Warm Up 12/4
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Determine the THEME of each poem, and evidence of its form (do this only for the
ones we haven’t went over yet). For evidence, think about 1. how this poem falls into
the category, and 2. how the form is appropriate for its content.
Title
Theme
Poem Type
The Passionate
Shepard to His
Love
Pastoral
The Sunne Rises
Aubade
Ballad of Johnny X
Ballad
Ballad of
Birmingham
Ballad
Sestina
Sestina
Villanelle
Villanelle
Evidence
Big Announcements
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 Proper MLA citation of Shakespearean lines:
 (Act. scene. line number)
 Fancy Example: (III. ii. 173)
 Totally Acceptable and Easier Example: (3.2.173)
 Multiple line numbers: (3.2.173-9); (3.2.173-92)
 An early holiday present from me!
Ode, Elegy, Dramatic
Monologue
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Copy the bolded portion only:
 Ode: Name given to an extended lyric poem characterized by exalted
emotion and dignified style. An ode usually concerns a single, serious
theme. Most odes, but not all, are addressed to an object or
individual. Odes are distinguished from other lyric poetic forms by
their complex rhythmic and stanzaic patterns.
 Elegy: a Greek or Latin form in alternating dactylic hexameter and
dactylic pentameter lines; and a melancholy poem lamenting its
subject's death but ending in consolation.
 Dramatic monologue: a poem representing itself as a speech made
by one person to a silent listener, usually not the reader.
Learning Targets
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 To read examples of the ode, elegy, and dramatic
monologue.
 To use the SIFT method to analyze these poems.
 To determine the theme of each poem and to fill out
the chart.
Ode, Elegy, Dramatic
Monologue
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 SYMBOLS
 IMAGERY
 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
 TONE (words)
Independent Work
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 Determine the THEME of each poem.
 Add both yesterday’s and today’s poems to the chart that you
started Monday in your journal.
Title
Sestina
Villanelle
Ode to My
Socks
On My First
Son
My ExHusband
Theme
Poem Type
Evidence