Transcript Comparing and Contrasting Literary and Visual Art

Comparing and Contrasting
Literary and Visual Art
English
Grade 9
Mrs. Marinelli
Lesson Objectives
Analyze how a visual art, a painting
can be transformed into literary art, a
poem and then into a visual and
literary art, a music video.
state an original interpretation of a
painting and a poem, explaining how
individual elements in both types of
art, work together to support the
interpretation.
The Artists and their works
Vincent Van Gogh’s
Starry Night
Anne Sexton’s “Starry
Night”
Don McLean's Vincent

How can one art be
transformed into another?
Step One: Analyze the Poem
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171273
Small groups respond to question prompts
Group Members: ______________________
Date:______________
Question Prompts for Analyzing
Poetry
1. What poetic language is used in the poem
( simile, metaphor, rhyme, alliteration,
personification) ?
2. What is the mood of this poem?
3. How is this mood created? What specific
words or phrases are used?
4. What story does the poem tell?
5. Who do you think is the point of view
character in the poem?
6. Can you relate anything in your life, or the
world you live in to the poem?
by Anne Sexton
The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree
slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot
sky.
The town is silent. The night boils with
eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night!
It moves. They are all alive.
Even the moon bulges in its orange
irons
The old unseen serpent swallows up
the stars.
Oh starry starry night!
Step two: Analyze the Painting
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/starry-night/
Small groups respond to question prompts
Group Members: ______________________
Date:______________
Questions for Analyzing Art
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6.
What is happening in the
painting? What story does it tell?
What feeling or mood does the painting
evoke? How does it evoke these
feelings (colors, shapes, images)?
If there are people in the painting, who do
you think they are? How would you
describe them to someone else?
Does the painting remind you of anything
in your own life, or the present world?
Apply some poetic language to describe
the painting: metaphors, similes,
onomatopoeia, alliteration, or rhyme.
Use all five senses to describe the
painting.
Step 3: Analyze the Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM
Anne Sexton
Vincent Van Gogh
Don McLean
Software Used in
Lesson
• PowerPoint
• Microsoft Word
• Internet Explorer Links
• Pictures from Internet
• Real Player