FOUND POEMS

Found poetry is a form of poetry popular during the 1960s. To create found poems, poets “find” poetry in other non-poetic texts. (i.e.: newspaper articles, textbooks, advertisements, novels.) Lifting consecutive, unedited lines from these texts, poets arrange the words to bring out new meanings and associations. Through found poetry, readers experience texts
in new ways.

Here is an example poem found in the first two sentences of chapter Sixteen of Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver.

Loss

Jonas
did not
want
to go back.
He
didn’t want the
memories,
didn’t want the
wisdom,
didn’t want the
pain.
He wanted
his
childhood
again.
—The Giver, p. 131

Construct your own found poem which 'uncovers' an idea which is buried in the novel. Include the title of the novel and the page(s) on which their poem was found. Illustrate the poem with symbols from the novel.