Transcript American Masters - John A. Rowland High School

American Masters
Mr. Lamar
Quick Write
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If you want me again look for me under your
boot-soles.
– Walt Whitman
This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me –
- Emily Dickinson
Reflect on the quotes above. What do you think
each of these poets mean?
If I hadn’t provided the names of each author,
would you have been able to tell who was
speaking in each quote?
Warm Up
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant―
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind―
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Who wrote this
poem?
Dickinson, Poe,
or Whitman?
How could you
tell?
What is the tone
of this poem?
Warm Up
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood
isolated,
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast
surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out
of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding
them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans
of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,
seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the
ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch
somewhere, O my soul.
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Who wrote this poem?
Dickinson, Poe, or
Whitman?
How could you tell?
Note anything significant
about the structure of this
poem.