A Poem To A Beautiful Tree

Learn how to write a poem about the trees in your natural space.

Explicit

Learners will discover how to create a new text using a tree of their choice. Through exploration of their senses, learners will select appropriate adjectives to describe the tree and the structure therefor creating a shape poem.

Connect The Learning

The use of nature as a source of inspiration for poems dates to ancient times. Oral poetry has been passed through generations and nature similes have been used to describe humans and human nature in poems found across the world.

“My love is like a red, red rose”, Robert Burns.

Shape poems or pattern poems dates to ancient Greece with the shapes depicting the poem subject.