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Poetry Analysis

Poetry Analysis. Refugee in America. Journal. What does freedom mean to me?. Review. Review these poetic elements and devices with your shoulder partner: Speaker / Narrator Stanza Rhyme scheme Figurative Language (simile, metaphor, personification) Alliteration Sensory Language

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Poetry Analysis

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  1. Poetry Analysis Refugee in America

  2. Journal • What does freedom mean to me?

  3. Review • Review these poetic elements and devices with your shoulder partner: • Speaker / Narrator • Stanza • Rhyme scheme • Figurative Language (simile, metaphor, personification) • Alliteration • Sensory Language • Symbol • Mood and Tone • Theme

  4. Read the poem • Read the poem aloud to your shoulder partner. • The partner whose birthday is coming up the soonest goes first. • The second partner then reads the poem aloud again to the first partner.

  5. Discuss • Discuss the poetic elements and devices in this specific poem with your shoulder partner: • Who is the speaker? What do we know about him/her? • How many stanzas are in the poem? • What is the rhyme scheme? • What does the title mean? • What figurative language does the author use? • Does the author use alliteration? • What sensory language does the author use? • What symbols does the author use? • What is the mood of the poem? What is the tone? • What is the theme of the poem?

  6. Write • Based on your discussion, fill in the Poetry Chart.

  7. Discuss • The speaker says that the word liberty “almost make(s) me cry.” Why might this be true? • What might the sad feelings in the second stanza say about the possibilities and the reality of liberty for the speaker? • Why does the speaker choose to repeat the words in lines 1 and 5? • Freedom and liberty are synonyms, but they do not mean the same thing. How is liberty different from freedom? • Describe in a sentence or two what you think the theme, or message, of “Refugee in America” is.  • What is a refugee? (Look up the word in a dictionary if you’re not sure of its meaning.) How can someone be a refugee in his or her own country?  • Why did Hughes name his poem “Refugee in America” and not “Words Like Freedom,” as it is often called?

  8. Extension Questions • How does Hughes’s poem make you feel about being an American? In what ways is its message still relevant today?  • Do you think Americans a different and better people since the days of the civil rights movement?

  9. Add to your journal • Add to your journal any evidence you could use from the poem to support or modify the ideas about freedom about which you have already written. • Use direct quotes from the poem and line numbers. • NOTE: Your ideas about freedom should be evolving and maturing as you read these poems. The purpose is for you to refine your understanding of freedom, not simply gather evidence to support your initial idea.  Your journal should reflect this evolution.

  10. Exit Slip • Explain how your idea of freedom has changed and evolved as a result of reading this poem. • If it has not, explain how this poem supports your initial idea. In that case, you should attempt to find something in the next poem that will refine your original idea about freedom.

  11. Summative Assessment • Read the poem “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar. • Fill out the other half of the Poetry Chart on your own.

  12. Discussion • What is Stanza #1 about? • What sounds do you notice in stanza #1? What feeling does this stanza give you and how do the sounds of the words in this stanza create this mood? • What is Stanza #2 about? • What sounds do you notice in stanza #2? What feeling does this stanza give you and how do the sounds of the words in this stanza create this mood? • Compare and contrast stanza #1 and stanza #2.

  13. Discussion Questions, Continued • What is stanza #3 about? • In the third stanza, what do you notice in the language and word choice? • Does the tone change in this stanza? • How would you describe the tone? • How could the song of the bird be compared to the sorrowful songs that originated in slavery? • Why does the narrator use the pronoun “I” in the poem? • Why is the poem called “Sympathy”?

  14. Extension Questions • Why do you think the poem is not titled “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”? • Maya Angelou titled her autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” and Alicia Keyes has a song titled “Caged Bird.” Why do you think this poem has had such an effect on other authors?

  15. Add to your journal • Add to your journal any evidence you could use from the poem to support or modify the ideas about freedom about which you have already written. • Use direct quotes from the poem and line numbers. • NOTE: Your ideas about freedom should be evolving and maturing as you read these poems. The purpose is for you to refine your understanding of freedom, not simply gather evidence to support your initial idea.  Your journal should reflect this evolution.

  16. Exit Slip • Explain how your idea of freedom has changed and evolved as a result of reading this second poem. • If it has not, explain how this poem supports your initial idea. • If nothing from either poem has affected your initial idea about freedom at all, please conference with a shoulder partner, other classmate, and/or your teacher to try to discover ideas that expand your thinking.

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