V4_review and mock_ poetry_wk 11

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Poetry test period III

Know:

• Literary devices in the back of Poetry booklet
  

(what is alliteration, a metaphor, rhyme schemes etc.)

• Fully explain poems & titles in booklet
  

• Use literary devices to explain poems
  

• Be able to point out/give examples of literary devices in poems
  

What is alliteration?

What is a villanelle?

What is a limerick?

What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile?

Give an example of a metaphor from "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home"

Give an example of a simile from the poem "From June to December"

Give an example of personification in the poem "Vegetarians

Explain the poem "The Lesson"

Explain the poem "First Love"

Explain the poem
"Hair Today, No Her Tomorrow"

Explain the poem "The Incident"

What literary devices are used in Funeral Blues?

What is the poem Funeral Blues about?

Hair today, no her tomorrow - p. 10 - 11

Read the poem together.

1) The poem does not have a rhyme scheme. In what form has the poem been written & why?

2) What is the play on words in the title? Explain.

3) When does she confess her adultery/her cheating  to her partner? 

4) What exactly did she do? 

5) Who does the hair belong to?Why does he advise her to leave? 

Hair today, no her tomorrow - KEY

Read the poem together.

1) The poem does not have a rhyme scheme. In what form has the poem been written? - dialogue

 Why ? - I said/she said is repeated on and on to create awkwardness in their conversation when they both confess their affairs to each other

2) What is the play on words in the title? Explain. - Hair - play on words for "her", She discovers a long black hair and when he doesn't deny cheating, she confesses and he eventually fully confesses cheating, meaning she is gone tomorrow/the relationship has ended

Hair today, no her tomorrow - p. 10 - 11

3) When does she confess her adultery/her cheating to her partner? When he doesn't deny the cheating ("I'll explain"; "A pity, I said")

5) What exactly did she do? She slept with several of his friends.

6) Who does the hair belong to? Why does he advise her to leave?  The hair does belong to a woman, because the cat is white and so he actually did cheat on her as well

Incident                     Norman MacCraig (1910-1960) 

I look across the table and think 

(fiery with love) 

Ask me, go on, ask me 

to do something impossible, 

something freakishly useless, 

something unimaginable and inimitable 

Like making a finger break into blossom 

or walking for half an hour in twenty minutes 

or remembering tomorrow. 

Incident - continued       Norman MacCraig (1910-1960) 

I will you to ask it. 

But all you say is 

Will you give me a cigarette? 

And I smile and, 

returning to the marvelous world 

of possibility 

I give you one 

with a hand that trembles 

with a human trembling. 

The incident

1) What is this poem about?


2) What can you say about the person speaking and the other person he is speaking to (relationship wise)?


3) " I will you to ..."  -> what does this mean?

The incident

4) What does the following mean:
Ask me, go on, ask me 
to do something impossible, 
something freakishly useless, 
something unimaginable and inimitable 
Like making a finger break into blossom 

5) What do you call this comparison in stanza 1  (underlined)? 

6) What actually happens?  

The incident - key

1) He (= narrator)  is really in love with her (or the other person), but it might be one-sided, and (s)he has no idea how he feels

2) He tries to force him/her to ask him a question by sending out "vibes"  with his mind

3) So he can prove his love to him/her

 4) Ask me, go on, ask me 
to do something impossible, 
something freakishly useless, 
something unimaginable and inimitable 
5) Like making a finger break into blossom =  Simile 

6) She asks him something easy/simple/mundane, so he cannot express or prove his love to her

The Lesson - Robert McGough

1. What is going on in this poem?

2. What is the double meaning of stanza 2, last two lines"- "To Teach a Lesson

3. What is the teacher doing? Give evidence from the poem

4. What is the double meaning of "to pop a head around" ?

5. What is the pun in "first come, first severed”?

6. Which "lesson" does the teacher give? In other words, what does he teach his class?

The Lesson

1. What is going on in this poem? A teacher is teaching his class a lesson by brutally showing them who is the boss.

2. What is the double meaning of stanza 2, last two lines?

The double meaning of “To teach a lesson” is that he is 1) teaching them 2) to punish them (“to teach someone a lesson they won’t forget”)

3. What is the teacher doing?

He has walked into an unruly class that isn’t listening to him, so he resorts to physical punishment (picking up children and strangling them, hacking his way through class with a sword, , throwing a sword at a latecomer et-cetera)

4. What is the double meaning of "to pop a head around" ?

This means that 1) he sticks his head around the corner to look 2) he throws a head into the classroom

5. What is the pun in "first come, first severed”?

The actual saying is “First come, first served”, meaning that who is first, is getting help first (a positive thing). To sever means that something is “cut off”. In the poem the line “First come, first severed” means that the people who are chattering (talking) first, are the ones who will have limbs etc. cut off first.

6. Which lesson does the teacher give?

The teacher has told class that the lesson’s theme was violence. Showing the class physical punishment to keep an unruly class obedient is showing them how dictators use cruel practice and violence to rule their people.

The Lesson

5. What is the pun in "first come, first severed”?

The actual saying is “First come, first served”, meaning that who is first, is getting help first (a positive thing). To sever means that something is “cut off”. In the poem the line “First come, first severed” means that the people who are chattering (talking) first, are the ones who will have limbs etc. cut off first.

6. Which lesson does the teacher give?

The teacher has told class that the lesson’s theme was violence. Showing the class physical punishment to keep an unruly class obedient is showing them how dictators use cruel practice and violence to rule their people.

A txt msg pom - Julia Bird (b. 1971) 

 

his is r bunsn brnr bl%,  

his hair lyk fe filings  

W/ac/dc going thru.  

I sit by him in kemistry,  

it splits my @oms  

when he :-)s @ me 

A txt msg pom - Julia Bird (2001)

Q. 1 -  Can you write the poem in complete/standard English? 

Q. 2  - What does the poem mean? 

Q. 3 - What do the following mean:

• ac/dc
• kemistry (double meaning)
• it splits my @oms  ; when he :-)s @ me 

A txt msg pom - Julia Bird (2001)

a text message poem / 

His eyes are bunsen burner blue / 

his hair like iron filings / 

with the current going through. / 

I sit by him in chemistry / 

 my atoms split / 

when he smiles at me.

Villanelle

A 19-line poem, 6 stanzas consisting of 5 tercets (3-line stanzas), followed by a quatrain (4-line stanza). 

Rhyme scheme: aba-aba-aba-aba-aba-abaa.

The first and the third line of the first tercet are repeated alternately until the last stanza. 

The last stanza includes both repeated lines (= couplet).

Question: Which parts in the poem From June to December are villannelles?  

Limerick

A short, humorous poem that pokes fun.

It has a five-line fixed rhyme scheme (aa bb a -> a lines long; b lines short)

Question: Which part in the poem "From June to December" is in fact a limerick?