Today's work is intense - we'll toughen up your poetry muscles.Notes/Auden Examples - If you have not already done so, please take down the poetic terms notes on the board. After each term leave a blank for examples. Let's read the poem, As I Walked out One Evening. You are now responsible for finding at least one example of each device. Bonus marks for finding more than one. DUE MONDAY.
Imagist Poem - Please mount on black paper your imagist poem. See examples on the bulletin board.
Literary Paragraph - As promised, you can now choose any one of the poems we have studied in the first week of our look at poetry:
Terrance, this is Stupid Stuff.
Daddy
My Papa's Waltz
To a Sad Daughter
Barbie Doll
Paper Matches
The Preludes
As I Walked out One Evening
The Topic:
In a paragraph of 8 - 12 sentences, discuss your understanding of the poem's speaker OR use of language.
- you will need a thesis statement that includes the title and author.
- select specific words or phrases to use as support for your ideas. Integrate those quotations into your paragraph.
- remember to use transitional phrases
- play with sentence variety
(18 marks)
