My Heart Leaps Up [Savona]

My Heart Leaps Up
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My Heart Leaps Up
Literature

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

What do you know about
Romanticism (il romanticismo)?

Slide 2 - Woordweb

Some background information

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Industrial Revolution (1760 to 1840)
  • first part of industrialization brought wealth and prosperity
  • also feeling that this wealth was for the few and bought with poverty of many 
  • led to urbanization and the birth of cities > lot of people moved there

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

French Revolution
  • 1789
  • huge source of inspiration: structure society needed to be changed
  • Ideals of freedom and equality, also among Romantic poets from England

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

Wordsworth & Coleridge
  • two famous Romantic poets
  • broke radically with 18th century tradition in terms of literature
  • proposed poetry of simplicity

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

Wordsworth & Coleridge
  • poetry was no longer guided by Reason
  • showed a deep trust in the forces of intuition, emotion and imagination

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

Theme 1: Nature is divine
  • Nature = life-giving force
  • both in man but also the world around him

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

Theme 2: the simple man should be idealized
  • man closest to nature (like farmers) should be idealized

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

Theme 3: the past should be idealized
  • many Romantic poets were disappointed with the present situation they lived in

Slide 10 - Tekstslide

Theme 4: children are pure
  • children were seen as 'pure'
  • surpreme example as they were uncorrupted by the world
  • closer to God and eternity due to purity

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

Let's read the text together
Let's listen to Benedict Cumberbatch

Slide 12 - Tekstslide

Slide 13 - Video

Let's continue
By answering the questions

Slide 14 - Tekstslide

1. What is the speaker's
mood in this poem?

Slide 15 - Woordweb

Answer:
Happy ("my heart leaps up") but also serious ("or let me die").

Slide 16 - Tekstslide

2. What can you say about
the I-person's age?

Slide 17 - Woordweb

Answer:
He is probably middle-aged;
  • "now that I am a man" 
  • "so be it when I grow old"

Slide 18 - Tekstslide

3. 'So be it' (line 5) means 'let it be this way. What is it that he speaker does not want to change?




Class discussion.

Slide 19 - Tekstslide

Answer to question 3
The happy feeling he gets when he sees a rainbow;
in other words: his bond with nature.

Slide 20 - Tekstslide

4. Why would the 'I' rather be dead than change (line 6)?

Class discussion.

Slide 21 - Tekstslide

Answer to question 4
He thinks it is important to have (strong) feelings 
about nature / natural things.

Slide 22 - Tekstslide

5. How can a child be father of a man, as said in line 7?

First discuss in pairs or small groups.
After that: class discussion.

Slide 23 - Tekstslide

Answer to question 5
It means a child is closer to nature, and therefore 
closer to the essence of life, than an adult.

Slide 24 - Tekstslide

6. Explain the wish expressed
in lines 8-9 in your own words.

Slide 25 - Woordweb

Answer to question 6
I want to be close to nature all the days of my life.

Slide 26 - Tekstslide

7. What is the theme of this poem?

Let's find out what a theme is first.

Slide 27 - Tekstslide

What is a theme?
A
the main idea a writer in story develops
B
the subject(s) a writer wants to talk about

Slide 28 - Quizvraag

A theme is often
A
a single word
B
a small phrase
C
a single word or small phrase
D
a small phrase or a sentence

Slide 29 - Quizvraag

7. What is the theme of this poem?

First discuss in pairs or small groups.
After that: class discussion.

Slide 30 - Tekstslide

Answer to question 7
Nature and the beauty in it.

Slide 31 - Tekstslide

8. Find the imagery in this poem.
What kind is it?


Hold on! What is imagery?

Slide 32 - Tekstslide

Connect the imagery to the correct description
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
A direct comparison, without the words 'like' or 'as'.
A direct comparison, with the words 'like' or 'as'.
Human traits are applied to non-living objects.

Slide 33 - Sleepvraag

8. Find the imagery in this poem.
What kind is it?

Slide 34 - Woordweb

Answer to question 8
My heart leaps up = personification
The child is father of the man = metaphor

Slide 35 - Tekstslide

Explain why
This helps you understand imagery better

Discuss in pairs / small groups

Slide 36 - Tekstslide

Explanation:
My heart leaps up = personification
  • to leap up = to jump, a heart cannot jump

The child is father of the man = metaphor
  • a child cannot be a father of an adult, it is a metaphor to show the purity of children

Slide 37 - Tekstslide

9. What makes this a Romantic poem?

Slide 38 - Woordweb

Answer
  • It stresses the importance of nature
  • It places a child (intuition / feeling) above an adult (reason)

Slide 39 - Tekstslide

I think I understand this poem and its message.
Yes
No

Slide 40 - Poll

Continue
If you have answered yes, focus on your week task.

If you have answered no, please let me know what you do not understand (yet).

Slide 41 - Tekstslide