Today's readings include the introductions for each poet, and the poems on the following pages: 463-475 (Dickenson) and 534-554 (Frost).
Some of this we will read together as a class, some in small groups or pairs, and some alone.
Key ideas/literary techniques referenced:
Some of this we will read together as a class, some in small groups or pairs, and some alone.
Key ideas/literary techniques referenced:
- Prose versus Poetry or verse
- Iambic tetrameter
- Iambic trimeter
- Iambic pentameter
- Hymn
- Ode
- Sonnet (both Shakespearean & Petrarchan)
- Diction
- Tone
- Symbol
- Metaphor/simile
- Imagery
- Elliptical syntax
- Connotation versus denotation
- Grammar in poetry: particularly the em-dash, but also capitalization, sentence length, enjambment, etc.
LAB: Now it's your turn. After reading/examining these poets, go to the lab and write a poem. Choose either Dickenson or Frost as a "mentor" and try a hymn about death, or a sonnet about nature, use em-dashes, or couplets, or any other idea listed in the bullet list above, etc.
Create and complete a draft. Put it in your portfolio for safe keeping. We'll come back to it!
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