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The Cycle of LIFE
• The Cycle of life can be divided into 5 stages. In your opinion, what are the five stages? What would you use to symbolize each stage? What emotions, ideals, or connotations do people associate with each stage? Why do these stages apply to all cultures and all people?
Poetry People and their Poetry People and their Profound Poetic PrayersProfound Poetic Prayers
• Narrative Poetry: tells a story (ballads, epics, verse romantics)
• Dramatic poetry: presents the speech of more than one character
• Lyric poetry: expresses the thoughts/feelings of a single speaker (sonnets, odes, elegies, haikus)
Terms to knowTerms to know
– Alliteration: SOUND DEVICE– Catalogue poetry: TYPE– Metaphor: FIGURATIVE LANG– Mood: LIT TERM– Onomatopoeia: SOUND DEVICE– Personification: FIGURATIVE LANG– Refrain: SOUND DEVICE– Repetition: SOUND DEVICE– Speaker: LIT TERM
Romantic and PoeRomantic and Poe
• Poe wrote mainly with a Gothic style. Gothic style is characterized by the following elements: – The story is set in bleak or remote places.– The plot involves macabre or violent incidents.– Characters are in psychological and/or physical
torment.– A supernatural or otherworldly element is often
present.
• How does this fall under the “romantic umbrella”?
AnalyzingAnalyzing1. Mood
Feeling the reader gets
2. Onomatopoeia Words that imitate sounds
3. AlliterationRepetition of initial consonant sounds
4. SpeakerWho is talking in the piece
5. RefrainLines that are repeated in verse
We’re going to look for the following:
• Alliteration (highlight color 1)
• Onomatopoeia (highlight color 2)
• Refrain (boxed)
• Theme (written)
• Mood (written)
(Adapted from) How Death is Handled in Various Cultures
Charlotte Kuchinsky
Death and Cultures
Why do all cultures have clear Why do all cultures have clear identifiable rituals for handling death? identifiable rituals for handling death? What does this tell us about all What does this tell us about all humans? Does this prove that Poe was humans? Does this prove that Poe was right with his poem? right with his poem?
Compare/Contrast Poe’s theme Compare/Contrast Poe’s theme of “Death Triumphs over Life” of “Death Triumphs over Life” to one of the cultures’ view of to one of the cultures’ view of
death. death.
Dickinson
• Recluse; odd insight to life and death; odd energy and intensity
• 7 poems published pre-death
• Self conscious; asked her family to destroy them at her death---why?
Lyric Poem
• It expresses the feelings of a single speaker’s journey to death…– Similar to Poe? How?
Analyzing
• Speaker
• Mood
• Alliteration
• Metaphor– A comparison not using like or as
• Personification: – giving human characteristics to something
non human
We passed the Setting SunWe passed the Setting Sun— —
Or rather Or rather HEHE passed us— passed us—
For only Gossamer, my Gown— For only Gossamer, my Gown— My Tippet—only Tulle — My Tippet—only Tulle —
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground—
The Roof was scarcely visible—
The Cornice —in the Ground—
Since then—’tis Centuries—and yet Since then—’tis Centuries—and yet
Feels shorter than the Day Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the I first surmised the HorsesHorses HeadsHeads
Were toward Eternity— Were toward Eternity—
Which view of the cycle of life and death do you identify with the
most—Poe’s or Dickinson’s? Explain.
Catalogue PoemCatalogue Poem
Read the following poem and…
1.Write an appropriate title
2.Explain what the poem “lists” and if it is effective.
Six Yu-Gi-Oh cards.Chewing gum wrappers.
School handouts, two weeks overdue.Three rubber bands.
A five-inch-tall stuffed dog.Four small blood stains.Two smooth, gray rocks.
Fourth-grade intrigue.Four pencils with no lead and no eraser.
Righteous indignation.Stories.
Avril Lavigne.Asthma inhaler.
A feather.Fourteen pale pink ribbons.
Playground news.Someone's phone number scribbled on a Heath Bar wrapper.
Eight secrets.Head lice, once.Plans of her own.
Whitman
• Focus on life rather than death; specifically in the American Culture
• Problem: only focused on ONE type of culture
Shoemaker and Hatter
http://www.ciaccess.com/~toveza/rockwell/shoemaker.jpg
http://sinkorschwim.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/dsc01581.jpg
Wood-cutter and Plowboy
http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/resources/LrgeImg/woodcutters.jpg
http://www.girlhenge.com/Photos/Pop_Pop_The_Straping_Ploughboy_small.jpg
Mother, Young Wife, & Girl at work
http://europa.eu/abc/12lessons/images/content_mother.jpg
http://laughingyaffle.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553d89e9d88340115710dce49970c-400wi
http://carthage.cementhorizon.com/archives/housewife_happy.jpg
Thinking…
• What do these occupations have in common?
• What type of jobs are they?
• Do they still apply today?
• What other occupations in today’s culture could you add?
Whitman, Poe and Dickinson
• Whitman’s poem: Celebrates life
• Dickinson’s poem: Romanticizes death
• Poe’s poem: Sees death as inevitable triumph over life
• What does it tell us about the individual in American Romanticism?