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Poetry

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Poetry Pre-test

Do what you can.

Try your best please and then submit to me at my desk.

Silently read

Warm Up:

Describe what it would be like to be a water droplet--use descriptive language.ORDescribe a time when the weather impacted your plans (for the better or worse)

**You will work on this paragraph all week long and make edits to it.

Tuesday

Look at and highlight your poetry notes as we go through

these slides.

You will have a quiz on Friday, so be sure to understand what

you highlight!!!

What makes a poem a poem?

How is it different from prose?

1. Speaker

Person talking in the poem (perspective its told from-usually a character). It is similar to a narrator in a story. This is NOT the poet.

2. sound devices: add a sound quality to a poem.

alliteration- using words that start with the same consonant sound

onomatopoeia- words that create the sound they mean when you say them aloud

rhythm- the beat in a poem

refrain/repetition- repeating a word, phrase, line, or stanza

rhyme- words with the same END sound

Alliteration- repetition of beginning sounds

Onomatopoeia- a word that creates its sound when you say it aloud

The twigs snapped and the leaves crunched under my feet.

Twinkle, twinkle little star,How I wonder what you are.Up above the world so high,Like a diamond in the sky.Twinkle, twinkle little star,How I wonder what you are. Whenever someone reads this,

there is a certain beat that you fall into. This beat is caused by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines.

Rhythm

refrain- repeating sounds, words or phrases

Rain, rain go away

Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb.Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow.

“I heard a bird singIn the dark of DecemberA magical thingAnd sweet to remember. ‘We are nearer to SpringThan we were in September,’I heard a bird singIn the dark of December.”

3. FORM OR STRUCTURE:Poems are arranged in stanzas, not paragraphsPunctuation rules are not as strict

4. Figurative Language- descriptive phrases that do not hold their literal meaning

metaphor- description technique that compares an object to another object.

simile- description technique that compares an object to another object using "like" or "as."

personification- description technique that gives an object human qualities.

hyperbole--extreme exaggeration

Metaphor- a description comparing two seemingly unlike things

Jim is a pig.

= ?

Simile- description comparing two things using "like" or "as"

He's as strong as an Ox. He was

sleeping like a log.

Personification- giving an object human qualities

The morning sun greeted me as I stepped out into the crisp fall day.

NO! YES!

Hyperbole- description that uses extreme exaggeration

"I'll die if I don't eat soon."

hyperbole

literal

TOD: List the Characteristics of Poetry

Warm Up:

1. The following is an example of which descriptive technique:Her eyes shone like the stars in the night sky.

2. What is being described?

3. What is refrain? Explain in a complete sentence.

Wednesday

onomatopoeia

rhyme refrain alliteration

rhythm

Eight Balloons

What's This?

TOD: Add an onomatopoeia and alliteration to your

paragraph from yesterday.

Warm Up: Read "Like Book Ends"

p. 583

Thursday

FOG Carl Sandburg

The fog comeson little cat feet.

It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.

Title Clues:

Setting Clues:

Speaker Clues:

Fig. Lang:

Two Haiku

Basho

Winter solitude--in a world of one color

the sound of the wind.

A field of cotton--as if the moon

had flowered.

April Rain Songby Langston Hughes

Let the rain kiss youLet the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid dropsLet the rain sing you a lullabyThe rain makes still pools on the sidewalkThe rain makes running pools in the gutterThe rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at nightAnd I love the rain.

Tell which type of figurative language is used in each sentence. (simile-metaphor-personification)

We will go over these, so be ready to justify your answer!

1. The highway was a silver ribbon winding through the plush valleys and verdant pastures of the countryside.

2. The shadows of the trees lay like lace on the black asphalt road dressing it for evening.

3. The weeping willow tree wailed while the wind blew unrelentingly.

4. After a weary night, the dawn approached my window like a welcomed visitor bearing gifts.

5. The sturdy oaks were soldiers lined before the castle waiting to protect it at a moment's notice.

6. The raging fire licked the abandoned shack with hungry tongues and in a short time had devoured it completely.

Create an original line of your own for each type of figurative language (simile, metaphor, and personification), in your paragraph from Tuesday.

TOD: Write your own stanza to add on to "Fog" or "Two Haiku" using a metaphor AND personification.

Challenge: write your own poem using an extended metaphor.

Warm Up: Review notes on sound devices and figurative language for quiz

Friday

Poem Analysis Process--the Bernier wayRead once--look at titlelook for clues to setting (day or night, winter or spring, inside or outside, modern or past)look for clues to speaker (child, parent, animal, tree, type of person??)look for clues to tone (happy, sad, sarcastic, bitter, or angry words)

Read again paraphrase in margin the parts you getput ? by the parts that confuse youlook at descriptions and visualize!! Read again as neededeliminate as many ?s replacing with paraphrasing

Read againlook at the title againdetermine poem’s meaning (theme)

Skiingby Marchette ChuteI'm very good at skiing.

