using imagery to visualize “the red wheelbarrow” “the lightening is a yellow fork”...
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USING IMAGERY TO VISUALIZE“THE RED WHEELBARROW”
“THE LIGHTENING IS A YELLOW FORK”
“MUSIC”
“THE RED WHEELBARROW”BY: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Bellwork: Draw a simple sketch of the images you can visualize when reading this poem.
POETRY AND IMAGERYTHINK AND SHARE
Review:
How have we interpreted poetry in the past? What terms did we study?
What is imagery?
Why do you think authors and poets rely on images?
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS1883-1963
• Doctor for 40 years
• Influential American poet
• Wanted to capture American speech in writing
• Known for being an Imagist poet
• Poets who were less rigid in form
• Poets who relied heavily on images
• Wrote poetry inspired by paintings
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-carlos-williams
“LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS”PIETER BRUEGEL
“THE LIGHTENING IS A YELLOW FORK”BY: EMILY DICKINSON
The Lightening is a yellow Fork
From Tables in the sky
By inadvertent fingers dropt
The awful Cutlery
Of mansions never quite disclosed
And never quite concealed
The Apparatus of the Dark
To ignorance revealed.
EMILY DICKINSON1830-1886
• Poetry and Style
• Poetry was published after her death• Sought to make the abstract concrete
through poetry• Wrote about nature and misperceptions
society could be making• Did not title her poems, but numbered
them.• Well educated
• but left school because she did not agree with the Calvinistic beliefs of the school she attended
• Reclusive
• There is speculation that she suffered from depression, agoraphobia, and/or anxiety http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/emily-dickinson