Poetry+Unit

Poetry Test

Evaluation -- Please complete on the person's wiki page and link to this on your page. You only need to answer 4 questions. Then do the same for your own, but add what grade you think you should get and why. Then in one -two sentences tell me something about your process of analyzing or making the video.

1. Analysis -- what specifically does the person do well in analyzing? 2. Analysis -- if the person had to do this again, what would you recommend in analysis? 3. What is something you found surprising? or amusing? 4. What is something you don't understand or find confusing? 5. Comment on the visual portion of this video. 6. Other?

Daedalus and Icarus

Poetry Term examples Poetry Term exercise


 * TP-CASTT** Poetry Analysis

Title Ponder the title before reading the poem. Paraphrase Translate the poem into your own words. Connotation Contemplate the poem for meaning beyond the literal. Attitude Observe both the speaker's and the poet's attitude (tone). Shifts Note shifts in speakers and in attitudes. Title Examine the title again, this time on an interpretive level. Theme Determine what the poet is saying.

[|Meter Site -- For Better or For Verse] [|AP Open Response Questions for Poetry]
 * [|Old Philosopher's stone]

What Makes a Good Poem?

Scansion Exercise Sonnets Class Sonnets

The Flea Adrienne Rich

[|Phenomenal Woman] by Maya Angelou [|The History Teacher] by Billy Collins [|by Billy Collins animated] [|Favorite poem videos]
 * [|by Amy Sky]

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Turn in Enjambment Exercisehere The Shirt