POETRY

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POETRY AGAIN
THIS TIME ITS FOR REAL
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DAY 7
DAY 1
DAY 8
DAY 2
DAY 9
DAY 3
DAY 10
DAY 4
DAY 11
DAY 12
DAY 5
DAY 13
DAY 6
DAY 14
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LETS REVIEW AND ENJOY
Death, be not proud, though some have called
theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not
soFor those whom thou think'st thou dost
overthrow,Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst
thou kill me.From rest and sleep, which but thy
pictures be,Much pleasure then from thee much
more must flow,And soonest our best men with
thee do go,Rest of their bones, and soul's
delivery.Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings,
and desperate men,And dost with poison, war, and
sickness dwellAnd poppy or charms can make us
sleep as wellAnd better than thy stroke why
swell'st thou then?One short sleep past, we wake
eternally,And death shall be no more Death,
thou shalt die.
DAY ONE

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WHAT IS THE POEM ABOUT?
WHAT IS THE AUTHOR TRYING TO SAY?
HOW DOES HE SAY IT?
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PASSERS-BY PASSERS-BY,
Out of your many faces Flash memories to me Now
at the day end Away from the sidewalks Where
your shoe soles traveled And your voices rose
and blend To form the city's afternoon roar
Hindering an old silence. Passers-by, I remember
lean ones among you, Throats in the clutch of a
hope, Lips written over with strivings, Mouths
that kiss only for love. Records of great wishes
slept with, Held long And prayed and toiled for.
. Yes, Written on Your mouths And your throats
I read them When you passed by.
T P C A S T T
T H I S P O E M
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Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes
carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a
window,into which people look(while people stare
arranging and changing placing carefully there
a strange thing and a known thing here)and
changing everything carefully spring is like
a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and
from moving New and Old things,while people
stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of
flower here placing an inch of air there)and
without breaking anything.
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING IN ONE PARAGRAPH WHAT
DOES THIS POEM MAKE YOU SEE AND FEEL?
READ 668-676
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READING THE POEM
DAY 2
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AFTER READING PAGES 668-676 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE
TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
IN THE MAN HE KILLED, -WHY DOES THE SPEAKER
REPEAT HIS CLEAR REASON? -HOW DOES THIS POEM
MEET THE CRITERIA THE EXPRESSION OF ELEVATED
THOUGHT IN ELEVATED LANGUAGE.?
ANSWER BOTH QUESTIONS ON A SHEET OF PAPER-10
MINUTES
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PARAPHRASING A POEM IS THE FIRST STEP!
PARAPHRASE A STUDY OF READING HABITS
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CAUTIONS
THE SPEAKER DOES NOT EQUAL THE POET
YOU MUST ANSWER THE THIRD QUESTION WHAT IS THE
CENTRAL PURPOSE OF THE POEM?
ALL YOUR ANSWERS NEED TO TIE BACK TO THIS
QUESTION---THE SO WHAT!
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MIRROR
1. PARAPHRASE THE POEM
2. WHO IS THE SPEAKER?
SYLVIA PLATH
3. WHAT IS THE OCCASION
4. WHAT IS THE CENTRAL PURPOSE?
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STORM WARNING
1. PARAPHRASE THE POEM
ADRIENNE RICH
2. WHO IS THE SPEAKER?
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 684
3. WHAT IS THE OCCASION
4. WHAT IS THE CENTRAL PURPOSE?
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WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE CONTEXT OF THE
FOLLOWING POEM?
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"Mother dear, may I go downtown Instead of out
to play, And march the streets of Birmingham In
a Freedom March today?" "No, baby, no, you may
not go, For the dogs are fierce and wild, And
clubs and hoses, guns and jails Aren't good for
a little child." "But, mother, I won't be
alone. Other children will go with me, And
march the streets of Birmingham To make our
country free." "No, baby, no, you may not go,
For I fear those guns will fire. But you may go
to church instead And sing in the children's
choir."
She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair,
And bathed rose petal sweet, And drawn white
gloves on her small brown hands, And white shoes
on her feet. The mother smiled to know that her
child Was in the sacred place, But that smile
was the last smile To come upon her face. For
when she heard the explosion, Her eyes grew wet
and wild. She raced through the streets of
Birmingham Calling for her child. She clawed
through bits of glass and brick, Then lifted out
a shoe. "O, here's the shoe my baby wore, But,
baby, where are you?"
Ballad of Birmingham (On the bombing of a church
in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963)
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FOR TOMMOROW READ PAGES 686-691
BE PREPARED TO ANSWER ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS.
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DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION
DAY 3
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AFTER READING PAGES 686-691 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE
TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
1. WHAT IS DENOTATION?
2. WHAT IS CONNOTATION?
3. WHAT TYPES OF WORDS DO POETS SEEK?
PLEASE ANSWER ON A HALF SHEET OF PAPER
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2. WHAT IS CONNOTATION?
1. WHAT IS DENOTATION?
THE DICTIONARY MEANING
WHAT IS SUGGESTS BEYOND WHAT IT EXPRESSES
3. WHAT TYPES OF WORDS DO POETS SEEK?
MEANINGFUL WORDS
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NAMING OF THE PARTS

