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Assignment
Your Poem
Now it is time to write your own poem! What will be the theme or topic of your poem? Consider
what mood you want to create. Poems can paint pictures, create ideas, arouse emotions. Think
about how you can use poetic devices to communicate with your readers. Will you use form,
personification, an extended metaphor, a childlike rhyme scheme? You may choose to use one
or all of these. You many decide to use other poetic devices studied in these lessons. Be
creative!
Your poem must include the following:
a rhyme scheme or meter
figurative language
at least one verb in the subjunctive mood

What theme is best revealed by this conflict? a.)with cooperation, crews can defeat the gods. b.)dangerous ocean travel claims many lives. c.)rest is required for all who work hard. d.)people must respect the wrath of the gods. read the excerpt from part 1 of the odyssey. now zeus the lord of cloud roused in the north a storm against the ships and driving veils of the squall moved down like night on land and sea. the bows went plunging at the gust; sails cracked and lashed outstrips in the big wind. we saw death in that fury, dropped the yards, unshipped the oars, and pulled for the nearest lee: then two long days and nights we lay offshore.