1. Reading Standard 3.4: Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to evoke readers' emotions. Working with Poetry

2. Poetry can be read in many different ways. The way that you read a poem affects its tone, mood, and its meaning.

3. William Butler Yeats - The Stolen Child (1889) William Butler Yeats (yayts) was an Irish poet and playwright. He wrote this poem at the age of 24.

4. Listen to this reading of the poem. While listening, think about how it makes you feel. Consider: Why / how does it make you feel this way?

5. BLANK SCREEN FOR 1ST HEARING

6. With a partner or a group of 3, discuss your thoughts.

7. ●dreamlike ●creepy ●mysterious ●ominous ●fantastic (not awesome - referring to fantasy elements) Ms. Speights' initial thoughts:

8. Imagery: The "pictures" that we perceive with our mind's senses - sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste. It is the way through which we experience the world or reality created by poetic language.

9. Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water-rats; There we’ve hid our faery vats, Full of berries And of reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. Can you find imagery within the first stanza?

10. The second stanza? Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim grey sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

11. Where the wandering water gushes From the hills above Glen-Car, In pools among the rushes That scarce could bathe a star, We seek for slumbering trout And whispering in their ears Give them unquiet dreams; Leaning softly out From ferns that drop their tears Over the young streams. Come away, O human child! To to waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. The third stanza?

12. Away with us he’s going, The solemn-eyed: He’ll hear no more the lowing Of the calves on the warm hillside Or the kettle on the hob Sing peace into his breast, Or see the brown mice bob Round and round the oatmeal-chest. For he comes, the human child, To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, from a world more full of weeping than you can understand. The final stanza?

13. Implicit / Explicit, Connotation and Denotation ●Implicit = implied, not plainly expressed. Implied = hinted at, suggested. Ex: By not looking at someone and crossing your arms, you're implying / making it implicit that you don't want to talk to them. ●Explicit = clearly stated, obvious. Ex: By telling someone, "I don't want to talk to you," you're being explicit because you're making your feelings very obvious. ●Connotation = the emotional response to a word Ex: for me, cat = <3, cute, happiness. ●Denotation = the literal meaning of a word Ex: cat = small, furry animal that meows.