Dec. 8

December 8, 2016

E.Q: Understand and apply strategies used to determine meaning in poetry.

Obj: I can understand and apply strategies used to determine meaning in poetry.

Starter;

Create an I wish poem.

This should be about 8-10 lines, each starting with I wish.

Vocabulary: 

Term: Poetry

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm

Your Definition:

Activity: Create a poem.

Activity:

1.  TPCASTT

Take Cornell notes on the document above.

This will help you on future poetry analysis.

2.  Poetry Practice

As a class, we will work together to analyze the poem below using TPCASTT.

Making Life Worthwhile by George Eliot

Every soul that touches yours -
Be it the slightest contact -
Get there from some good;
Some little grace; one kindly thought;
One aspiration yet unfelt;
One bit of courage
For the darkening sky;
One gleam of faith
To brave the thickening ills of life;
One glimpse of brighter skies - 
To make this life worthwhile
And heaven a surer heritage. 

3.  Individual Practice

The Sun Rising

Busy old fool, unruly Sun,

Why dost thou thus,

Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?

Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run?

Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide

Late schoolboys, and sour prentices,

Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,

Call country ants to harvest offices,

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,

Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Thy beams, so reverend and strong

Why shouldst thou think?

I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,

But that I would not lose her sight so long:

If her eyes have not blinded thine,

Look, and tomorrow late, tell me

Whether both the’Indias of spice and mine

Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me.

Ask for those kings whom thou saw’st yesterday,

And thou shalt hear: “All here in one bed lay.”

She’is all states, and all princes I,

Nothing else is.

Princes do but play us; compar’d to this,

All honour’s mimic, all wealth alchemy.

Thou, sun, art half as happy’as we,

In that the world’s contracted thus;

Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be

To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.

Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;

This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere.

 INSTRUCTIONS:

Annotate each stanza.

Use this time to generate meaning.Then, respond to the following questions:

A.  What is the objective summary of the poem?

B.  Which line best captures the main idea and why? 

C.  What is the speaker's attitude towards the sun?

D.  How does the speaker value love?

E.  What is meant by the hyperbole, "She is all states, and all princes I?"

F.  What is the overall theme of the poem?

Closure:

What is one area of poetry you feel weakest in?

Why