1. Homework: Study Poetry Terms
Warm Up:
Have HW (Mood Poem) on your desk.
Take out your Poetry Term Worksheet
Agenda:
Allusion-Review Term
Bio Info Tupac & Vincent Van Gogh
“Starry Night” by Tupac
Ticket Out the Door
Homework: Study Poetry Terms

2. Today’s Objectives:
Given information on two artists, students will be able to identify similarities between the two artists.
Given a poem, students will be able to identify and analyze the use of allusion.
Given information about a poet, students will identify meaning behind the poem.

3. *Allusion: When a work of literature refers to:
A famous event in history
Another famous work of art (literature, characters, art, music)
Another famous person
That event, piece or art, or person has something in common with a topic in that work.

4. Examples:
“The Utterly Perfect Murder”-Doug refers to Ahab from Moby Dick b/c they were both considered crazy.
In Speak, Anderson refers to the famous May Angelou b/c both Angelou and Melinda both were raped and chose not to speak as a result.
In Speak, Anderson had “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer” playing b/c both Rudolph and Melinda were outcasts.

5. TuPac Shakur

6. Vincent Van Gogh
This is a self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh

7. The Potato Eaters (1885)

8. Irises (1889)

9. Ticket Out the Door
Tupac used the literary technique of Allusion in his poem, “Starry Night”. Why do you think Tupac chose to write about the artist Vincent Van Gogh in his poetry?