This week:
Objectives:
- Identify examples of sensory imagery and evaluate their effect on a poem
- Explain the impact of sensory language on a reader
- Analyze ways in which writers use sensory imagery to evoke emotion and create meaning
- Draw the distinction between concrete and abstract statements and image-bearing statements
Tasks:
1. Together, read and take notes on the chapter introduction to Imagery. After each section of the text, take a few minutes to discuss what you found to be the most important and what struck you as especially meaningful.
For each of the poems below, you should read the work together (probably multiple times), discuss with emphasis on meaning and imagery, and annotate the poem. The writing task is to complete two TEAR paragraphs explaining the use of imagery in two separate poems.
- "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen (yes, we read this the other day as well)
- "Living in Sin" by Adrienne Rich
- "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
- "To Autumn" by John Keats
There is MAP Testing during P.1 on Thursday, but we will do an overview discussion of all of these poems and the use of imagery in poetry on Friday.
Thanks again for being such a great group and making the most of this situation.
- Mr. Shumway