5E's Ancient Greece Poetry

This week we began our new half term topic of Ancient Greece. After learning about the culture of Ancient Greece, we wrote poetry concerning Mount Olympus and its various gods, particularly focusing on Zeus and Hades. We were aiming to improve our use of metaphors.

Below is Malakai's poem:

Mount Olympus, haven of many gods enthroning earth,

The predominant mountain of Greece emphasizing power, mirth.

Magical misty clouds amidst soaring figures,

Enclosing courageously in milky-gold fractures,

Home of Zeus, sagacious ruler of the skies,

Possessing power from the lighting rod,

Omnipotent and carved illustriously,

Confining thoughts of his brother's doom ,

To an impenetrable trap ensnared beneath the ground.

Caked in peppermint flame ,

Robed in feathery wings of midnight bats ,

Tarrying eternally amongst craving psyches,

Hades urges his potential wisdom depart,

In return far precarious respect,

Yet fearing future demise.

Gods of the cherished mountain,

Memories blackening the etched wood of our minds,

A miracle leaping with high hope,

Beyond the bounds of reality,

Or mere fascinating fable?

Metaphors for us!

To help develop our use of figurative language, 5R came up with metaphors for ourselves. We then assembled these into a poem, which is below. What would your metaphor for yourself be?

 

I am the sun shining upon your heads

I am the aeroplane flying in the sky

I am bones fractured in many places

I am the waters swishing and swirling

I am the jumping bean jumping in your mouth

I am the fury of a thunderbolt crackling around the trees

I am the twinkling stars guiding you to your destiny

I am the tip of the fire scorching through the silhouetted trees

I am the tip of the iceberg freezing to death

I am the wave crashing into the sea

I am the heart of the sun burning

I am the volcano erupting into the air

I am the storm striking Earth

I am the current whooshing and swooshing you away

I am the whizzing pixels from inside the console

I am the multi-coloured rainbow flying in the sky

I am the bird flapping its wings

I am the cricket ball rolling to the wicket

I am the daisies that make a chain

I am the moon jumping on you

I am the sun with my hair waving behind me