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My Heart Leaps Up
Literature
Slide 1 - Diapositive
What do you know about
Romanticism (il romanticismo)?
Slide 2 - Carte mentale
Some background information
Slide 3 - Diapositive
Industrial Revolution (1760 to 1840)
first part of industrialization brought wealth and prosperity
also feeling that this wealth was for the few and bought with poverty of many
led to urbanization and the birth of cities > lot of people moved there
Slide 4 - Diapositive
French Revolution
1789
huge source of inspiration: structure society needed to be changed
Ideals of freedom and equality, also among Romantic poets from England
Slide 5 - Diapositive
Wordsworth & Coleridge
two famous Romantic poets
broke radically with 18th century tradition in terms of literature
proposed poetry of simplicity
Slide 6 - Diapositive
Wordsworth & Coleridge
poetry was no longer guided by Reason
showed a deep trust in the forces of intuition, emotion and imagination
Slide 7 - Diapositive
Theme 1: Nature is divine
Nature = life-giving force
both in man but also the world around him
Slide 8 - Diapositive
Theme 2: the simple man should be idealized
man closest to nature (like farmers) should be idealized
Slide 9 - Diapositive
Theme 3: the past should be idealized
many Romantic poets were disappointed with the present situation they lived in
Slide 10 - Diapositive
Theme 4: children are pure
children were seen as 'pure'
surpreme example as they were uncorrupted by the world
closer to God and eternity due to purity
Slide 11 - Diapositive
Let's read the text together
Let's listen to Benedict Cumberbatch
Slide 12 - Diapositive
Slide 13 - Vidéo
Let's continue
By answering the questions
Slide 14 - Diapositive
1. What is the speaker's
mood in this poem?
Slide 15 - Carte mentale
Answer:
Happy ("my heart leaps up") but also serious ("or let me die").
Slide 16 - Diapositive
2. What can you say about
the I-person's age?
Slide 17 - Carte mentale
Answer:
He is probably middle-aged;
"now that I am a man"
"so be it when I grow old"
Slide 18 - Diapositive
3. 'So be it' (line 5) means 'let it be this way. What is it that he speaker does not want to change?
Class discussion.
Slide 19 - Diapositive
Answer to question 3
The happy feeling he gets when he sees a rainbow;
in other words: his bond with nature.
Slide 20 - Diapositive
4. Why would the 'I' rather be dead than change (line 6)?
Class discussion.
Slide 21 - Diapositive
Answer to question 4
He thinks it is important to have (strong) feelings
about nature / natural things.
Slide 22 - Diapositive
5. How can a child be father of a man, as said in line 7?
First discuss in pairs or small groups.
After that: class discussion.
Slide 23 - Diapositive
Answer to question 5
It means a child is closer to nature, and therefore
closer to the essence of life, than an adult.
Slide 24 - Diapositive
6. Explain the wish expressed
in lines 8-9 in your own words.
Slide 25 - Carte mentale
Answer to question 6
I want to be close to nature all the days of my life.
Slide 26 - Diapositive
7. What is the theme of this poem?
Let's find out what a theme is first.
Slide 27 - Diapositive
What is a theme?
A
the main idea a writer in story develops
B
the subject(s) a writer wants to talk about
Slide 28 - Quiz
A theme is often
A
a single word
B
a small phrase
C
a single word or small phrase
D
a small phrase or a sentence
Slide 29 - Quiz
7. What is the theme of this poem?
First discuss in pairs or small groups.
After that: class discussion.
Slide 30 - Diapositive
Answer to question 7
Nature and the beauty in it.
Slide 31 - Diapositive
8. Find the imagery in this poem.
What kind is it?
Hold on! What is imagery?
Slide 32 - Diapositive
Connect the imagery to the correct description
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
A direct comparison, without the words 'like' or 'as'.
A direct comparison, with the words 'like' or 'as'.
Human traits are applied to non-living objects.
Slide 33 - Question de remorquage
8. Find the imagery in this poem.
What kind is it?
Slide 34 - Carte mentale
Answer to question 8
My heart leaps up = personification
The child is father of the man = metaphor
Slide 35 - Diapositive
Explain why
This helps you understand imagery better
Discuss in pairs / small groups
Slide 36 - Diapositive
Explanation:
My heart leaps up = personification
to leap up = to jump, a heart cannot jump
The child is father of the man = metaphor
a child cannot be a father of an adult, it is a metaphor to show the purity of children
Slide 37 - Diapositive
9. What makes this a Romantic poem?
Slide 38 - Carte mentale
Answer
It stresses the importance of
nature
It places a
child
(intuition / feeling) above an
adult
(reason)
Slide 39 - Diapositive
I think I understand this poem and its message.
Yes
No
Slide 40 - Sondage
Continue
If you have answered yes, focus on your week task.
If you have answered no, please let me know what you do not understand (yet).
Slide 41 - Diapositive
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