Tanka's were first written in the seventh century and were one of the first Japanese poems. I thought that Haiku would be older but tankas are 1000 years older!
I enjoyed writing my Tanka because tankas seem really cool to me and they are like haikus which I really like doing. It was also really cool learning that Tanka's were so old yet I am doing one in the distant future of it being invented. I also made a Pivot sentence.
I found it tricky to make what I want to say in the right format. If you don't know, tanka's follow a pattern. Its syllables go from 5 to 7 to 5 again then 7 and 7 again. A few times I thought of something then it was eight syllables so I had to think hard to make it fit and use different words. I used the online thesaurus to help.
Here is my Tanka:
Kia ora Kylah. My name is Phil (from the intro video for this task). I really enjoyed listening to your poem. You performed it really clearly, ka pai! I also enjoyed the way you explained to your readers what you had to do and what challenges you faced. I'll keep an eye out for your future poems...
ReplyDeleteKia ora Kylah
ReplyDeleteYou have done an awesome job of presenting this task. I love the way you have explained what this means and your link to the past/future.
So glad that you are enjoying the SLJ activities.
Nga mihi
Deborah
Kia ora anō Kylah,
ReplyDeleteThis is an amazing Tanka poem! You spoke beautifully and clearly in your recording, that was very special to hear you reading your poem aloud as the author!
Great work counting the syllables and finding words to fit in the Tanka structure. Well done also using a thesaurus to help find those awesome words!
It is definitely cool that even though Tanka’s are so old, we can still use them today to create poems, you are very right about that!
I’m marking this as an outstanding blog post, because of your understanding of the history and structure of Tanka poems, and determination to make an awesome poem. Well done!
Keep up the creative mahi.
Ngā mihi,
Lauren