Imagery, Figurative Language in Poetry

•The poetry wakens our senses with imagery.•It startles us by replacing literal language with figurative language.

•Figurative language and its devices surprise us with unique comparisons.

TLW submit by the completion of this unit, the following:Construct a Haiku, Imagery, Personification, simile, metaphor, & descriptive poems.Use Venn diagram to compare/contrast 2 poems.Answer comprehension questions.Defend your answers.Use context clues to answer questions.Identify figurative languageIdentify grammar.Expand your vocabulary.Be successful on a quiz with vocabulary, identification of poetry, and authors.

Objectives:CLE 3001.8.2 Understand the characteristics of various literary genres – poetry. CFU 3001.8.11 Recognize and identify the characteristics of lyric poetry, blank verse, free verse, epic, sonnet, dramatic poetry, and ballad.CFU 3001.8.12 Identify, analyze, and evaluate the effect and use of metrics (especially iambic pentameter), rhyme scheme (e.g., end, internal, slant, eye), rhythm, alliteration, and other conventions of verse in more challenging poetry (including poetic forms such as lyric, blank verse, epic, sonnet, dramatic poetry).SPI 3001.8.1 Identify and analyze examples of idiom, metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or pun in poetry or proseSPI 3001.8.5 Determine the significance/meaning of a symbol in poetry or prose.SPI 3001.8.7 Differentiate between mood and tone in poetry or prose.SPI 3001.8.11 Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of lyric poetry, epics, sonnets, dramatic poetry, and ballads.

Vocabulary and AuthorsVocabulary -add Speaker & Jargon to your notes. Use your notes for the others if you do not remember them.

• Haiku• Imagery• Image• Simile• Personification• Metaphor• Comparison• Parallel• Time line• Mood• Tone• Stanza• Symbol/symbolilsm

AuthorsEnter information on to the writer’s

spreadsheet regarding: Basho-1644-1694- samurai, member of Japan’s

feudal warrior class Richard Wright-1908-1960-MS Emily Dickinson-1830-1886-likes seclusion and

wrote on scraps of paper Walter de lar Mare-1873-1956-bookkper during

lunch breaks also wrote under Waler Ramal Elinor Wylie-1885-1928-wrote as a teenager Langston Hughes-1902-1967-cook, busboy,

seaman, involve in The Harlem Renaissance May Swenson-1919-appearnaces and

illustrations can both deceive and delight William Shakespeare-1564-1616-wrote 37 plays,

married to Anne Hathaway

Lay out

Rubric• All items labeled• All poems will be written on

separate sheets of paper• Pictures can be used and

typed in preferred• Must complete ALL

exercises/questions to received an “A” for each unit to the BEST of your ability. Remember I know your ability.

• There will a short quiz over authors, vocabulary, and poems for each unit.

• Prepare and study each night.

Must keep all work after I return it to you-poems will be used for a separate project to come.

Haiku p 198

Write answers to:• What is the setting of this

poem?• With the trees, how could

we transfer that to human terms?

• What stays the same?

Writing a Haiku 3 lines (total 17 syllables) 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables Subject is nature being used as a

metaphor Breece ex

SunWith lots of sunshine (5)Brings forth energy and fun (7)To land and water (5)

You are to write an Haiku

Examples of Haiku

By Basho• An old silent pond...A frog jumps into the pond,splash! Silence again• Autumn moonlight—a worm digs silentlyinto the chestnut.

Basho HaikuLightning flash—what I thought were facesare plumes of pampas grass

• Why are these, Haiku poems, easy to identify?

Hokku Poems p 198

Comprehension • How many stanza?• How many lines in poem?• What took the speaker’s name

away?• What will be found by following

directions?• Describe the writer’s log.• List 3 traits of rain• What does the crow leave behind?• Generalize what is really happening

in the poem.• Can you identify the Haiku in this

poem?

Image-Imagery• Image-a picture made from

words• Imagery-collection of sense

images in a poem-can you see, hear, feel, smell, taste, touch it through the writer’s descriptive words

• Imagery chart• http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/readingliterature/

literary_elements_devices/imagery_chart.pdf

Examples of Imagery

Can you identify the imageryEleganceA ballet dancer is a swan

Without the beak or feathersA ballet dancer is the seasonsWithout a change in weatherA ballet dancer is a portraitWith a difference to this artThe picture captures feelingThe dancer embraces heart- Mary O. Fumento, 1981

What is the imagery?SunsetThe fire in the sky is dying

The mountains are tall and darkThe spirit of the day is flyingSunset leaves its markThe colors up on high are lovelyThe air is clear and coolAn ending approaches mildlyDay and night begin a duelBut the light must give way sometimeAnd who will win, I'll betIs dark, mysterious nighttimeAs day gives way to sunset- Mary O. Fumento, 1981

Does anyone remember this book or movie? Was it really about a monster?

Now we write/draw with imagery

With a sheet of paper1. Divide the paper into six squares.2. Each square will be filled with either a

drawing, a word, or phrase that will be an answer to prompts given .a. Draw one item from a backpack.B. Draw one item you would find in a car.c. Draw one thing that you would find in a jungle.d. Write a word/phrase that describes extreme heat.e. Write a word/phrase that describes music.f. Write a word/phrase that describes yourself.

You will write a poem using all ideas that you drew or wrote down.

• Breece exI have a planner to keep me on trackMy round sterling wheel is blackI like colorful flowers that attractMy toes burn as I walk across the beachMozart is soothing and sweetI have hazel eyes and I think that is

neat.

Identify the imagery

Eternity• List as the author reads• Write down what you

hear/see• Can you identify the images

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass p 200

Listen to the poem being orally readSee the pictures in your headAt the end of Q & Atell me the fellow

• What is being compared in stanza 2?• What temperature can the fellow be

found?• What line tells us the gender of the

speaker?• In 4th stanza what did he call the

fellow?

