Week 37 Lesson 1

• newEditor
• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Welcome 

Today's programma:

• Introduction to poetry

• What is it?

• What can we expect to find?

• Let's try to analyze a poem

Goals:

• Knows what poetry is. 

• Can look for meaning in a poem

• Can identify some literary devices

What is poetry?

How much do you think you'll enjoy reading poetry?

Can you think of stylistic elements we might find in poetry?

Literary devices

• Imagery: evoking the senses; His words felt like a dagger in my heart.

• alliteration: repetition of the same sounds at the start of a series of words in succession; While I nodded, nearly napping, 

• repetition: using the same word over and over again throughout a poem

• Personification: a form of a metaphor: human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things, which allows the writer to create life and motion with inanimate objects and abstract ideas by giving them human traits; The breeze kissed my cheek.

• simile: comparison, usually of two unrelated things; Slept like a log

• symbolism: words that represent other concepts or ideas to convey a deeper meaning; a rose symbolising love or a dove symbolising peace

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Let's read the poem together.

In groups of 4, read the poem again and see if you can answer the questions.

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Let's discuss your answers.

What did we learn today?