seeing poetry

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seeing poetry

• Shakespeares sonnet 73

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Whats it about?

• Change in seasons
• Nature imagery (sunset)
• Death ?
• Love ?

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Lets take a line

• When yellow leaves, or none,
• or few do hang (2)
• What image comes to mind?
• What tells you?
• Associations with that image?

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Figurative language

• Metaphor
• Something is described as another
• Shakespeare is Diet Coke
• Simile
• Something is compared to another
• Reading Shakespeare is like Christmas

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Be like Billy Shakes

• Create a metaphor AND simile
• Share with your neighbor

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The point is

• Figurative language engages the senses
• Sight, sound, smell, taste, touch
• Clarifies the idea for readers
• Adds emotional depth
• Encourages participation (that means you!)

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Lets go back to line 2

• When yellow leaves, or none,
• or few do hang (2)
• What figurative language is working?
• How are you being engaged?

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Your point, again?

• Enhances our understanding
• What we see in (2)
• A tree losing leaves
• What we understand from (2)
• Autumn, cold, loss, loneliness, change

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Your Turn!

• Find other examples of metaphors
• Describe the senses they engage
• Cite line number(s)
• How do they affect understanding?
• Clues about poems central idea