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Dear Students,
Today’s lesson brings us nearer to the culmination of the poetic unit. I have chosen 4 great poems which will sharpen your analytical ability when it comes to explicating poetry. Soon, you will receive the research assignment which will be your final project, and some of the poets that you are responding to will be on that list. But first, let’s see how well your insights have developed. I’m impressed by the continuous progress I have witnessed from you all so far. Though this has been an unusual semester, your intelligence still shines through. Good luck. 50 points.
Meeting at Night
I
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i’ the slushy sand.
II
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro’ its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
- List the senses used to develop this poem and quote a passage for each sense which supports your choice.
- Exactly what is going on in this poem? Discuss.
The Lynching
BY CLAUDE MCKAY
His spirit is smoke ascended to high heaven.
His father, by the cruelest way of pain,
Had bidden him to his bosom once again;
The awful sin remained still unforgiven.
All night a bright and solitary star
(Perchance the one that ever guided him,
Yet gave him up at last to Fate’s wild whim)
Hung pitifully o’er the swinging char.
Day dawned, and soon the mixed crowds came to view
The ghastly body swaying in the sun:
The women thronged to look, but never a one
Showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue;
And little lads, lynchers that were to be,
Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee.
- Discuss any examples of personification in this poem.
- What do you find ironic in this poem?
Ode on Solitude
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire,
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter fire.
Blest, who can unconcernedly find
Hours, days, and years slide soft away,
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day,
Sound sleep by night; study and ease,
Together mixed; sweet recreation;
And innocence, which most does please,
With meditation.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.
- Discuss the poet’s use of synecdoche, a type o metaphor. Synecdocheis a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that refers to a part of something is substituted to stand in for the whole, or vice versa. For example, the phrase “all hands on deck” is a demand for all of the crew to help, yet the word “hands”—just a part of the crew—stands in for the whole crew.
- Which stanza embodies the theme of this poem. Explain.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
BY ROBERT FROST
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
- List 5 words in this poem with a positive connotation.
- What is the ultimate message of this poem and provide an example from everyday life which demonstrates the truth of that theme?
Dear Students,
Today’s lesson brings us nearer to the culmination of the poetic unit. I have chosen 4 great poems which will sharpen your analytical ability when it comes to explicating poetry. Soon, you will receive the research assignment which will be your final project, and some of the poets that you are responding to will be on that list. But first, let’s see how well your insights have developed. I’m impressed by the continuous progress I have witnessed from you all so far. Though this has been an unusual semester, your intelligence still shines through. Good luck. 50 points.
Meeting at Night
I
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i’ the slushy sand.
II
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro’ its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
- List the senses used to develop this poem and quote a passage for each sense which supports your choice.
- Exactly what is going on in this poem? Discuss.
The Lynching
BY CLAUDE MCKAY
His spirit is smoke ascended to high heaven.
His father, by the cruelest way of pain,
Had bidden him to his bosom once again;
The awful sin remained still unforgiven.
All night a bright and solitary star
(Perchance the one that ever guided him,
Yet gave him up at last to Fate’s wild whim)
Hung pitifully o’er the swinging char.
Day dawned, and soon the mixed crowds came to view
The ghastly body swaying in the sun:
The women thronged to look, but never a one
Showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue;
And little lads, lynchers that were to be,
Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee.
- Discuss any examples of personification in this poem.
- What do you find ironic in this poem?
Ode on Solitude
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire,
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter fire.
Blest, who can unconcernedly find
Hours, days, and years slide soft away,
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day,
Sound sleep by night; study and ease,
Together mixed; sweet recreation;
And innocence, which most does please,
With meditation.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.
- Discuss the poet’s use of synecdoche, a type o metaphor. Synecdocheis a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that refers to a part of something is substituted to stand in for the whole, or vice versa. For example, the phrase “all hands on deck” is a demand for all of the crew to help, yet the word “hands”—just a part of the crew—stands in for the whole crew.
- Which stanza embodies the theme of this poem. Explain.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
BY ROBERT FROST
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
- List 5 words in this poem with a positive connotation.
- What is the ultimate message of this poem and provide an example from everyday life which demonstrates the truth of that theme?
