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Period 3 Using language 2
Write a poem
Unit 5 Poems
What is a poem
A poem is a composition with rhythmic balance expressing ideas or experiences or feelings.
A poem is a literary work that is not in verse but deals with emotional or descriptive themes in a rhythmic form.
A poem is a piece of writing in which the words are arranged in separate lines, often ending in rhyme, and are chosen for their sound and for the images and ideas they suggest.
Do you know how to understand a poem
Make a list of questions that the readers should consider while reading poems.
Subject
Images
Tone
Rhythm and sounds
Feelings and emotions
Rhetorical devices
Possible points:
Alliteration头韵: repetition of a sound or letter at the start of multiple words in a sentence.
Consonance尾韵: repetition of consonant sounds in proximity.
Assonance谐音: repetition of vowel or diphthong sounds in one or more words in proximity.
Antithesis对偶: two opposites used for contrasting effect.
Rhetoric/ Rhetorical question反问: asked to make a point rather than to expect an answer.
Metaphor暗喻: comparing one thing to another
Simile明喻: comparing one thing to another, using “like”
Refrain叠句: repeating a line or verse at the end of a atanza or at regular intervals.
Anaphora首语重复: repetition of the first part of the sentence.
Poetry uses lots of different devices. Here are some common forms:
Appreciate the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
The Road Not Taken
written by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
未选择的路
罗伯特·弗罗斯特
黄色的树林里分出两条路,
可惜我不能同时去涉足,
我在那路口久久伫立,
我向着一条路极目望去,
直到它消失在丛林深处。
但我选了另外一条路,
它荒草萋萋,十分幽寂,
显得更诱人,更美丽;
虽然在这条小路上,
很少留下旅人的足迹。
那天清晨落叶满地,
两条路都未经脚印污染。
啊,留下一条路等改日再见!
但我知道路径延绵无尽头,
恐怕我难以再回返。
也许多少年后在某个地方,
我将轻声叹息将往事回顾:
一片树林里分出两条路——
而我选择了人迹更少的一条,
从此决定了我一生的道路。
What does the poem tell about
The writer was facing two different roads in life .The first path was a common route while the other was less traveled. He chose the second one and was ready to shoulder(承担) the result of his choice.
WIND ON THE HILL
No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.
It's flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn't keep up with it,
Not if I ran.
But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.
And then when I found it,
Wherever it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.
So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes ...
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows.
A. A. Milne
Subject
images
Rhyming words
Rhetorical devices
wind
kite
kite, night; goes, knows; can, ran
repetition
The poet wrote this peom in the tone of a child.
A MATCH
If love were what the rose is,
And I were the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Brown fields or flowerful closes,
Green pleasure or grey grief;
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf.
Subject
images
Rhyming words
Rhetorical devices
love
rose; leaf
together, weather; is, closes
metaphor, contrast, repetition
sunny days
path
配偶
如果爱情好似香艳的玫瑰,
而我好似它的叶片青翠,
我们的生命将在一起生长
无论天气阴暗,或者晴朗,
处在开花的原野,或者花径,
感受绿色的欢乐,或者灰色的苦闷;
如果爱情好似香艳的玫瑰,
而我好似它的叶片青翠。
What does the poem tell about
Love and life are like the twins. Without love, life can be dull and colorless. Coversely, without life, love won't exist.
DREAM
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams,
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
紧紧握住梦想
因为梦想一旦消逝
生活就像小鸟断了翅膀
再也不能展翅飞翔。
紧紧握住梦想
因为梦想若是消丧
生活就像冬天的田野那样荒凉
冰封大地白雪茫茫。
Subject
images
Rhyming words
Rhetorical devices
dream
hands;bird; field
die, fly; go, snow; bird, field
metaphor
Dreams represents good ideals and hopes. Without dreams, life would be dead without purpose and direction.
Dreams also represent the yearn for freedom, equality and civil rights of black Americans suffering from racial discrimination and the indispensable spiritual support of black people who endure oppression, exploitation and social injustice .
The Theme of “Dreams”
The poem Dream by Langston Hughes(Subject) is very short with only 8 lines. When I read the poem aloud I can hear that the ends of the second and forth sentences rhyme—"die“ and “fly”. The last word from the sixth and eighth sentences also rhyme— “ go ” and "snow ” . These rhyming words sound nice and make the poem pleasing to read.(tone)
When I close my eyes, I can see different images from the poem. For example, I can see hands being held. I can see a bird flying in the sky. I can see a field and I can imagine what it looks like with lots of snow. I start to feel cold when I read these lines!(rhetorical devices)
I learnt a new phrase , “hold fast” , which means to hold on something. "Barren ” is also a new word to me, which means empty.
I think the poet is giving us advice. He wants us to keep dreaming, because life is much better when we dream and have something to look forward to.(feeling/ what we learnt)
A short essay about Dream