Transcript Poetry Unit
Write the following poems in your
guided notes.
The Wind
Poetic Devices
The wind is a wolf
That sniffs at doors
And rattles windows
With his paws.
Hidden in the night,
He rushes round
The locked-up house,
Making angry sounds.
He leaps on the roof And tries to drive
Away the house
And everything inside.
Tired next morning,
The wind’s still there,
Snatching pieces of paper
And ruffling your hair.
He quietens down and in the end
You hardly notice him go
Whispering down the road
To find another place to blow.
-- Stanley Cook
“The Wind”
How would the wind “sniff” at doors?
List four ways the wind is acting like a wolf.
Cynthia in the Snow
It SUSHES.
It hushes
The loudness in the road. It flitter-twitters.
And laughs away from me.
It laughs a lovely whiteness,
And whitely whirs away.
To be
Some otherwhere.
Still white as milk or shirts.
So beautiful it hurts.
--Gwendolyn Brooks
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Rhyme Scheme
Rhythm
Free Verse
“Cynthia In the Snow”
How does snow hush the loudness in the road?
The rusty spigot
sputters,
utters
a splutter,
spatters a smattering of drops,
gashes wider;
slash,
splatters,
scatters, spurts,
finally stops sputtering
and plash!
gushes rushes splashes
clear water dashes.
-- Eve Merriam
Poetic Devices
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Rhyme Scheme
Rhythm
Free Verse
“The Rusty Spigot”
What is happening in this poem?
My Picture Gallery
Poetic Devices
In a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix’d
house,
It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other;
Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all
memories!
Here the tableaus of life, and here the grouping of death;
Here, d you know this? this is cicerone himself, With finger
rais’d he points to the prodigal pictures.
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Rhyme Scheme
Rhythm
Free Verse
--Walt Whitman
Cicerone: Guide who explains the history and important
features of a place to sightseers
Prodigal: very plentiful
“My Picture Gallery”
For what is the picture gallery a metaphor?
What does the poet mean by “it is not a fix’d house”?
What are the “tableaus of life”?
List three qualities of the gallery.
Change
The summer
still hangs
heavy and sweet
with sunlight
as it did last year.
The winter
still stings
clean and cold and white
as it did last year.
The spring
still comes
like a whisper in the dark night.
It is only I
who have changed.
The autumn still comes
showering gold and crimson
as it did last year.
--Charlotte Zolotow
“Change”
What is an object that grows in the sunlight and would “hang
heavy and sweet”?
What showers down in the autumn colored crimson and gold?
How is spring like a whisper in the dark night?
What is similar about the first four stanzas?
Is it significant that the last stanza is different? Why or why not?