Survey
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
Poetry Précis Definition: 1) A concise summary of essential points, statements,or facts 2) a summary. Singular: précis = pray-SEE or PRAY-see Plural: précis = pray-SEEZ Key components for a poem précis: 1) author 2) Title (in quotation marks unless epic) 3) theme 4) key defining element(s) of poem (possibly including specific poetic devices, tone, detail, imagery, diction, structure, allusion, figurative language) Tuesday, December 6, 11 “Metaphor” In “Metaphor” Sylvia Plath utilizes symbolic poetic structure combined with an enigmatic series of metaphors to capture the emotional struggles with uncertainty and change that may accompany the state of pregnancy. “In Plaster” Sylvia Plath’s “In Plaster” invites the intermingling of the literal and figurative—the literal description of being in a plaster cast versus the figurative levels ranging from self-doubt to psychological duality—to reveal the survivor’s message of enduring and ultimately overcoming conflict through self-transformation. Tuesday, December 6, 11 Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art In “Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art” Keats uses sonnet form and formal language to share life’s unrelenting quests that challenge unique individuals to observe and treasure every breathing moment with a loved one because without a zest for life and steadfast, unconditional love there is death without dying. (why is this icky?) Choose Something Like a Star Robert Frost’s poem “Choose Something Like a Star” utilizes informal language to illuminate thought by attaching integrity to the mysteries of individual uniqueness which is rooted in self knowledge that is consistent in the face of adversity. (and icky?) Tuesday, December 6, 11 In “My Papa’s Waltz” Theodore Roethke displays the view of a young boy who is roughed up by his father through drum-like syllabic emphasis and negative diction. or In “My Papa’s Waltz,” poet Theodore Roethke expresses a small child’s endurance with his drunken father through rhyming couplets and contrasting diction, recounting the pain and anguish in a broken home where daily life is defined by surviving an overworked father’s “rough” play. Tuesday, December 6, 11