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Descriptive Poetry

Descriptive Poetry. Unit 4. Imagery. Pg. 82. Poems can often describe things, if they do imagery is a useful tool. What is Imagery? The use of words to appeal to the 5 senses: Site, sound, smell, taste, touch Connotation vs. Denotation Connotation = cultural or suggested meanings

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Descriptive Poetry

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  1. Descriptive Poetry Unit 4

  2. Imagery Pg. 82

  3. Poems can often describe things, if they do imagery is a useful tool. • What is Imagery? • The use of words to appeal to the 5 senses: • Site, sound, smell, taste, touch • Connotation vs. Denotation • Connotation = cultural or suggested meanings • Denotation = literal meanings • Home vs House • Same denotation = residence • Connotation is different, • home = warmth, security and family • House = the actual building

  4. Smells Pg. 82

  5. 1 Why is it that poets tell So little of the sense of smell? There are odors I love well: The smell of coffee freshly ground; 5 Or rich plum pudding, holly crowned; Or onions fried and deeply browned. The fragrance of a fumy pipe; The smell of apples, newly ripe; And printer’s ink on leaden type. 10 Woods by moonlight in September Breathe most sweet; and I remember Many a smoky camp-fire ember. Camphor, turpentine, and tea, 15 The balsam of a Christmas tree, These are whiffs of gramarye… A ship smells best of all to me!

  6. Pupusas An original by Miss Rachael

  7. Sweat sticking to your face The slapping of maseca resounds Scents of loroco waft through the air. Finally, the arrival of the golden discs. The sensation of heat upon your hands, Cooled by the soft chilled curtido and salsa. Transferred delicately from plate to pallet A plethora of flavors imbibed insatiably The result, Utter ecstasy.

  8. A lonely Pine Pg. 88

  9. 1 A lonely pine is standing In the North where high winds blow He sleeps; and the whitest blanket Wraps him in ice and snow. He dreams- dreams of a palm-tree That far in an Eastern land, Languishes, lonely & drooping, Upon the burning sand. 5

  10. What literary device is being used throughout this poem? • Personification • A comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or animal • Give me an example of personification from the following lines • Line 1: • standing • Line 3: • sleeping • Line 5: • dreaming • Line 7: • lonely & drooping

  11. Examples of Personification from the Bible “Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof.” - Psalm 6:6 “Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together.” -Psalm 42:3

  12. The Story Teller Pg. 93

  13. Trains climbed trees, And soon dripped down Like honey of bees On the cold brick town He had wakened a worm In the world’s brain, And nothing stood firm Until day again. 1 10 He talked, and as he talked Wallpaper came alive; Suddenly ghosts walked, And four doors were five; Calendars ran backward, And maps had mouths; Ships went tackward In a great drowse; 5 15

  14. What literary device is being used throughout this poem? • Hyperbole • An exaggeration • Give me an example of hyperbole from the following lines • Line 2: • wallpaper came alive • Line 6: • Maps had mouths • Line 10: • Trains climbed trees • Which stanza uses a simile? • Stanza 3

  15. Examples of Hyperbole from the Bible “I am weary with my groaning; all night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.” - Psalm 6:6 “My tears have been my meat day & night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?” -Psalm 42:3

  16. The road not taken Robert Frost Pg. 96

  17. 1 5 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claimBecause it was grassy and wanted wear,Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I marked the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to wayI doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. 10 15 20

  18. What literary device is being used throughout this poem? • Symbolism • The symbol has meaning in itself but also represents something beyond itself • What do the two roads symbolize? • Good & evil • Heaven & hell • The easy life & the difficult • The normal & the risky

  19. Examples of Symbolism from the Bible “Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! For then I would fly away, and be at rest. Lo, then I would wander far off, and remain in the wilderness.” - Psalm 55:5-7 Jesus is symbolized as the lamb of God. The cross is a symbol of Christ and salvation. The dove is a symbol of the holy spirit.

  20. Class Activity • Write one example of each (must be original, not one of the examples used in class): • Personification • Hyperbole • Symbol • Trade papers with a neighbor • Choose your favorite from your neighbors paper and put a star by it.

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