Transcript Who Has Seen the Wind?

How do you make a mental image
stronger when you’re reading?
In this lesson, you will learn to make a
mental image stronger by finding
examples of personification.
Let’s Review
Descriptive words in poetry put pictures in our
minds.
A Common Mistake
Thinking too literally
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Personification is when a writer give a human trait to
something that is not human.
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Who Has Seen the Wind?
What’s happening here
that only people can
do?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti
The tree is bowing like
a person.
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Who
Has Seen
Wind?
When,
why,the
or how
do
people normally do
Who has seen the wind?
this?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti
People bow out of
respect.
I think the trees are
bowing because they
respect the power of
the wind.
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1
Find an example of personification.
2
Ask yourself, “When, why, or how do people normally
do this?”
3
Write your new ideas about your
mental image.
In this lesson, you have learned how to
make a mental image stronger by
finding examples of personification.
Guided Practice
The Sky is Low
Can you find an example
of personification in the
poem, “The Sky is Low” by
Emily Dickinson?
The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A traveling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
Emily Dickinson
Extension Activities
Read through the poem ““The Sky is Low” by Emily
Dickinson again.
Find other examples of personification in the poem.
What conclusions can you draw?
Extension Activities
Write your own poem that uses personification.
How does personification make your poem better or
more interesting to read?
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Who Has Seen the Wind?
Find another example of
personification in “Who
Has Seen the Wind?”
How do you know it’s
personification?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti