Monday Sponge: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification? The leaves are little yellow fish...

Monday Sponge: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification?

The leaves are little yellow fishswimming on the water

1. Type of figurative language _________________________2. How do you know? ________________________________

There’s a faucet in the basementthat dripped a drop all yearsince he fixed it, we can’t find itwithout wearing scuba gear.

3. Type of figurative language __________________________4. How do you know? _________________________________

Romanticism1800 - 1870

The Fireside Poets – America’s First Literary Stars

• American Revolution was finished – time of peace

• The United States is a new country, beginning to create our own identity

• “Fireside Poets” = First American poets to become as popular as British poets

The Fireside Poets

• Wrote about scenes from American life

• Preferred conventional forms – did not experiment or invent new forms of poetry

• Strong (obvious) themes

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• 1807 – 1882

• Wrote Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere’s Ride, and Evangeline

• Translated Dante’s Inferno from Italian to English

William Cullen Bryant

• 1794 – 1878

• Wrote “Thanatopsis”

• One of the founders of the Republican party and supporter of Abraham Lincoln

Oliver Wendell Holmes

• 1809 – 1894• Medical doctor • Wrote “Old Ironsides,”

which saved the U.S.S. Constitution from being destroyed

• Father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

John Greenleaf Whittier

• 1807 – 1892

• Wrote Snowbound and Legends of New England

• Active in the anti-slavery movement

Impact on America

• Longfellow remained the most popular American poet for several decades

• The Fireside Poets wrote about important issues (such as slavery) and brought their ideas to the American public in a thoughtful, not argumentative, way

Themes of the Romantic Period

• One should value feeling and intuition over logical reasoning.– In my own words: _____________________________


• The importance of the individual (individualism)– In my own words: ______________________________


• Freedom of imagination– In my own words: ______________________________


• Nature is a mirror of human emotions– In my own words: ______________________________

Work Period: Reading Romantic Poetry

STEP 1:• Read your assigned poem with your group. • Discuss vocabulary and the overall idea of the

poem.• Find evidence of the four themes of Romanic

poetry from your poem.• Be prepared to share what you learned with

someone who did not read this poem.

Tuesday Sponge: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification?

When the stars threw down their spearsand watered heaven with their tears


Like burnt-out torches by a sick man’s bed. 3. Type of figurative language __________________________4. How do you know? _________________________________

Literal vs. Connotative Meaning

1) Summarize the poem – What is being described in each stanza?

2) Describe the connotative meaning – What emotions does the poem make you feel? What imagery and symbols does the poem use to make you feel this way?

3) Identify the themes – what message or lesson does this poem teach?

Wednesday Sponge: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification?

(From Edgar Allen Poe)Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.


A single dim ray, like the thread of a spider, shot from out the crevice.



10 min – Review your poem with your group. Practice how you will explain the summary, connotation, and themes to someone who has not read this poem.


1) Discuss the two poems with your partner• Summary• Connotation• Major themes

2) Work together to create a Tree Map that explains how the four themes of the Romantic Period are shown in these two poems.

Thursday Sponge: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification?

(From Edgar Allen Poe)Yes, he was stone, stone dead.


It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.


The rosemary nods upon the grave;the lily lolls upon the wave.



• Complete the Frame of Reference:

– Make sure you have cited your sources with the title of the poem in quotation marks “…”

– Answer the question How do these themes show America’s changing values?

Extra Credit: Take it off the map!Write two paragraphs about one Romantic theme.– Explain one of the major themes of

Romantic writing– Cite examples of the theme from one or

both poems– Write two paragraphs:

1. Explain what this theme means and if or how it is relevant today

2. Give your examples

Sentence Frames: Theme

One major theme in Romantic Literature, is __________________________________. In other words, _____________________________ _________________________________________. This theme is / is not relevant today because _____ ____________________________________.

An example of ____(theme)__ from “Title of Poem” is _________________________________. Another example from “Title of Poem” is _________ ___________________ . From these poems, we should learn that Americans at this time __________ ________________________________________.


STEP 3:• With your partner, choose and read another

poem from pages 275-288• Discuss vocabulary and the overall idea of the

poem.• Find evidence of the four themes of Romanic

poetry from the poem.• Add the examples to the Tree Map

Friday Sponge: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification?

(From Edgar Allen Poe)The breeze – the breath of God – is still.


Death has reared himself a thronein a strange city lying alone


All that we see or seemis but a dream within a dream


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