Dec. 9

December 9, 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:

Black Out Poetry

Using a newspaper, magazine, or worksheet, create an example of black out poetry.

Vocabulary:

Term: Stanza

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme.

Your Definition:

Activity: Include an example of a stanza in your notes.

Activity:

1.  The Sun Rising Review

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?

2.  Individual Poetry Practice

Use TPCASTT to annotate the poem

I

Mutability by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I.

The flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow dies;

All that we wish to stay

Tempts and then flies.

What is this world’s delight? 

Lightning that mocks the night,

Brief even as bright.

II.

Virtue, how frail it is!

Friendship how rare!

Love, how it sells poor bliss 

For proud despair!

But we, though soon they fall,

Survive their joy, and all

Which ours we call.

III.

Whilst skies are blue and bright, 

Whilst flowers are gay,

Whilst eyes that change ere night

Make glad the day;

Whilst yet the calm hours creep,

Dream thou—and from thy sleep 

Then wake to weep. 

3.  USAtestprep

As a class, we will answer the five questions that deal with multiple interpretations.

This should help us understand how to make meaning in poems.

Closure:

Which area do you feel strongest in poetry?

Which area do you feel weakest?

Explain your rationale.