Albatross Allusion from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

This poem, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, documents an unfortunate tale of one sailor's horrible ordeal at sea.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Vocabulary Quiz #2 List

1. Nebulous


2. Ambiguious


3. Opaque


4. Insolent


5. Precocious


6. Crux


7. Astute


8. Conjecture


9. Culminate


10. Perpetual


11. Assertion


12. Repudiate


13. Bleak


14. Penance


15. Pertinent


16. Underscore


17. Strata


18. Mulligan


19. Autonomy


20. Exemplary


21. Staple


22. Indomitable

Cold Poem Analysis Trial

At this point, you all should be ready to analyze poetry on a near scholarly level. Please turn to page 293 in your Literature book. This is the beginning of the poetry unit. Find a poem that you like and complete the following analysis for it. As always, if you want some feedback on your work, just ask! :-)

You should utilize all the skills discussed for analyzing poetry and apply them. In other words you should do the following:

1. Title Analysis
   
2. Scan for unfamiliar words
3. Read twice or more as needed
   
4. Write down initial reaction
5. Analyze poem with TPFLASSTT and 10 Point Analysis, but don't overwork yourself by duplicating tasks in the TPFLASSTT and the 10 Point Analysis
   

Poetry Portfolio: Performance Assessment

Poetry Portfolio Performance Assessment found here.

Notebook Check #1

Today we had our first Notebook check of this Semester. It consisted of checking the following assignments,

1. Jenny Kiss’d Me
   
• How does Jenny feel about the person kissed?
• Discuss the relationship between the one positive mention of the kiss and the things mentioned that are negative.
• Also, the 10 point analysis should have been completed for this poem.
  
2. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
• What does the author include to convey images or connotations of peace and tranquility?
• Also, the 10 point analysis should have been completed for this poem.
3. “WE WEAR THE MASK”
• Complete the 10 point analysis.
• Also, TPFLASSTT.
4. What the World Needs Now
• Also, TPFLASSTT.
5. Your Obama Poem
• Must be Completed
  

Vocabulary Words for Quiz #1

1. Candor: noun, truth
2. Candid: adj., truthful
3. *WHO CAN FIGURE OUT HOW CANDY IS RELATED TO TRUTH, SINCE THE ROOT IS "CAND", OR IS THAT THE ROOT? HOW IS CANDY TRUTHFUL, OR HOW IS THE TRUTH SWEET?*
4. Vernacular: VOCABULARY
5. Trite: weak or worthless due to overuse
6. Facetious: not serious, or false, untrue
7. Tranquility: noun, peace
8. Tranquil: adj, peaceful
9. Veil: noun, something that covers
10. Influx
11. Visage
12. Tedious
13. Braggadocios
14. Braggart,
15. Brag,
16. Circumvent, THINK CIRCLE CIRCUMFERENCE ROUND
17. Segue, PICTURE HERE THINK SEGMENT, CONNECTING ONE THING TO ANOTHER, THE FADING/MIXING OF TRACKS BY A D.J.
18. Plethora, THINK PLENTY
19. Myriad, THINK OF MANY MIRRORS, THE OPTICAL ILLUSION THAT PRODUCES MANY OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
20. Farce, THINK FALSE, ACTIVE DECEPTION.
21. Façade, THINK FALSE FACE, POSER, TWO-FACED, FAKER, MORE PASSIVE, MISREPRESENTATION
22. dirge
23. survey,
24. hewn,
    
25. hone
26. rift
27. Linnet
28. Glade

OBAMA POEM ASSIGNMENT

OBAMA POEM ASSIGNMENT

Application of TPFLASSTT

POETRY NOTES

• Before reading a poem for the first time, take the time to scan it for unfamiliar or unknown words.
• One important thing to do after reading a poem a few times is to write down your immediate reaction to the piece.

Title Analysis: What does the world need now?

1. Define "world"
2. Define "need"
3. Identify/discuss "now (immediate) needs" vs. regular needs
4. What does the world need?
5. What does the world need now?

Fill out the TPFLASSTT for the following poem, entitled: What does the world need now?

What does the world need now?

This endless dirge of pain and loss,
My leaden heavy albatross…
Who feels my hurt when it’s not theirs?
Was it just Zeus and Sol that cared?

