Remember to only choose ONE of the poems. Don't write about both or compare.
Remember to write the title of the poem at the top of your essay.
Notes: Quoting Poetry
Rule 1: When quoting a line or two of poetry, include the line numbers at the end.
Rule 2: If you are quoting two lines of poetry, use a slash to show the line breaks.
Example: Frost's poem states, "Separate each line/ Of the Poem" (3-4).
Rule 3: If you only want to quote a word or two, surround the word or phrase with quotationsand wait until the end of the sentence to include the line number.
Example: Frost uses the word "sleep" to imply fantasies about solitude and perhaps death (15).
Rule 4: If you have more than three lines, use block quotation format.
Example below:
In a poem, "If," Rudyard Kipling addresses sportsmanship when he discusses risks:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss; (17-20)
And carry on with the paragraph below the excerpt.....
Directions: Choose ONE of the poems. As you read the passage, consider how [the author] creates meaning through the elements within the text. Consider that there are many areas that you may examine to find evidence to support your interpretation:
evidence, such as facts or examples or direct wording.
stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.
structural features such as punctuation or sonnet rhyme schemes and structures such as the placement of the volta.
rhetorical features such as poetic devices.
Pompt: Write a 5 paragraph essay in which you explain what the poem means and how you know what that meaning is. Your essay should not explain whether you agree with the message of the poem, but rather explain how the author clearly makes his/her message.
Poetry Devices Quiz returned Journal 14 Look over the sonnets from our group analysis. Write at least two thesis statements based on the prompt above for at least two different sonnets.
Affect vs. Effect Quiz yourself here MEMORIZATION: Stanza 2 due on Tuesday.
POETRY
EQ: Can you analyze a sonnet using its structure?
Review
Define a sonnet.
What is the difference between Italian and British?
Who perfected the Italian? the British?
What is the organizational shift in the middle called?
Go over Journals 11 & 12
Journal 13 Directions: Work with your group to work the journal questions with your assigned poem. Be ready to present your sonnet analysis to the class tomorrow. 1) Is this sonnet an Italian or British style sonnet? 2) What poetic devices are present (name at least five) and most importantly, how does each one affect the rhythm, mood or meaning of the poem? 3) Where is the turn and what is the conceptual relationship shown by the structure?
He would declare and could himself believe That the birds there in all the garden round From having heard the day long voice of Eve Had added to their own an oversound, Her tone of meaning but without the words. Admittedly an eloquence so soft Could only have had an influence on birds When call or laughter carried it aloft. Be that as may be, she was in their song. Moreover her voice upon their voices crossed Had now persisted in the woods so long That probably it never would be lost. Never again would birds' song be the same. And to do that to birds was why she came.
Group 4
Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun
Remember thy great craft's honour, that they may say
Nothing in shame of poets. Then the crumbs
Of praise the little versemen joyed to take
Shall be forgotten; then they must know we are,
For all our skill in words, equal in might
And strong of mettle as those we honoured; make
The name of poet terrible in just war,
And like a crown of honour upon the fight.
Group 7 Sonnet Sickness BY MR. RENO (Our beloved English teacher from years past)
When I consider sonnets I turn green. I gag. I heave. Dry heaves, they will not stop Until I write a quatrain...wait! I mean An octave! (What I've written is mere slop.) I cannot do this... meter? When will't end?!!! As soon as the meter's dial'd I kill the rhyme. This casualty results when I don't tend All sheep at once. I'm running out of time... Shakespeare'ean hydra! Come at me full force! My loins I'll gird and stand my ground a man Who will not shirk from war, nor from the course will I depart. (my mind has hatched a plan!) Submission to this yoke (the sonnet's weight) Now means I've earned the right to graduate.
Add to J10: What is the difference between an Italian vs. a British sonnet when it comes to rhyme scheme?
EQ: Can you identify a poetic foot? How about the turn aka volta?
We'll start with the Italian, sometimes called Petrarch sonnet...
Here are examples of each kind.... Notice the Iambic Pentameter.
Italian (Petrarch) Form
British (Shakespearean) Form
Journal 11 - Sonnet Practice
For the poem, write a 1/2 page analysis that includes:
1) Is this sonnet an Italian or British style sonnet?
2) What poetic devices are present (name at least five) and how do they affect the rhythm, mood, or meaning of the poem?
3) Where is the turn and what is the conceptual relationship shown by the structure?
Announcement: Don't forget to check the post for details on Winter Ball here.
Practice "If" and take Stanza 1 Quiz (8 lines)
If...
Are... ,
If.... ,
But..... ;
If..... ,
Or.... , ,
Or.... , ,
And.... , :
When you finish, start Journal 10: Sonnets by recording definitions of volta, octave, sestet and quatrain from the sonnet section, click here (look under Petrarchan Sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet.
Let's practice for the poetic devices quiz tomorrow with this Kahoot.
HW: Study! You will need to know the definitions of each device and be able to identify when a device is used in a poem.
Next Class starts Jan. 30 and runs 4-8 pm here at MVCS
Contact Matt Hallock @ (805) 748-6800 or matt@conquerthetest.com
Clarihews?
Guess Who... There is a woman foreboded who always knows when you needed to be coded Does she have spies that we really should dread? Or maybe it's as simple as eyes in the back of her head. Memorization: "If" Stanza 1 due on Monday.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
Homework: Journal #9
Connotation Analysis: What do you think is the power or connotation? List five words from "Gospel" that would not be as effective if they were replaced by another word that shared the same denotation. For example...if he had used the word "squished" instead of "crushed" in the first line, the effect would remind you of a jellyfish rather than a powerful force.