• WHICH WORD IN STANZA 1
• IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE?

HENRY REED
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 692
2. WHY IS ELOQUENT GESTURES AN EFFECTIVE PHRASE?
3. HOW ARE THE BEES ASSAULTING AND
FUMBLING? WHY IS THAT PHRASE EFFECTIVE FOR THE
POEM?
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CROSS

• WHAT PHRASES
• CONVEY THEIR
• MEANING THE BEST?

LANGSTON HUGHES
2. HOW DO BLACK AND WHITE CONVEY DIFFERENT
CONNOTATIONS THROUGHOUT THE POEM?
3. HOW DO THOSE DIFFERENT CONNOTATIONS AFFECT THE
AUTHORS PURPOSE?
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Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's
brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were
hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on
Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier
liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than
Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale,
man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it
hurts to think Look into the pewter pot To see
the world as the world's not. And faith, 'tis
pleasant till 'tis past The mischief is that
'twill not last. Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where, And carried
half way home, or near, Pints and quarts of
Ludlow beer Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a sterling lad And down in lovely
muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again. Then I
saw the morning sky Heigho, the tale was all a
lie The world, it was the old world yet, I was
I, my things were wet, And nothing now remained
to do But begin the game anew.
TERENCE, this is stupid stuff You eat your
victuals fast enough There cant be much amiss,
tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, 5 It gives
a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she
is dead It sleeps well, the horned head We poor
lads, tis our turn now. To hear such tunes as
killed the cow! Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time Moping
melancholy mad! Come, pipe a tune to dance to,
lad!"
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good,
but much less good than ill, And while the sun
and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's
sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train
for ill and not for good. 'Tis true, the stuff I
bring for sale Is not so brisk a brew as ale Out
of a stem that scored the hand I wrung it in a
weary land. But take it if the smack is sour,
The better for the embittered hour It should do
good to heart and head When your soul is in my
soul's stead And I will friend you, if I may, In
the dark and cloudy day.
There was a king reigned in the East There, when
kings will sit to feast, They get their fill
before they think With poisoned meat and poisoned
drink. He gathered all the springs to birth From
the many-venomed earth First a little, thence to
more, He sampled all her killing store And easy,
smiling, seasoned sound, Sate the king when
healths went round. They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat They poured
strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink
it up They shook, they stared as white's their
shirt Them it was their poison hurt. --I tell
the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died
old.
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WHAT PROBLEMS WITH CONNOTATION MIGHT THE WORD
CHOICE CREATE? WHY?
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READ PAGES 700-703.
MAKE LIKE A BOY SCOUT AND BE PREPARED!!!!!!!!!
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IMAGERY
DAY 4
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POETRY IS MORE SENSUOUSNO, NOT SENSUAL IT IS
RICHER IN IMAGERY THAN PROSE.
WHAT IS IMAGERY?
REPRESENTATION THROUGH LANGUAGE OF SENSE
EXPERIENCE.
POEMS NEED TO MAKE YOU FEEL THINGS!!!
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AFTER READING PAGES 700-703 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
PARTING OF MORNING
DOES THE SEA ACTUALLY COME SUDDENLY AROUND THE
CAPE OR APPEAR TO? WHY DOES BROWNING
MENTION THE EFFECT BEFORE THE CAUSE?
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THE FORGE

• WHAT IMAGERY DOES
• A DOOR INTO THE DARK
• CONVEY?

