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ACTIVITY 2

Poetry and the Loss of Innocence. ACTIVITY 2. READ STANZA ONE…. 1. What has literally happened? 2. What is the tone? 3. How old do you think the character is? 4. Predict what will happen in the next stanza. Poem on Pages 70-73. READ STANZA TWO… 5. What’s happened—what’s changed?

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ACTIVITY 2

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  1. Poetry and the Loss of Innocence ACTIVITY 2

  2. READ STANZA ONE…. 1. What has literally happened? 2. What is the tone? 3. How old do you think the character is? 4. Predict what will happen in the next stanza. Poem on Pages 70-73

  3. READ STANZA TWO… • 5. What’s happened—what’s changed? • 6. What kinds of things does he discover? • 7. In what ways is he beginning to lose his innocence? • SQUISHEE: What will the first line of the next stanza be? What will the second line be like? Will he write a poem, and if so, what will it be like? Will his mother hang it on the kitchen door? Poem on Pages 70-73

  4. STANZA 2 CONTINUED…. • 8. Is it significant that Father Tracy smokes cigars and puts the butts in the church pews? What connotations does this have beyond just Father Tracy? what does he symbolically represent? • 9. What is symbolically important about the girl around the block laughing at him for continuing to believe in Santa?” Poem on Pages 70-73

  5. STANZA 2 Continued • 10. What is the deeper significance of his finding out about why his parents are always kissing a lot?” 11. What is the deeper significance of his mom not hanging his poem on the kitchen door this time? Poem on Pages 70-73

  6. READ STANZA THREE… • 12. What is literally happening? • 13. How much innocence does he lose here, and how? • 14. What kind of experiences replace his innocence? • 15. What is the significance of Father Tracy dying?” Poem on Pages 70-73

  7. STANZA THREE CONTINUED…. • 16. What’s the significance of his parents not kissing any more?” • 17. Will he write another poem? What will it be written on? • 18. Predict what will happen in the final stanza of poem (the only one that does not exactly fit the pattern established and followed in the other three). Poem on Pages 70-73

  8. Read the final stanza… • 19. Why couldn’t the protagonist reach the kitchen?” • 20. What has he (the main character) lost and what has he gained? • 21. How do the other characters and their relationships change over the course of the poem? Poem on Pages 70-73

  9. AFTER YOU HAVE READ: • 22. Think about the character. How does he change over the course of the poem, and what events trigger those changes? • 23. In line 38, why is the paper torn from the notebook; what are the important connotations of that word? Why ‘torn’? what does that seem to imply?” Poem on Pages 70-73

  10. AFTER YOU HAVE READ: 24. What is the main character’s relationships with his parents (and adults) like? 25. What events make him grow up or go from innocence to experience? 26. Summarize this poem in a few lines. Poem on Pages 70-73

  11. CLASS DISCUSSION (participate for points!) “He who increases knowledge, increases sorrow.” Do you think the author would agree or disagree with this quote? Do you agree or disagree? Are we better off when we are innocent of the ways of the world (like a child), or are we better off after we have lost our innocence and gained knowledge of the world? After we have become aware of its beauty as well as its ugliness, its pleasures as well as its pains; after we have been disappointed and have been delightfully surprised…? Poem on Pages 70-73

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