POETRY READING ASSIGNMENTS Period 7 Please read the poems (and other information) on the pages listed BEFORE the next class. GROUP #1 – Imagery and Form Poems Pages 656-693 GROUP #2 – Figures of Speech Pages 694-715 GROUP #3 – Sounds of Poetry Pages 716-743
POETRY ANALYSIS LITERARY or POETIC ELEMENTS Examine the poem and note any significant LITERARY or POETIC ELEMENTS you can identify and explain. The LITERARY ANALYSIS will consist of FOUR sections #1 – Structure/Organization/Form #2 – Imagery #3 – Poetic and Literary Elements #4 Theme OR Literal and Figurative Meaning
IMAGERY and FORM - PAGES 656-693 “Ode to My Socks” pages 674-675 Pair #1 “Same Song” page 659 and “Ode to My Socks” pages 674-675 Allusion Imagery *********** Ode Lyric
IMAGERY and FORM - PAGES 656-693 “Eating Together” page 663 Pair #2 “Eating Together” page 663 and “Grape Sherbet” page 665 Speaker Tone Voice
IMAGERY and FORM - PAGES 656-693 “A Storm in the Mountain” page 670 Pair #3 “The Legend” pages 668-669 and “A Storm in the Mountain” page 670 Elegy Prose Style
IMAGERY and FORM - PAGES 656-693 Pair #4 “The Summer I Was Sixteen” page 679 And “Obedience, or The Lying Tale” page 680-681 Theme Imagery Voice Tone
IMAGERY and FORM - PAGES 656-693 Pair #5 “I Am Offering This Poem” page 685 And “Three Japanese Tanka” page 686 Lyric Tanka Imagery
IMAGERY and FORM - PAGES 656-693 William Shakespeare “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” Sonnet (English or Shakespearean) Quatrain Couplet Iambic Pentameter
#1 – Structure/Organization/Form Stanzas Lines Patterns Rhyme or Free Verse? Rhyme Scheme Lyric or Ballad? Style
#2 – Imagery Words or Phrases that create a vivid mental picture or image Identify THREE examples of the poet using specific words and phrases that create an clear image in your head Copy the words and phrases State the line(s) where they were found Illustrate the images Explain how EACH image fits into the meaning of the poem
#3 – Poetic and Literary Elements End Rhyme Internal Rhyme Rhythm Repetition Allusion Personification Metaphor Simile Alliteration Sensory Language ???
#4 Theme and/or Literal and Figurative Meaning Theme is what the poet wants to say about the topic of the poem. Sometimes referred to as the “lesson” or “moral” of the text. Literal meaning is the “right there” meaning of the text. Everything is what it is. Figurative meaning is the deeper, more complicated meaning where certain elements of the poem have another significance that the reader must “figure” out in order to fully understand the poet’s ideas.
POETRY READING ASSIGNMENTS GROUP #2 – Figures of Speech Period 7 Please read the poems (and other information) on the pages listed BEFORE the next class. GROUP #2 – Figures of Speech Pages 694-715
Figures of Speech - PAGES 694-715 Pair #1 “Heart! We will forget him!” page 697 and “The Moon was but a Chin of Gold” page 698 Metaphor Personification
Figures of Speech - PAGES 694-715 “since feeling is first” page 702 Poem #2 “since feeling is first” page 702 Metaphor
Figures of Speech - PAGES 694-715 Pair #3 “Simile” page 707 and “The Taxi” page 708 Simile Extended Simile
Figures of Speech - PAGES 694-715 Pair #4 “miss rosie” page 712 and “this morning” page 713 Idiom Metaphor