ANZAC Poetry

ANZAC Poetry

Aim: To explore how poetry creates meaning

BRAINSTORM!!

How is meaning created in poetry??

How many poetic devices can you think of?You can’t use your handout!

Here are some that you could mention

• Rhyme• Rhythm• Similes

• Metaphors• Personification• Symbolism• Assonance• Alliteration• onomatopoeia

• Now let’s look at a Prezi on Poetry devices

How is poetry different to a novel?What are the advantages/disadvantages of each?

Discuss with the person beside youWrite at least 5 dot points in each column

POETRY NovelAdvantages/Disadvantages Advantages/Disadvantages

SimilesA simile makes a comparison between two unlike things, using the

words ‘like’, ‘as’ or ‘than’. All of the following comparisons are similes from every day life.

• He ran like the wind• I am as warm as toast

He ran …….I am as hungry as ….The rain is as loud as….

Try to write two of your own now!

Metaphors

The metaphor takes us one step further than the simile. Instead of asking us to picture one thing being like another, we are asked to picture one thing as being another.

• Her eyes are pools of light• The hose is a green snake on the lawn

Try to write two of your own!!

Anthem of Doomed Youth

• What poetic devices did you think were the most effective in this poem?

• Were you stuck on any questions? Ask 2 people if they know they answer

• Do you think that Wilfred Owen was successful in getting his message across?

• In pairs try to write a stanza in Owen’s style for the soldiers that have lost their lives recently. You can modernise the language but focus on symbols and metaphors

Dulce et Decorum EstYou have 2 min to look up what this title means. Write this into your workbooks

In a group of 2-3 help each other annotate the poem. Highlight and Annotate (take notes)• Imagery• Simile• Metaphor• rhyme

• How does this poem make you feel?• Discuss in your group for 2 min• Write your response to the poem – 3 lines• Pick out 3 lines that you think are most

significant

• What is Owen’s purpose for writing this poem?

In Flanders fields John McCrae (1872–1918)

In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place: and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.

For the Fallen

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,England mourns for her dead across the sea.Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of spirit,Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royalSings sorrow up into immortal spheres.There is music in the midst of desolationAnd a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morningWe will remember them.

They mingle not with laughing comrades again;They sit no more at familiar tables of home;They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;They sleep beyond England’s foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,To the innermost heart of their own land they are knownAs the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,To the end, to the end, they remain.

Group Discussion Questions

1. Choose 2 images from the poem. What emotions do they create?

2. What is the rhyming pattern of the poem? How does this affect the poem and how you read it? Does it sound like a drum? Does it make the pace faster or slower?

3. What is the rhythm? How many syllables in the lines? Is there a pattern?

4. What symbols are used? What do they mean?

5. Find a simile in the poem and explain how it adds to the theme.

6. Find a metaphor and explain what you think it means.

7. Describe the tone (mood) of the poem.

Your turn

Try to write another stanza about the diggers for this poem.

• Mirror the rhyme and rhythm patterns• Think of the images you want to create• Try to include a simile and metaphor• Consider the tone you are creating

The Send Off

INTRO QUIZ! Write an example of:

• a metaphor• a simile

• Personification• Assonance• Alliteration• onomatopoeia

In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place: and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.

Write your own annotations for some of the lines

Symbolises:

Comparison:

Emotion:

Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.

Symbolises?

Metaphor