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MUSICAL CHAIRS Take out your poem and make sure your name is clearly visible on the front.

MUSICAL CHAIRS Take out your poem and make sure your name is clearly visible on the front. Clear everything off your desk except your poem and a clean sheet of notebook paper. Stow your backpack and/or all personal belongings under your desk. All aisles must be clear. MUSICAL CHAIRS

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MUSICAL CHAIRS Take out your poem and make sure your name is clearly visible on the front.

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  1. MUSICAL CHAIRS Take out your poem and make sure your name is clearly visible on the front. Clear everything off your desk except your poem and a clean sheet of notebook paper. Stow your backpack and/or all personal belongings under your desk. All aisles must be clear.

  2. MUSICAL CHAIRS • Walk around the room and examine the poems. When the music stops, sit down and respond for 2 minutes to the poem: • What do you notice about the poem? • What do you think or feel about it? • What questions do you have for the poet? • Sign your name to the response.

  3. A Man By Nina Cassian While fighting for his country, he lost an arm and was suddenly afraid: “From now on, I shall only be able to do things by halves. I shall reap half a harvest. I shall be able to play either the tune or the accompaniment on the piano, but never both parts together. I shall be able to bang with only one fist on doors, and worst of all I shall only be able to half hold my love close to me. There will be things I cannot do at all, applaud for example, at shows where everyone applauds.” From that moment on, he set himself to do everything with twice as much enthusiasm. And where the arm had been torn away a wing grew.

  4. Free Verse

  5. Free Verse • Free verse poetry is poetry that doesn’t have a set rhythm or meter and uses irregular line lengths. Writers of free verse disregard traditional poetic conventions of rhyme or meter relying on imagery, parallelism, repetition, and the ordinary cadences and stresses of everyday language.

  6. Parallelism • Parallelism is a device used to emphasize ideas or images by using grammatically similar constructions.

  7. Example of Parallelism We forgot--we worshipped,we parted green from green,we sought further thickets,we dipped our anklesthrough leaf-mould and earth,and wood and wood-bank enchanted us--and the feel of the clefts in the bark,and the slope between tree and tree--and a slender path strung field to field and wood to woodand hill to hilland the forest after it. From “The Helmsman” by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

  8. Example of Parallelism We forgot--we worshipped,we parted green from green,we sought further thickets,we dipped our anklesthrough leaf-mould and earth,and wood and wood-bank enchanted us--and the feel of the clefts in the bark,and the slope between tree and tree--and a slender path strung field to field and wood to woodand hill to hilland the forest after it. From “The Helmsman” by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

  9. Poems • “Child on Top of Greenhouse” • “The Lesson of the Moth” • “What is Success?”

  10. Write a response: • What do you think and feel about it • What do you notice about it • Parallelism • Imagery • Metaphors/Similes • Poetic Shift • Connotation/Denotation • Sound Devices • What questions do you have about it • What meanings did you discover

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