I’ll pray I do, cause if it’s fake
My souls up next for him to take!
If peace would come and live within,
Just maybe I could then begin

To keep these tears locked up inside;
God knows it’s for my life I’ve cried,
Cause I ain’t living like I should!
Please Jesus, Jesus make me good!

I want to, but I just don’t try,
‘Cause I can’t even help small i!
So, HOW MAN!? How can this one man
Change all those hearts and take your plan

From black and white to flesh and bone?
Your servant survey, hewn, and hone.
Make me, God please, a mindless man,
So all I’d know is Your great plan.

Free will, this gift, must I receive?
God take this curse of man and Eve!
I cannot handle your great gift,
So spread me out to bridge the rift!

Please hear me Lord, come heal Your child.
I can’t believe how you once smiled,
When You all knowing loving God
Gave me this life, this mind, so odd.

You sure know best just what to do.
You help me love and learn from you.
I know in all your love you made
A servant blessed, and then you prayed

I’d seek your face and hear your voice
And love would be my only choice,
So guide me, love me, hold me tight.
Just help me, please, shine out Your light.

Charles Edgar Hampton :-) <><
In room 06-29-2005 12:46 AM

TPFLASST: Complex Analysis of Poetry

T	Title Anticipate Meaning Create Questions?	...
P	Paraphrase What is the poem about? Compose two-four sentences or paragraphs, depending on the length.	...
F	Figurative Devices Look beyond the literal, but venture towards figurative and metaphorical interpretations. How do these affect the meaning/feeling?	...
L	Literary Elements/Techniques Analyze this poem as a literary critic or adept language arts student, identify any literary elements/techniques that you see allusions, repetition, etc... How do these affect the literary and/or interpretive value?	...
A	Attitude Analyze narrator's and poet's attitude toward the topic (tone).	...
S	Shifts Note shifts in tone, subject, speaker, situation, diction, outlook, expectation(s) etc... think deeply and get creative.	...
S	Symbolism Search the poem for possible symbols which cloak or mask the author's true feelings, focus, and/or point. If there are any symbolic items, why do they exist (historical context, author relevance/bias may be important factors)?	...
T	Title Re-think the meaning of the title, in light of all the previously discussed and analyzed information. Is it different, why or why not? For future reference, what did you miss in your speculation that you should have seen in hindsight? And, vice versa, what did you assume was there that wasn't? Understand that and move forward.	...
T	Theme What is the poem saying? What is the "message?"	...

Poetry Terms to Know

• Alliteration—the repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
• Allusion—a reference to a mythological. literary. or historical person. place or thing.
• Apostrophe—a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate as if animate.
• Assonance—the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words.
• Blank Verse—iambic pentameter unrhymed.
• Conceit—very elaborate comparisons between unlikely objects. The metaphysical poets such as John Donne were criticized for "yoking" together outrageous teams.
• Consonance—the repetition of a consonant sound with a series of words to produce a harmonious effect.
• Diction—word choice. Is the poet using formal or informal language? Does the poetry hinge on slang or a dialect? If so, what is the purpose?
• Enjambment—the running-on of one line of poetry into another.
• Free Verse—verse free of meter and, generally, rime. Depends on rhythmical units, repetition, and parallelism.
• Hyperbole—a deliberate, extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration. It may be used for either serious or comic effect.
• Iambic Pentameter—a line of ten syllables using the pattern of unstressed/stressed.
• Imagery—the use of words to represent things, actions, or ideas by sensory description.
• Irony—the discrepancy between appearance and reality.
• Verbal irony is the result of a statement saying one thing while meaning the opposite. Its purpose is usually to criticize.
• Situational irony occurs when a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect, though often the twist is oddly appropriate.
• Dramatic irony occurs when a character says or does something that has more or different meanings from what he thinks it means, though the audience and/or other characters do understand the full ramifications of the speech or action.
• Metaphor—an implied comparison.
• Metonymy—the name of one object for another with which it is closely associated.
• Onomatopoeia—the use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble the sounds they describe.
• Oxymoron—a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. This combination usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness.
• Paradox—a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense.
• Personification—a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics.
• Rhyme—similarity of sounds, usually at the end of lines.
• Perfect—identical sounds (dead/red)
• Slant (Near, Off-)—sounds that are close but not identical (down/then)
• Eye—words that look as if they sound alike (move/love)
• Rime Scheme—the riming pattern found in a poem
• Sarcasm—a type of irony, often bitter (or nasty) whose purpose is to injure or hurt.
• Sonnet—a fixed form of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter
• Italian (Petrarchan)—two-part structure consisting of an octave and sestet (determined by rime scheme)
• English (Shakespearean)—four-part structure consisting of three quatrains and a couplet (determined by rime scheme)
• Simile—a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words like, as, or than.
• Symbolism—the use of one object which stands for something else.
• Synecdoche—a form of metaphor which substitutes a part for the whole
• Understatement—the opposite of hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is.

