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Combining Poetry and Song
What is Poetry?
Group Activity-Read your section of the
“What is Poetry” handout and share with
the class the most poignant part
Listen while I read “What is Poetry?” by
T.S.Eliot
Respond
Listen while I read “What is a Poet”
Respond
“Good Day Sunshine”
The Beatles:
Listen while reading the lyrics
What are the feelings portrayed in
the lyrics and the song?
How do we know?
Respond in your journal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL
7YxIxHepI
Do You Remember
What a Simile is?
Cut out the cue card-golden pagessimile
Write two original examples of a
simile on the cue card.
Who is Langston Hughes?
http://www.biography.com/people/lang
ston-hughes9346313#synopsis&awesm=~oEJESLz
UbwiG6I
Read and analyze “Dream Deferred”
What is Personification?
Review the meaning of Personification-find your cue
card-gold pages and write down two original
examples.
Jimi Hendrix-Who is he?
http://www.biography.com/people/jimi-hendrix9334756#awesm=~oEJG0wwmW3zjTW
“The Wind Cries Mary”
Listen and highlight the examples of personification
on the lyrics page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pomuC6QP3Vs
Group Activity-Look for Personification and Imagery
iin the song-Share with the class
What is Catharsis
Write definition on your empty cue card sheet.
Write down Evelyn Lau’s poem as an example
and select one of your choice.
Greek- katharsis -purification.
Aristotle-ancient philosopher was the first to use
it-he felt that tragic drama allowed audience to
feel the effect of relief of emotional pain.
Psychiatry-alleviation of fear and problems by
bringing them into the conscious mind.
http://natalieglasgow.blogspot.ca/
Guess the Metaphors????????????
Evelyn Lau
Vancouver Based
Author
Author of:
“The Quiet Room”
What is Metaphor?
Write two examples on your golden cue card.
What is “MOOD”?-Write two examples on cue
card.
Read and analyze “The Quiet Room” Evelyn
Lau.
Bio: http://www.oolichan.com/author-evelynlau
“The Quiet Room”:
http://mspendergast.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/1
/6/17164236/the_quiet_room.pdf
Can you hear the rhythm?
What is Rhythm?
What is “RHYTHM”? Write definition on empty cue card
sheet- Rhythm refers to the pattern of sounds made by
varying the stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
How is RHYTHM used in Lau’s poem?
Who are The Police?
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/thepolice/biography
Listen to “King of Pain” highlight use of metaphor in the
song
Discuss use of rhythm in the song with a partner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3l0kpl5tA4
LYRICS
http://www.metrolyrics.com/printlyric/king-of-pain-lyricssting.html
What is Symbolism?
Write the meaning on your golden cue card.
What are the symbols in the song “King of Pain”?
Who is the speaker talking to?
Who is Robert Frost?
http://www.biography.com/people/robert-frost20796091#awesm=~oEPYVDdFybIDCg
Read Robert Frost Poem “Aquainted with the Night”
http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~dvivian/public_html/3F61%20d
ocs/3F61%20poems.pdf
Choose one word in the poem that you think is most
significant-share with the class.
Journal Entry-why do you think so many artists discuss
and portray pain and loneliness in their art form? Why do
you think people can relate to it?
A Simple Love Song
LYRICS
http://www.metrolyrics.com/all-my-lovinglyrics-beatles.html
Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWvurnpKj
E4&feature=kp
What is a Sonnet?
IAMBIC PETAMETER: Cue Card
Cue Card: A fourteen line poem written in Iambic
Pentameter. Different kinds of sonnets have
different rhyme schemes.
Internal Rhyme: cue card
Literal Language: cue card
Elizabeth Barrett
Biography
Browning
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning was one
of the most
prominent English
poets of the
Victorian era. Her
poetry was widely
popular in both
Britain and the
United States
during her
lifetime.
Sonnets from the
Portuguese (1850)
The Clasped Hands
Sculpture
Clasped Hands of Robert and
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
(1830–1908)
Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
(1830–1908)
“How Do I Love Thee”
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/how-do-ilove-thee-sonnet-43
Respond to Lizzy’s idea of love in your journal.
Introducing Shakespeare
“All of Me”
John Legend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51
8WB1IcjPI