Literature lesson #4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Thursday, March 16th

Programme

- Robert Frost: Education by Poetry

- Lesson 3: everything clear?

- Lesson 4: The art of metaphor

Robert Frost: Education by poetry

What was your first response to the speech?

Discuss at least 5 of the following questions about the speech in pairs.

1. What does Frost say in the first paragraph? What is his goal with this speech? (page 23)

2. Why would colleges bar 'all that is poetical'? Name the 2 reasons given in the text. (page 23)

3. What does Frost mean with 'education by poetry'? (page 24)

4. How does 'poetry (provide) the one permissable way of saying one thing and meaning another'? (page 24, bottom of the page)

5. Why should you be 'at home in the metaphor' to make it work? (page 26, paragraph 2)

6. Explain what Frost says about teaching students to think: 'To tell them is to set their feet on the first rung of a ladder the top of which sticks through the sky.'

(page 27, middle of the page)

7. What does Frost mean by the term 'closeness'? (bottom page 28,

continued on page 29)

Robert Frost - The road not taken

Any questions on the homework of last week's lesson?

Literature lesson #4:

The art of metaphor

www.ted.com

Reader page 32: Now we can easily answer the questions on differences between figures of speech!

Close reading

Make groups of 4.

Read the selected poems and fragments on page 33 - 35 and consider the message each writer is trying to convey.

Then, identify all the instances of metaphor, simile and analogy.

Write down your answers.

Find the poet within yourself

In pairs, write a(n) (extended) metaphor.

Alternate turns providing an object and its comparison.

Make the comparisons as elaborate, eccentric and unusual as possible!

Decide on your best work (to be shared with the rest of the class).

Please share your best idea with the rest of the class.

Finish up!

Work on your journal entry (page 37/38) and anything from lessons 1 - 4 that you haven't been able to finish yet.

Tomorrow

Bring your literature reader to class and make sure you've finished up on everything up until page 38!