1. 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
GROUP #2 – Figures of Speech
Pages
GROUP #3 – Sounds of Poetry
Pages

2. 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

3. 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
Allusion
Imagery
***********
Ode
Lyric

4. IMAGERY and FORM - PAGES 656-693 “Eating Together” page 663
Pair #2
“Eating Together” page 663
and
“Grape Sherbet” page 665
Speaker
Tone
Voice

5. IMAGERY and FORM - PAGES 656-693 “A Storm in the Mountain” page 670
Pair #3
“The Legend” pages
and
“A Storm in the Mountain” page 670
Elegy
Prose
Style

6. IMAGERY and FORM - PAGES 656-693
Pair #4
“The Summer I Was Sixteen” page 679
And
“Obedience, or The Lying Tale” page
Theme
Imagery
Voice
Tone

7. IMAGERY and FORM - PAGES 656-693
Pair #5
“I Am Offering This Poem” page 685
And
“Three Japanese Tanka” page 686
Lyric
Tanka
Imagery

8. 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

11. #1 – Structure/Organization/Form
Stanzas
Lines
Patterns
Rhyme or Free Verse?
Rhyme Scheme
Lyric or Ballad?
Style

12. #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

13. #3 – Poetic and Literary Elements
End Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
Rhythm
Repetition
Allusion
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
Sensory Language
???

14. #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.

15. 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

16. 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

17. Figures of Speech - PAGES 694-715 “since feeling is first” page 702
Poem #2
“since feeling is first” page 702
Metaphor

18. Figures of Speech - PAGES 694-715
Pair #3
“Simile” page 707
and
“The Taxi” page 708
Simile
Extended Simile

19. Figures of Speech - PAGES 694-715
Pair #4
“miss rosie” page 712
and
“this morning” page 713
Idiom
Metaphor