1.

CHICAGO

HOG Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;

Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning (THE CITY IS TOUGH, READY FOR ANYTHING

as a savage pitted against the wilderness, (THE CITY IS READY TO BEAT ANYTHING THAT COMES AT IT.)

Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking, Planning, Building, breaking, rebuilding, Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has (The is naïve, innocent, no street smarts) never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing! Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog

Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

-Carl Sandburg

Identify: 1 simile and explain - HIGHLIGHTED

What are 2 characteristics of Chicago in this poem? Chicago is tough, rough, corrupt and

difficult to live in but so are all cities.

Why do you think Sandburg personified Chicago? It makes the city easier to identify with

2.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Do not go gentle into that good night, metaphor – do not give in, fight as hard as you can

Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Metaphor – fight against dying Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Simile – eyes are bright, happy and beautiful.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on that sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

-Dylan Thomas

Identify: 1 simile and explain 1 metaphor and explain Pick 1 line that shows imagery and explain which sense the line is appealing to. Imagery is when an author tries to appeal to the reader’s sense. Try to appeal to the 5 senses. Line from above: “Because their words had forked no lightning…” appeals to the sense of sight

What is the theme of the poem? Theme is the lesson you should learn The

speaker wants his father to not give up to fight with all his strength to live.

3.

Spring and Fall:

to a Young Child

Margaret, are you grieving A

Over Goldengrove unleaving? A

Leaves, like the things of man, you B

With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? B

Ah! as the heart grows older C

It will come to such sights colder C

By and by, nor spare a sigh D - line with internal rhyme

Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; D

And yet you will weep and know why. D

Now no matter, child, the name: E

Sorrow's springs are the same. E

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed F

What héart héard of, ghóst guéssed: F

It is the Fight man was born for, G

It is Margaret you mourn for. G

-Gerard Manley Hopkins

Identify: 2 internal rhymes

The end rhyme scheme – this is marked with letters of the alphabet. It is

marked at the end of the line.

What is Margaret mourning? The end of fall, getting older, near the end of life

4. Create a simile using one

of the following words:

- Sun

- Mountains

- Cat

5.

Buffalo Bill’s

Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeons justlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what I want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy Mister Death

- e.e. cummings

Identify: 1 alliteration – Buffalo Bill, silver stallion, he handsome, blue-eyed boy

1 personification – blue-eyed boy Mister Death

1 allusion – Buffalo Bill, Jesus, or Grim Reaper

6.

If You Should Go

Love, leave me like the light, Alliteration The gently passing day; We would not know, but for the night, Alliteration When it has slipped away. Go quietly; a dream, When done, should leave no trace That it has lived, except a gleam Across the dreamer's face

-Countee Cullen

Identify: 1 alliteration

Explain why the speaker wants love to leave like light or a dream?

If love leaves like a dream, the love would leave quickly, you might not remember it, it would be more pleasant.

7. Amanda Dreams She Has Died and Gone to the Elysian Fields - Allusion

This morning Amanda lies down during breakfast. Alliteration The hay is hip high. Alliteration The sun sleeps on her back Alliteration Personification as it did on the spine of the dinosaur the fossil bat the first fish with feet Alliteration she was once. A breeze fans the deerflies from lighting. Only a gaggle of gnats Alliteration housekeeps in her ears. Personification A hay plume sticks out of her mouth. I come calling with a carrot Alliteration from which I have taken the first bite. She startles she considers rising but retracts the pistons of her legs and accepts as loose lipped as a camel. Alliteration Amanda is a horse (see lines 2, 4, 13, 14,

second stanza) We sit together. In this time and place we are heart and bone. For an hour we are incorruptible.

- Maxine Kumin

Identify: 1 allusion

2 alliterations

1 personification

Who is Amanda?

8.

My Heart Leaps Up

My heart leaps up when I behold A

A rainbow in the sky. B

So was it when my life began; C

So is it now I am a man; C

So be it when I grow old, A

Or let me die! B

The Child is father of the Man; C

And I could wish my days to be D

Bound each to each by natural piety. E

- William Wordsworth

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Identify: 1 Personification - Highlighted

1 Metaphor(extended)and explain- The speaker compares his excitement for a simple rainbow to how you should

view all of life’s little moments

Rhyme Scheme

How does the first line of the poem change in

meaning if it said instead: “My heart beats

when I behold”? -It doesn’t carry the same excitement for

little things

9.

