Poetry: Closing Our Unit

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. Turn in whatever you have finished in one period.

After 7th period or when all students are done with their analysis, those students who would like to retake their test may do so now. When you are done with the test, please go next door and work on the lab assignment.

LAB: Please take any poems you have written so far in class and revise them. Make the poems 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. Save and keep all your work.