SEAMUS HEANEY
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 707
2. HOW DOES THE IMAGERY EXPRESS THE
BLACKSMITHS ATTITUDE?
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REAPERS

• HOW DOES THE IMAGERY
• HELP THE CONTRAST BETWEEN
• REAPING AND MOWING?

JEAN TOOMER
Black reapers with the sound of steel on
stonesAre sharpening scythes. I see them place
the honesIn their hip-pockets as a thing that's
done,And start their silent swinging, one by
one.Black horses drive a mower through the
weeds,And there, a field rat, startled,
squealing bleeds,His belly close to ground. I
see the blade,Blood-stained, continue cutting
weeds and shade.
2. WHAT IS THE CONNOTATIVE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
REAPING AND MOWING?
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The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and
gold And the sheen of their spears was like
stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls
nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the
forest when Summer is green, That host with
their banners at sunset were seen Like the
leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the
blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he
passed And the eyes of the sleepers waxed
deadly and chill, And their hearts but once
heaved, and for ever grew still! And there lay
the steed with his nostril all wide, But through
it there rolled not the breath of his pride And
the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.
Which words convey the most vivid imagery?
What is the overall scene?
And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With
the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail
And the tents were all silent, the banners
alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the
sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of
the Lord!
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READ PAGES 714-724
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
DAY 5
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AFTER READING PAGES 714-724 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING

• WHAT DO WE CALL LANGUAGE THAT CANNOT
• BE TAKEN LITERALLY?

2. WHAT IS APOSTROPHE?
3. WHAT IS METONYMY?
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WITH A PARTNER ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-10 ON PAGE 724.
BE PREPARED TO GIVE AN DEFEND YOUR ANSWER.
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METAPHORS

• IDENTIFY THE SPEAKER.
• RIDDLE, ELEPHANT, HOUSE, MELON, STAGE,COW

SYLVIA PLATH
2.IDENTIFY THE LITERAL MEANINGS OF THE
RELATED METAPHORS. SYLLABLES, TENDRILS, FRUIT,
IVORY, TIMBERS, LOAF, YEASTY RISING, MONEY,
PURSE, TRAIN.
3. HOW DOES THE FORM OF THE POEM RELATE TO
THE CONTENT.
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INTRODUCTION TO POETRY

• EXPLAIN THE SIMILE IN
• LINE 3.

BILLY COLLINS
I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the
light like a color slide or press an ear against
its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poemand
watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the
poem's roomand feel the walls for a light
switch. I want them to waterskiacross the
surface of a poemwaving at the author's name on
the shore. But all they want to dois tie the
poem to a chair with ropeand torture a
confession out of it. They begin beating it with
a hoseto find out what it really means.
2. ANALYZE THE LAST FIVE LINES AS AN
EXTENDED METAPHOR.
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I taste a liquor never brewed,From tankards
scooped in pearlNot all the vats upon the
RhineYield such an alcohol! Inebriate of air am
I,And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through
endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.
When landlords turn the drunken bee Out of the
foxglove's door, When butterflies renounce their
drams, I shall but drink the more! Till seraphs
swing their snowy hats, And saints to windows
run, To see the little tippler Leaning against
the sun!
WHAT IS THE EXTENDED METAPHOR? SUPPORT WITH THE
TEXT.
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PLEASE READ PAGES 734-744.
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE EVEN MORE
DAY 6
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AFTER READING PAGES 734-744 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
1. WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A SYMBOL?
2. WHAT IS AN ALLEGORY?
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FIRE AND ICE

1. WHO ARE THE SOME ?

2. WHAT DO FIRE AND ICE SYMBOLIZE?
ROBERT FROST
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in
ice. From what Ive tasted of desire I hold with
those who favor fire. But if it had to perish
twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that
for destruction ice Is also great And would
suffice
3. DOES THE AUTHORS LANGUAGE EFFECTIVELY CONVEY
HIS MEANING?
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CURIOSITY

• WHAT DO DOGS AND CATS
• SYMBOLIZE.

