Essential question: Where can your imagination take you?

Comprehension Skill: Point of View

• The way the speaker in a poem feels about something is his or her point of view.

• To understand the speaker's point of view, think about what the speaker is describing and how he or she describes it.

create- something that is made or invented

dazzling- something that is very bright

imagination- visualizing ideas in the mind

seconds- units for measuring time; 1/60th of a minute

beats- the syllables that make rhythm in a line of poetry

message- an idea that a poet wants to share with the reader

metaphor- compares two unlike things but does not use the words "like" or "as"

repeated lines- including the same line at least twice in a poem