Anthology: "When the Frost is on the Punkin" (Lesson 3)

Anthology: "When the Frost is on the Punkin" (Lesson 3)

Points for the day:

• 📌 Point 1: Determine sensory words (and their purpose) and onomatopoeia (p. 61-62)

• 📌 Point 2: Relate imagery and determine speaker's point of view, with supporting evidence (p. 63)

📌 "Sensory words" (p. 61):

📌 words that help readers see, hear, touch, taste, or smell what an author describes. Sensory words that focus on visual details create imagery. (p. 61)

📌 "Imagery" (p. 61):

📌 a literary device that paints pictures with words, helping readers envision scenes in a story or poem (p. 61)

📌 #6 on p. 62: Explain the role that imagery has in the title of the poem:

📌 The title paints a clear image of fall: a pumpkin growing in a field at the end of the season, covered in frost because winter is coming.

#8 on p. 62: What effect does imagery have on the poem? How do images play a role in your understanding of the speaker's point of view?

The poet uses imagery as a major device in describing his appreciation of autumn. The speaker describes the rural landscape in fall--from turkeys, hens, and guineas, to tangled leaves, harvested apples, and bundled straw. He suggests that fall is a rich time for the senses--for both ears and eyes--and describes what he loves about the rural landscape in terms of these senses.

Question time!!!!!!!

Multiple Choice

Which of the following lines or phrases contain imagery? (p. 61)

• "And the clackin' of the guineys, and the cluckin' of the hens,"

• "Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days"

• "it sets my heart a-clickin'"

• "your cider-makin's over"

Multiple Choice

Read the lines below:

Then your apples all is gethered, and the ones a feller keeps

Is poured around the cellar floor in red and yeller heaps.

What purpose do these lines serve, in the poem?

• they create a mood of celebration

• they help develop the setting of the farmhouse

• they give an example of local dialect

• they give a sense of the richness of the harvest

📌 #6 on p. 63: Why does the speaker talk about "a feller" in the first stanza? How does this affect your understanding of the poem's tone?

📌 The speaker refers to himself in the 3rd person in this stanza to describe how good he feels when he gets up early on an autumn morning to feed his animals. This has the effect of making the experience universal, instead of specific to the speaker. It might also suggest

#7 on p. 64: How does the second stanza of the poem add to your understanding of the speaker's point of view? How does he talk about autumn differently in that stanza, compared to the others? (Read the stanza and think for 3 min. about what the speaker is saying about fall:

They's something kindo' harty-like about the atmusfere

When the heat of summer's over and the coolin' fall is here--

Of course we miss the flowers, and the blossums on the trees,

And the mumble of the hummin-birds and buzzin' of the bees;

But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze

Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days

Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock--

When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

The second stanza of the poem helps us understand the speaker by (#7 on p. 64):

The speaker referencing the harvest of many months of hard work on a farm: gathered apples, making cider, apple-butter, pickled foods, and sausage. These lines suggest that autumn is a time to finally rest after many months of hard work on a farm in spring and summer.

📌 #8 on p. 64: In what ways do lines 25-28 provide details about why the speaker finds autumn so satisfying? What do these details have in common?

Then your apples all is gethered, and the ones a feller keeps

Is poured around the cellar-floor in red and yaller heeps;

And your cider-makin's over, and your wimmern-folks is through

With theyr mince and apple-butter, and theyr souse and sausage, too!...

The speaker finds autumn so satisfying because of:

📌 the harvest of many months of hard work on a farm: gathered apples, making cider, apple-butter, pickled foods, and sausage. These lines suggest that autumn is a time to finally rest after many months of hard work on a farm in spring and summer.

Multiple Choice

Which line offers evidence that the speaker loves the autumn season? (p. 63)

• a. "As he leaves the house, bareheaded"

• b. "O, it sets my hart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock!"

• "Of course we miss the flowers and the blossums on the trees"

• "The stubble in the furries--kindo lonesome-like but still"

Multiple Choice

Read the following line from the poem:

As he leaves the house, bareheaded, and goes out to feed the stock,

What does this line tell you about the speaker?

• a. he is not bothered by the autumn cold.

• b. He is a farmer, going to feed his animals.

• c. He gets up early to feed the birds.

• d. He leaves for work early in the morning.

Multiple Choice

Which line gives us a sense that the speaker is using his local dialect to describe the season? (p. 63)

• "When the heat of summer's over"

• "With the rising sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest."

• "As he leaves the house, bareheaded, and goes out to feed the stock"

• "The hosses in theyr stalls below--the clover overhead!--"

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