Learning Targets: I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text including figurative and connotative meaning.
I can analyze specific word choice on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings.
Welcome back to the 3rd quarter, 2nd semester.
Coming up: Friday, February 1 imagery assessment
Monday, February 4 Musee des Beaux Arts and The Second Coming vocabualary quiz (class handout / copy below)
In class: Collect your notebooks and on a clean page, write a correct MLA heading and copy out the list of the seven types of imagery below; then write what they mean.
Practice with the various types of imagery (class handout /copy below; due at the close of class on Tuesday.)
Name_______________________________- Imagery Practice Poems
Visual Imagery
Woman with Flower by Naomi Long Madgett
I
wouldn't coax the plant if I were you. List the visual images
Such watchful nurturing
may do it harm.
Let the soil rest from
so much digging
And wait until it's dry
before you water it.
The leaf's inclined to
find its own direction;
Give it a chance to seek
the sunlight
for itself.
Much growth is stunted
by too careful
prodding,
Too eager tenderness.
The things we love we
have to learn to
leave alone.
Auditory Imagery
IF TREES COULD DO AS WE...
By Frederick
Douglas Harper
If trees could talk as
we,
List the auditory images
Oh, how they would echo
Earth’s praises;
If trees could sing as
we,
Gee, how they and we
would
Harmonize a sweet song
of
Spring breezes;
If trees could walk as
you and I
With dances of lift and
light;
If trees could, then we
could
Imagine of them, their
life, their soul,
In our minds and hearts;
And spare of them their
life for us.
Olfactory Imagery
Messy Room by Shel Silverstein
Whosever room this is
should be ashamed! List the
olfactory images
His underwear is hanging
on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in
the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is
becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged
in the window,
His sweater's been
thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski
are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been
carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed
in the closet,
His vest has been left
in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is
asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock
has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is
should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or
Willie or--
Huh? You say it's mine?
Oh, dear,
I knew it looked
familiar!
Gustatory Imagery list the gustatory images
Taste Of Summer - Poem by Swati Goswami
Crushed leaves and
grass,
tasty tangy smells of
summer.
Trees are full and
plush.
Fruit are succulent and
ripe.
The Gulmohar bright and
proud
sways in the brisk warm
breeze.
Lazy silent afternoons
are intoxicating,
balmy winds refresh the
evening walkers.
Thirsty birds skip from
branch to branch
looking for water
troughs.
Fearless rowdy boys are
at play,
the sun doesn’t dampen
their playful spirits.
As the dusk falls in
the timid ones venture
out.
I know the rains are
round the corner;
The brisk winds will
soon be moist.
I take a deep breath and
try to drink the summer.
Tactile Imagery
list the tactile images
My Papa's Waltz by
Theodore Reothke
The whiskey on your
breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my
wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
Organic Imagery
list the organic images
Hope by Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with
feathers
Hope is the thing with
feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
Kinesthetic Imagery list the kinesthetic images
MONGOOSE by Frederick Douglas Harper
Their steps are quick
and low,
Fastly scooting they
often go,
Minding their own
business of the day;
A friend of man and
woman they are,
Kindly and cute animals
by far;
Mongooses, how
beautifully they stroll
Along;
Mongooses, how
beautifully they stroll
Alone;
Their brown coat
glistening in the sun,
Creatures of charm on
the run.
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Independently, select one of the previous poems and explain in detail how the particular use of the imagery contributes to the meaning of the poem. Make sure you identify the poem’s title and author. As well, weave in text into your complete sentences. Can you use a semicolon effectively?
Independently, select one of the previous poems and explain in detail how the particular use of the imagery contributes to the meaning of the poem. Make sure you identify the poem’s title and author. As well, weave in text into your complete sentences. Can you use a semicolon effectively?
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Musée des Beaux Arts and The Second Coming vocabulary Quiz on Monday, February 4.
1. 1. verbal irony - The use of words to mean something different than what they appear to mean. Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"
2. 2. situational irony -The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. The fire station burns down while the firemen are out on a call.
3. 3. dramatic irony -When the audience is more aware of what is happening than a character. Girl in a horror film hides in a closet where the killer just went (the audience knows the killer is there, but she does not).
4. martyr- (noun)- a person who is killed for his beliefs; to martyr (verb) – to kill someone for her beliefs
5. 5. gyre- (noun)- a spiral or vortex
6. 6. falconer- (noun)-a person who keeps, trains, or hunts with falcons, hawks, or other birds of prey.
7. 7. conviction- (noun)- strongly held belief
8. 8. revelation- (noun)- a surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way
9. 9. Spiritus Mundi – from the Latin meaning world spirit
10. sphinx- (noun)- from Greek mythology -a winged monster having a woman's head and a lion's body
