American Poetry: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1915)

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In deze les zitten 21 slides, met interactieve quizzen, tekstslides en 4 videos.

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Welcome to Contemporary poetry

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

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Learning objectives:



  • Students can predict a poem's theme by reading its title. 
  • Students can learn the settings of this poem by visualizing images.
  • Students can compare and contrast textual details and cite them to support their own inference.

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Exam objectives:

* determine theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text.

* cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

* determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.

LITERATURE - POETRY:



The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1916).

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Looking at the title of the poem what central idea or theme do you guess the poem will include?

What does this title make me think of?

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LITERATURE - POETRY:


What do you remember about Frost's biography?

What do you not understand about Frost's biography?

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Through peer mediation students help one another to obtain full comprehension.

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individual
linguistic meaning
vocabulary - p10  (next slide)
dictionary.cambridge.org
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literary analysis
help group members
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LITERATURE - POETRY:

Vocabulary:
Yellow wood (Line 1)
undergrowth(Line 5)
fair(Line 6)
claim(Line 7)
wanted wear (Line 8)

 
passing(Line 9)
trodden (Line 12)
hence (Line 17)
diverged (Line 18)

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* yellow wood = geel bos => herfstkleur
* undergrowth = struikgewas (onder de bomen in een bos)
* fair = mooi
* claim = aanspraak
* wanted wear = wilde gebruikssporen = impliceert dat er geen gebruikssporen zijn => mooier en minder gekozen.
* passing = passeren / voorbij gaan (soms refereert dit naar tijd of naar de dood).
* trodden = bewandeld (draf = trod)
* hence = (ouderwets woord) (from this time) na het verstrijken van ?? periode.
* diverged = uiteen lopen
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Who do you know that has chosen a ''road less traveled,'' and what difference do you think it made for that person?

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What is the essential question in The Road Not Taken?

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What do the two roads symbolize?

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What is a metaphor in The Road Not Taken?

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Why was the speaker sorry?

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LITERATURE - POETRY:


What other literary work do you know that includes 'duality'?

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Showing the importance of background knowledge + multiple interpretations/perspectives.
LITERATURE - POETRY:

"Poetry is when emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words"

by Robert Frost

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A poem is the expression of emotion in concentrated language. => inferencing & interpreting = different perspectives




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What is a 'simile'?

What is a 'metaphor'?

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Showing the importance of background knowledge + multiple interpretations/perspectives.
LITERATURE - POETRY:


What is a 'simile'?

What is a 'metaphor'?

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Showing the importance of background knowledge + multiple interpretations/perspectives.
LITERATURE - POETRY:


Robert Frost’s poem is often interpreted as an anthem of individualism and nonconformity, seemingly encouraging readers to take the road less traveled... But as Frost liked to warn his listeners, “You have to be careful of that one; it’s a tricky poem—very tricky.” In actuality, the two roads diverging in a yellow wood are “really about the same,” according to Frost, and are equally traveled and quite interchangeable.

In fact, the critic David Orr deemed Frost’s work “the most misread poem in America,” writing in The Paris Review: “This is the kind of claim we make when we want to comfort or blame ourselves by assuming that our current position is the product of our own choices… The poem isn’t a salute to can-do individualism. It’s a commentary on the self-deception we practice when constructing the story of our own lives.” In the final stanza, we can’t know whether the speaker is sighing with contentedness or regret as he justifies the choices he’s made and shapes the narrative of his life.

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Students read poem outloud = practise speaking & pronunciation.
What have you learned today?

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Slide 21 - Video

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