I have a kind of knackFor I can do it frontways

And also on my back.And when I reach the bottom

I give a sudden flopAnd dig myself in sideways

And that's the way I stop.

1. What is the setting of the poem? How can you tell?

2. Who is the speaker of the poem--what kind of person is he or she?

3. How does the speaker feel about skiing?

4. What is the tone of the poem?

5. What words help you visualize the scene in your mind?

Independent practice in Interactive reader???

MondayWarm up:

Snow Towards Evening by Melville Cane

Suddenly the sky turned gray,The day,Which had been bitter and chill,Grew soft and still.QuietlyFrom some invisible blossoming treeMillions of petals cool and whiteDrifted and blew,Lifted and flew,Fell with the falling night.

Who is the speaker in the poem?

What is the setting of the poem?

Paraphrase the poem.

Where does the shift take place in the poem? What causes the shift?

How does the shift impact the speaker's tone?

To what does the line "from some invisible blossoming tree" refer?

What are the "millions of petals cool and white"?

What is the impact of the figurative language on the poem?

What is the mood of this poem?

In what way can you relate to the situation being described in this poem?

1. Which of the following best describes the mood at the end of the poem?a. treacherousb. peacefulc. humorousd. indifferent

2. What is the purpose of the metaphor in the poem?a. To give the poet an excuse to use little punctuation throughout the

poemb. To give the poem a certain rhythmc. To enhance the visual images for the readerd. To emphasize the rhyming words

3. What might the speaker be feeling at the end of the poem?a. Disappointment, because the weather is so coldb. Joy, because it is snowingc. Appreciation, because of the beauty of nature surrounding himd. Disgust, because the sky is so gray

4. What is the theme of the poem?a. Weather can change instantly.b. It is best to stay inside during a snowstorm.c. The sky turning gray is a warning that something dangerous may

happen.d. Appreciate the beauty of nature.

5. What is the purpose of the rhyme in the lines "drifted and blew/lifted and flew"?a. To create a pleasing rhythm in the poem and help the reader visualize

the situationb. To make the poem's tone and mood more seriousc. To make the speaker sound more indifferentd. To add alliteration to the poem

SOMETHING TOLD THE WILD GEESEBy Rachel Field

Something told the wild geeseIt was time to go,

Though the fields lay goldenSomething whispered, "snow."Leaves were green and stirring,

Berries, luster-glossed,But beneath warm feathers

Something cautioned, "frost."All the sagging orchards

Steamed with amber spice,But each wild breast stiffened

At remembered ice.Something told the wild geese

It was time to fly,Summer sun was on their wings,

Winter in their cry.






To what does the line "All the sagging orchardsSteamed with amber spice" refer?


I Heard a Bird Sing

“I heard a bird singIn the dark of DecemberA magical thingAnd sweet to remember. ‘We are nearer to SpringThan we were in September,’I heard a bird singIn the dark of December.”- Oliver Herford






What does the line "We are nearer to SpringThan we were in September" mean?

What is the "dark of December"?



Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells!What a world of merriment their melody foretells!How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,In the icy air of night!While the stars that oversprinkleAll the heavens seem to twinkleWith a crystalline delight;Keeping time, time, time,In a sort of Runic rhyme,To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

from The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe




What does the line "What a world of merriment their melody foretells" mean?

What is the "crystalline delight"?



from Blossom ThemesCarl Sandburg

Late in the winter came one dayWhen there was a whiff on the wind,a suspicion, a cry not to be heardof perhaps blossoms, perhaps greengrass and clean hills lifting rollingshoulders.Does the nose get the cry of springfirst of all? is the nose thankfuland thrilled first of all?






What does the line "Does the nose get the cry of springfirst of all? is the nose thankful and thrilled first of all?" mean?

What is the "whiff on the wind"?



.....All shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice in games...So through the darkness and the cold we flew, And not a voice was idle; with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud. The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron... While the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.

From The Prelude






What does the line "all shod with steel" mean?

What does the line "not a voice was idle" mean?


from Snow Stormby John Clare

What a night! The wind howls, hisses, and but stopsTo howl more loud, while the snow volley keepsIncessant batter at the window-pane,Making our comforts feel as sweet again;And in the morning, when the tempest drops,At every cottage door mountainous heapsOf snow lie drifted, that all entrance stopsUntil the broom and the shovel gainThe path, and leave a wall on either side.






What does the line "incessant batter at the window pane" mean?

What does the line " and leave a wall on either side" mean?


AN AWFUL tempest mashed the air, The clouds were gaunt and few; A black, as of a spectre’s cloak, Hid heaven and earth from view.

The creatures chuckled on the roofs 5 And whistled in the air, And shook their fists and gnashed their teeth, And swung their frenzied hair.

The morning lit, the birds arose; The monster’s faded eyes 10 Turned slowly to his native coast, And peace was Paradise!

An Awful Tempest by Emily Dickinson






What does the line "a Black, as of a spectre's cloak" mean?

What does the line " and peace, was paradise" mean?


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