Poetry Lesson 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

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Blind Horse Poem

Activity: Black-Out Poetry

What is the poem "Still I Rise" about?

1. strength/courage
2. a broken heart
3. self-respect
4. ancestor's pain

What is the theme of "Still I Rise"?

1. Hope keeps us alive.
2. Nothing can hold you back from being you.
3. It is the inside that counts.
4. People need to be strong in the face of difficulty.

Name a metaphor from the poem.

Which words or phrases
create imagery?

On a scale from 1 to 10, 1 being easy and 10 being difficult, how did you find the process of annotating this poem?

Which phrase is repeated in the poem?

1. Did you want to see me broken?
2. I rise.
3. But still, like dust, I'll rise.
4. You may shoot me with your words.

What is a simile?

1. poetically calling things something else
2. an exaggeration
3. a phrase starting with the same letter
4. a comparison using like or as

Name a simile from the poem.

What words do you think
of when reading this poem?

Three Main Themes

Disability

Human neglection of animals 

Despair

Enjambment

running thought from one line to another without final puntuation

Use } to highlight the enjambment in the poem

Caesura

a pause in a line of poetry, it will usually occur near the middle of a poetic line

Use an arrow to point out the caesura in the poem

What do you think
black out poetry is?

Black Out Poetry

Take a page from a book and pick out words on the page to make a new story and paint a pciture in the mind of the reader

Read it aloud and show it to the class by recording a Flipgrid

Extra Challenge: Create a simile, metaphor or strong imagery

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Homework

Create Black Out Poem and record Flipgrid reading

Read Invictus Poem in the Booklet and define: invictus, unconquerable, winced, bludgeonings, wrath, looms, and menace. Write the definitions next to the words in the poem.