Find the Devices: Record a quote with a line number where you have found an example of each device (Onomatopoeia, internal rhyme, end rhyme, assonance, alliteration, imagery, simile, metaphor, repetition, couplets, connotation, parallelism, literary allusion, & irony.)
1 It's the full story of life crushed into four minutes
2 the entirety of humanity in the palm of your hand,
3 crushed into one sentence listen it's intense right
4 God. Our. Sins. Paying. Everyone. Life.
5 The Greatest Story that’s hardly ever told: GOD. Yes. GOD.
6 The Maker and Giver of Life and by Life I mean any and all manner of substance.
7 Seen and Unseen. What Can and Can’t Be Touched
8 Thoughts, Image, Emotions, Love, Atoms and Oceans
9 GOD.
10 All of it His handiwork, one of which His Masterpiece,
11 made so uniquely that Angels look curiously.
12The one thing in Creation that was made in His imagery,
13 a concept so old, it’s the reason I stay bold
14 GOD breathed into man and he became a living soul,
15 Formed with the intent of being an infinitely, intimately fond
16 Creator and Creation held in eternal bond,
17 And it was placed in perfect paradise till something went wrong.
18 The species got deceived and started lusting for his job,
19 an odd list of complaints.Something ain’t working,
20 and used that same breath He graciously gave us to curse Him.
21 And that sin seed spread through our soul’s genome,
22 And by the nature of our nature, your species, you participated in the mutiny.
23 Our – yes, our sins separate us from GOD.
24 It’s nature inherited. Blacken the human heart.
25 It’s over before it started.
26 Deceived from Day One and led away by our own lust.
27 There’s not a religion in the world that doesn’t agree that something’s wrong with us.
28 The question is, what is it and how do we fix it?
29 Are we eternally separated from a GOD that may or may not have existed?
30 But that’s another subject.
31 Let’s keep grinding.
32 Besides, trying to prove GOD exists is like defending a lion hommie
33 He don’t need the help. Just unlock the cage.
34 Let’s move on, on how our debt can be paid.
35 Short and sweet: The problem is sin, yes sin.
36 It’s a cancer, an asthma, choking out our life force,
37 forcing separation from a perfect and Holy GOD.
38 The only way to get back is to get back to perfection but, silly us…
39 Trying to pass the course of life without referring to a syllabus…this is us.
40 Heap up your good deeds – chant, pray, meditate.
41 All of that, of course, is spraying cologne on a corpse.
42 Or you could choose to ignore it, as if something don’t stink.
43 It’s like stepping in dog poop and refusing to wipe your shoe,
44 But all of that ends with how good is good enough?
45 Take your silly list of good deeds and line them up with perfection – good luck!
46 That’s life past your pay grade.
47 The cost of your soul? You don’t got a big enough piggy bank,
48 but you can give it a shot.
49 But I suggest you throw away the list
50 because even your good acts are an extension of your selfishness,
51 But here’s where it gets interesting,
52 I hope your closely listening,
52 and don’t get it twisted. It’s what makes our faith unique.
53 Here’s what GOD says in Part A of the Gospel,
54 You can’t fix yourself. Quit trying. It’s impossible.
55 Sin brings death. Give GOD His breath back. You owe him.
56 Eternally separated and the only way to fix it is for someone to die in your place.
57 Someone got to be perfect, or the payment ain’t permanent,
58 So if and when you find a perfect person,
59 get him or her to willingly trade their perfection for your sin and indebtment.
6 Clearly, since the only one that can meet GOD’s criteria, is GOD.
61 GOD sent Himself as Jesus to pay the cost for us.
62 His righteousness, His debt functions as payment.Yes, payment.
63 He wrote a check with His Life but, at the Resurrection we all cheer,
64 because that means the check cleared
65 Pierced feet, pierced hands – blood-stained Son of Man,
66 Fullness, forgiveness, free passage into The Promised Land.
67 That same breath that GOD brings into us, GOD gave up to redeem us.
68 Anyone and everyone, and by everyone, I mean everyone
69 who puts faith and trust in Him and Him alone
70 can have full confidence of GOD’s forgiveness.
71 And here’s what the promise is:
72 That you are guaranteed full access to return to perfect unity
73 by simply believing in Christ and Christ alone.
74 You are receiving Life. Yes. Life.
75 This is the gospel...
76 God. Our. Sins. Paying. Everyone. Life.
Too, To, Two Click here for the exercise Go over Journal 7: When Love Arrives Memorization: "If" Stanza 1 due Monday
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
Journal 8: Clerihews
Record the definition & write two of your own.
Clerihew (definition from wikipedia): A short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring a famous person. The rhyme scheme is usually AABB, and the rhymes are often forced (think of an awkward sounding limerick). The line length and meter are irregular (do as you wish with line length; no anapests needed in your meter; easy). Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875--1956) invented the clerihew in school and then popularized it in books. One of his best known is this (1905):
Sir Christopher Wren
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's."
It was a weakness of Voltaire’s To forget to say his prayers, And one which to his shame He never overcame.
Noah’s Boas Kept his hares In Pairs. -- Sue Lampi (1994)
George Orwell Answered the doorbell. Big Brother’s Pizza at the door, Two with pepperoni, $19.84. Did Descartes Depart With the thought "Therefore I'm not"?
Lovely old Queen Bess Always in proper dress. Can't leave her castle Without so much hassle.
Jackson Pollock facing possible painter's block discovered that what matters to the critics were his splatters.
The ignorant pronounce it Frood, To cavil or applaud. The Well-informed pronounce it Froyd, But I pronounce it Fraud. -- G. K. Chesterton