ALASTAIR REED
2. ANALYZE THE USE OF DEATH, DIE, AND DYING.
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 749
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Living in the earth-deposits of our history
Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling
flank of earth one bottle amber perfect a
hundred-year-old cure for fever or melancholy a
tonic for living on this earth in the winters of
this climate. Today I was reading about Marie
Curie she must have known she suffered from
radiation sickness her body bombarded for years
by the element she had purified It seems she
denied to the end the source of the cataracts on
her eyes the cracked and suppurating skin of her
finger-ends till she could no longer hold a
test-tube or a pencil She died a famous woman
denying her wounds denying her wounds came from
the same source as her power.
WHAT IS HER POWER? IS IT SYMBOL OR ALLEGORY?
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FOR TOMMOROW READ PAGES 756-765.
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ONE MORE TIME
DAY 7
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AFTER READING PAGES 756-765 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING

• DEFINE PARADOX, OVERSTATEMENT,
• UNDERSTATEMENT, AND IRONY.

2. DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN VERBAL IRONY, SATIRE,
AND SARCASM.
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BATTER MY HEART, THREE-PERSONED GOD

• WHAT IS THE PARADOX IN
• THE FIRST QUATRAIN?

JOHN DONNE
2. WHAT IS THE DOUBLE MEANING OF RAVISH IN LINE
14. HOW DOES THAT CREATE A PARADOX.
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As
yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and
bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me
new. I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but Oh, to no end. Reason,
your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is
captived, and proves weak or untrue. Yet dearly
I love you, and would be loved fain, But am
betrothed unto your enemy Divorce me, untie or
break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison
me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall
be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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SORTING LAUNDRY

• EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE
• OR RELEVANCE OF THE
• OVERSTATEMENT IN LINE 49..

ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE
2. WHAT IS THE SPEAKERS TONE?
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 767
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HISTORY TEACHER Trying to protect his students'
innocencehe told them the Ice Age was really
justthe Chilly Age, a period of a million
yearswhen everyone had to wear sweaters. And
the Stone Age became the Gravel Age,named after
the long driveways of the time. The Spanish
Inquisition was nothing morethan an outbreak of
questions such as"How far is it from here to
Madrid?""What do you call the matador's
hat?"The War of the Roses took place in a
garden,and the Enola Gay dropped one tiny atom
on Japan.
The children would leave his classroomfor the
playground to torment the weakand the
smart,mussing up their hair and breaking their
glasses, while he gathered up his notes and
walked homepast flower beds and white picket
fences,wondering if they would believe that
soldiersin the Boer War told long, rambling
storiesdesigned to make the enemy nod off.
What do the historical references have in common?
Identify and discuss the euphemisms
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READ PAGES 778-781.
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ALLUSION
DAY 8
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AFTER READING PAGES 778-781 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE
TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
1. WHAT IS AN ALLUSION?
2. WHAT DOES THE POEM OUT,OUT- ALLUDE TO?
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YET DO I MARVEL

• LOOK UP AND EXPLAIN
• THE ALLUSIONS TO TANTALUS
• AND SISYPHUS.

COUNTEE CULLEN
2. ANALYZE THE MEANING AND THE CHOICE OF THE LAST
LINE.
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kindAnd
did He stoop to quibble could tell whyThe little
buried mole continues blind,Why flesh that
mirrors Him must some day die,Make plain the
reason tortured TantalusIs baited by the fickle
fruit, declareIf merely brute caprice dooms
SisyphusTo struggle up a never-ending
stair.Inscrutable His ways are, and immuneTo
catechism by a mind too strewnWith petty cares
to slightly understandWhat awful brain compels
His awful hand.Yet do I marvel at this curious
thingTo make a poet black, and bid him sing!
3. IDENTIFY THE IRONIES IN THE POEM.
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I DREAM I'M THE DEATH OF ORPHEUS

