Please give pointers to write a poem called "I am."The poem is supposed to be like Sandy Maas' poem called "I Am." The first stanza starts with "I...

Defined…"Poetry is perhaps the ultimate expression of
language." Your poem has a specific structure (using "I am…" or "I…"), but no rhythm and
rhyme. It is, however, still a poem.

Your assignment will
be easier if you separate it into pieces. My students have done something very similar
in the past.

You are first asked to provide a " title="stanza" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stanza">stanza"
(like a paragraph) that begins with "I am" and list two of
your characteristics. I do not know you and cannot complete your
assignment for you, but I can give you an example for
myself:

I am
easily entertained
and romantic.

This line
provides two of my characteristics. Characteristics, in general,
could include "generous," "cautious," "out-going", "stubborn," "funny," "shy," etc. They
act as adjectives in describing
you.

The next part of the
same stanza (on the next line) asks
you to include something about which you wonder, think or are curious. For example, it
could be what would it be like to travel in outer-space, how it might feel to fly, or
how it might feel to live on a house-boat.

Next line:
continue with an imaginary sound—"I hear"—you might imagine the sound of a cow
laughing—this is imaginary as I do not think cows laugh. (Has your teacher said it is
something that does not exist or something you
have not heard but can only imagine—like the call of a
moose…?)

The imaginary "I see" item could be a flying
carpet, a talking dog or an owl that wears glasses.

The
last line of this first stanza repeats the first line that you
wrote to start the poem. In my case, I would write, "I am easily entertained and
romantic." (Remember: all of these items should be on separate
lines.)

Now skip a full
line and begin your second stanza. Start
with "I pretend" and list something that you have pretended to
be—like a famous rock star or movie star, or that you pretend
exists—like no war. On the next line, write "I touch" and complete
it with something that you touch in your imagination: perhaps the
coat or skin of some kind of animal. The next line begins "I worry"—list something that
you worry about. You don't have to write about something really personal if you don't
want to, but you could write about something little—like homework or what to wear. The
next line lists something that makes you cry…"I cry about or
over"—anything that saddens you. The last line of this stanza is
the first line of the poem that you wrote—repeated on this new
line. Now you can see a
pattern emerging. Skip a
line.

For the third stanza, write the words "I
understand"—finish the line with something you know is true. On a
new line, write "I say"—this is something you believe in...it could
be as simple as "love."  For the next line, write "I dream" and finish the line with
something you actually dream about. Go one then to the following line and write "I try"
and list something you really make an effort with—something you try hard at…perhaps a
sport or school work. Your next line starts "I hope" and finishes with something you
actually hope for. The last line of the stanza is the repetition of
the first line of the poem that you wrote, "I
am…"

Double-check—each stanza has six lines; each item is
on a separate line; and a line is skipped between stanzas. Proofread for
spelling.

Reread the poem and see how these simple lines
have created something like an autobiography—while still sounding like a poem— each line
begins with "I" which is a form of repetition.