Poetry - Winter Assignment
Directions: This project encourages you to enjoy an independent study of poetry related to a topic of your own choice. A major goal of the assignment is for you to become more sensitive to, and aware of, the poetic forms and the language and musical devices that a poet considers when writing a poem. We'll become more acquainted with these forms and devices by reading Perrine's Sound and Sense and by working on a variety of activities related to poems.
A list of some of the devices you should note as you read your poems:
Speaker, Audience, and Occasion
Imagery - sensory language
Figurative Language - simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, paradox and oxymoron
Musical Devices - onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhyme
Understatement/Overstatement
Irony/Paradox
Connotation of Words - the emotional associations that words inspire
Syntax - the arrangement of words
Organization/Structure/Pattern - fixed and open poetic forms
Allusion
Speaker, Audience, and Occasion
Imagery - sensory language
Figurative Language - simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, paradox and oxymoron
Musical Devices - onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhyme
Understatement/Overstatement
Irony/Paradox
Connotation of Words - the emotional associations that words inspire
Syntax - the arrangement of words
Organization/Structure/Pattern - fixed and open poetic forms
Allusion
Assignment:
Step One: Due: Tuesday, January 6th 2009
Locate and read at least 10 poems of literary merit on one self-selected topic. Type out the titles and poets for each of these 10 poems. Enclose the title of each poem within quotation marks; spell the poet's name correctly. As you read, locate poems that reveal a variety of attitudes towards your topic. For example, let's say that you have selected "the sea" as your subject. Look for poems, from different historical periods, that reveal a variety of viewpoints toward the sea: its destructive quality; its calming influence; a source of adventure or mystery; a metaphor for freedom; a way to escape; the beauty of the natural world; a source of knowledge.
Step One: Due: Tuesday, January 6th 2009
Locate and read at least 10 poems of literary merit on one self-selected topic. Type out the titles and poets for each of these 10 poems. Enclose the title of each poem within quotation marks; spell the poet's name correctly. As you read, locate poems that reveal a variety of attitudes towards your topic. For example, let's say that you have selected "the sea" as your subject. Look for poems, from different historical periods, that reveal a variety of viewpoints toward the sea: its destructive quality; its calming influence; a source of adventure or mystery; a metaphor for freedom; a way to escape; the beauty of the natural world; a source of knowledge.
Step Two: Due: Tuesday, January 6th 2009 Select 2 poems from the 10 poems you have read. Each poem must suggest a different point of view about your subject. Make sure that these 4 poems, as a group, contain a rich variety of poetic forms and language devices. Look at the "Poetry Explication" for each poem and address those concepts from the Explication that poem:
Step Three: Due: Tuesday, January 6th Using the selected 2 poems write 2 Poetry Explication Essays. Again refer to the web site for an explication of how to write this essay. Yes, they do need to be typed and in MLA format.
The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1 comment:
My two poems are on my blogger already.
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