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“Quick Quiz” You may use your notes…. “Conversation Piece”. Metaphors
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Metaphors • I'm a riddle in nine syllables,An elephant, a ponderous house,A melon strolling on two tendrils.O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!This loaf's big with its yeasty rising.Money's new-minted in this fat purse.I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.I've eaten a bag of green apples,Boarded the train there's no getting off. More “Hidden Meaning:“Metaphors” – S. Plath
The entire poem is one metaphor, a leaf falling is loneliness • Use of the letter "L" in lower case, resembles the number one, "a" represents one object, and when two "L"'s join and then separate in the end, it represents the metaphor. • The direction of the poem is moving down to show the direction of the leaf falling l(aleaffalls)oneliness eecummings
Happy Thursday! BW:Working with Diction II Consider: A rowan* like a lipsticked girl. (Seamus Heaney, “Song,” Field Work) * a small tree with white flower clusters & orange berries. Discuss: 1) Other than color, what comes to mind when you think of alipstickedgirl? 2) How would it change the meaning and feeling of the line if, instead of lipsticked girl, the author wrote girl with lipstick on? Apply: Create a simile comparing a tree to an animal. In your simile, use a word that is normally used as a noun (like lipstick) as an adjective (like lipsticked).
eecummings "the greedy the people"This poem deals with nature and religion. "The bell in the steeple" signifies religion, and the words such as moon, stars, sun, earth paint a picture of genesis and purity (the bible). Then Cummings relates it back to people and how "busy" they are all the time because they "sell" and "buy". Cummings personifies the moon, sun, etc. Each stanza ends with a question, although there is no question mark. 1st stanza: essentially people die for religion, or God?People are greedy and so the church says "why" are you being like that.People are cautious and distrustful: the moon says "who" has created the distrust.People are too busy to interact with one another: the stars peacefully say "be" and relax and take time to enjoy life.The coward people are clever: they wait until the sun comes up and says "now" you may act.People are shy and sensitive: they work and pray for the earth/dirt in order to stay alive. The earth says "may" instead of must - it is the people's choice to work and pray.
eecummings in Just- Summary It’s that day in May when the sun starts shining for the first time in weeks and everybody you know heads out to the park. The story’s pretty simple: spring has sprung. Everything’s growing and all-around delightful. The kids, in fact, jump for joy when the man selling balloons starts to whistle. Clowns (and other balloon-selling folk) have gotten a bad rap for being scary and creepy, but this guy seems to be all right. At the very least, he gets the kiddies to come running to him. Why the big fuss about the first day of spring? Well, that’s where the magic of this poem takes over. See, E.E. Cummings creates a poem that’s half painting and half sound-scape (that’s the aural version of a landscape). Chock-full of words like "mud-luscious" and "puddle-wonderful," the poem seems to be bursting with descriptions of the way that a spring day in the park looks and feels and sounds and smells. And because the poem repeats itself several times (in fancy technical terms, we’d call that a "refrain,") it emphasizes the way that all the tiny details of the poem actually contribute to one overarching image: the park in spring.
eecummings if everything happens that can't be done Summary Our speaker starts off questioning the intelligence of books and teachers, introducing the gleeful language that runs throughout the poem. We're on shaky ground here, grammar-wise, but we're up for the challenge. Then the poem moves on to a discussion of what "one" is, and plays with language a bit. It breaks down boundaries between the large and small parts of our world, and continues to question the ability of books to describe the world. That's when we start getting into the meat of the impossible happening, when the poem claims that "forever was never till now." Minds? Blown. The speaker then get an idea of where this exhilarated mood might come from. Yep, our speaker is in love. He describes this love as greater than books, or really anyone, can describe. Sounds about right.
“Don't count the days, make the days count.” ― Muhammad Ali Carpe Diem Poems • “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ― Mother Teresa “Wake up and live” ― Bob Marley “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...” ― Marcus Aurelius “Nothing is worth more than this day.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time”-R. Herrick Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting,The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime You may for ever tarry.
“Time”-Pink Floyd Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, Thought I'd something more to say
Carpe Diem Poems Complete the remaining two poems in the packet. Turn-in when done! Tomorrow: * Vocab 5:6 Test * Novel day #2 * SRT & End of 5th marking period
Poetic Interpretation In a complete paragraph, answer the following prompt: Each poem can be classified as a “Carpe Diem” poem. Choose the poem that you feel best captures the idea to “seize the day.” In a complete paragraph explain why you chose this poem and cite two lines to support your assertion.
Poem Choices “Nothing Gold Can Stay” – R. Frost “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” –R. Frost “Metaphors”- S. Plath “Dream Deferred”-L. Hughes Any e ecummings poem Choose ONE of the poems from the list provided and pull it our of your notebook. Mimic the EXACT same FORMAT of the poem, inserting your own ideas and words (20 points) Illustrate your poem creatively (drawings, magazine pictures, etc.) (5 points) Present to the class for E.C. (5 points) Poetic Copy Change
Directions: • Using the post-it notes given to you, take active reading notes as your read through your novel. • Record the Journal Question when posted • Respond to the JQ in the space provided. Characters Setting Literary Devices Important Quotations Motifs Conflicts Plot Theme POV Author’s style Symbols Foreshadowing Novel Day #2
Journal Question: What conflicts have your characters experienced so far in your story? In your response, cite the specific conflicts, state how they affected your characters, their intended purpose and your interpretation of the conflicts. Novel Day #2
