Beat! Beat! Drums!Walt Whitman

List of all the ways that war is presented as a

destructive force in the poem.

Categorize the Disruptions Caused by War

• Social events

• Family events

• Daily life

• Commerce

• School

• Rural areas

• Urban areas

• Legal system

Make a graphic organizer

Disruptions Caused by War/ Destructiveness of War

“Success is Counted Sweetest”

“War is Kind”

“Grass” “Patterns”

Writing AssignmentSelect ONE of the four poems in the poetry packet we have been working with in class (“Success is Counted Sweetest”, “War is Kind”, “Grass”, and “Patterns” ).

Each student should write a paragraph of at least 50 words that explains (with evidence from the poem) how the poem presents war as a destructive force.

Students should edit and revise the short paragraphs about the poems with a peer editor.

The individuals or partners should be proofreading to ensure that each paragraph accomplishes the following tasks:

a) that it clearly explains how war is a destructive force in the poem; b) that it contains specific, accurate references (direct quotes) to the poem that support the thesis (“war as a destructive force”); and c) that the writer has used correct spelling and grammar throughout the paragraph.

Remember…Poetry works in two ways:

-What it saysand

-How it says it

What it says…

Theme- a common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work.

Purpose- the author’s reason for writing

Subject- what the author is writing about

How it says it…

Structure

Figurative Language

Understanding Poetic Structure

Rhyme

Meter

Figurative Language

Poetic Terms

Rhyme

The repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all syllables that follow (ex. glisten – listen)

When rhyme is found within the same line of poetry, it is internal rhyme

When rhyme is found at the end of lines of poetry, it is end rhyme

Rhyme

The purpose of rhyme is to create a sound cadence for the reader

Poets often create a pattern of end rhyme

This pattern, when identified, is called a rhyme scheme

When determining the rhyme scheme, each rhyming sound is represented by a different letter of the alphabet

Rhyme

Because rhyming is difficult, and to create different effects on the reader, poets also use approximate rhyme

Approximate rhyme is also known as off rhyme, half rhyme, or slant rhyme

These rhymes can be equated to a sharp or flat note in music

Meter

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

Each syllable in a line of poetry is labeled with a stress mark, or an unstressed mark

The purpose of meter is to create a recognizable rhythm through a regular sound pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Meter

Metrical patterns, composed of stressed and unstressed syllabic marks, create a foot of meter

Common metrical feet are: iambic, anapestic, trochaic, and dactylic

Each is a different combination of stressed and unstressed syllabic marks

Meter

An iambic foot of meter is composed of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

An anapestic foot of meter is composed of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable

MeterFoot type Style Stress pattern Syllable count

Iamb Iambic Unstressed + Stressed Two

Trochee Trochaic Stressed + Unstressed Two

Spondee Spondaic Stressed + Stressed Two

Anapest or anapaest Anapestic Unstressed + Unstressed + Stressed Three

Dactyl Dactylic Stressed + Unstressed + Unstressed Three

Amphibrach Amphibrachic Unstressed + Stressed + Unstressed Three

Pyrrhic Pyrrhic Unstressed + Unstressed Two

Figurative Language

Using words or phrases to describe something in terms of another thing, with the intent that the description will not be taken literally

The more common figures of speech are simile, metaphor, personification, and symbol

Conceit is an elaborate figure of speech that is often lengthy, and which compares two startlingly different objects

Figurative Language Sound devices are also a form of figurative language

Some common sound devices are assonance, alliteration, consonance, onomatopoeia

Other figures of speech are

hyperbole- Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

metonymy- A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").

Metonymy is also the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it, as in describing someone's clothing to characterize the individual.

Oxymoron- A figure of speech in which incongruous or seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side; a compressed paradox.

Synecdoche- A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword)

Poetic Devices and Terms

Allusion is a reference to someone of something known from history, literature, religion, sports, science, etc. – allusion is a device also used in other forms of writing

Apostrophe is a technique a poet uses to address an inanimate object, idea, or person who is dead or absent – apostrophe is also used in other forms of writing

Caesura is a pause or break within a line of poetry

Concrete Poem is a poem in which the words of the poem themselves are arranged in a manner to visually suggest the poem’s subject of meaning

Poetic Devices and Terms

Couplet consists of two rhyming lines of poetry

Lyric Poem is a poem that does not tell a story, but expresses the personal thoughts or feelings of the speaker/poet

Octave is an eight line poem, or more often, the first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet

Ode is a lyric poem that is usually very long

Quatrain is a poem consisting of four lines that function as a unit of thought

Poetic Devices and Terms

Refrain is a word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a poem that are repeated for effect several times during a poem

Sestet is a six line poem, especially the last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet

Sonnet is a fourteen line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, and following a Petrarchan or Shakespearian structure

Group Work

Create groups based around each of the four poems that you wrote about earlier.

Each group should then subdivide itself, with one subdivision taking on “elements of poetic structure” and the other taking on “elements of figurative language.”

In the smaller groups, identify “elements of poetic structure” and “elements of figurative language” as they apply to your particular poem.

Re- Group(5 minutes)

Regroup based on the assignments of poems and categories.

Within each group, share “elements of poetic structure” and “elements of figurative language” that you found when analyzing your assigned poem.

Independent WritingAdd to the paragraph you wrote earlier, two additional paragraphs:

one paragraph that explains the poem’s structure

and one paragraph that cites examples of at least three uses of figurative language from the poem.

Peer Editing and Revision Revise all three

paragraphs:1.war as a destructive force, 2.poetic structure, 3.figurative language.

Check:a)That the first paragraph clearly explains how war is a destructive force in the poem; that the second paragraph explains the structure of the poem, and that the third paragraph explains the figurative language used in the poem; and b)b) that it contains specific, accurate references (direct quotes) to the poem that support the thesis of each paragraph (see list to the left); and c)c) that the writer has used correct spelling and grammar throughout the paragraph.