F BELL - Poetry Analysis due March 1

Everyone has his or her own personal plan when attacking poetry. Over the past couple of blogs, many of us have experimented with these different methods in hopes to fully understand the poem. While these sites might be useful to most, the universal way is TPCASTT. In hopes the phrase “practice makes perfect”, another reiteration of this method will ensure a 5 on the AP Exam. Below is a link that will direct you to a site where you will find for what TPCASTT stands.

http://hs.houstonisd.org/ReaganHS/Academies/Resources/TPCASTT.htm

Analyze a poem from one of these talented modern poets using the TPCASTT method. These are poets from the poetry project; if your poet is on the list please pick a new poet.

Sherman Alexie

Yehuda Amichai

Margaret Atwood

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Seamus Heany

Li-Young Lee

Czeslaw Milosz

Naoimi Shihab Nye

Octavio Paz

Wistawa Szymborska

As well as analyzing one poem from a chosen poet above, take it a step further and write a poem in the style of the author as well. This will give a better feel for the style and rhetorical devices that particular poet uses and why he uses them.

**Use the poem you have read to mimic the style.**

Posted by Ray, Sarah, and Jessica.

E Bell

Using the TPCASTT and the suggestions listed at

http://www.ehow.com/how_5294377_evaluate-poem.html

Be sure to look at:

Speaker

Tone

Diction

Situation

Imagery

Theme

Format

and how they are put together to express emotions/tell a story/get a point across

Evaluate this poetry written by teens from the link http://www.teenink.com/poetry/

Trisha and Rachel

F Bell Poetry Analysis Due Feb 22, 2011

In light of Spectrum season! We will be evaluating and critiquing poetry :)

Read the tips for evaluating poetry and critique the poems.

Title — Appropriate to subject, tone and genre? Does it generate interest, and hint at what your poem's about?

Subject — What is the basic situation?

Tone — What is the tone? How does the author convey the tone?

Word choice —diction, and syntax

Literary terms- metaphor, smile, imagery

Rhythm and meter — Does it have a rhyme scheme? If it does hat type and how does it contribute to the flow?

Use these guidelines and create your own analysis. Pick a poem from one of these amateur poets, please pick a new poem so we have variety.

http://www.angelfire.com/or2/poetryhaven/artists/artistlists.html

Posted by Sarah, Ray, and Jessica

Due by Tuesday, February 22, 2011...

or else ------------->

Final Poetry Assignment- G Bell due 22nd Feb

Octavio Paz said, “What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.” Use this concept to evaluate and provide constructive criticism on poetry by high school students. Don’t forget to use the TPCASTT and answer the following poetry evaluation questions.

Poetry Evaluation questions
1)Does the speaker of the poem feel life has changed? How do you know?
2)What message is the author trying to convey or help you understand?
3)Does it relate to anything in your own life?
4)Does it give you a new way of looking at something?
5)Identify figurative language in the poem (simile, metaphor, personification, etc.)
from: www2.scholastic.com/content/.../m/.../Poetryevaluationquestions.pdf

Links to poems by high school students:

http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/nhs/lmc/poetry/20012002.html

http://dc.gov/DCPS/In+the+Classroom/Student+Gallery/Student+Writing/Poems+by+High+School+Students+in+the+DC+Creative+Writing+Workshop

E Bell - Shakespear Due Friday 18

Shakespeare was famous for his sonnets, poems, and plays. He was most famous for his portrayal of love within his literature. Using the following websites choose two poems and compare how they use Shakespearean concepts within them. Choose one love poem and one focusing on another aspect and start comparing and contrasting from there.

http://www.poemhunter.com/william-shakespeare/
http://www.fathom.com/course/28701905/session1.html

F Bell- Due February 15th by Midnight

William Shakespeare is very well known for his plays, however he also has written a group of 154 sonnets. The first seventeen sonnets from this collection are known as the “procreation sonnets.” In sonnets 1-17, Shakespeare addresses a young man about seventeen years old, and encourages him to find a wife, and, more importantly, “procreate” children.

