How Do I Love Thee? Modeling

For this assignment I had trouble figuring out which direction I was meant to go in.  My content area being poetry, I thought about how modeling applied.  I considered how a poem could be expressed as a model.  I chose the poem Messy Room, by Shel Siverstein because of the visual nature of it.  I made a diorama of the “messy room” described in the poem. 

Messy Room 

by Shel Silverstein

Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or--
Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!

Although it is two-dimensional in picture form, it is three-dimensional as it sits on my dining room table.  I like the idea of asking students to create three-dimensional interpretations of a poem.  This one of course lent itself to a very literal translation.  Others might be more abstract and require more interpretation.  I also decided to create a life-size version of this poem.  Again it is represented in two-dimensions here, but from my angle was much more!    

I then thought that perhaps I should have looked at it from a teaching standpoint.  How could I model poetry and make it more visual.  I decided to look at some different poetry patterns and create models for them.  This is what I came up with.

          These models allow students to create their own poetry based on a specific pattern.  Having these models to refer to will help students to remember each pattern.  They make poetry visual, but in a completely different way.