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Tuesday, APRIL 19, 2011 GOOD MORNING, HP 10!. Please clear your desk except for your poetry packet and a pencil. POETRY: “Eight Puppies ” -- Gabriela Mistral “Simile” – N. Scott Momaday “To” – Alexandr Pushkin. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Tuesday, APRIL 19, 2011GOOD MORNING, HP 10!
Please clear your desk except for your poetry packet and a pencil.
POETRY: “Eight Puppies” -- Gabriela Mistral“Simile” – N. Scott Momaday“To” – Alexandr Pushkin
Read the poem. What do you notice the first time through? What feelings or images does it conjure? What is the poem about on the surface level?
Read it again. Do you see any patterns or poetic devices? Label them.
How is the poem written? (rhymed, free verse, stanzas)?
POETRY: “Eight Puppies” -- Gabriela Mistral“Simile” – N. Scott Momaday“To” – Alexandr Pushkin
What word (verb) is repeated multiple times?
What device is used most in stanzas 1 and 2? What device is used in line 22? What is the purpose of lines 15 - 16? What are puppies compared to in line 24? (2) How is that true?
POETRY: “Eight Puppies” -- Gabriela Mistral“Simile” – N. Scott Momaday“To” – Alexandr Pushkin
Who is the speaker of the poem? How do you know? What pronoun is used?
What is the tone of the poem? What is the poem about on a deeper
level? (message?)
POETRY & the Natural World
Read the “Personal Connection” on p. 441. Match the following words to feelings most
associated with them:1. Cloudy A. sad2. Stormy B. scared3. Rainy C. depressed4. Sunny D. lost or confused5. Foggy E. angry6. Dark F. happy
POETRY: “Eight Puppies” -- Gabriela Mistral“Simile” – N. Scott Momaday“To” – Alexandr Pushkin
Read the poem. What do you notice the first time through? What feelings or images does it conjure? What is the poem about on the surface level?
Read it again. Do you see any patterns or poetic devices? Label them.
How is the poem written? (rhymed, free verse, stanzas)?
POETRY: “Eight Puppies” -- Gabriela Mistral“Simile” – N. Scott Momaday“To” – Alexandr Pushkin
What device is used in line 2? How can people be like deer? What device draws attention to lines
4-7? What do lines 4-7 tell us?
Why do deer walk that way?
POETRY: “Eight Puppies” -- Gabriela Mistral“Simile” – N. Scott Momaday“To” – Alexandr Pushkin
What do the first two lines and the last line tell us about the possible future of the relationship?
POETRY: “Eight Puppies” -- Gabriela Mistral“Simile” – N. Scott Momaday“To” – Alexandr Pushkin
Read the poem. What do you notice the first time through? What feelings or images does it conjure? What is the poem about on the surface level?
Read it again. Do you see any patterns or poetic devices? Lines 3-4? Line 7? Lines 3-4 and 19-20?
How is the poem written? (rhymed, free verse, stanzas)?
POETRY: “Eight Puppies” -- Gabriela Mistral“Simile” – N. Scott Momaday“To” – Alexandr Pushkin
Label the rhyme scheme on the right. Is there a pattern to the end rhyme? Could you divide this into quatrains? Summarize each quatrain to the left of it.
POETRY: “Eight Puppies” -- Gabriela Mistral“Simile” – N. Scott Momaday“To” – Alexandr Pushkin
What does each quatrain say?1-4: 5-8: 9-12: 13-16: 17 – 20:21 – 24:
POETRY: “Eight Puppies” -- Gabriela Mistral“Simile” – N. Scott Momaday“To” – Alexandr Pushkin
Who is the speaker of the poem? How do you know? What pronoun is used?
What is the tone of the poem? How does the speaker feel about
seeing this person again?
