Philpot Unit 1.12 Poems

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Goals today 

You will consider how poetic some language is 

Explore two poems and consider the techniques used by the authors

You will start to analyse 'Hurricane' by Bob Dylan pg 4 booklet 

 

What is your definition
of poetry?

Unit 1.12 Poems

Study 12.7-12.9: key features of poetry: Imagery, alliteration, Syllables and scansion (determining its rhythm) 5 sorts of metric feet, rhythmic metres, verse and metre, stanza and rhyming scheme, volta, caesura

Unit 1.12 Poems 

pg 78 - 79 

Read text 1.43 

12.5 Answer questions a - e in your class notebook 

Metaphors 

a bee hive 

a mouse in a maze 

a dark room 

a light switch 

water /lake / sea 

a hose 

Look at the techniques on the next slide. 

Pick four that you feel apply to the poem "Introduction to Poetry" and write two to three sentences about each technique exploring why you think the author chose to use these techniques 

Poetic persona

Imagery  - senses 

Visual

auditory/aural 

olfactory 

gustatory 

tactile 

Rhyme scheme 

Internal rhyme 

Half rhyme 

eye-rhyme 

Stanzas/ verses

First person perspective - lyric 

Satire

enjambment 

personification

Metonymy 

Satire

a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point, or a piece of writing that uses this style

Cambridge dictionary 

Unit 1.12 Poems 

pg 80 - 81 

Read and listen to text 1.44  

Read the key features and check again that you know these techniques 

Techniques in songs

Rhythm

Tempo

Harmony

Melody

Instrumentation

Dynamic (differences in loudness) 

Genre  

Verse  

Chorus  

Rhyme  

Structure 

Annotate Collins 1988 poem and Sexton's Said the Poet to the Analyist

My business is words. Words are like labels, / or coins, or better, like swarming bees. / I confess I am only broken by the sources of things; / as if words were counted like dead bees in the attic, / unbuckled from their yellow eyes and their dry wings. / I must always forget how one word is able to pick / out another, to manner another, until I have got / something I might have said… / but did not. / Your business is watching my words. But I / admit nothing. I work with my best, for instance, / when I can write my praise for a nickel machine, / that one night in Nevada: telling how the magic jackpot / came clacking three bells out, over the lucky screen. / But if you should say this is something it is not,/ then I grow weak, remembering how my hands felt funny / and ridiculous and crowded with all / the believing money.

Now annotate Bob Dylan's song lyrics

Hurricane

Masters of War

The Times They're a Changing

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