Warm-UP

1. Warm-UP • Please pick up a RED literature book from the backshelf. • Get out your worksheet on “Paul Revere’s Ride” and continue working. • You will have 20 minutes.

2. Literal Poetry

3. What is literal poetry? • Occurs when poems do not have a deeper, figurative meaning. • The poet is only writing about the surface level topic.

4. How do you determine whether or not a poem is literal? • Are there symbols that could stand for other things? • If yes, there is a figurative meaning. • If no, there may not be a figurative meaning. • Does the other intend for the poem to stand for something else?

5. Example 1 • Silver Slowly, silently, now the moonWalks the night in her silver shoon;This way, and that, she peers, and seesSilver fruit upon silver trees;One by one the casements catchHer beams beneath the silvery thatch;Couched in his kennel, like a log,With paws of silver sleeps the dog;From their shadowy cote the white breasts peepOf doves in silver feathered sleepA harvest mouse goes scampering by,With silver claws, and silver eye;And moveless fish in the water gleam,By silver reeds in a silver stream. Walter de la Mare • What is literal meaning of “Silver?” • What is the figurative meaning of “Silver?” • Open or closed? • Give two examples of imagery. • What other literary devices are present?

6. Example 2 • Cats • Cats sleep, anywhere,Any table, any chairTop of piano, window-ledge,In the middle, on the edge,Open drawer, empty shoe,Anybody's lap will do,Fitted in a cardboard box,In the cupboard, with your frocks-Anywhere! They don't care!Cats sleep anywhere. Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) • What is literal meaning of “CAT!” • What is the figurative meaning of “CAT!” • Open or closed? • Give two examples of imagery. • What other literary devices are present?