DETAILED SUMMARY FOR USING TPFLASSTT
Directions: Mark the poem as you read, and make notes on the following:

• Title
• Ponder the title before reading the poem; predict what the poem may be "about."
• Paraphrase
• Put the poem into your own words. Focus on one syntactical unit at a time, not necessarily on one line at a time, or write a sentence or two for each stanza of the poem.
• Figurative Devices
• Examine any and all poetic devices, focusing how such devices contribute to the meaning, the effect, or both, of a poem (What is important is not that you can identify poetic devices so much as you can explain how the devices enhance meaning and effect). Especially note anything that is repeated, either individual words or complete phrases. Anything said more than once may be crucial to interpretation.
• Literary Elements
• If an author chooses to make a particular point in his or her poem to be extraordinarily significant, then he or she is going to use some extraordinary techniques to express them. Therefore, this like repetition, allusions, parallelism, etc…
• Attitude
• Observe both the speaker's and the poet's attitude (tone). Diction, images, and details suggest the speaker's attitude and contribute the meaning.
• Shifts
• Rarely does a poet begin and end the poetic experience at the same place. As is true for most of us, the poet's understanding of an experience is a gradual realization, and the poem is a reflection of that epiphany. Trace the changing attitudes of the speaker from the beginning to end, paying particular attention to the conclusion. To discover shifts, watch for the following:
• key words: but, yet, however, though
• punctuation: dashes, periods, colons, ellipsis
• stanza and/or line divisions: changes in line or stanza length or both
• irony: sometimes irony hides shifts
• effect of structure on meaning, how the poem is "built"
• changes in sound that may indicate changes in meaning
• changes in diction: slang to formal language, for instance, or positive connotation to negative
• NOTE: Mark all these items carefully on the copy.
• Symbolism
• Symbols are used in literature for four primary reasons, to enhance or obscure meaning or to conceal or associate. Symbols are selected to replace or adjoin other items because of logical relationships, and it is in the analysis of the characteristics of that relationship that we understand why that particular symbol was chosen.
• Title
• Examine the title again, this time on an interpretive level.
• Theme
• In identifying theme, recognize the human experience, motivation, or condition suggested by the poem

How to Analyze Poetry

How to analyze Poetry?

FOR THE POEM “WE WEAR THE MASK” PLEASE RESPOND AND DOCUMENT THE FOLLOWING:

1. Number of lines in a stanza determines its type
2. Rhyme Scheme
3. Theme
4. Mood
5. Tone
6. Imagery
7. Interpretation
8. Relation to Historical Context
9. Author Bias
10. Audience

Elements of Poetry

Appositive Examples.
When finding the appositive ask the question “Who is _(the information in the quotes)______?” then, the answer should be the noun or noun phrase proceeding it.

My teacher, Mr. Hampton, is very cool.

My dog, Skippy, is the best dog in the world! L. Bryant

My girlfriend, who lives three houses up the street from me, makes me smile all the time. C. E. Hampton

Quotes from “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” which convey a mood of peace and tranquility.
Pictures for "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

1. Linnet
2. Glade
3. Sky's Purple Glow
   

1 “small cabin” not too big to be overwhelming, but just enough for one person.

2 “nine bean rows” and “a hive for the honey bee” simple, good, natural, healthy food.

3 “alone” no one to disturb or bother your peace.

4 “peace” “dropping slow” has a connotation of calm and not too busy or fast-paced,

5 “cricket sings” the chirping of crickets is commonly regarded as peaceful and calming

6 “evening full of the linnet’s wings”, birds flying, fluttering, soaring, singing, and chirping in the evening to soothe you at the end of the day,

7 “I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore” people love to hear gentle waves, not crashing loud waves, but relaxing waves.