Write 2 different metaphors

using the word pairs given:

- Eyes and jewels

- Hunger and monster

- Fish and dancer

- Anger and lava

10.

THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, A

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; B

Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, A

And live alone in the bee-loud glade. B

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, C Personification

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; D Personification

There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow, C

And evening full of the linnet's wings. D

I will arise and go now, for always night and day E

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; F

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, E

I hear it in the deep heart's core. F

-William Butler Yeats 1892

Identify: rhyme scheme for each stanza

1 personification

2 imagery –Hive honeybees, bee-loud, cricket sings, glimmer, purple glow,

lapping and others

Explain the speakers feeling about the cabin at Innisfree. The speaker loves it

because it is peaceful and beautiful and the speaker enjoys it.

11.

I Dwell in Possibility

I dwell in Possibility--

A fairer House than Prose-- Slant

More numerous of Windows-- Slant

Superior--for Doors--

Of Chambers as the Cedars--

Impregnable of Eye--

And for an Everlasting Roof

The Gambrels of the Sky--

Of Visitors--the fairest--

For Occupation--This-- slant

The spreading wide my narrow Hands

To gather Paradise-- slant

-Emily Dickinson

Identify: 2 Slant Rhymes

Explain what would be considered an ‘Everlasting Roof’? – the sky

Explain what it would mean to ‘dwell in possibility’? You allows are looking at all the

positives or all the options there are available in life.

12.

We Real Cool

The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

-Gwendolyn Brooks The theme is that this group of kids think they are so cool that they didn’t need school any more. Instead they are hanging out and getting into trouble – possibly even die from bad decisions.

Identify: internal rhyme - highlighted

2 alliterations – pool players,

seven shovel, lurk late, strike straight, sing, sin,

jazz, June

What is the theme of the poem?

13. Connotation is a secondary meaning of a word. This secondary meaning brings additional meaning to a word or sentence.

Example: The student asked to go to the office.

Notice how the sentence meaning changes when the word

“asked” is changed or added to:

The student demanded to go to the office. Demanding disrespectful tone/attitude

The student begged to go to the office. Pleading tone/attitude The student, confused, asked to go to the office. Lack of understanding or confusion Your Turn: Write a positive connotation and a negative connotation to two of the sentences. 1. We went down the street. 2. She made a statement to the boy. 3. The ball went in the air. 4. The plane took off. 5. The cat sat by the window. 6. The fans were loud during the game.

14. The Road

I have traveled this road so long that Perhaps I have helped to shape its course Often now when I return upon it Torn and limp from the day’s labor 5 The trees, tall and aware, lean over Personification Whispering that home is just ahead. Personification I go on, to the rising noise of children And the barking of a hound or two, Until I see a lifetime’s worth 10 For which that day was spent- a lamp Glowing warm through a curtained window.

-Gordon Parks

Identify: 2 personifications

1 imagery Limp, torn, whispering, rising noise of children, barking,

glowing

Explain this line: “Perhaps I have helped to shape its course” what does

this mean? The speaker has walked on the path so much it is worn down

How would the meaning of the last line of the poem change, if the line

was: “Blazing warm through a curtained window.”?

Blazing is a strong sounding word, glowing sounds more peaceful and welcoming

15.

All My Great Excuses

A Funny School Poem for Kids

I started on my homework

but my pen ran out of ink.

My hamster ate my homework.

My computer's on the blink.

I accidentally dropped it

in the soup my mom was cooking.

My brother flushed it down the toilet

when I wasn't looking.

My mother ran my homework

through the washer and the dryer.

An airplane crashed into our house.

My homework caught on fire.

Tornadoes blew my notes away.

Volcanoes struck our town.

My notes were taken hostage

by an evil killer clown.

Some aliens abducted me.

I had a shark attack.

A pirate swiped my homework

and refused to give it back.

I worked on these excuses

so darned long my teacher said,

"I think you'll find it's easier

to do the work instead."

--Kenn Nesbitt

Identify: 1 hyperbole (exaggeration)

2 personifications

Which excuse is your favorite?

16.

Dreams

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.

By Langston Hughes

Identify: 2 metaphors and explain

“Life is a broken-wing bird” – this line means that sometimes life/dreams don’t go very far, weak

or broken

For when dreams go Life is a barren field – this line states that when dreams leave people or people

give up on dreams life becomes plain, doesn’t produce anything and is difficult