What is Poetry? What do poets use to expand meaning or to express ideas in a more thoughtful way? How do poets manipulate sound in a poem as compared to how writers manipulate sound in a work of fiction or non-fiction?

Poets choose their words carefully since word choice or diction affects a poem’s meaning and the way it sounds. Write an essay analyzing how the poets’ use of rhyme and repetition affect the meaning of their poems. Use evidence from the poems to support your response.

What is the question asking you to do AS you READ? Annotate the text for essential understanding and meaning Think about what the poem says, how the poem works, and what the poem means.

What is the question asking you to do AFTER you READ? Go back and re-read your annotations for the most essential meanings and understandings that help you answer the TDA. Paraphrase in a few sentences what the poem says (this should be connected to the first few lines of the TDA) Record bulleted points of how the poem works in terms of structure (this should be connected to the first and second lines of the TDA) Look at your annotations that help you better understand what the poem means (this is a mixture of your inferences and the techniques the poet is using). This is your analysis!

What are some strategies you could use to answer the question? R.A.C.E. Annotate (thought bubbles, highlighter, pencil, stick-notes) These are CLOSE READING STRATEGIES

What would a PROFICIENT response look like?

I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout. I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout. IDIOM PERSPECTACLES

Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. Silver (silver trout line 8 stanza 1) Apples (apple blossom hair line 6 stanza 2)

How Does the Poet’s Use of Rhyme add a musical dimension to the poem? The poet’s use of rhyme in the even lines of each stanza give the poem a steady rhythm like a chant. This use of rhyme and the rhythmic quality of every other syllable being stressed makes is sound like a song.

To Sum Up “The Song of Wandering Aengus” Repeating lines and words in the poem show Aengus’s whole life he has been________. The rhythm with the use of end rhyme and stressed and unstressed syllables in a pattern sound like a______. A chant is easy to_______. Using repetition, rhyme, and rhythm affects the meaning as this reinforces the whole idea of the poem that Aengus is still searching ( see last stanza) for the girl and still remembers her even in his old age.

What the poem says, how the poem works, and what the poem means What does the poem say? ( Review your notes for each stanza) How does the poem work? ( Review your notes about rhyme and repetition) What the poem means? Aengus has a burning desire for his quest for love, embodied by the trout girl. He never “gets her” but will love her and remember her until the end of time.

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Sonnets Plays Comedy Tragedy Wit

Sonnets are numbered in the order they were written Most of them are about love, time, or desire

You can tell the entire theme or point of the sonnet by reading the last two lines which are ALWAYS 2 lines that RHYME (rhyming couplet)

Poets choose their words carefully since word choice or diction affects a poem’s meaning and the way it sounds. Write an essay analyzing how the poets’ use of rhyme and repetition affect the meaning of their poems. Use evidence from the poems to support your response.

When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, And darkly bright are bright in dark directed; Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright, How would thy shadow's form form happy show To the clear day with thy much clearer light, When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so? How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made By looking on thee in the living day, When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay? All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.