What to address in your two written responses…
(one for each poem you are assigned)
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Identify the topic/theme
Identify three poetic devices used
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Define the devices
What effect do they create?
Write your two assigned poems here:
Dickinson –
Whitman –
Most important line?
A word choice you find confusing?
My partner –
Your interpretation
Compare/Contrast between your two poems (you just need to do this
once)
Any connections with other poems you read or talked about?
Dickinson – Concrete image (a fly) -> Abstract idea (insignificance of
human life)?
Dickinson – Human awareness as finite or infinite? (what’s the
context)
Whitman – Find words/details/images that characterize his attitude
Whitman – What is he celebrating and what ideas/topics is using as
Dickinson and Whitman Project – Due Monday, 21 Feb
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Option 1 - Illustration
Choose one of the 20 poems we
read – it must be different than the
poems you were responsible for in
your groups
Complete a TPCASTT worksheet
Choose an image, metaphor, simile
or overall tone of the poem and
illustrate it using that image/
metaphor/simile/tone as the central
image of your illustration
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– Include the title and poet
– Include at least one line from the
poem that inspired your illustration
– You may choose to draw, paint, or
use magazine clippings
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Type at least one paragraph to
accompany the illustration explaining
your choices and citing the source
material from the poem that inspired
the illustration
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Option 2 - Analysis
On the website are posted the text to
Whitman’s “America” and “Pioneers!
O Pioneers!” as well as an article
from Slate magazine
View the Levi’s commercials again
and analyze the choice of images in
the commercial (use the hyperlinks
at the top of the article)
Your analysis should be compared to
the language in the poems
The article has the links to the
commercials that we watched
You must also discuss whether you
think that these commercials are
true to Whitman’s message
Your response should be 1-2 typed
pages
• The written components should be formatted using MLA (remember, poetry is different)
• Include a Works Cited reference line on the typed page
Poetry Teams (You have two poems)
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Because I could not stop for death – Ashley, Matt O.
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – Mariah, Shannon / Vu, Ryder, Matt F.
There’s a certain slant of light – Eljah, Wayne
My life closed twice before its close – Jasmine, Sean
The Soul selects her own society – Erin R. , Thomas
The Brain – is wider than the sky – Sasha, Cody
There is a solitude of space – Danni, Mark
Water is taught by thirst – Will, Alex S. / Drayke, Ryan
(67) Success is counted sweetest – Taylor, Erin C.
(501) This World is not Conclusion – Becca, Scott
Dickinson
(327) Before I got my eye put out – Joey, Alexander V.
Whitman
Song of Myself – Mariah, Shannon / Taylor, Erin C
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer – Ashley, Matt O.
By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame – Vu, Ryder, Matt F.
I Hear America Singing – Jasmine, Sean / Danni, Mark
A Noiseless Patient Spider – Erin R. , Thomas / Becca, Scott
To a Locomotive in Winter – Will, Alex S.
An Army Corps on the March – Joey, Alexander V.
Cavalry Crossing a Ford – Drayke, Ryan
O Captain! My Captain! – Eiljah, Wayne / Sasha, Cody
Poetry Groups
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Group 1
Ashley
Mariah
Vu
Elijah
Jasmine
Erin R.
Sasha
Danni
Will
Ryan
Taylor
Becca
Joey
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Group 2
Matt O.
Shannon
Ryder
Matt F.
Wayne
Sean
Thomas
Cody
Mark
Alex S.
Drayke
Erin
Scott
Alexander V.