As Atticus has received no formal study of education, we are for this week studying what poetry is and how poetic devices provide meaning. I first on the board defined poetry and its purpose.Next,I provided instruction on common poetic devices: rhythm, rhyme, metaphor , and simile. We discussed examples of metaphor and simile and identified the things compared. After noting the purpose of stanzas we read and discussed the poem,"Trees.". Atticus identified the stanzas and the pervasive personifications, as well as they rhyme scheme. We then began examining the poem"Barter" which I assigned for homework l.