After your test results today, please note the following:
Prose: We do not concern ourselves with line breaks. Prose is written from the left side of the page all the way to the edge of the right side. Paragraphs are indented. Prose is broken into paragraphs, chapters, or sections.
Poetry or Verse: Concerns itself with line breaks. The cadence group or phrase of a line is deliberately broken to keep rhythm, meter, or to highlight a literary device and its effect. It does not flow all the way across the page, but is broken into stanzas, sections, or uses line breaks to create an effect. Poetry uses careful diction (word choice) to create texture and meaning in a poem. It often uses more literary devices than prose.
Theme: there are only four basic themes in literature: life, death, love, and nature. While these all can be defined further (the theme of revenge, for example, or human conflict), a poet only writes about one of these basic themes. Life usually encompasses almost everything.
Message/Moral: this is what the author tries to communicate about the theme or subject.
Literary devices:
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost (pg. 538)
"Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost (pg. 548)
"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" by William Shakespeare (pg. 165)
Classroom task: In pairs:
Please read the following poems, name its basic THEME, and identify an example of each of the following:
A. Figurative Language
B. Sound Devices
C. Line Devices/Form
D. Syntax/Word Choice
E. Character Devices
The poems:
Wallace Stevens: "The Snow Man", pg. 564.
Wallace Stevens: "Of Modern Poetry", pg. 572.
E.E. Cummings: "Buffalo Bill's", pg. 676
Robert Francis: "Cadence", pg. 688
Langston Hughes: "Madam and the Rent Man", pg. 696
Stevie Smith: "Not Waving But Drowning", pg. 698-699
William Stafford: "Traveling Through the Dark", pg. 732
Gwendolyn Brooks: "The Mother", pg. 750-751
John Ashbery: "The Painter", pg. 791-792
Philip Levine: "Starlight", pg. 794-795
Turn in your answers by the end of class today.
LAB: Please take any poem you have written so far in class and revise it. Make the poem better by using the techniques we have been working with in class. Or: write a new draft of a poem. Title and label all drafts.
HOMEWORK: None. Unless you wish to study for your re-take exam, or have not yet completed your portfolio. Turn in any missing work by next class if you'd like minimal credit this marking period.
1. Any student who scored less than average (or those who would like to improve their score to the point of mastery (A-level)) will be able to take the exam again Friday.Key poetic terms and devices that a writer should be familiar with:
2. Before moving to our next unit, let's actually try to learn the basics about poetry writing.
Prose: We do not concern ourselves with line breaks. Prose is written from the left side of the page all the way to the edge of the right side. Paragraphs are indented. Prose is broken into paragraphs, chapters, or sections.
Poetry or Verse: Concerns itself with line breaks. The cadence group or phrase of a line is deliberately broken to keep rhythm, meter, or to highlight a literary device and its effect. It does not flow all the way across the page, but is broken into stanzas, sections, or uses line breaks to create an effect. Poetry uses careful diction (word choice) to create texture and meaning in a poem. It often uses more literary devices than prose.
Theme: there are only four basic themes in literature: life, death, love, and nature. While these all can be defined further (the theme of revenge, for example, or human conflict), a poet only writes about one of these basic themes. Life usually encompasses almost everything.
Message/Moral: this is what the author tries to communicate about the theme or subject.
Literary devices:
- Figurative language: imagery (metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, symbol)
- Sound devices: alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme
- Line devices/form: stanzas, meter, enjambment, caesura
- Syntax & Word Choice: inversion, juxtaposition, diction, tone
- Character devices: persona, voice. tone, monologue
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost (pg. 538)
"Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost (pg. 548)
"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" by William Shakespeare (pg. 165)
Classroom task: In pairs:
Please read the following poems, name its basic THEME, and identify an example of each of the following:
A. Figurative Language
B. Sound Devices
C. Line Devices/Form
D. Syntax/Word Choice
E. Character Devices
The poems:
Wallace Stevens: "The Snow Man", pg. 564.
Wallace Stevens: "Of Modern Poetry", pg. 572.
E.E. Cummings: "Buffalo Bill's", pg. 676
Robert Francis: "Cadence", pg. 688
Langston Hughes: "Madam and the Rent Man", pg. 696
Stevie Smith: "Not Waving But Drowning", pg. 698-699
William Stafford: "Traveling Through the Dark", pg. 732
Gwendolyn Brooks: "The Mother", pg. 750-751
John Ashbery: "The Painter", pg. 791-792
Philip Levine: "Starlight", pg. 794-795
Turn in your answers by the end of class today.
LAB: Please take any poem you have written so far in class and revise it. Make the poem better by using the techniques we have been working with in class. Or: write a new draft of a poem. Title and label all drafts.
HOMEWORK: None. Unless you wish to study for your re-take exam, or have not yet completed your portfolio. Turn in any missing work by next class if you'd like minimal credit this marking period.
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