8 “I hear it in the deep heart’s core” regardless to where he is at the “lake Isle of Innisfree” he hears the peaceful sounds of nature.

9 There are no man-made or unnatural sounds listed.


Elements of a poem (LITERARY ELEMENTS VOCABULARY):

Rhyme Scheme, the order of rhyming words.


Relaxing in the shade of a watchful oak TREE A

We sit down and are supported by the calming jade GRASS B

Noticing the quiet buzzing of a diligent and solitary BEE A

I enjoy this time with my special 08-09 CLASS B

by, Charles Edgar Hampton 1-9-2009

Stanzas, paragraphs in a poem.

Number of lines in a stanza:

2 Couplet
3 Triplet
4 Quatrain
5 Quintuplet
6 Sextet
7 Sestet
8 Octave

Diction Vocabulary:
Candor: noun, truth
Candid: adj., truthful
*WHO CAN FIGURE OUT HOW CANDY IS RELATED TO TRUTH, SINCE THE ROOT IS "CAND", OR IS THAT THE ROOT? HOW IS CANDY TRUTHFUL, OR HOW IS THE TRUTH SWEET?*
Vernacular: VOCABULARY
Trite: weak or worthless due to overuse
Facetious: not serious, or false, untrue
Tranquility: noun, peace
Tranquil: adj, peaceful
Veil: noun, something that covers

What is Poetry?

Diction Vocabulary
Influx
Visage

Literary Elements
Appositive, a phrase, following a noun, that describes the noun and is separated from the rest on the sentence with commas. The item in blue is an appositive and the noun it describes is just before it, in red.
Persona, the speaker in the poem.

Poems read, listened to, and discussed in class today:

Jenny Kiss’d Me

• How does Jenny feel about the person kissed?
• Discuss the relationship between the one positive mention of the kiss and the things mentioned that are negative.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

• What does the author include to convey images or connotations of peace and tranquility?

We Wear the Mask

• Also, consider the time period during which the author lived(s) and anticipate its affect on the literature.

Remember to continue to analyze these and make sure that you understand the passages, quotes, and diction, the author uses to create the moods, tones, imagery, etc. in the mind of yourself, the reader.

On your own, copy down some of the quotes from the poems,

• explain the effect it has on you and identify what that is called,
• explain what the quote tells/shows about the author, and identify what that is called

What does poetry sound like?

Diction Vocabulary
Influx
Visage

Literary Elements Vocabulary
Appositive, a phrase, following a noun, that describes the noun and is separated from the rest on the sentence with commas. The item in blue is an appositive and the noun it describes is just before it, in red.
Persona, the speaker in the poem.


Poems read, listened to, and discussed in class today:

Jenny Kiss’d Me

How does Jenny feel about the person kissed?
Discuss the relationship between the one positive mention of the kiss and the things mentioned that are negative.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

What does the author include to convey images or connotations of peace and tranquility.

We Wear the Mask

Also, consider the time period during which the author lived(s) and anticipate its affect on the literature.



Remember to continue to analyze these and make sure that you understand the passages, quotes, and diction, the author uses to create the moods, tones, imagery, etc. in the mind of yourself, the reader.


On your own, copy down some of the quotes from the poems,

* explain the effect it has on you and identify what that is called,
* explain what the quote tells/shows about the author, and identify what that is called,

Grades/Assignment Breakdown

WELCOME BACK!!!

Grades/Assignment Breakdown

Vocabulary Words:
1. Tedious
2. Braggadocios
3. Braggart,
4. Brag,
5. Circumvent, THINK CIRCLE CIRCUMFERENCE ROUND
6. Segue, PICTURE HERE THINK SEGMENT, CONNECTING ONE THING TO ANOTHER, THE FADING/MIXING OF TRACKS BY A D.J.
7. Plethora, THINK PLENTY
8. Myriad, THINK OF MANY MIRRORS, THE OPTICAL ILLUSION THAT PRODUCES MANY OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
9. Farce, THINK FALSE, ACTIVE DECEPTION.
10. Façade, THINK FALSE FACE, POSER, TWO-FACED, FAKER, MORE PASSIVE, MISREPRESENTATION


My apologies for the typos in the hard (paper) copy of the grade breakdown sheet; I typed it up on my phone.