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ELEMENTS OF POETRY

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ELEMENTS OF POETRY

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Objectives

Students will be able to: define imagery and analyze its effect on the theme of Pat Mora’s poem “Same Song.’

CA Standard

LRA 3.7 Recognize and understand the significance of various literary devices, including figurative language, imagery, allegory, and symbolism, and explain their appeal.

Key Questions

1.  What is imagery? What is its purpose in poetry? 2.  How do poets use imagery to convey their poem’s theme?

Tasks

1.  Notes: Imagery circle map. 2.  Analyze “Same Song”: Complete Flow Map 3.  Explicate “Same Song”: Sentence Frame and Whip Around.

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What is imagery? How does it help convey an author’s message or theme?

purpose

Imagery

Language that appeals to senses.

Helps re-create a person, a scene, or an object in our imagination.

Sight, sound, Smell, Taste, and Touch.

Make the speaker’s world easy to see and feel.

Through the use of imagery, poets show us how they feel about what they are describing.

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How does the poet, Martin Espada, use imagery to convey his theme or message?

Predict: Look at the title and predict what you think this poem is about.

The title “Poet in the box” helps me predict that the poem is about a poet who is in a box. Maybe he is like a jack in the box toy. You can wind up the box, a song begins, and the poet pops up to entertain you. Or he is like a present wrapped up in paper. Perhaps the box is also something negative because when you feel boxed up you feel confined?

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How does the poet, Martin Espada, use imagery to convey his theme or message?

Question: Read the poem and write three questions to help you understand what you are reading.

1. Why is it a problem that Brandon is a poet? 2. Why does Brandon try to get thrown in the box (A.k.A. solitary confinement) 3. How is Brandon different from the other poets described by Espada? 4. Why does Brandon feel the need to take so many risks and suffer so much for the sake of poetry? !

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How does the poet, Martin Espada, use imagery to convey his theme or message?

Monitor: As you read, underline phrases that provide imagery that help you imagine what the poet is trying to describe.

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Monitor: As you read, underline phrases that provide imagery that help you imagine what the poet is trying to describe.

See: Brandon fighting inmates in a blind rage. He flips over cafeteria trays and cusses people out. !

Hear: Brandon hears metaphor “cackling” like a witch and he is being commanded to behave this way by a chorus of rhymes. Poetry told him to do this? !

Touch: For Brandon, poetry feels like hunger.!See: Brandon is shuffled away.!Hear: The steps of him and two guards. Silence of the box. !See: In the box the prisoners remind me of religious men praying. !

Hear: The voices of the prison warden discussing Brandon. The kid who the poem is dedicated to. He must be the poet. !

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Monitor: As you read, underline phrases that provide imagery that help you imagine what the poet is trying to describe.

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How does the poet, Martin Espada, use imagery to convey his theme or message?

Summarize: After you read, retell what is happening in the poem by using your own words.

In the poem, Brandon is a kid in juvenile hall who likes to write poetry. In order to have a quiet space where he can write, he keeps getting in fights because he knows he’ll get sent to the “box” (aka the hole, or solitary confinement). When the guards figure out that he’s doing it on purpose, they stop sending him there. Meanwhile, there are professional “poets” who are free and frustrated due to writer’s block and lack of inspiration. Brandon has too much inspiration and instead of plotting an escape from jail, he dreams of stealing the guards keys so he can go back to the “box” to write.

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How does the poet, Martin Espada, use imagery to convey his theme or message?

Evaluate: What theme, or message do you think the poem conveys?

For most people, freedom is defined by images of wide open spaces and the absence of confinement. Contrary to those popular images, the poem conveys the message that freedom for the true poet who is literally “madly in love” with words is being completely and utterly alone with the noises of his imagination and creativity.

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In the poem titled “The Poet in the Box,” the poet, Martin Espada uses imagery to convey/communicate/describe the struggle of a young writer named Brandon in juvenile hall to find a quiet place to write. It helps the reader understand/experience/ learn that freedom for the true poet who is literally “madly in love” with words is being completely and utterly alone with the noises of his imagination and creativity.

How does the poet, Martin Espada, use imagery to convey his theme or message?

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Now you do it…

How does the poet, Pat Mora, use imagery to convey her theme or message?

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How does the poet, Pat Mora, use imagery to convey her theme or message?

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Predict: Look at the title and predict what you think this poem is about.

How does the poet, Pat Mora, use imagery to convey her theme or message?

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How does the poet, Pat Mora, use imagery to convey her theme or message?

Question: Read the poem and write three questions to help you understand what you are reading.

1. 2. 3. !

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How does the poet, Pat Mora, use imagery to convey her theme or message?

Monitor: As you read, underline phrases that provide imagery that help you imagine what the poet is trying to describe.

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How does the poet, Pat Mora, use imagery to convey her theme or message?

Summarize: After you read, retell what is happening in the poem by using your own words.

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How does the poet, Pat Mora, use imagery to convey her theme or message?

Evaluate: What theme, or message do you think the poem conveys?

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What is imagery? How does it help convey an author’s message or theme?

Imagery is_______________________________________.

Its purpose is to __________________________________.

In the poem titled “________________________________,” the poet, ________________ uses imagery to convey/communicate/describe _______________________ _________________________________________________ ________________________________________________. It helps the reader understand/experience/ learn __________ _________________________________________________