March 27 - Poetry

1. March 27 - Poetry Agenda: • Poetry Analysis: Bradstreet • AP Lit Poetry Essay Format • Outlining a poetry essay • “Woodchucks” • AP Lit MC • Format and Practice Homework: • Work on your essay • Come see me in tutorial with questions or if you need help Take Out: Pen/Pencil Highlighter Notebook Goals for today: Explore the importance of a title Explain how a poet uses a controlling metaphor Practice AP-style MC questions

2. Poetry Analysis • Read Anne Bradstreet’s poem • Answer the questions on the back of the page to the best of your ability: • Who/what is the speaker of the poem? What information is given that defines the speaker? • Who/what is the subject of the poem? What information is given that defines the subject? • What is the speaker’s attitude regarding the subject of the poem? Explain how you know, using examples. • What is the controlling metaphor that the speaker uses to convey their emotions? What does it show about their attitude?

3. Controlling Metaphor A Controlling Metaphor is a symbolic story, where the whole poem may be a metaphor for something else. Serves as a way to organize (control) the meaning of the poem.

4. The Prompt: An Author To Her Book The Prompt: Read carefully the following poem by the colonial American poet, Anne Bradstreet. Then write a well-organized essay in which you discuss how the poem’s controlling metaphor expresses the complex attitude of the speaker. What do you NEED to address in order to completely answer the prompt? How do you find the “controlling metaphor”? What is it? What is the “complex attitude” of the speaker?

5. Four Elements - The Attitude of the Speaker Imagery Comparison Word Music Line Breaks

6. Outlining • Thesis creation: • Re-word the prompt • Insert information from the poem • Possible thesis:

7. Outlining Step 1 – Explain the controlling metaphor Step 2 – Explain the “complex attitude” Step 3 – Connect the complex attitude of the speaker to the controlling metaphor