1. Warm Up 1/18
Note: The first 5 hour Checkpoint for the Senior Project will take place on Monday, January 23rd.
Create a chart (like the one below) in your journal. Leave at least four blank rows.
Fill out what you can 
THEME
Poem Type
Evidence of Poem Type
The Sunne Rising
The Passionate Shepard to his Love
Ballad of Johnny X
Ballad of Birmingham

2. Learning Targets
To review the SIFTing of an aubade and a pastoral poem.
To read example ballads.
To use the SIFT method to analyze these poems in groups.

3. Teacher Notes on The Passionate Shepard to His Love
We’ll read over the poem as a class, and then we’ll review each step. If this poem is the one your group was assigned to work on, please correct/add to your work with my notes.
If there’s time, we’ll read Sir Walter Raleigh’s response to this poem 

4. The Passionate Shepard to His Love - Symbols
Hills, valleys, dales, fields
rocks, shepherds, flocks, rivers, birds
Roses, posies, flowers, kirtle, myrtle
Gown , wool, lambs, slippers, buckles, gold
Straw, ivy, coral clasps, amber studs
*The bolded items seem to represent clothing and finery. The remaining objects are all beautiful, flourishing, and natural.

5. The Passionate Shepard to His Love - Images
Beautiful scenery, similar to our own (see, touch, smell, hear).
Wildlife (hear, see)
Running water (see, hear, touch)
Flowers (see, smell,touch)
Gown and slippers (see, smell, touch)
Belt w/clasp (see, touch)
*Imagery can be categorized as natural, fresh, vivid, and spring-like.

6. The Passionate Shepard to His Love – Fig. Lang., Tone, and Theme
Figurative Language:
Rhyme
Alliteration – both create a songlike, melodic effect
Tone:
words: love, pleasures, “bed of roses,” delight
Categorize tone as: light, romantic, idealistic
Theme: Marlowe explores the fascination of the idea of new, young love. In a perfect world, all of what any lovers could need is provided for them in the country.

7. The Sunne Rising - Symbols
Sun, windows, curtains, school boys, begrudging workers, royal workers, kings, ants, offices
Beams, eyes, India’s of spice, kings, bed
States, princes, sun, world, bed, walls, sphere
The symbols fall into the three following categories:
natural: bright, powerful, spherical (earth, sun, etc.)
Royalty vs. non-royals: hierarchy
Bed: the center of the world

8. The Sunne Rising - Imagery
Sun beams shining (see, touch)
The sun rousing others, mentioned in order of importance (see, touch)
Rags of time: time’s waste
Someone winking and stopping the sunlight (see)
A lover adoringly looking over his love (see)
Very bright eyes (see)
India’s of spice (see, smell, touch)
All the kings in the bed (see)
The sun warming the world (see, touch)
Images can be categorized as bright sunlight, peeks at physical love, both royalty and simplicity.

9. The Sunne Rising – Figurative Language, Tone, and Theme
Personification of the sun as a nosy elderly person
Rhyme
Hyperbole:
“…cloud them with a wink” (13)
I wouldn’t blink in order to avoid losing sight of her
“this bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.” (30)
Tone:
Tone Words: (stanza 1) fool, unruly, saucy, pedantic, wretch, chide, late. (2) “why shoulds’t thou think?” “lose sight of her,” eyes blind thine. (3)All states…, sun art half as happy..
Tone can be characterized as angry and bitter in the first stanza, then changing to defiant in stanza two (only to switch tones, or to turn, halfway through to an adoring tone), and last to a devoted, enamored tone in the last stanza
Theme: Here, Dunne explores the power of love on the life of one consumed by it.

10. Group Work Read your assigned ballad.
SIFT it with your group (15 minutes!)

11. Ballads
Based on these two poems, what are the components of a ballad?

12. Components of a Ballad
It is a short narrative, which is usually—but not always—arranged in four-line stanzas with a distinctive and memorable meter.
The usual ballad meter is a first and third line with four stresses—iambic tetrameter—and then a second and fourth with three stresses—iambic trimeter.
The rhyme scheme is abab or abcb
The subject matter is distinctive: almost always communal stories of lost love, supernatural happenings, or recent events.
The ballad maker uses popular and local speech and dialogue often and vividly to convey the story. This is especially a feature of early ballads.