Day 51 Foundations–
Intro to Poetry, Vocab
3B, and Participle
phrases
Objectives
1. Identify Verbals and Analyze sentences for their effect.
2. Recognize characteristics of a variety of forms of poetry
Homework: Vocabulary 3B CTRW
Warm Up
Copy the poem into warm up page.
Respond to the poem in 3 sentences.
THE FLY
God in his wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
Review --------Participles
The Participle
• A participle is a verb form that can be used as an adjective.
–1. Present participles end in –ing
• Ex) The smiling child waved.
»Smiling, a form of the verb smile, modifies the
noun child.
• Ex) The horses trotting past were not frightened by the
crowd.
»Trotting, a form of the verb trot, modifies the
noun horses.
Most past participles end in –
d or –ed. Some past participles
are irregularly formed.
–2.
•Ex.)
The
police
officers
searched
the
Examples
abandoned warehouse.
»Abandoned, a form of the verb
abandon, modifies the noun,
warehouse.
•Ex.) This plate, bought at a flea market, is
a valuable antique.
•Ex.) Chosen for her leadership abilities,
Dawn was an effective team captain.
*One last Tip:
• Do not confuse a participle used as an adjective
with a participle used as part of a verb phrase.
–ADJECTIVE: Planning their trip, the class
learned how to read a road map.
–VERB PHRASE: While they were planning
their trip, the class learned how to read a
road map.
Take notes!!!!!!!!!
The Participial Phrase
• A participal phrase consists of a
participal and any modifiers or
complements the participle has.
The entire phrase is used as an
adjective.
• A participle may be modified by
an adverb or an adverb phrase
and may also have a
complement, usually a direct
object.
Examples
• Seeing itself in the mirror, the duck seemed
quite amused.
– The participal phrase modifies the noun
duck. The pronoun itself is the direct object
of the present participle seeing. The
adverb phrase in the mirror modifies the
present participle seeing.
Examples
• After a while , we heard the duck
quacking noisily at its own image.
– The participal phrase modifies the noun
duck. The adverb noisily and the adverb
phrase at its own image modify the
present participle quacking.
Examples:
• Then, disgusted with the other duck, it
pecked the mirror.
– The participal phrase modifies the
pronoun it. The adverb phrase with the
other duck modifies the past participle
disgusted.
• A participial phrase should be placed as close
as possible to the word it modifies. Otherwise,
the phrase may appear to modify another
word and the sentence may not make sense.
– MISPLACED: Slithering through the grass, I saw
a snake trimming the hedges this morning.
– CORRECTED: Trimming the hedges this
morning, I saw a snake slithering through the
grass.
Vocabulary: Lesson 5 English I
3A Foundations
• Take out your vocabulary book and flashcards.
• You will have 10 minutes to work in your vocabulary groups.
Introduction to the Aspects of Poetry
Mrs. Louis
Answer in your notebook #3: What
does a poem need to look like and
contain to be a poem?
Things to think about in your answer:
Do most poems rhyme?
Are poems about emotions?
Are poems a certain length?
What is the goal of a poem?
Can poets ignore grammar rules like capital letters and punctuation?
Can poems be funny?
What types of word choice or language do you see in poems?
IS THIS A POEM?
A Supermarket In California
by Allan Ginsberg
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked
down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking
at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon
fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at
night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
--and you, García Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
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Coming Up by Ani DiFranco
Our father who art in a penthouse
Sits in his 37th floor suite
And swivels to gaze down
At the city he made me in
He allows me to stand and
Solicit graffiti until
He needs the land I stand on
I in my darkened threshold
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The receipts, the bus schedules
The urgent napkin poems
The matchbook phone numbers
All of which laundering has rendered
Pulpy and strange
Loose change and a key
Ask me
Go ahead, ask me if I care
I got the answer here
I wrote it down somewhere
I just gotta find it
Is This A
Poem??
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere 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.
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Is This A
Poem?
The Road Not
Taken by
Robert Frost
The answer ?
 They are all poems.
 When you write a poem, it should have a subject, a
goal, a tone, and a flow. It should contain specific,
condensed word choice and literary devices like
metaphor, simile and imagery.
If I asked you to write a poem
right now, how would you write a
poem?
One way is to follow a specific
formula.
Another way is to just write.
