Tuesday, November 29
• Today’s Agenda:
• 1. Bellringer: Identify Literary Terms
• 2. Review Parallel Structure in “I Hear America Singing”
• 3. Model SOAPSTone using Dickinson’s Poem
• 4. Pair Share: Analyze “I Hear America Singing” using
SOAPSTone
• 5. Introduce Requirements for Catalog Poem
• HW: 1) Catalog Poem #1 due Wednesday (11/30)
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2) Print out slides 14-15
Take out a sheet of paper and title:
Bellringer: Week of 11/28 – 12/2
• Monday (11/28):
• 1. Catalog – a list of things, people, or events
• 2. alliteration – the repetition of similar consonant
sounds
• 3. assonance – the repetition of similar vowel sounds
• 4. onomatopoeia – the use of words whose sounds echo
their meaning
• 5. parallel structure – the repetition of phrases, clauses,
or sentences that have the same grammatical structure.
Bellringer: Week of 11/28 – 12/2
•Tuesday (11/29):
• 1. They twirl through the trek / tumbling towards
the tide . _____________
alliteration
assonance
• 2. Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. _________
• 3. Snow quickly melting / Air slowly warming / Life
catalog
coming from the trees. ____________
Identifying Parallel Structure
Parallel Structure
Repetition of Words
Repetition of phrases
Repetition of sentence
patterns
Examples from the Poem
Take out your print outs of the slides:
SoapStone: Analyzing Poetry
• Speaker: Who is the speaker of the poem? What
assumptions can you make about the speaker? (ex. age,
gender, class, emotional state, etc.)
• Occasion: What is the occasion? What promoted the
author to write this piece? Is it a memory, a description,
an observation, a valedictory, an argument, an elegy, a
declaration, a critique, etc.?
• Audience:
Who is the audience? Which group of readers
to whom is this piece directed? What assumptions can
you make about the intended audience?
SoapStone: Analyzing Poetry
• Purpose: What is the speaker’s purpose? In what ways
does the poet convey this message? What is the
message? How does the speaker try to spark a reaction
in the audience? How is the poem supposed to make the
audience feel?
• Subject: What is the subject of the piece? The general
topic, content, and ideas contained in the poem. How
do you know this?
• TONE:
What is the author’s attitude toward the
subject? What emotional sense do you take from this
piece? How does the diction point to tone? Give a
specific example.
Analyzing Dickinson using SoapsTONE
• A door just opened on a street–
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I, lost, was passing by–
• An instant's width of warmth disclosed
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And wealth, and company.
• The door as sudden shut, and I,
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I, lost, was passing by,--
• Lost doubly, but by contrast most,
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Enlightening misery.
Analyzing “I Hear America Singing”
• (1) I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
• (2) Those mechanics, each one singing his as it should
be blithe and strong,
• (3) The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or
beam,
• (4) The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or
leaves off work,
• (5) The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat,
the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,
Analyzing “I Hear America Singing”
• (6) The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter
singing as he stands,
• (7) The wood-cutter’s song, the plowboy’s on his way in the
morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
• (8) The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife
at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
• (9) Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
• (10) The day belongs to the day—at the night the party of
young fellows, robust, friendly,
• (11) Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
Example of Catalog Poem:
Fear By Raymond Carver
• Fear of seeing a police car pull into
the drive.
• Fear of dogs I’ve been told won’t
bite.
• Fear of falling asleep at night.
• Fear of anxiety!
• Fear of not falling asleep.
• Fear of having to identify the
body of a dead friend.
• Fear of the past rising up.
• Fear of running out of money.
• Fear of the present taking flight.
• Fear of the telephone that rings in
the dead of night.
• Fear of having too much, though
people will not believe this.
• Fear of psychological profiles.
• Fear of electrical storms.
• Fear of the cleaning woman who
has a spot on her cheek!
• Fear of being late and fear of
arriving before anyone else.
Example of Catalog Poem:
Fear By Raymond Carver
• Fear of my children’s
handwriting on envelopes.
• Fear of not loving and fear of
not loving enough.
• Fear they’ll die before I do, and
I’ll feel guilty.
• Fear that what I love will
prove lethal to those I love.
• Fear of having to live with my
mother in her old age, and
mine.
• Fear of death.
• Fear of confusion.
• Fear of death.
• Fear of living too long.
• Fear this day will end on an
unhappy note.
• I’ve said that.
• Fear of waking up to find you
gone.
Take out a sheet of paper and title:
Ideas for Catalog Poem
List of Human Emotions
• 1. sadness
6.
List of Favorite Emotions
• 1. Confusion about
6.
growing up
• 2. frustration
7.
• 2.
7.
• 3.
8.
• 3.
8.
• 4.
9.
• 4.
9.
• 5.
10.
• 5.
10
Turn to the back side of your paper on Ideas for Catalog Poem and title:
Catalog Poem #1
• This is where you will write your catalog poem.
Good luck and be creative!
Requirements for Catalog Poem
• Has 25 lines (no more no less; EXACTLY TWENTY-FIVE!)
• Each line begins in the same way, until you reach the
ending.
• Each line is vivid and descriptive, presenting one clear
image.
• Each word is chosen carefully and means precisely
what you intend it to mean. (DICTION!!!)
Requirements for Catalog Poem
• The ending offers a sort of “twist” that expresses the
ultimate essence of the poem.
• There is an overall rhythm to the poem that allows it to
flow when read aloud.
• The title of the poem is the emotion which is its
subject.
• The final draft is carefully proofread with all errors in
the spelling, grammar, and mechanics corrected.