Q & A• How does the author feel about nature’s

people?• How did the author feel when he meet

the fellow?• What is the fellow? What images confirm

your thoughts? • Define “zero at the bone”• What is it called when a writer uses

unusual wording? Identify them.• What was the fellow?

Silver p 201

Comprehension questions:1. What walks the night?2. List 4 animals named.3. How many time is silver

repeated?4. What are the silver items?5. How is the poem like a

painting?6. What type of rhyme

scheme used-approximate, end, or internal?

Personification-giving human-like qualities to non living things.

How was the moon personify?What was the personality of the moon?

Write a 3-5 line poem using personification.

Velvet Shoes-Elinor Wylie p 202

Q & A• List 2 details regarding the

walk• The shoes are made of what

materials?• Where will they walk?• What is the snow being

compared to?• What are the similes?

• Simile-compares 2 unlike things using like/as.

• Ex of simile poem:SENSES

Sadness is as happy as laughter.You might cry because it hurts.

You might laugh because it hurts.But I know one thing,

laughter is laughter and sadness is sadness.

They can show the same things like hurting and gladness.

Id the simile.Assignment: You write an simile poem.

Dreams-Langston Hughes p 203

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRTT-ZEqPlUUsing imagery with this poem-watch video

• What should we do with our dreams?

• If we lose our dream we are being compare to what 2 things?

• What is the writer’s mood regarding lost dreams?

• How is stanza 1 & 2 parallel?

Voc + writingMetaphor-comparing 2 unlike things by finding similarities in objects that we would not consider alike.Parallel-Sentences balance either through repetition, verb usage, or time.Ex metaphor poem:

Painting

Painting is an untamed bird.You're free to show how you feelwithout consequence.There's nothing holding you back.Your emotions fly wildly.

•What is the metaphor?•You are to write a metaphor poem.

Water Picture-May Swenson p 204

Q & A1. Define setting.2. List 6 objects mentioned in the poem

regarding the picture.3. Describe the swan in the 4th stanza.

What picture is that?4. What causes the scene to be troubled?5. Define “all things are double.”6. List distorted images? These are

examples of what literary term?7. What imagery used?

Writing• Write a poem describe an object, scene, or event that is

recognizable but distorted. • Pick one: seeing through a red glass window, hearing

with earmuffs on, touching with thick mittens, or tasting with your nose pinched shut

• Example:I’m looking through a stain glass windowI see long, tall, lanky fellowsThey appear to all be dress up in redGood heavens! Even their ears.I squint as looking throughBut all I could see was the glueIt was no longer white and puffBut instead red and running like gutsEven still as I look through this red glass windowI notice that red mix with brown reminds me of jello

The Seven Ages of Man-W. Shakespeare p 206

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbq79e_the-seven-ages-of-man-william-shake_creation

1. The world & men are being compared to a __? This is an example of __?

2. List the 7 stages of men in a time line format..

a) List image for eat stageb) What metaphor/simile is used

3. What are the men(sans) without?4. What is exits & entrance mean in

real life?5. What mood is reference in the

poem? Tone?6. Would you like for your life to

written in just 28 lines?

Venn Diagram• Choose 2 poems in this unit.• Imagine the scenes/events from these

poems-see the pictures.• Compare and contrast the 2 pictures • Breece example next slide.

Imagery • Same Colors are vivid Feelings are expressed I can touch the painting & window I can see the people in Stain glass window &

visualize an untamed bird• Different Subjects/setting-painting, classroom I can hear the students I can smell the painting

PaintingPainting is an untamed bird.You're free to show how you feelwithout consequence.There's nothing holding you back.Your emotions fly wildly.

I’m looking through a stain glass windowI see long, tall, lanky fellowsThey appear to all be dress up in redGood heavens! Even their ears.I squint as looking throughBut all I could see was the glueIt was no longer white and puffBut instead red and running like gutsEven still as I look through this red glass windowI notice that red mix with brown reminds me of jello

Symbols/Symbolism

Review your poems•Haiku•Hokku•A Narrow Fellow in the Grass•Silver•Velvet Shoes•Dreams•Water Picture•The Seven Ages of ManClassify the symbol/symbolism for each poem.

Symbolism is when the author uses an object or reference to add deeper meaning to a story. Symbolism can be subtle or obvious. An author may repeatedly use the same object to convey deeper meaning or may use variations of the same object to create an main mood or feeling. Ex:•Symbols referring to salvation: Crosses, angels, haloes, clouds, churches •Symbols referring to reinvention: crosses, rainbows, passing storms, dawn, sunrise, broken chains •Symbols referring to death or endings: Gravestones, cemeteries, Grim Reaper, Day of the Dead, skulls, candle blowing out, coffin•American cultural symbols: Red, white and blue colors; Bald Eagle; coin with "In God We Trust" •Indian cultural symbols: yogi, banyan tree, image of Indian god or goddess •Chinese cultural symbols: Bamboo tree, bonsai tree, yin/yang symbol

How Do Writers Use Symbolism?Writers insert symbols into their writing to allude to a feeling, mood or attitude without directly stating the perspective or mood intended. Symbolism is supplemental to the story.

Vocabulary and AuthorsTell me something about each

• Haiku• Imagery• Image• Simile• Personification• Metaphor• Comparison• Parallel• Time line• Mood• Tone• Stanza• Symbol/symbolism

Authors Basho-1644-1694- Richard Wright-1908-1960 Emily Dickinson-1830-1886 Walter de lar Mare-1873-1956 Elinor Wylie-1885-1928 Langston Hughes-1902-1967 May Swenson-1919 Shakespeare-1564-1616