Poetry Assignment #1
This assignment includes:
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
“Ozymandias” by Percey Bysshe Shelley
“Well, I have lost you” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
You will complete the discussion of these poems in class and will begin work on the analysis of the poems in class, too. Please remember that you may need to complete that analysis at home. There may also be small application or creation assignments in relation to our reading and analysis in class.
*IF YOU ARE ABSENT, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO COMPLETE ALL MISSING WORK BEFORE SUBMISSION!*
Submission Date: Thursday, November 2nd
Poem #1:
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
“I loved those books, partly because they took me completely out of the …show more content…
Who is the speaker of this poem? Explain how you know.
A son or daughter of a father, a teen “Sundays too my father got up early”
What is the focus of each stanza? Stanza 1: son or daughter shows how his/her father works hard. The father get up early during the week to work, his family takes it for granted/expect him to take care of things
Stanza 2: speaker is waking up, his dad wakes him up and he gets up slowly trying to avoid getting up trying to avoid his dad and not arguing with him
Stanza 3: the speaker recognizes that the dad does thing for them, the speaker is recognizing the things the dad does for them and the family alone
Assonance: The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry
Underline examples of Assonance in your poem.
Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
Circle examples of Alliteration in your poem.
Give two examples of Imagery. What do these example give to the
This assignment includes:
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
“Ozymandias” by Percey Bysshe Shelley
“Well, I have lost you” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
You will complete the discussion of these poems in class and will begin work on the analysis of the poems in class, too. Please remember that you may need to complete that analysis at home. There may also be small application or creation assignments in relation to our reading and analysis in class.
*IF YOU ARE ABSENT, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO COMPLETE ALL MISSING WORK BEFORE SUBMISSION!*
Submission Date: Thursday, November 2nd
Poem #1:
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
“I loved those books, partly because they took me completely out of the …show more content…
Who is the speaker of this poem? Explain how you know.
A son or daughter of a father, a teen “Sundays too my father got up early”
What is the focus of each stanza? Stanza 1: son or daughter shows how his/her father works hard. The father get up early during the week to work, his family takes it for granted/expect him to take care of things
Stanza 2: speaker is waking up, his dad wakes him up and he gets up slowly trying to avoid getting up trying to avoid his dad and not arguing with him
Stanza 3: the speaker recognizes that the dad does thing for them, the speaker is recognizing the things the dad does for them and the family alone
Assonance: The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry
Underline examples of Assonance in your poem.
Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
Circle examples of Alliteration in your poem.
Give two examples of Imagery. What do these example give to the