Narrative Poetry

• Tells a story• Has same elements as a short story

• Often has cause and effect & comparing and contrasting relationships• Does not have to rhyme• Often has repeated refrains

TLW

Write• Identify elements of

narrative poetry• Write poetry• Create a time line• Construct Venn Diagrams• Identify a stanza• Identify lines of a poem• Generalize and classify

Listen and analyze• List to audio devices• Become more familiar with

writers of the 1800’s

Narrative Poetry

Voc• Define narrative poetry• Stanza• rhyme• Refrain• Ballad• Fold ballads• Literary ballad• Timeline• Compare contrast• Mood• Facts• Verbs• adjectives

Authors• Ernest Thayer• Alfred Lord Tennyson• Robert Frost• William Butler Yeats

Casey at Bathttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hy0ATb2CvY

• What effect does the name Mudville have on your mood toward the story of Casey?

• Compare and contrast a poem to a short story using a Venn Diagram.

Construct• 4 line poem begin with

– 1 Somewhere– 2 But in Mudville– 3 Somewhere– 4 But in MudvilleBreece’s ex:

Somewhere a fan states, that’s alrightBut in Mudville, no one loves him tonightSomewhere there is a happy clap for CaseyBut in Mudville, its only a smack on the back

The Charge of the Light Brigade p 169

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzpW3u8XR6s

• Where have you heard this poem?

• Do we know how to count stanzas? Do we know what stanza means?

• Why did the men charge knowing they were defeated?

• What mood are we to take regarding this poem?

• Identify the verbs in stanza 1,3, & 5.

• How many survived? What details do you have to support this claim?

• Why do you think this poem is popular with soldiers?

Anonymous-Lord Randal p 170

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He82NBjJqf8

• Classify the characters• What activity has made him weary?• Who did Lord dine with and what

did he eat?• Where did the dogs go?• Mother’s thoughts?• Suspect? Evidence? Victim?• Why not tell mother the entire

story?

• Analyze L20, “Sick at heart” • means?

VOC/WriteBallad: a short musical song

– Most common form of narrative poetry– Dramatic, tragic{love, death}– Few characters

•Types of ballad– Folk/popular: past on– Literary: longer– http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=FUP9DnurODw•Refrain-words repeated (id)•List characteristics of a ballad in this poem•You write a 4-6 Ballad

The Runaway p172

• What is the weather? Facts?

• Verbs-what did the colt do?• Why should the colt no go

outside the area?• L10 “winter broken”

means?• What experience did the

colt gain?• What is the mood of the

speaker?

Writing a poem-POV• If you were the colt, what

would you be thinking about people?

• Write 4 non rhyming lines• Breece’s ex:Why are they looking this way,I simply want to exerciseDo you want to take a rideTogether we will explore beyond the trees

The Song of Wandering Aengus p 174

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQUT6mS0eY8

• How did he make his fishing gear?

• What does he catch?• Classify Aengus’s bucket list• Analyze “fire in his head” L2• What is he looking for?

Activities• Construct a time line of the

poem• Compare and contrast any 2

characters from this unit or compare character to yourself, using a Venn Diagram

Narrative Poetry

Vocabulary• Define narrative poetry• Stanza• rhyme• Refrain• Ballad• Fold ballads• Literary ballad• Timeline• Compare contrast• Mood• facts

Authors• Ernest Thayer• Alfred Lord Tennyson• Robert Frost• William Butler Yeats