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Agenda Introduction to poetry unit
New Terms!
Advice on reading poetry
Things to look for in poems
Two poems to start us out!
Wislawa Symborska, “The Terrorist,
He Watches”
John Updike, “Icarus”
Reading Hints 1. Read more than once
2. Title is important
3. Don’t worry about words you don’t know 1st time through
4. DO worry about them next time, though
5. Read poetry aloud
6. Note your interpretations in the margins
7. Read punctuation and spaces
8. Paraphrase poem
9. Assume everything in poem serves a purpose
10.Think outside your own box
11.Adopt/try on critical thinking strategies (will discuss in more depth next class)
12.Don’t feel like you have to “get” everything
Key Terms for Poetry Unit alliteration
assonance
connotation
denotation
Diction
explication
metaphor
meter
onomatopoeia
poem
rhyme
rhythm
simile
sonnet
speaker
stanza
symbol
theme
tone
Approaching a Poem First Response
Speaker
Tone
Audience
Structure & Form
Theme
Diction
Sound Effects
Figurative Language
First Response Read through and stop to consider your reactions
What emotions does the poem evoke?
What experiences of your own does the poem remind you of?
What elements of the poem force you to pay attention?
Speaker DO NOT equate the speaker with the poet
Often, the poet is capturing a character, much like a short story writer might
What in the poem reveals the speaker’s persona, attitude, beliefs, emotions, etc?
Tone Is the poem serious?
Romantic?
Sarcastic?
Ironic?
Humorous?
Point to the words, phrases, etc. that give you this
impression
Audience Consider the internal and external audiences for this
poem
We, as readers, are the external audience
How does someone reading the poem interact and help create the meaning?
Is there a specific person to whom the poem is aimed inside the work? How do we know?
Structure & Form Rhyme
Meter
Stanzaic Patterns
Does the poem fit a standard form?
Ballad
Villanelle
Sestina
Sonnet
Etc.
Theme As with all literature, certain themes recur in poetry
Love
Death
Hate
Sex
Religion
War
With poetry, however, the emphasis is more on words than themes
Diction & Sound Effects Pay careful attention to the words chosen
Denotation
Connotation
Does that unusual word contribute to the meaning?
Does the author choose it to fit the form?
READ WITH A DICTIONARY!!!
Notice, too, how the poet uses sound to enhance meaning Alliteration
Assonance
onomatopoeia
Figurative Language Image/imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Other figurative language:
Pun
Personification
Hyperbole
Paradox
Oxymoron
Symbol
Wislawa Szymborska
John Updike “The Terrorist, He Watches” and “Icarus”
First Response
Speaker
Tone
Audience
Structure & Form
Theme
Diction
Sound Effects
Click
Me
“The Terrorist, He Watches” Note that the poem was written in 1981, before
terrorism became so real in the us
always an issue in Europe though
How do we read this poem differently today?
“Icarus” Who is Icarus?
Why is it relevant?
Post 911
With both poems, in essence we are
cast in the poem—discuss the
effect, particularly given the subject
matter
Icarus, by Kent Lew