1. WHO IS ORPHEUS

2. EXPLAIN THE CONNOTATION OF ROLLS-ROYCE.
ADRIENNE RICH
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 789
3. ANALYZE THE EXPRESSION HELLS ANGELS
AS FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE.
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IN JUST in Just- spring       when the world is
mud- luscious the little lame balloonman
whistles       far       and wee and
eddieandbill come running from marbles and
piracies and it's spring when the world is
puddle-wonderful the queer old balloonman
whistles far       and       wee and
bettyandisbel come dancing  from hop-scotch and
jump-rope and it's spring and      the
             goat-footed balloonMan       whistl
es far and wee
IDENTIFY THE ALLUSIONS. DO THEY IMPROVE THE POEM?
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READ PAGES 791-794
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MEANING AND IDEA
DAY 9
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AFTER READING PAGES 791-794 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
1. DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN TOTAL MEANING AND PROSE
MEANING.
2. HOW DO THE POEMS STOPPING BY WOODS ON A
SNOWY EVENING AND LOVELIEST OF TREES DIFFER IN
IDEA?
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SONNET

• WHY DOES THE AUTHOR USE
• A DELIBERATE CLICHÉ? WHAT IS
• THAT CLICHÉ?

JOHN KEATS
If by dull rhymes our English must be
chain'd,And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet
sweetFetter'd, in spite of pained
loveliness,Let us find, if we must be
constrain'd,Sandals more interwoven and
completeTo fit the naked foot of PoesyLet us
inspect the Lyre, and weigh the stressOf every
chord, and see what may be gain'dBy ear
industrious, and attention meetMisers of sound
and syllable, no lessThan Midas of his coinage,
let us beJealous of dead leaves in the bay
wreath crownSo, if we may not let the Muse be
free,She will be bound with garlands of her
own.
2. HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE ALLUSION TO PETRARCH?
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I HAD HEARD IT'S A FIGHT

• EXPLAIN THE
• DENOTATIVE AND CONNOTATIVE
• MEANINGS OF QUICK.

EDWIN DENBY
2. PARAPHRASE THE POEM.
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 802
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MY NUMBER

• DESCRIBE THE
• PERSONIFICATION OF DEATH.

BILLY COLLINS
2. WHAT IS THE POEM SAYING ABOUT FEAR OF DEATH
AND DEATH ITSELF.
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 801
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FAITH is a fine invention For gentlemen who
see But microscopes are prudent In an emergency!
WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF SEEING?
WHAT IS THE EMERGENCY?
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FOR TOMMOROW READ PAGES 804-808.
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TONE
DAY 10
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AFTER READING PAGES 804-808 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
1.WHAT IS TONE?
2. WHAT IS THE TONE OF MY MISTRESSS EYES?
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THE FLEA

• WHAT IS THE TONE OF
• THE POEM.

JOHN DONNE
2. HOW DOES THE WOMAN TRIUMPH IN STANZA 3
AND WHAT WAS THE SPEAKERS RESPONSE?
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 814
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ENDING

• EXAMINE THE POEM FOR
• AT LEAST 4 ELEMENTS
• OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE.

