Assignment 1.7 Poetry

Discuss how your investigation of the generic conventions of poetry has influenced your understanding of at least one poem that you have studied in this unit.

Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1. Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. In my own personal opinion, communication most definately changes us, and our life. Without communication, We wouldnt be able to talk to and understand our children or whats going on in their life, which could cause many behavioral and emotional problems. Another reason communication changes us, is back in the olddays people used to use horses and telographs to communicate which made it very difficult to get a message across. Now we have the privilage to use social media and technology which makes communication very easy and much faster.

Rusty is a house cat who dreams of living in the forest. After the third time he had the dream, he finally goes out into the forest, but before he gets there, his friend Smudge stops him. Rusty tells Smudge that he’s going into the forest and Smudge warns him that there are wild cats out there. Rusty doesn’t care and goes out into the forest anyway. Suddenly, he saw a mouse. He stalks it, but when he was about to catch it his collar gave him away. Suddenly, something hit him and knocked him onto the ground. Then, he got free by pretending that he was dead, and he saw that his attacker was a gray kitten. The kitten tells him that he’s a kittypet and that he attacked well. The kitten says his name is Graypaw and that he’s training to become a ThunderClan

Identify as many examples of figurative language as you can (FIND at least 3) and explain how they impact the poem (how does it change how you visualize the poem)

In the previous lessons you analyzed poetry; and you composed different types of poetry using various elements and devices.

THINK: Find at least three poetic devices in one of the poems we read for Module 2 and explain how they are used to reveal major ideas in the poem.

The subject matter of the assigned poem would be that Whitman wanted us to know that no matter what we go through or went through in our life and situations that we have in life no one is better or worse than the other. The poem also shows the he talks about his self throughout the poem.

I had to realize that my hair was not the shimmering rays of the sun,

You will create a poetry journal. It will contain 20 poems. Each poem will contain one of the items below. You may not use the same poem twice. You may not use any poem we have read in class.

4. Read the following poem and write an analysis of the man literary devices used in the poem.

English Literature Poems Compare the methods that ‘Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’ employs to highlight the importance of cultural identity with another poem? I have chosen to compare ‘Presents’ and ‘Hurricane’ as both poems highlight the importance of cultural identity in society. Both poets ‘Alvi’ and ‘Nicholas’ employ many different and similar methods to illustrate the importance of cultural identity. The poem ‘Presents’ is about the writer herself at a younger age feeling insecure as she is of dual heritage (mixed race) ‘in my English Grandmother’s dining - room.

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– Look for figurative devices: metaphors, similes, personification, symbols, etc.  Analyzing A Poem Using the hand out given to you, (“How to Explicate a Poem”) answer the questions about the following two poems:  Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.

Speaker’s attitude toward the subject of the poem: Dissatisfied, unhappy, annoyed, confused, isolated, alone, discombobulated, detached.

Sound devices are used to reinforce the meaning of the poem. To create meaning using sound devices poets use a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional