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Name: __________________________

English 11/ 12 Poetry Package

Definitions of Poetic Devices

simile: a comparison using as or like e.g., "Mr. B is strong like a bull."

metaphor: a comparison NOT using as or like when one thing is said to be

another. (eg: When I didn’t do my homework, Mr.B. became a roaring lion.)

symbolism: a symbol is an image that represents something else (eg: a dove

represents “peace”). However, it is NOT a comparison (eg: a dove is like

peace or a dove is peace doesn’t make sense).

hyperbole: exaggeration for dramatic effect e.g., "all the perfumes of Arabia

will not sweeten this (murderer's) hand"

oxymoron: a seeming contradiction in two words put together: "parting is such

sweet sorrow."

onomatopoeia: making noises or sound effects with words. e.g., biz buzz,

humming, pant, or puff.

allusion: referring to something in history or literature

meter: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

imagery: the use of language to create a mental image or picture.

paradox: a seeming contradiction that makes sense. (Feste was the wisest fool

in all of Illyria)

personification: attribution of human motives or behaviours to impersonal

agencies. (eg: The trees and long grasses danced in the wind)

alliteration: the deliberate repetition of consonant sounds, e.g., "Build, build

your Babels!"

assonance: deliberate repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds: "the tread

of the feet of the dead"

consonance: the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds.

internal rhyme: when words on the same line rhyme.

antithesis: balanced contrast for special effect: e.g., "Lord of all things, yet

prey to all."

repetition: repetition of key word or idea for effect.

diction: poet's distinctive choices in vocabulary.

rhyme: repetition of same vowel sounds.

rhythm: internal 'feel' of beat and meter perceived when poetry is read aloud.

mood: feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem; atmosphere.

tone: the author’s attitude or feeling about the subject.

irony: something said or done that is the opposite of the truth.

Name: ________________

English 11 Poetry Unit

Poetry Warm-Up Activities

1. Imagination Re-boot: Find a prop. Take turns answering the following question: “What

are you doing?”

Eg: “What are you doing?”

“I am riding a dolphin….rowing a boat…shooting a bow”…etc

After your turn, pass the object to the next person and go to the back of the line.

2. Five Senses Poetry Writing: Using Imagery

Choose a theme

(eg: “Growing Up” or “Last Summer” “A Holiday” “My pet” or “My room”)

Jot down some details. Now describe those details...

Looks like…

Sounds like…

Smells like…

Tastes like…

Feels like…

Mr. B’s Example –

Theme: “Where I was…”

Year: 2001

Location: S. Korea

Activities: ESL Teaching

Foods: Bibimbap and Kimchi

Music: Radiohead

Transportation: Motorbike

Where I was….

Days were long and nights longer still

Wedged between a red giant and dull brown water

Minding halflings by day

Swallowing fire at sundown

Rising only to begin again

A life on the back of a wailing insect

Without purpose

Without tomorrow

3. Now it is your turn....

Personification

"The Metal" -- Tenacious D

You can't kill the metal

The metal will live on

Punk-Rock tried to kill the metal

But they failed, as they were smite to the ground

New-wave tried to kill the metal

But they failed, as they were stricken down to the ground

Grunge tried to kill the metal Ha,hahahahaha

They failed, as they were thrown to the ground

Aargh! yeah! [x2]

[Singing]

No-one can destroy the metal

The metal will strike you down with a vicious blow

We are the vanquished foes of the metal

We tried to win for why we do not know

New-wave tried to destroy the metal, but the metal had its way

Grunge then tried to dethrone the metal, but metal was in the way

Punk-rock tried to destroy the metal, but metal was much too strong

Techno tried to defile the metal, but techno was proven wrong

Yea!

Metal!

It comes from hell!

Name: ________________

Song: ______________________

1. Identify the poetic devices and explain the meaning.

Example Poetic Device Meaning “You can't kill the metal”

“Punk-Rock tried to kill

the metal”

“It comes from hell!”

“destroy.....dethrone.......

defile....”

2. Identify theme(s) in the song:

3. In your own words, explain the message of the song:

Jack Black, in his song “__________________,” uses __________________

and ______________________ to show ______________________________.

Repetition & Metaphor

I am a Rock – Paul Simon, 1965

A winter's day

In a deep and dark December;

I am alone,

Gazing from my window to the streets below

On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.

I am a rock,

I am an island.

I've built walls,

A fortress deep and mighty,

That none may penetrate.

I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.

It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.

I am a rock,

I am an island.

Don't talk of love,

Well I've heard the word before;

It's sleeping in my memory.

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.

If I never loved I never would have cried.

I am a rock,

I am an island.

I have my books

And my poetry to protect me;

I am shielded in my armor,

Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.

I touch no one and no one touches me.

I am a rock,

I am an island.

And a rock feels no pain;

And an island never cries.

Name: ________________

Song : ______________________


Example Poetic Device Meaning “I am a rock”

“I am an Island”

“I’ve built walls, a

fortress deep and mighty”

“{love} is sleeping in my

memory”

“A rock feels no pain and

an island never cries”


3. In your own words, explain the message of the song

Paul Simon, in his song “____________________,” uses __________________

and ______________________ to show ______________________________.

Name: ______________

SOUND DEVICES

Match the sounds with the objects that might make them. Choose from the list at the bottom of the

page.

Objects

Sounds Objects Sounds

Planes

Bells

Brakes

Bugles

Bullets

Cranes

Chains

Clocks

Coins

Corks

Dishes

Trumpets

Watch

Water

Wings

Hoofs

Horns

Kettles

Leaves

Paper

Raindrops

Saws

Sirens

Steam

Streams

Telephones

Thunder

Trains

Whips

Wind

Sounds: Zoom, ring, screech, call, ping, thunder, toot, sing, rustle, crinkle, swish,

patter, buzz, clank, tick, wail, hiss, pop, murmur, clatter, clap, bang, beat, tinkle,

bubble, drip, boom, crack, throb, howl, whir, creak, clink.

Onomatopoeia and Repetition

DOG AROUND THE BLOCK by E.B. White, 1938

Dog around the block, sniff,

Hydrant sniffing, corner, grating,

Sniffing, always, starting forward,

Backward, dragging, sniffing backward,

Leash at taut, leash at dangle,

Leash in people’s feet entangle-

Sniffing dog, apprised of smellings,

Love of life, and fronts of dwellings,

Meeting enemies,

Loving old acquaintance, sniff,

Sniffing hydrant for reminders,

Leg against the wall, raise,

Leaving grating, corner greeting,

Chance for meeting, sniff, meeting,

Meeting, telling, news of smelling,

Nose to tail, tail to nose,

Rigid, careful, pose,

Liking, partly liking, hating,

Then another hydrant, grating,

Leash at taut, leash at dangle,

Tangle, sniff, untangle

Dog around the block, sniff.


Example Poetic Device Meaning

“sniff….sniffing”

“dangle/ entangle”

“smellings/ dwellings”

“Dog around the block,

sniff.”

2. Identify theme(s) in the song

3. Now write about the poem...

EB White, in his poem “__________________,” uses __________________

and ______________________ to show ______________________________.

The Watch – Frances Cornford

I WAKENED on my hot, hard bed;

Upon the pillow lay my head;

Beneath the pillow I could hear

My little watch was ticking clear.

I thought the throbbing of it went 5

Like my continual discontent,

I thought it said in every tick:

I am so sick, so sick, so sick;

O death, come quick, come quick, come quick,

Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick. 10

1. Identify the poetic devices and explain the meaning:


2. Identify theme(s) in the poem:

3. In your own words, explain the message of the poem:

Frances Cornford, in his poem “__________________,” uses ________________

and ______________________ to explore _________________________________.

The Shell – James Stephens

AND then I pressed the shell

Close to my ear

And listened well,

And straightway like a bell

Came low and clear 5

The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas,

Whipped by an icy breeze

Upon a shore

Wind-swept and desolate.

It was a sunless strand that never bore 10

The footprint of a man,

Nor felt the weight

Since time began

Of any human quality or stir

Save what the dreary winds and waves incur. 15

And in the hush of waters was the sound

Of pebbles rolling round,

For ever rolling with a hollow sound.

And bubbling sea-weeds as the waters go

Swish to and fro 20

Their long, cold tentacles of slimy grey.

