1. Visualizing Your Final Response
New Poets
Visualizing Your Final Response

2. In this collection the student will demonstrate an understanding of how Modern poets pushed the boundaries of subject matter, form, and style, Poets in this era found inspiration in a wide range of sources and created new ways to capture individual experience
Choose and complete one of the following options:
In a formal essay, explicate a poem from this collection:
Create an 8x10 collage for a poem with a minimum 150 word explanation of how the images in the collage correspond to the poem
Create a minimum 7 item mobile for a poem with images on one side and corresponding lines from the poem from the selection on the other.
Find three contemporary songs whose lyrics or mood match those of poems in this selection. Provide the music and brief explanation of which poems the songs connect to and why.

3. Explication Transitional Expressions Introduction Hook
Conclusion
Review thesis/ plan
Tie back to hook
Introduction
Hook
Thesis/ Plan ≈ Poem of Focus Identified
Topic sentence≈ Examine the situation in the poem (narrative, mood, voice, tone)
Supporting Sentences ≈
Lines from the poem to support assertions
Topic sentence≈ Examine the structure of the poem [form ( e.g. sonnet vs. free), syntax (e.g. complicated vs. simple)], punctuation) Supporting Sentences ≈
Topic sentence≈ Examine the language of the poem (word choice, imagery, symbolism)
Topic sentence≈ Examine the musical devices in the poem (rhyme scheme, alliteration, repetition) Supporting Sentences ≈
Explication
300 words

4. Collage Side 1 Side 2 Create an 8x10 collage for a poem with a minimum
“Lucinda Matlock”, by Edgar Lee Masters is a poem with a lot of imagery
For my collage I attempted to capture that imagery.
Image #1 in the center represents . . .
Image #2 in the center represents . . .
Image #3 in the center represents . . .
Image #4 in the center represents . . .
Image #5 in the center represents . . .
Side 1
Side 2
Create an 8x10 collage for a poem with a minimum
150 word explanation of how the images
in the collage correspond to the poem.

5. Mobile Create a minimum mobile that contains: 7 item mobile for a poem
images on one side
corresponding lines from the poem
from the selection on the other.

6. Soundtrack
Find three contemporary songs whose lyrics or mood match those of poems in this selection.
Provide the
Music
Lyrics
Brief explanation of which poems the songs connect to and why.