What is Poetry?
What do poets use to expand meaning or to
express ideas in a more thoughtful way?
How do poets manipulate sound in a poem as
compared to how writers manipulate sound in a
work of fiction or non-fiction?
Poets choose their words carefully since
word choice or diction affects a poem’s
meaning and the way it sounds. Write an
essay analyzing how the poets’ use of rhyme
and repetition affect the meaning of their
poems.
Use evidence from the poems to support
your response.
What is the question asking you to do AS
you READ?
Annotate the text for essential
understanding and meaning
Think about what the poem says, how the
poem works, and what the poem means.
What is the question asking you to do AFTER you READ?
Go back and re-read your annotations for the most essential
meanings and understandings that help you answer the TDA.
Paraphrase in a few sentences what the poem says (this
should be connected to the first few lines of the TDA)
Record bulleted points of how the poem works in terms of
structure (this should be connected to the first and second
lines of the TDA)
Look at your annotations that help you better understand
what the poem means (this is a mixture of your inferences and
the techniques the poet is using). This is your analysis!
What are some strategies you could use to answer the question?
R.A.C.E.
Annotate (thought bubbles, highlighter, pencil, sticknotes)
These are CLOSE READING STRATEGIES
What would a PROFICIENT response look like?
I went out to the hazel wood,
IDIOM
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
PERSPECTACLES
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
Silver (silver trout line 8 stanza 1)
Apples (apple blossom hair line 6 stanza 2)
How Does the Poet’s Use of Rhyme
add a musical dimension to the poem?
• The poet’s use of rhyme in the even lines of
each stanza give the poem a steady rhythm
like a chant. This use of rhyme and the
rhythmic quality of every other syllable being
stressed makes is sound like a song.
To Sum Up “The Song of Wandering
Aengus”
• Repeating lines and words in the poem show
Aengus’s whole life he has been________.
• The rhythm with the use of end rhyme and
stressed and unstressed syllables in a pattern
sound like a______. A chant is easy to_______.
• Using repetition, rhyme, and rhythm affects the
meaning as this reinforces the whole idea of the
poem that Aengus is still searching ( see last
stanza) for the girl and still remembers her even
in his old age.
What the poem says, how the poem
works, and what the poem means
• What does the poem say? ( Review your notes
for each stanza)
• How does the poem work? ( Review your notes
about rhyme and repetition)
• What the poem means? Aengus has a burning
desire for his quest for love, embodied by the
trout girl. He never “gets her” but will love her
and remember her until the end of time.
Lived: Apr 26, 1564 - Apr 23, 1616 (age 51)
Sonnets
Plays
Comedy
Tragedy
Wit
Sonnets are numbered in
the order they were
written
Most of them are about
love, time, or desire
You can tell the entire
theme or point of the
sonnet by reading the last
two lines which are
ALWAYS
2 lines that RHYME
(rhyming couplet)
Poets choose their words carefully since
word choice or diction affects a poem’s
meaning and the way it sounds. Write an
essay analyzing how the poets’ use of rhyme
and repetition affect the meaning of their
poems.
Use evidence from the poems to support
your response.
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright are bright in dark directed;
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so?
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay?
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.