Aim: How do poetic elements create a thematic effect over the course of a poem?
Do Now: BRAINSTORM!
What comes to mind when you think of the word "identity". Create a word web.
Starting today’s lesson, my classmates and I spent a couple of minutes brainstorming what comes to mind when we see the word “identity”. Everyone has different words that come to mind when they hear the word “identity, some words my classmates thought of when they heard the word “identity” are “aspirations”, “name”, “personality”, and “social security”. Most answers were not scientific but one person also answered “dna”. The discussion and brainstorming really helped make us realise what “identity” meant to each of us.
After the do now and the discussion, we started spirit reading about poetic devices and their definitions. The first poetic devices were musical/sound devices, which mean to Convey and reinforce meaning (or experience) through the use of sound. The two musical devices we learned were cacophonous and euphonious. Cacophonous sounds are sounds that produce a harsh and discordant mixture of sounds. Euphonious sounds are sounds that are pleasant and soothing to the ear. We also learned about rhythm and extended metaphors. Rhythm is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is developed over several lines or throughout an entire poem.
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53zWcf9zJVU&ab_channel=tarnovtm
This video goes over musical/sound devices (euphony and cacophony). The video defines both words and gives examples of both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqhPp-ptoJA&ab_channel=TheSunShinesForTwo
This video goes over rhythm. It defines it and shows examples of rhythm in two different poems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3nDkXKDp0Y&ab_channel=Ms.TaraTolzin
This video goes over extended metaphors, it defines an extended metaphor, shows examples of it, and says why authors use extended metaphors.
After watching the video, we looked at examples of extended metaphors.
Example 1:
As You Like It (By William Shakespeare)
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
In this metaphor Shakespeare is comparing Earth to a stage and says that the men and women are actors and actresses on a stage metaphorically.
Example 2:
Habitation (By Margaret Atwood)
“Marriage is not / a house or even a tent / it is before that, and colder: / the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert / the unpainted stairs / at the back where we squat / outside, eating popcorn / the edge of the receding glacier / where painfully and with wonder / at having survived even this far / we are learning to make fire”
In this metaphor Atwood compares habitation to marriage and says that marriage is like an unstable habitation and compares marriage with different habitats. Atwood thinks that marriage is not stable like a house or tent but more unstable. She believes that marriages can change drastically like from the forest to a desert. She thinks marriage makes you learn new things and compares learning new things to learning to make a fire.
Theme:
After we went over extended metaphors, we started to learn about themes. A theme is a meaning of a work, central idea, point, and underlying meaning of a literary work. After the slide we watched a video that describes what themes are and shows examples of themes and examples of things that are not themes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIuKNVny9cM&feature=share&ab_channel=D4Darious
After learning about themes, we read “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco. We annotated the poem and answered questions on “Identity” in groups.
Teamwork:
For the first question we were supposed to find out what extended metaphor was used in the poem to compare flowers and weeds. Here is what our group got:
For the second question we made a TWIST chart. Here is what we filled out for it:
Reflection:
Today’s lesson made me realize what identity meant to me, and all the poetic devices that make a poem more meaningful. Out of all the poetic devices, I think imagery helps enhance a poem's descriptions and make it more meaningful by showing the readers a picture and not just saying it. The poem “Identity” by Polanco used lots of imagery to show how being a weed and having freedom is better than being a flower and not having freedom. “Identity” was meaningful to readers because Polanco showed the readers how being free and a weed was better than being a flower and confined by using imagery and all the other poetic devices like tone, word choice, style, and theme. The lesson was helpful overall and will definitely help me make my own poems better.
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