BEFORE BELL Please take out your vocab books and a sheet of paper!

Completing the Sentence 1-10 WARM UP Completing the Sentence 1-10

Fireside Poet Intro Video On your paper, reflect on the following questions: Which is most important: living a good life or living a long life? Why? What is the legacy you hope your generation leaves behind? Why are people so concerned with the afterlife? http://youtu.be/72NELwSeafk

William Cullen Bryant- Fireside Poets THANATOPSIS William Cullen Bryant- Fireside Poets

BEFORE WE READ POETRY, LET’S REVIEW LITERARY TERMS Metaphor: comparing two things without like or as (Books are the mirrors of the soul.) Simile: Comparing two things with like or as (Your smile is like the sun.) Hyperbole: Gross exaggeration of something (I am so hungry I could eat a horse!) Personification: Giving something not living human qualities Apostrophe: Talking to something/someone that is not with you; usually emotional (Twinkle Twinkle little star!) Oxymoron: juxtaposition of two opposite terms/idea (jumbo shrimp)

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ROMANTICS USED! Imagery: Words that evoke reaction from the five senses Allusion: Reference to another famous thing in literature Syntax: The arrangement of words and phrases in sentences Diction: The word choices an author makes Alliteration: Repetition of initial consonant sounds Tone: Writer’s attitude to subject matter

THANATOPSIS The Greek root thanatos means death. So what is the title telling us? The Greek word opsis means sight.

ROMANTICISM William Cullen Bryant: YOLO. Really. That’s about it. Though written at the age of 17, WCB edited the poem 10 years later, adding the final 9 lines. Do you think his youth is part of how he is viewing death at 17? How do you account for the change? How might he have rewritten it 20 or 50 years later?

BLANK VERSE Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter. Each line has five iambic feet, a pattern consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Poets who write in blank verse sometimes vary this rhythm, using loose iambic pentameter to add a conversational tone.

STRUCTURE In poetry, structure is the arrangement of words and lines to produce a desired effect. Summarize each section to understand the content and central ideas. Look for details and word choices that convey mood and tone. Section Idea Mood Diction Tone 1st Death comes to everyone Bleak

ANALYZE TOGETHER To Him who in the love of Nature holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts a Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee shudder, and grow sick at heart’ – Go forth, under the open sky, and list

PARTNER WORK In your group, annotate for each section and for the figurative language found in the poem.

CLOSURE QUIZ: “THANATOPSIS” 1. According to the poem, what the power to make you "shudder, and grow sick at heart" ("Thanatopsis" 13)? a. Thinking about the afterlife c. A good friend's death b. Realizing that there is no heaven d. The sad images associated with death  2. How are you like "the insensible rock" ("Thanatopsis" 27)? a. Both are made by God c. Rocks, like people, have feelings b. Both come from the earth d. You should throw rocks or people 3. Why do you not "retire alone" ("Thanatopsis" 32) when you die? a. Heaven is full of people! c. Your thoughts will accompany you b. The earth is full of the dead d. You will not be forgotten

a. Souls in heaven c. Stars in the sky 4. What is the "infinite host of heaven" ("Thanatopsis" 46)? a. Souls in heaven c. Stars in the sky b. Bodies in the ground d. Rocks on the earth   5. Which of the following best explains the theme of this poem? a. "be a brother to the insensible rock/And to the sluggish clod" ("Thanatopsis" 27-28) b. "Yet not to thine eternal resting-place/Shalt thou retire alone" ("Thanatopsis" 31-32) c. "Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--/Are but the solemn decorations" ("Thanatopsis" 43-44) d. "Approach thy grave,/Like one who . . . lies down to pleasant dreams" ("Thanatopsis" 80-81)

CLOSURE Homework: Vocab Quiz Tomorrow! Start working on Rough Draft With which of the following statements would Bryant agree? Worship should only take place inside a church. City life is superior to country life. Humanity lost something vital as it moved to an industrialized world. Evidence of a divine being can be found in nature.