Writing an Acrostic Poem

1. Saturday, 19 th February,2011 Najia Zaheer Nazir Instructor, English Language and Literature in English Generation’s School

2. Activity 1: Gearing to Write

3. Read These lines and deliberate on the theme

4. Departed Soul, winged and empowered , Every inch a solemn piece , After such a drag-such a screeching drag There it met the closed call . “Hark ! I have descended my throne”

5. Were you able to detect any underlying theme/ thought?

6. Now do you see any dominant feature?

7. Theme? Structure? Both?

8. Now Read This!

9. Identify the Theme Ruthless murderer, armed with madness, Implicated innocents to suit his desires, Cardinally reproachable. Obsession, Hunger, craving for more And more, forayed to the hallways of Revenge, so truly sought by the desperates . “Dog has met his end.”

10. Do you Know this Character?

11. Acrostic Poem

12. Observe the lines again!

13. R uthless murderer, armed with madness,   I mplicated innocents to suit his desires, C ardinally reproachable. Obsession,   H unger, craving for more   A nd more, forayed to the hallways of R evenge, so duly sought by the desperates   “ D og has met his end.”

14. Can you Define the rubrics of an acrostic poem

15. 1 . Choose a theme  

16. For Instance: Take up the theme ‘Life’

17. Write as many words as you can think of when you deliberate on this theme

18. LIFE Unabashed Beauty, Naivety Long journey into the night Full of surprises Eternity Experiences gained Innocence lost Forced to live Escape  

19. Now write the first letters of your selected theme vertically .

20. L I F E

21. Begin each line with the respective letters of the selected word.

22. Activity 2: ” Death Be Not Proud…”