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Unit 5 Themes:

Unit 5 Themes:. Hope vs. Reality (life falling short of expectations) Disillusion Discontent Defiance Perseverance . Exam Essay. Unit 5: Contextual events that caused optimism/pessimism (Story of the Times wksht.) Two themes: Three examples/pieces per theme One must be Seabiscuit

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Unit 5 Themes:

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  1. Unit 5 Themes: • Hope vs. Reality (life falling short of expectations) • Disillusion • Discontent • Defiance • Perseverance

  2. Exam Essay • Unit 5: • Contextual events that caused optimism/pessimism (Story of the Times wksht.) • Two themes: Three examples/pieces per theme • One must be Seabiscuit • Example: (*Must state title [underline/quote!] and author) • Theme 1: • Poem • Short story • Seabiscuit • Theme 2: • Poem • Short story • Short story

  3. Robert Frost Poetry • Background info (880) • Paragraphs 1, 5, 6 • Blank Verse • Pastoral

  4. Robert Frost Poetry • 6 groups: 1 poem per group (882-892) • Your group must decipher: • 1. What is the poem about? Include 3 lines from the poem to justify your explanation) • 2. How does the setting contribute to the message? • 3. How is this poem similar to another Unit 5 piece? • Prepare one group answer sheet • Read ALL poems

  5. “Birches” • The speaker, an older man, remembers the childhood pleasure of swinging from birches. • He muses about how exploring his environment prepared him for life’s greater challenges. • Yet, despite preparation, adulthood sometimes feels so burdensome that it helps to recall carefree times as a boy swinging from birches, when his whole life was still ahead of him.

  6. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening • The speaker, on a nighttime journey through a wintry forest, stops to observe the beauty of the scene and temporarily escape the demands of his life. • He would like to take a rest and enjoy the beauty of the scene, he thinks of the many tasks he must complete. • This decision suggests he forestalls death to keep the promises of his life. The poem mines the meaning of life and the things people value most.

  7. Mending Wall • The speaker and his neighbor make an annual walk along the fieldstone wall that separates their property to repair the breaks they find. • The speaker sees this as an unnecessary act, but the neighbor holds that, “Good fences make good neighbors.” • The speaker suggests that because walls create unnatural separations, natural forces will always work to break them down.

  8. “Out, Out—” • Horrific story of death: Late one ordinary day, a young boy using a power saw to cut wood momentarily loses his concentration and severely cuts his hand; loses his life. • However, the harsh reality of rural life demands that family members go about their chores because farm life must go on even after a senseless death. • Life is short and fragile in nature.

  9. “The Gift Outright” • Celebrates the birth of a nation and reminds readers of the human connection to the hope and potential of the landscape. • The speaker examines the American colonists’ struggle to understand their future.

  10. “Acquainted With The Night” • Drawing on darkness as a time of isolation and loneliness, this is the “city partner” of “Stopping by the Woods”. • Frost’s speaker views his life as having had times of isolation, loneliness, and despair, but he accepts this as his lot (just the way it is).

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