Poetry Will You Love It or Hate It?

1. PoetryWill You Love It or Hate It? Dust of Snow by Robert Frost My Picture-Gallery by Walt Whitman Door Number Four by Charlotte Pomerantz Count That Day Lost by George Eliot

2. What Should We Do With Poetry? • Read it. • Read it and be confused. • Read it again. • Try to understand the poet’s message. • Say “Oh!” and Smile when you get it. • Read it again for Fun!!!

3. What is a Stanza? • Dictionary.com: an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.

4. Do You See any Stanzas? The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

5. How Should Poetry Be Read? • Posture • Eye Contact • Voice Projection • Pace

6. Dust of Snowby Robert Frost The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

7. Review and Access • This poem contains words that appeal to the reader’s senses. Identify words and phrases in the first four lines of the poem that appeal to the senses. • Response: Shook, dust of snow, and hemlock tree • What sensory words would you use to describe a snowy scene in nature? • Response: Sparkling, clean, bright, cold, frost

8. Review and Access • How does the speaker feel in the beginning of the poem? • What evidence supports the idea that the speaker’s mood has changed? • What action changes how the speaker feels? • Would you describe this action as deliberate or as occurring by chance? Explain. • How does the speaker feel at the end of the poem?

9. My Picture-Galleryby Walt Whitman In a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix’d house, It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other; Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories! Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death; Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself, With finger rais’d he points to the prodigal pictures.

10. Review and Access • Take a Guess: What is the speaker describing? Support your answer. • What is the speaker comparing? Support your answer.

11. Door Number Fourby Charlotte Pomerantz Above my uncle’s grocery store is a pintu, Is a door. On the pintu is a number, nomer empat, Number four. In the door there is a key.

12. Door Number Fourby Charlotte Pomerantz (Cont.) Turn it, Enter quietly. Hush hush, diam-diam, quietly. There, in lamplight, you will see a friend, teman, a friend who’s me.

13. Review and Access • Take a Guess: What language did the following words come from: pintu, nomer empat, diam-diam? • Response: Indonesia • What is the theme of this poem? • Clue: How is starting a friendship like opening a door? • Response: You’re not always sure what you will find on the other side of a door or in a new friendship. • Identify the speaker: Age, Nationality, Wish • Response: Young, Indonesian, To have a friend visit

14. Count That Day Lostby George Eliot If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And, counting, find One self-denying deed, one word that eased the heart of him who heard, One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went – Then you may count that day well spent.

15. Count That Day Lostby George Eliot (Cont.) But if, through all the livelong day, You’ve cheered no heart, by yea or nay – If, through it all You’ve nothing done that you can trace That brought the sunshine to one face – No act most small That helped some soul and nothing cost – Then count that day as worse than lost.

16. Review and Access • Take a Guess: What is the speaker describing? Support your answer.

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