1. Do you know what these picture are?
Cicada

2. Ode/Lyric RL.1 Cite Textual evidence RL.2 Determine a central idea
RL.4 Determine meaning of words and phrases
RL.5 Analyze how a poem’s form contributes to its meaning
RL.6 Analyze points of view of a narrator’s voice
SL.1 Engage in collaborative discussions.
SL.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks

3. Objective
Rationale
Today we will be able to analyze poetic form and how poets use figurative language to express feelings and ideas
We need to be able understand different forms of poetry and the different ways poets express their thoughts and feelings.
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4. Lyric Ode
A short poem with a single speaker expressing strong emotions or thought
Known for its musicality
Free Verse is a form that does not use formal structure or rhyme schemes
Originally the ode was written to be accompanied by music or dance.
formal structure
Serious themes: justice, truth, or beauty
Celebrates its subject: person, event, thing, or element in nature

5. Ode to enchanted light Pablo Neruda
What feelings are suggested in lines 1-9 of the poem? How does the poet suggest those feelings?
A ciacada is an insect that makes a high-pitched, continuous sound, usually in summer. Reread lines What repeated first sound or alliteration, do you hear, and how are the sounds connected to the poems meaning?
Does the poem meet the requirements of an ode? Why or why not?
Ode to enchanted light Pablo Neruda
Under the trees light
has dropped from the top of the sky, light
like a green
5 latticework of branches,
shining
on every leaf,
drifting down like clean
white sand.
10 A cicada sends
its sawing song
high into the empty air.
The world is
a glass overflowing
15 with water.

6. Sleeping in the Forest Mary Oliver
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Reread the last sentence of the poem. What might the speaker mean by ‘something better”?
Reread lines What is compared to “a stone/on the riverbed”? Where else does the image appear in the poem?
Identify examples of each of the elements of a lyric poem that appear in “Sleeping in the Forrest.” Do you think Oliver’s poem is a good example of a lyric poem? Why or why not?
I thought the earth
remembered me, she
took me back so tenderly, arranging
her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds. I slept
as never before, a stone
on the reverbed, nothing
between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated
light as moths among the branches
of the perfect trees. All night
I heard the small kingdoms breathing
around me, the insects, and the birds
who do their work in the darkness. All night
I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling
with luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better. 5 10 15