Lyric Analysis

Choice

Songs are poems set to music.  Choose lyrics from a song and identify poetic devices that we have learned about in class and analyse it for meaning in one or two paragraphs. Remember your paragraph structure, write clearly and proof read your work to eliminate errors.  Include the lyrics with your post.  If you choose to provide a you tube link to a video remember to distinguish between the analysis of the lyrics and that of the video.  The video is one interpretation of the song.

Write a Poem

Choice

Write a poem in any style.  Use at least 3 poetic devices effectively....similes, metaphors, personification, imagery, hyperbole, oxymoron, alliteration, assonance, onomatopeia, meter, rhyme. Find images to illustrate your poem.

Canadian Poets

Choice

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/index_poet.htm

Check out this link to Canadian poetry online.  Choose a poet and write a brief summary about them.  Choose one of their poems and write a one paragraph analysis. What does the poem mean to you?  How does the poet use poetic devices? Refer to the list of terms that have been generated in class to help to inform your discussion. Be sure to include the title and the poet's name as well as a link to the poem on the website.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Choice

Today we read The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Create a six-frame storyboard based on the sequence of events in each stanza. You can use your plot graph as a guideline. Use text from the poem to support your illustrations of individual scenes. Include an audio line that explains the action in each picture.

You can do this by drawing your own images and scanning/photographing in your post them or choosing a series of images that are copywright free that  illustrate your poem. You can choose another war as a source for your illustrations. Be sure to cite your sources.

Parody of a Well Known Poem

Another Choice

"This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were
in the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Write your own version using the above poem as a template (see below).  Describe something that you have done that you are not really sorry for.

I have_________
______________
______________
______________

______________
______________
______________
______________

Forgive me
_____________
_____________
_____________

Your Poetry Blogs

Due date: Your blog is to be ready for assessment by Monday, April 18, 2011.

You are required to make 5 posts. This includes:

two quotations about poetry and a paragraph or poem that expresses your feelings about poetry.

Your "Where I’m From" poem

Three haiku poems

Your last two posts are your choice. Suggestions will be posted and you can choose two. They will be labeled as a "choice."

Found Poetry using Quotations

This is one of a number of choices that you will be given between now and Monday, April 11.  Blogs need to be ready for assessment on April 18.  "The Power of Poetry" post is another choice.  You will need to make two "choice" posts.

While you are focussing on quotations for your To Kill a Mockingbird assignment, choose one of them to create a "found" poem.

Directions: Build a poem that reflects characters, theme, mood, tone, conflict or any aspect of the novel you are interested in. The poem does not need to directly reflect the novel itself, but should have some relationship to the quotation from the novel. You may use any form you choose for your poetry.

Devices: once you have decided on the structure of your poem, consider how you might play with voice, symbols, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, rhyme, metaphors and so on.

Model:

On Moral Courage

What is courage?

It's when you know

You're licked before you

Begin

but you begin anyway

and you see it through no matter what.

Conscious and cantakerous

Instead of gun in hand.