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Annotating and Writing a response to poetry

Annotating. Read the complete poem through. Once.What is it saying? E.g. Balloons> BalloonsWhat is the implicit theme? E.g. Balloons> innocence lost. How does it relate to you, personally?Read it through by Stanza. What are the poetic devices used?Ask the AOI question! Identify points.Cultur

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Annotating and Writing a response to poetry

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    1. Annotating and Writing a response to poetry

    2. Annotating Read the complete poem through. Once. What is it saying? E.g. Balloons> Balloons What is the implicit theme? E.g. Balloons> innocence lost. How does it relate to you, personally? Read it through by Stanza. What are the poetic devices used? Ask the AOI question! Identify points. Cultural words, idioms. Emphasis of the stanza.

    3. Annotating cont. Think of the MYP Criterion. A Content: What is the poem actually saying? B Organization: Why is organized the way it is? C Style and Language: What are the style and language features that the poet has used?

    4. Genre type of poem. Free verse Blank verse Cultural styles Ballads Odes Allegory Haiku. Sonnet Cultural Context Time: (War/peace) Race: (African-American) Religious context Symbolism of time/culture Idioms.

    5. Commentary In Grace Nichols’ five-stanza free verse poem “Be A Butterfly” the child speaker relates from a first person point of view how s/he and her/his siblings would watch their parents in church as “the old preacher screamed” his sermon. The minister’s message of “don’t be a kyatta-pilla / be a butterfly” is his exuberant and life-affirming exhortation to lead more than a simple existence. The preacher encourages his congregation to live daring, beautiful and exciting lives, but the children find his delivery as well as his message wildly entertaining. It is only later in life that the speaker reflects back and admits in second person narrative voice to “de life preacher … you was right.” Nichols conveys this deeper meaning in her poem by employing particular diction, vivid visual, auditory, tactile and taste imagery, as well as effective sound devices such as alliteration and repetition of key lines. Most noticeably, Nichols’ diction indicates a Caribbean location of this church and community of worshippers. Such words as “kyatta-pilla” indicate a West Indian dialect,

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