There was no day,

Nor ever came a night

Setting the stars alight

To wonder at the moon: 25

Was twilight only and the frightened croon,

Smitten to whimpers, of the dreary wind

And waves that journeyed blind—

And then I loosed my ear ... O, it was sweet

To hear a cart go jolting down the street. 30



2. Identify theme(s) in the poem:

3. In your own words, explain the message of the poem:

James Stephens, in his poem “__________________,” uses ________________

and ______________________ to explore _________________________________.

Fields of Gold -- Sting

You remember me when the west wind moves

Upon the fields of barley

You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky

As we walk in fields of gold

So she took her love for to gaze awhile


In his arms she fell as her hair came down

Among the fields of gold

Will you stay with me, will you be my love?

Among the fields of barley

We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky

As we lie in fields of gold

See the west wind move like a lover so


Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth


I never made promises lightly

And there have been some that I've broken

But I swear in the days still left

We'll walk in fields of gold

We'll walk in fields of gold

Many years have passed since those summer days

Among the fields of barley

See the children run as the sun goes down


You'll remember me when the west wind moves


You can tell the sun in his jealous sky

When we walked in fields of gold

When we walked in fields of gold



“…the sun, in his jealous

sky…”

“Fields of Gold”

“the west wind moves

among the fields of barley”



Sting, in his song “____________________,” uses __________________

and ______________________ to express ______________________________.

Symbolism and Allusion

Ramble On – Led Zeppelin

Leaves are fallin' all around, time I was on my

way

Thanks to you, I'm much obliged for such a

pleasant stay

but now it's time for me to go, the autumn

moon lights my way

for now I smell the rain, and with it, pain

and it's headed my way

Aw, sometimes I grow so tired

but I know I've got one thing I got to do

A-ramble on, and now's the time, the time is

now

Sing my song, I'm goin' 'round the world, I

gotta find my girl

On my way, I've been this way ten years to the

day

Ramble on, gotta find the queen of all my

dreams

Got no time to for spreadin' roots, the time has

come to be gone

And though our health we drank a thousand

times

it's time to ramble on

A-ramble on, and now's the time, the time is

now

Sing my song, I'm goin' 'round the world

I've gotta find my girl

On my way, I've been this way ten years to the

day

I gotta ramble on, I gotta find the queen of all

my dreams

I tell you no lie

Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I

hold dear

How years ago in days of old when magic

filled the air

'twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, mm-I

met a girl so fair

but Gollum and the evil warg crept up and

slipped away with her

her, her, yeah, and ain't nothin' I can do, no

I guess I'll keep on ramblin', I'm gonna

Sing my song/Sh-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, I've

gotta find my baby

I'm gonna ramble on, sing my song

Gonna work my way all around the world

Baby, baby/Ramble on, yeah

A-do-do-n-do-n-do-n-do, my baby/Baby

A-ramble on, baby

A-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-de-do-de-do-de-do-

de-do-de, yeah, yeah/

I can't stop this feelin' in my heart

Everytime I feel I will leave, I really gotta part

Gotta keep searchin' for my baby

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,

baby, babe

I've gotta keep a-searchin'for my baby

My, my, my, my, my, my, my baby

Yeah-yeah, a-yeah-yeah, a-yeah-yeah

My, my, my, my, my, my baby

Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah,

yeah-yeah

Ooh, my, my, my-my, my-my, my-my, yeah

I can't find my bluebird, I'd listen to my

bluebird sing

but I, I can't find my bluebird

I keep a-ramblin' baby

Ah, ah, yeah

I keep a-ramblin', baby

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Name: ________________

Song : ______________________





Led Zeppelin, in their song “___________________,” use __________________

and ______________________ to explore ______________________________.

"Viva La Vida" – Cold Play

I used to rule the world

Seas would rise when I gave the word

Now in the morning I sleep alone

Sweep the streets I used to own

I used to roll the dice

Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes

Listen as the crowd would sing

"Now the old king is dead! Long live the

king!"