On the next five slides pick one
or more pictures and write
what comes to mind. Try to
write it as a poem in your
notebook # 4.
Elements:
1. Form
2. Sound
3. Imagery
4. Figurative Language
5. Theme
FORM
The physical structure, style, or pattern of the
poem.
 Number of lines
 Rhymes
 Repetition
Type and Form
There are MANY different types or forms of
poems. Some fit a specific format and some fit a
specific theme.
Some examples of format poems:
Acrostic: a word or set of words is written down
the page and each line starts with that letter.
Sonnet: 14 lines of iambic pentameter, with a
specific rhyme scheme and intro/conclusion style.
Sestina: Each stanza must use the same end
words as the first stanza, but in a different
pattern each time.
More Formats
Haiku- A three line poem with specific syllable
lengths of 5-7-5.
Limerick- Usually a funny poem with a AABBA
rhyme scheme and specific syllable length.
Villanelle- A poem where certain lines are repeated
to make more of a refrain
Pantoum: Each stanza reuses different lines in a
specific pattern from the previous stanzas.
“Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Haiku:
Falling to the ground,
I watch a leaf settle down
In a bed of brown.
Limerick:
There once was a lady named Cager,
Who as the result of a wager,
Consented to fart
The entire oboe part
Of Mozart's quartet in F-major.
Types of poems written based on themes:
Elegy: A poem about something lost
Ode: A poem celebrating something
Road: A poem about a time of travel
Metaphor: The whole poem is a metaphor
Object Obsession: A poem written about an object
Ballad: A narrative poem with a refrain, usually about
love
Prose: A poem written more like a paragraph
 Narrative Poetry – Poems that tell stories
 Ballads – A poem(song) that tells a story typically about a major
event.
 Epic – A long, elevated poem about a hero and his adventures;
title is underlined.
 The Iliad and The Odyssey
 Lyric – Poems that express the poet’s emotion or thought about
one person, place, thing, or event; usually structured.
 Free Verse – Poems that have no set rhythm, rhyme, or structure.
ELEGY (SONG)
"My Immortal“ by Evanescence
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
[Chorus:]
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you
left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me
These wounds won't seem to
heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that
time cannot erase
[Chorus]
Elegy to My Summer Writing Spot by Ms. L
It’s nights like these like friends forever leaving
that are so hard to say goodbye to, let go of.
So many things I’ve written
from this stoop of cool cement,
rough as a craftsman’s hands.
My light bulb toes curl upon it for the last
night write of fall.
The words come like raindrops in spring,
quickly covering this page and the next
until my body feels clean.
Even the cat stays out tonight.
Body a rectangle of charcoal fleece,
green eyes encircling dying spirea,
his pupils the size of dimes,
tail curled in a J
until his cheek finds my outstretched hand
and the rectangle becomes an ellipse
poised for a rubdown.
His hind leg sticks out,
white paw pointing like a compass needle.
In the distance, a motorcycle revs its engine.
The winds swings on the chimes’ pendulum,
whooshing through an evening I’d like to keep
in a jar on the counter,
a clear glass delight
to open some clotted January night
when it hurts to keep your eyes open.
A Metaphor Song: “TIME” by Pink Floyd
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand 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 the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And 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 desparation is the English way
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
Understanding and Evaluating Poetry
1. Speaker – who is the speaker? What is their bias?
2. Occasion – What prompted the author to write?
3. Setting – Where is the poem taking place? What is the time and place?
4. Purpose – What is the reason behind the text?
5. Diction – What is the word choice? Dialect of the speaker?
6. Imagery – What senses are evoked? How?
7. Figurative Language – What figurative language is used and how does it
enhance the poem?
Understanding and Evaluating Poetry
cont.
8. Symbols – What symbols are used and what do they really mean?
9. Allusions – What literary, historical, or mythic person, place, or event is being
referenced? Example: Troy or Hercules
10. Tone – How does the author feel about the subject discussed in the poem?
11. Meter/Scansion – What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?
SOAPSTone
Use this pneumonic device to help you remember how to evaluate
poetry:
Speaker
Occasion
Attitude
Purpose
Subject
Tone
Pair Practice
Analyze the poem on the follow slide using the SOAPSTone method.
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Download the SOAPSTone poem and share it with me.
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Closure
Write 3 things you have learned about poetry.
Write 2 examples of poetic forms.
Write 1 question you have concerning poetry.