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Your Guide To Poetry. Click To start. The purpose of this activity is for you to be able to identify 5 different poetry genres and 5 different authors that write in the classified genre which you will learn from this activity. Continue.
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Your Guide To Poetry Click To start
The purpose of this activity is for you to be able to identify 5 different poetry genres and 5 different authors that write in the classified genre which you will learn from this activity. Continue
Students will be 9th-12th graders, both male and female of middle class families. They have high motivation to learn and have a little but some prior knowledge of the subject. • This activity will be conducted in a typical computer lab where students have their own computers. A teacher will be available for help. Continue
After completing this activity you should be able to recall the 5 different genre’s of poetry, 5 different authors, and be able to classify poems on your own by the terms you learned from this activity with 100% accuracy. Back End Main Menu
What Would You Like To Study First?? Different Genres of Poetry Different Authors Quiz Back End
Genres of PoetryClick on the terms to find out their meanings • Lyric • Narrative • Dramatic Monologue • Parody • Prose Menu
Lyric Poetry • A short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. Often it is written in first person. Back
Narrative Poetry • A poem that tells a story. Back
Dramatic Monologue • A poem that is written as a speech made by a character at some decisive moment. The speaker is usually addressing a silent listener. Back
Parody • A mocking imitation of a literary work or individual authors style, usually from comic effect. A parody typically exaggerates distinctive features of the original for humorous purposes. Back
Prose • Poetic language printed in prose paragraphs but displaying careful attention to sound, imagery, and figurative language characteristics of poetry. Back
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AuthorsClick on the Author! • Robert Browning • Robert Frost • Charles Simic • Adrienne Rich • Hugh Kingsmill Menu
Robert Browning • Robert Browning is know for writing dramatic monologues. An example of a poem that Robert Browning wrote that is a dramatic monologue is “My Last Dutchess” Back http://www.literatura.hu/irok/romantik/images/robert_browning.jpg
Robert Frost • Robert Frost is known for writing narrative poems. An example of a narrative poem that he wrote is “Out, Out-.” Back http://chawedrosin.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/robert-frost.jpg
Charles Simic • Charles Simic is known for writing prose poems. Two examples of his work are “Fork,” and “My Shoes.” Back http://www.loc.gov/poetry/images/charles_simic.jpg
Adrienne Rich • Adrienne Rich is known for writing lyric poetry. An example of a lyric poem that Rich wrote is “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers.” Back http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/adrienne_rich.jpg
Hugh Kingsmill • Hugh Kingsmill is known for writing parodies. An example that was written by Kingsmill is “What, still Alive at Twenty-Two.” Back
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Directions • Read the poem and the terms and/or authors given. • Then choose the correct author and/or term. • Read carefully! • GOOD LUCK!! Next Menu
What type of poem mocks/imitates literary work or individual authors style? • Parody Poems • Narrative Poems • Prose Poems Menu
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"Out, Out - "by: Robert Frost The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yardAnd made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.And from there those that lifted eyes could countFive mountain ranges one behing the otherUnder the sunset far into Vermont.And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,As it ran light, or had to bear a load.And nothing happened: day was all but done.Call it a day, I wish they might have saidTo please the boy by giving him the half hourThat a boy counts so much when saved from work.His sister stood beside him in her apronTo tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw,As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant,Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap - He must have given the hand. However it was, Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!Half in appeal, but half as if to keepThe life from spilling. Then the boy saw all - Since he was old enough to know, big boyDoing a man's work, though a child at heart - He saw all was spoiled. "Don't let him cut my hand off - The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!"So. The hand was gone already.The doctor put him in the dark of ether.He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.And then - the watcher at his pulse took a fright.No one believed. They listened to his heart.Little - less - nothing! - and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since theyWere not the one dead, turned to their affairs. Read the Poem and Answer The Question on the next page Next
The poem “Out, Out-” is an example of what genre? • Dramatic monologue • Parody • Narrative • None of the Above Menu
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Poetic language printed in prose paragraphs, but displaying the careful attention to sound, imagery, and figurative language characteristics of poetry… is the definition of what genre? • Parody • Prose • Dramatic monologue • Robert Browning
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Read the Poem then Answer the question on the next page • Aunt Jennifer's Tigers • Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.They do not fear the men beneath the tree;They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.Aunt Jennifer's finger fluttering through her woolFind even the ivory needle hard to pull.The massive weight of Uncle's wedding bandSits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand.When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lieStill ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.The tigers in the panel that she madeWill go on prancing, proud and unafraid. Next
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” is an example of… • Dramatic Monologue • Prose • Narrative • Parody • Lyric
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That moment she was mine, mine, fair,Perfectly pure and good: I foundA thing to do, and all her hairIn one long yellow string l wound Three times her little throat around,And strangled her. No pain felt she;I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee,I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain.And l untightened next the tress About her neck; her cheek once moreBlushed bright beneath my burning kiss: I propped her head up as before, Only, this time my shoulder boreHer head, which droops upon it still: The smiling rosy little head,So glad it has its utmost will, That all it scorned at once is fled, And I, its love, am gained instead!Porphyria's love: she guessed not how Her darling one wish would be heard.And thus we sit together now, And all night long we have not stirred,And yet God has not said aword! • The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite,And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break.When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm,And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage warm; Which done, she rose, and from her formWithdrew the dripping cloak and shawl, And laid her soiled gloves by, untiedHer hat and let the damp hair fall, And, last, she sat down by my side And called me. When no voice replied,She put my arm about her waist,And made her smooth white shoulder bare, And all her yellow hair displaced,And, stooping, made my cheek lie there, And spread, o'er all, her yellow hair,Murmuring how she loved me — she Too weak, for all her heart's endeavor,To set its struggling passion free From pride, and vainer ties dissever, And give herself to me forever.But passion sometimes would prevail, Nor could tonight's gay feast restrainA sudden thought of one so pale For love of her, and all in vain:So, she was come through wind and rain. Be sure I looked up at her eyesHappy and proud; at last l knew Porphyria worshiped me: surpriseMade my heart swell, and still it grew While I debated what to do. Read the poem “Porphyria’s Lover” and answer the question on the next page. Next
What Type of Poetry is written as a speech made by a character at some decisive moment like in “Porphyria’s Lover” • Narrative • Prose • Lyric • Parody • Dramatic Monologue
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Which Poem was written by Charles Simic? • “Fork” • “Shoes” • “Trees” • A and B • B and C
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Who wrote the Poem “Out, Out-”? • Robert Browning • Robert Frost • Hugh Kingsmill • None of the Above
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Who is known for writing lyric poetry? • Adrienne Rich • Hugh Kingsmill • Robert Frost
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Which Author is known for writing dramatic monologues? • Robert Browning • Hugh Kingsmill • Adrienne Rich • Charles Simic
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