One minute I held the key

Next the walls were closed on me

And I discovered that my castles stand

Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing

Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

Be my mirror, my sword and shield

My missionaries in a foreign field

For some reason I can't explain

Once you go there was never

Never an honest word

And that was when I ruled the world

It was the wicked and wild wind

Blew down the doors to let me in

Shattered windows and the sound of drums

People couldn't believe what I'd become

Revolutionaries wait

For my head on a silver plate

Just a puppet on a lonely string

Oh who would ever want to be king?






I know Saint Peter won't call my name


But that was when I ruled the world






I know Saint Peter won't call my name


But that was when I ruled the world

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Name: ________________

Song : ______________________





Cold Play, in their song “_____________________,” use __________________

and ______________________ to explore ______________________________.

SIMILE

Sweet Like a Crow (p.26) ~ Michael Ondaatje

for Hetti Corea, 8 years old

Your voice sounds like a scorpion being pushed

through a glass tube

like someone has just trod on a peacock

like wind howling in a coconut

like a rusty bible, like someone pulling barbed wire

across a stone courtyard, like a pig drowning,

a vattacka being fried

a bone shaking hands

a frog singing at Carnegie Hall.

Like a crow swimming in milk,

like a nose being hit by a mango

like the crowd at the Royal-Thomian match,

a womb full of twins, a pariah dog

with a magpie in its mouth

like the midnight jet from Casablanca

like Air Pakistan curry,

a typewriter on fire, like a hundred

pappadans being crunched, like someone

trying to light matches in a dark room,

the clicking sound of a reef when you put your head

into the sea,

a dolphin reciting epic poetry to a sleepy audience,

the sound of a fan when someone throws brinjals at it,

like pineapples being sliced in the Pettah market

like betel juice hitting a butterfly in mid-air

like a whole village running naked onto the street

and tearing their sarongs, like an angry family

pushing a jeep out of the mud, like dirt on the needle,

like 8 sharks being carried on the back of a bicycle

like 3 old ladies locked in the lavatory

like the sound I heard when having an afternoon sleep

and someone walked through my room in ankle

bracelets.

Identify the poetic devices and explain the meaning.


Identify theme(s) in the poem:

In your own words, explain the message of the poem:

SYMBOLISM

The Lesson – Edward Lucie-Smith (p.30)

"Your father's gone," my bald headmaster said.

His shiny dome and brown tobacco jar

Splintered at once in tears. It wasn't grief.

I cried for knowledge which was bitterer

Than any grief. For there and then I knew

That grief has uses - that a father dead

Could bind the bully's fist a week or two;

And then I cried for shame, then for relief.

I was a month past ten when I learnt this:

I still remember how the noise was stilled

in school-assembly when my grief came in.

Some goldfish in a bowl quietly sculled

Around their shining prison on its shelf.

They were indifferent. All the other eyes

Were turned towards me. Somewhere in myself

Pride, like a goldfish, flashed a sudden fin.



Identify theme(s) in the poem:

In your own words, explain the message of the poem:

Narrative Poetry

One Tin Soldier – Joni Mitchell

Listen children to a story that was written long ago

'bout a kingdom on a mountain and the valley folk below

on the mountain was a treasure buried deep beneath a stone

and the valley people swore they'd have it for their very

own

CHORUS: go ahead and hate your neighbor

go ahead and cheat a friend

do it in the name of heaven

you could justify it in the end

There won't be any trumpets blowing

come the judgment day

on the bloody morning after

One tin soldier rides away

So the people of the valley sent a message up the hill,

asking for the buried treasure, tons of gold for which they'd

kill.

Came an answer from the kingdom "with our brothers we

will share.

All the secrets of our mountain, all the riches buried there."

Now the valley cried with anger, "mount your horses, draw

your swords"

And they killed the mountain people, so they won their just

reward.

Now they stood beside the treasure, on the mountain dark

and red.

Turned the stone and looks beneath it; PEACE ON EARTH

was all it said.

CHORUS



Identify theme(s) in the song:

In your own words, explain the message of the song:

English Poetry Unit My Name: ___________________

Poem Title:_________________ Page# ______ Poet: _______________

Analyze

Identify (Check all that apply)

Example

Poem

Mood

Sombre/ sad

Cheerful

Serious

Light

Other

_______________

Poet’s Tone

Serious

Light and

humorous

Melancholic

Critical

Angry

Other

_______________

Imagery

Symbolism

Metaphor

Simile

Sound

Devices

Alliteration

Assonance

Onomatopoeia

Rhythm

Repetition

Rhyme

Other

Devices

Contrast

Hyperbole

Oxymoron

Oxymoron

Irony

Personification

Theme and

Message

One key theme in the poem is _________________________________.

