Monday / Tuesday imagery practice January 28 / 29

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.

We romped until the pans
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.

You beat time on my head
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.

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?

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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