Brit Lit Session 3

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British Literature Session 3

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In today's session:
You will:​



learn about poetic devices and their effects​

discuss several poems 

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What is a poem?

Slide 3 - Open question

What did you find out about the role of women during WWI?

Slide 4 - Open question

Shot at Dawn: Cowards, Traitors or Victims? What did you find out?

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Poetic Devices​
Only discuss those devices that add to the main idea of the poem (that contribute to the effectiveness).​



never enough to just name the device, make clear how it functions and contributes to the poem, what the effect is​


Discussion = Poetic Device & Effect  

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Which 5 aspects would you consider when analyzing a poem?

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  • Form
  • Sound 
  • Rhyme 
  • Rhythm 
  • Language

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Form 
  • Lines: end stopped vs run-on lines (enjambement) ​
  • Free verse = irregular lines, without metre or rhyme ​
  • stanza: couplet, triplet, quatrain 


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Sound
alliteration: repetition of same initial consonant ​

“as I pull the parapet’s poppy” (Break of Day in the Trenches) ​



assonance: repetition of same vowel sound ​

“on a proud round cloud in white high night”  E. E. Cummings

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Rhyme
end rhyme (e.g. abba, abab etc) ​



internal rhyme (I could spend hours walking amid the flowers.)​



eye rhyme (symbol, not the sound) love & prove

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Rhythm 
metre = pattern of stressed and​
unstressed syllables ​



Iambic Pentameter 


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Words
image (any way in which the words refer to the senses, multiplicity of meaning) ​

“In that rich earth a richer earth concealed” (The Soldier) ​


“the darkness crumbles away” (Break of Day in the Trenches)​



metaphor + to compare something with something else ​

war = a game (Who’s for the Game?) ​

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” Shakespeare ​

The world is a stage 

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simile = metaphor + like “My love is like a rose”​



conceit = farfetched metaphor – describing your love like a pair of compasses ​



allegory = extended metaphor (Animal Farm) ​



oxymoron = incomparable connections (honest thief)

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personification = treating an object as a person ​

"Only the monstrous anger of the guns." Owen​



Allusion = the reference to a well-known historical or literary figure or event. ​

symbol= object that stands for something else ​

The Poppy as a symbol of WW1​

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Read
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen​ (pg 35)
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Discuss the form of the poem and the effect it has

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Discuss the effect of the alliteration in line 3

Slide 18 - Open question

Discuss the effect of the simile soldiers and cattle

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Discuss the effect of the oxymoron in shrill choirs

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Discuss the effect of personification (guns, bugles, shells)

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This is one of the most taught poems of them all. Why would that be? What is its power, its force?

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Group work 
Discuss one of the three poems and present your findings.

Group 1: The deserter 
Group 2: Munition Wages
Group 3: The hero

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For next week
Session 4: Sebastian Barry. A Long Long Way. (I)​

Brief fact sharing on the Easter Rising and Irish independence.​

Plenary discussion of poem 1916 by WB Yeats ​

Group reading of A Long Long Way ​

Theory 4: Aspects of fiction​

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Stocktaking
This session concludes the topic of WWI poetry.
What do you think your efforts have brought you? Any meaningful skills, knowledge, facts, viewpoints or teaching ideas?

Slide 25 - Open question