___________________, in the poem “_______________________________ ,”

uses ___________________, and ______________________ to show that

_______________________________________________________________.

Name: __________________

English 11: Writing About Poetry

Theme Analysis: Writing and Supporting Theme Statements

Part A) Analyze Poetry Together – “The Mirror,” by Sylvia Plath (1945)

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.

Whatever I see I swallow immediately

Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.

I am not cruel, only truthful ‚

The eye of a little god, four-cornered.

Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.

It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long

I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.

Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,

Searching my reaches for what she really is.

Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.

I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.

She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.

I am important to her. She comes and goes.

Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.

In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman

Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Theme Statement:

In the poem “Mirror,” Sylvia Plath makes use of personification and metaphor to show self-

awareness and the experience of growing old.

Supporting Statement #1:

In the first stanza, she uses ___________________ to establish that the mirror has almost

human qualities. For example, the mirror _________________________________________,

and is able to ______________________ and __________________________. The reader

experiences the poem through the eyes of the mirror, and it is important that it think and act in

human ways so that the reader can identify with it.

Supporting Statement #2:

She also makes use of ______________ to express both the power of the mirror, and the

fleeting youth of the woman. In the second stanza, the poet compares the mirror to the

___________ of a lake. As the women loses her youth to old age, it is as if her years are

swallowed up in its depths. The past years have disappeared, and the youthful girl is no more.

She is “_____________________” in the depths of the lake, for the mirror admits that

“whatever I see I swallow immediately.” In the place of the young girl, the present emerges as

an old woman, “like a terrible fish.”

Conclusion:

The mirror is a person who watches an old woman grow old. It is a metaphor for the

awareness of death.

Part B) Now you try it. First choose a poem from our text book. Read it a few

times, and fill out the poem analysis sheet. After that, you will be able to write

about your poem by writing a theme statement and then supporting it with examples

from the poem.

English Poetry Unit My Name: ________________________


Analyze


Example

Poem

Mood

Sombre/ sad

Cheerful

Serious

Light

Other

_______________

Poet’s Tone

Serious

Light and

humorous

Melancholic

Critical

Angry

Other

_______________

Imagery

Symbolism

Metaphor

Simile

Sound

Devices

Alliteration

Assonance

Onomatopoeia

Rhythm

Repetition

Rhyme

Other

Devices

Contrast

Hyperbole

Oxymoron

Oxymoron

Irony

Personification

Theme and

Message


___________________, in the poem “_______________________________ ,”


_______________________________________________________________.

Poet: ______________________ Poem: _____________________

Page #: ___________

Major Theme: ____________________

______________________, in the poem _________________________________,

uses _____________________ and ____________________ to ________________

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Part C) Peer-Feedback

Now share your Theme Analysis with a partner.

Discuss the similarities and differences between your theme statements.

Which part of your paragraph is particularly strong?

What might each of you have done differently?

English Poetry Unit My Name: ________________________


Analyze


Example

Poem

Mood

Sombre/ sad

Cheerful

Serious

Light

Other

_______________

Poet’s Tone

Serious

Light and

humorous

Melancholic

Critical

Angry

Other

_______________

Imagery

Symbolism

Metaphor

Simile

Sound

Devices

Alliteration

Assonance

Onomatopoeia

Rhythm

Repetition

Rhyme

Other

Devices

Contrast

Hyperbole

Oxymoron

Oxymoron

Irony

Personification

Theme and

Message


___________________, in the poem “_______________________________ ,”


_______________________________________________________________.

Poet: ______________________ Poem: _____________________

Page #: ___________

Major Theme: ____________________

______________________, in the poem _________________________________,

uses _____________________ and ____________________ to ________________

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Part C) Peer-Feedback

Now share your Theme Analysis with a partner.

Discuss the similarities and differences between your theme statements.

Which part of your paragraph is particularly strong?

What might each of you have done differently?

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