Poetry Analysis and Comparison of Dickinson and Whitman's Poems

1. What to address in your two written responses… (one for each poem you are assigned) For both poems Due Monday, 21 Feb • Identify the topic/theme • Identify three poetic devices used • Define the devices • What effect do they create? • Most important line? • A word choice you find confusing? • Your interpretation • Compare/Contrast between your two poems (you just need to do this once) • Any connections with other poems you read or talked about? • Dickinson – Concrete image (a fly) -> Abstract idea (insignificance of human life)? • Dickinson – Human awareness as finite or infinite? (what’s the context) • Whitman – Find words/details/images that characterize his attitude • Whitman – What is he celebrating and what ideas/topics is using as examples? Write your two assigned poems here: Dickinson – Whitman – My partner – For Dickinson For Whitman

2. Option 1 - Illustration Choose one of the 20 poems we read – it must be different than the poems you were responsible for in your groups Complete a TPCASTT worksheet Choose an image, metaphor, simile or overall tone of the poem and illustrate it using that image/ metaphor/simile/tone as the central image of your illustration Include the title and poet Include at least one line from the poem that inspired your illustration You may choose to draw, paint, or use magazine clippings Type at least one paragraph to accompany the illustration explaining your choices and citing the source material from the poem that inspired the illustration Option 2 - Analysis On the website are posted the text to Whitman’s “America” and “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” as well as an article from Slate magazine View the Levi’s commercials again and analyze the choice of images in the commercial (use the hyperlinks at the top of the article) Your analysis should be compared to the language in the poems The article has the links to the commercials that we watched You must also discuss whether you think that these commercials are true to Whitman’s message Your response should be 1-2 typed pages Dickinson and Whitman Project – Due Monday, 21 Feb • The written components should be formatted using MLA (remember, poetry is different) • Include a Works Cited reference line on the typed page

3. Poetry Teams (You have two poems) • Because I could not stop for death – Ashley, Matt O. • I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – Mariah, Shannon / Vu, Ryder, Matt F. • There’s a certain slant of light – Eljah, Wayne • My life closed twice before its close – Jasmine, Sean • The Soul selects her own society – Erin R. , Thomas • The Brain – is wider than the sky – Sasha, Cody • There is a solitude of space – Danni, Mark • Water is taught by thirst – Will, Alex S. / Drayke, Ryan • (67) Success is counted sweetest – Taylor, Erin C. • (501) This World is not Conclusion – Becca, Scott • (327) Before I got my eye put out – Joey, Alexander V. • Song of Myself – Mariah, Shannon / Taylor, Erin C • When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer – Ashley, Matt O. • By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame – Vu, Ryder, Matt F. • I Hear America Singing – Jasmine, Sean / Danni, Mark • A Noiseless Patient Spider – Erin R. , Thomas / Becca, Scott • To a Locomotive in Winter – Will, Alex S. • An Army Corps on the March – Joey, Alexander V. • Cavalry Crossing a Ford – Drayke, Ryan • O Captain! My Captain! – Eiljah, Wayne / Sasha, Cody Dickinson Whitman

4. Group 1 Ashley Mariah Vu Elijah Jasmine Erin R. Sasha Danni Will Ryan Taylor Becca Joey Group 2 Matt O. Shannon Ryder Matt F. Wayne Sean Thomas Cody Mark Alex S. Drayke Erin Scott Alexander V. Poetry Groups