetic form: lines and stanzas (not paragraphs! ) o your poem needs to be at least 10 lines long. ● sensory details/strong imagery o “paint a picture” and/or create an emotion with your words, word choice is key in poetry ● figurative language o include at least one of the following: metaphor, simile, and/or personification (click here for more info. on these) ● sound devices o include at least one of the following: repetition, rhyme, rhythm, meter, onomatopoeia, and/or alliteration (click here for more info. on these) ● labels o underneath your poem, include the words from the poem that represent the figurative language and sound devices and label them o examples: booming bombs - alliteration; like a firefly - simile you so