Poetry Project Intro and Notes

Starter 2

1. What is your favorite line of this poem?  Why?

2. What is this poem making you think?  Explain.

3. What is this poem making you feel?  Explain.

Project Introduction

Read over the handout linked above for a quick guide to our project.  If you want to see examples of past projects, go to my YouTube channel.  I am TheLoriTeacher.  There you can see examples from 3 years of this project.

Poetry Notes, Part 1

All activities and notes below should be kept in the same place.

Brainstorm 1:  What is the difference between poetry and other types of writing?  List at least 5 things.

Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (page 243 of your reader)

1. Read out loud
2. Circle 5 words that show the emotional mood of the poem
3. What is this poem about?  What experience is it trying to convey?
4. What do you notice about the way it is written?
5. Poetic Devices (add to notes and define):  Rhyme scheme, Meter (iambic): syllable count + stressed/unstressed syllables, Tone, Imagery/Sensory Details.

The Walrus and the Carpenter (page 244 of reader)

1. Read aloud
2. Annotate poem to mark what makes it unique.  How does the poet write, what is he doing?

Devices to find and define in this poem:

1. Meter (sing-songy, tone)
2. Rhyme scheme (lines 2,4,6 rhyme)
3. Humor and irony
4. Personification
5. Juxtaposition
6. Repetition (word odd)
7. Dialogue
8. Narrative
9. Symbolism (use this to transition to Dogma clip)
10. About…religion?  Warning, some foul language ahead!  Show Dogma clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hfFyGtbXwM&NR=1

Shakespeare Sonnet 116 (page 248 of reader)

1. What does reading Shakespeare require from you as a reader?  Brainstorm as a class.
2. What is this poem saying about love?

Shakespearean Sonnet Form

1. Always 14 lines
2. Iambic pentameter
3. 3 quatrains + couplet
4. Rhyme Scheme: a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.
5. Couplet summarizes or introduces new perspective (turn)

Other Devices in this poem:

1. Enjambment
2. Turn
3. Personification