GAVIN EWART
2. WHAT IS THE TONE OF THE POEM AND HOW IS IT
CHANGED FROM LINE TO LINE.
The love we thought would never stopnow cools
like a congealing chop.The kisses that were hot
as curryare bird-pecks taken in a hurry.The
hands that held electric chargesnow lie inert as
four moored barges.The feet that ran to meet a
dateare running slow and running late.The eyes
that shone and seldom shutare victims of a power
cut.The parts that then transmitted joyare now
reserved and cold and coy.Romance, expected once
to stay,has left a note saying gone away.
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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age
should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage
against the dying of the light. Though wise men
at their end know dark is right, Because their
words had forked no lightning they Do not go
gentle into that good night. Good men, the last
wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds
might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage
against the dying of the light. Wild men who
caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn,
too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go
gentle into that good night. Grave men, near
death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes
could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage
against the dying of the light. And you, my
father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me
now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go
gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against
the dying of the light.
What is the tone?
Which stanzas help convey that tone best?
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READ PAGES 864-873.
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SOUND AND MEANING
DAY 11
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AFTER READING PAGES 864-873 YOU SHOULD BE
ABLE TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
1. WHAT IS ONOMATOPOEIA?
2. WHY IS IT BEST TO NOT MAKE EXAGGERATED CLAIMS
ABOUT SOUND AND MEANING?
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AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS
1. IDENTIFY ANY ONOMATOPOEIA
ADRIENNE RICH
Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. They
do not fear the men beneath the tree They pace
in sleek chivalric certainty. Aunt Jennifer's
fingers fluttering through her wool Find even
the ivory needle hard to pull. The massive
weight of Uncle's wedding band Sits heavily upon
Aunt Jennifer's hand. When Aunt is dead, her
terrified hands will lie Still ringed with
ordeals she was mastered by. The tigers in the
panel that she made Will go on prancing, proud
and unafraid.
2. WHAT IS THE CONNOTATION OF MASSIVE
WEIGHT OF UNCLES WEDDING BAND?
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GOLDEN RETRIEVALS
1. HOW DOES THE RHYTHM MIMIC A DOGS MOVEMENT?
MARK DOTY
Fetch? Balls and sticks engage my
attentionseconds at a time. Catch? I don't think
so. Bunny, tumbling leaf, a squirrel who's -- oh
joy --actually scared. Sniff the wind, then I'm
off again muck, pond, ditch, residueof any
thrillingly dead thing. And you? Either you're
sunk in the past, half our walk, thinking of
what you can never bring back, or else you're
off in some fog concerning --tomorrow, is that
what it's called? My work to unsnare time's
warp (and woof!), retrieving, my haze-headed
friend, you. This shining bark, a Zen master's
bronzy gong, calls you here, entirely now
bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow
2. HOW DOES THE ONOMATOPOEIA ADD TO THE POEMS
CONTENT?
3. WHAT DOES THE POEM SAY ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN DOG AND OWNER?
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RECITAL BY JOHN UPDIKE Eskimos in Manitoba,
Barracuda off Aruba, Cock an ear when Roger
Bobo Starts to solo on the tuba. Men of every
station -- Pooh-Bah, Nabob, bozo, toff, and hobo
-- Cry in unison, "Indubi- Tably, there is
simply nobo- Dy who oompahs on the tubo, Solo,
quite like Roger Bubo!"
How does the sound convey the sound of the
instrument?
How does sound affect meaning?
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READ PAGES 883-889
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DAY 12
PATTERN
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AFTER READING 883-889 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
1. WHAT IS ART-ULTIMATELY?
2. WHAT IS EXTERNAL SHAPE CALLED?
3. WHAT IS A REPEATED UNIT HAVING THE SAME NUMBER
OF LINES?
4. WHAT ARE THE TWO MAIN TYPES OF POETRY FORMS IN
ENGLISH ?
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LONELY HEARTS

• WHAT DOES EACH STANZA REPRESENT.

WENDY COPE
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 895
2. IS THE REPETITION EFFECTIVE?
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IN MEDIAS RES

• DISCUSS THE TITLE
• IN RELATION TO THE
• SHAPE OF THE POEM.

MICHAEL MCFEE
2. DISCUSS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FORM AND
MEANING.
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 901
3. DISCUSS THE TONE OF THE POEM.
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WITH A PARTNER, COMPLETE THE EXERCISE ON PAGE
890. BE PREPARED TO DEFEND YOUR ANSWERS.
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READ 903-906
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EVALUATING POETRY
DAY 13
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AFTER READING PAGES 903-906 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
1. WHAT IS THE FIRST STEP IN EVALUATING POETRY?
2. WHAT THREE QUESTIONS MUST BE ASKED \ ABOUT
POETRY?
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CHOOSE A PARTNER TO ANSWER A PAIR OF POEMS
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EVALUATING POETRY SOME MORE
DAY 14
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ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
JOHN KEATS
1. WHAT MOTIVATES THE AUTHORS CHANGE FROM LINES
5-10 TO 11-14?
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 918
2. EXPLAIN HOW THE POEM REPRESENTS APOSTROPHE.
3. WHAT SENSORY EXPERIENCES ARE EVOKED IN THE
POEM?
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HOME BURIAL
ROBERT FROST
1. WHAT IS THE CONFLICT IN THE POEM? WHAT
CAUSES THAT CONFLICT?
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 921
2. POINT OUT AND ANALYZE THE OVERGENERALIZATIONS I
N THE POEM.
3. WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE FOLLOWING LINES
25,39,92-93?
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ASSESSMENT
YOU WILL HAVE A WRITING ASSESSMENT ON
THURSDAY AND A MULTIPLE CHOICE ON WEDNESDAY.