Analyzing Poetry

Year 10 - Poetry review(all three!) Oct. 30th

Agenda + HW

• Check in - how y'all doing?

• Quick recap on all three poems!

• Line identification

• Compare + Contrast all three!

HW + Extension

• "Search For My Tongue" Notes - was going to be due today, moved to due end of class Monday

• Last thing that needs to be entered(if you have been working in class) - themes

• Theme Mind Map - Due Wednesday

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Important Question

Open Ended

What has been your best costume? Don't dress up or celebrate Halloween? What is a costume you've seen before that you loved?

Theme Analysis HW

Open Ended

There are several different themes in this poem! Pick one and explain what you think the poet is trying to teach us about it! Be prepared to share - it will help your classmates to fill out their notes!

Line Identification

Multiple Choice

"In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song"

• Piano

• Poem at 39

• Search For my Tongue

• None

Multiple Choice

"I wish he had not been/so tired"

• Piano

• Poem at 39

• Search for My Tongue

• None

Multiple Choice

"The glamour/of childish days is upon me"

• Piano

• Poem at 39

• Search for My Tongue

• None

Multiple Choice

"You ask me what I mean"

• Piano

• Poem at 39

• Search For My Tongue

• None

Multiple Choice

"This is the form/ he must have said: "

• Piano

• Poem at 39

• Search For My Tongue

• None

Multiple Choice

"and could not really know the other"

• Piano

• Poem at 39

• Search For My Tongue

• None

Compare and Contrast Poems

Compare and Contrast your given poems!

• We've done this once before

• You can create a physical venn diagram or a chart

• Be prepared to share!

Groupings

"Piano" + "Search For My Tongue" = Cierra, Beau, Tarae, Reese, Hannah, Faith, Phoebe "Poem at 39" + "Search For My Tongue" = Dolly, Ashinaye, Marvin, Seannia, Ethan Caitlyn

Possible Things to include

• What form the poem is

• Major themes

• Characters present

• Literary devices

• Think critically: what themes are present as well?