1. ANZAC Poetry Aim: To explore how poetry creates meaning

2. BRAINSTORM!! How is meaning created in poetry?? How many poetic devices can you think of? You can’t use your handout!

3. Here are some that you could mention Rhyme Rhythm Similes Metaphors Personification Symbolism Assonance Alliteration onomatopoeia

4. Now let’s look at a Prezi on Poetry devices

5. How is poetry different to a novel? What are the advantages/disadvantages of each? Discuss with the person beside you Write at least 5 dot points in each column POETRYNovel Advantages/Disadvantages

6. Similes A simile makes a comparison between two unlike things, using the words ‘like’, ‘as’ or ‘than’. All of the following comparisons are similes from every day life. He ran like the wind I am as warm as toast He ran ……. I am as hungry as …. The rain is as loud as…. Try to write two of your own now!

7. Metaphors The metaphor takes us one step further than the simile. Instead of asking us to picture one thing being like another, we are asked to picture one thing as being another. Her eyes are pools of light The hose is a green snake on the lawn Try to write two of your own!!

8. Anthem of Doomed Youth What poetic devices did you think were the most effective in this poem? Were you stuck on any questions? Ask 2 people if they know they answer Do you think that Wilfred Owen was successful in getting his message across? In pairs try to write a stanza in Owen’s style for the soldiers that have lost their lives recently. You can modernise the language but focus on symbols and metaphors

9. Dulce et Decorum Est You have 2 min to look up what this title means. Write this into your workbooks In a group of 2-3 help each other annotate the poem. Highlight and Annotate (take notes) Imagery Simile Metaphor rhyme

10. How does this poem make you feel? Discuss in your group for 2 min Write your response to the poem – 3 lines Pick out 3 lines that you think are most significant What is Owen’s purpose for writing this poem?

11. In Flanders fields John McCrae (1872–1918) In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place: and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

12. For the Fallen With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres. There is music in the midst of desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe.

13. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. They mingle not with laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England’s foam.

14. But where our desires are and our hopes profound, Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, To the innermost heart of their own land they are known As the stars are known to the Night; As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain, As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, To the end, to the end, they remain.

15. Group Discussion Questions 1. Choose 2 images from the poem. What emotions do they create? 2. What is the rhyming pattern of the poem? How does this affect the poem and how you read it? Does it sound like a drum? Does it make the pace faster or slower? 3. What is the rhythm? How many syllables in the lines? Is there a pattern? 4. What symbols are used? What do they mean? 5.Find a simile in the poem and explain how it adds to the theme. 6.Find a metaphor and explain what you think it means. 7.Describe the tone (mood) of the poem.

16. Your turn Try to write another stanza about the diggers for this poem. Mirror the rhyme and rhythm patterns Think of the images you want to create Try to include a simile and metaphor Consider the tone you are creating

17. The Send Off

18. INTRO QUIZ! Write an example of INTRO QUIZ! Write an example of: a metaphor a simile Personification Assonance Alliteration onomatopoeia

19. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place: and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Write your own annotations for some of the lines Symbolises: Comparison: Emotion:

20. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. Symbolises? Metaphor