Select two of the “procreation” sonnets from the collection on the site listed below, and compare and contrast them. Focus on theme, word choice, and structure. Be sure to use textual evidence. Also, be sure to be clear which sonnets you are talking about.

http://poetry.eserver.org/sonnets/

By Brooks, Christiana, Alex

Introduction to Shakespeare- G Bell Due February 15 at midnight

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”-William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night are just a few of Shakespeare’s famous works that have become classics to literature. While many have heard of these plays, his poetry is still not as well known. Explore the world of Shakespeare’s poetry by finding a sonnet. Analyze the sonnet by explaining the rhetorical devices used and the profound effects the devices have on the overall, universal message.

G-Bell Realism and Nautralism in Poetry. Due Feb. 8th

“A reaction against romanticism, an interest in scientific method, the systematizing of the study of documentary history, and the influence of rational philosophy all affected the rise of realism” (Realism in American Literature). It was more than just a movement; realism exemplified life and all of its components for what it truly was. Naturalism was the use of detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. Both techniques played a major role in the movement from romanticism in the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s.

Research the movement. Using the links bellow, along with other found sources, find a poet that was part of this movement. Briefly discuss their past and several reasons that could have caused them to be drawn towards the techniques of naturalism and realism. Analyze one of their works and explain specific examples of how it was influenced by realism, naturalism or both.

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/realism.htm

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/natural.htm

By: Kelsey Smith and Taylor Neuburg

E Bell- Elizabethan Poetry; Due Feb. 8

The Elizabethan era of poetry took place around the late 16th to early 17th centuries. One of the main poets this era of poetry was William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Shakespeare’s sonnets are some of the most noted poems of the era for their unique style and themes, one of his most common themes being the disillusionment of love. Examine two of Shakespeare’s sonnets, one from his earlier works and one from his later works, and trace the evolution of his writing style and use of themes. Also, explain how these themes fit into the Elizabethan era of poetry.

The following link will be useful in exploring the styles and themes of Elizabethan poetry.
http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/rens_03/rens_03_00370.html

Posted by Shane, Natalie, and Kelly

Elizabethan Poetry Due Feb. 8 2011

The Elizabethan Era is characterized by many things. The list below gives you the most prominent characteristics of poetry from this time period.

1. The period has the great variety of almost unlimited creative force; it includes works of many kinds in both verse and prose, and ranges in spirit from the loftiest Platonic idealism or the most delightful romance to the level of very repulsive realism.

2. It was mainly dominated, however, by the spirit of romance.

3. It was full also of the spirit of dramatic action, as befitted an age whose restless enterprise was eagerly extending itself to every quarter of the globe.

4. In style it often exhibits romantic luxuriance, which sometimes takes the form of elaborate affectations of which the favorite 'conceit' is only the most apparent.

5. It was in part a period of experimentation, when the proper material and limits of literary forms were being determined, oftentimes by means of false starts and grandiose failures. In particular, many efforts were made to give prolonged poetical treatment to many subjects essentially prosaic, for example to systems of theological or scientific thought, or to the geography of all England.

6. It continued to be largely influenced by the literature of Italy, and to a less degree by those of France and Spain.

7. The literary spirit was all-pervasive, and the authors were men (not yet women) of almost every class, from distinguished courtiers, like Ralegh and Sidney, to the company of hack writers, who starved in garrets and hung about the outskirts of the bustling taverns.

( courtesey of classiclit.com)

After reviewing this criteria use one of the two poems, " The Power of Music" or "The Merry Beggars" and describe how they fit into the Elizabethan Era. Use the links below to read either poem. Be sure to note the stylized structure of the poems in regard to the recent blog on postmodernism.

"The Power of Music"

http://www.poetry-archive.com/f/the_power_of_music.html

"The Merry Beggars"

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-merry-beggars/

posted by Jessie, Margaret, and Christiana