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1 ELEMENTS OF POETRY

2 Objectives Students will be able to: define figurative language, identify three different types of figurative language and analyze its effect on the theme of Jimmy Santiago Baca s poem I Am Offering This Poem 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 figurative language? What is its purpose in poetry? 2. What are three types of figurative language? Tasks 1. I Give Notes by using Figurative Language Tree Map 2. WE Analyze I Am Offering This Poem by completing Flow Map 3. YOU Explicate I Am Offering This Poem by using Sentence Frames and Whip Around.

3 What is figurative language? How does it help convey an author s message or theme? Figurative Language: Language based on some sort of comparison that is not literally true. For example, She hammered through her homework for three hours. Simile Metaphor: Personification: A figure of speech that uses the word like, as, than, or resembles to compare thing that seems to have little or nothing in common. Example: I wandered lonely as a cloud A figure of speech that does not use the word like, as, than, or resembles to compare thing that seems to have little or nothing in common. DIRECT: says that something is something else. Example: I wandered lonely as a cloud IMPLIED: Does not directly state the comparison by using is but implies it. Example: She barked her command. When we attribute human qualities to nonhuman thing or to an abstract idea. Example: I wandered lonely as a cloud

4 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?

5 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?!

6 How does the poet, Martin Espada, use imagery to convey his theme or message? Monitor: As you read, underline phrases that provide figurative language that help you imagine what the poet is trying to describe.

7 Monitor: As you read, underline phrases that provide imagery that help you imagine what the poet is trying to describe. Personification: Poetry is ordering Brandon to act out violently.! Implied Metaphor: Craving for discipline is being compared to hunger.! Implied Metaphor: prisoners in solitary confinement are being compared to religious men in prayer.!

8 Monitor: As you read, underline phrases that provide imagery that help you imagine what the poet is trying to describe. Direct Metaphor: Poetry being compared to a grasshopper chirping in his hands.! Simile: His writing is being compared to the script of a pharaoh on the pyramid walls.! Implied metaphor: Metaphors being compared to lamps.! Personification: Sleep whistles.! Direct Metaphor: The cold warms him like if it was a blanket.!

9 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.

10 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.

11 How does the poet, Martin Espada, use figurative languageto convey his theme or message? In the poem titled The Poet in the Box, the poet, Martin Espada uses figurative language to convey/communicate/describe the power of words and the creative urge over a young writer named Brandon in juvenile hall who struggles 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.

12 Now you do it How does the poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca, use figurative language to convey his theme or message?

13 How does the poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca, use figurative language to convey his theme or message?

14 How does the poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca, use figurative language to convey his theme or message?

15 How does the poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca, use figurative language to convey his theme or message? Predict: Look at the title and predict what you think this poem is about.

16 How does the poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca, use figurative language to convey his theme or message? Question: Read the poem and write three questions to help you understand what you are reading !

17 How does the poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca, use figurative language 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.

18 How does the poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca, use figurative language to convey his theme or message? Summarize: After you read, retell what is happening in the poem by using your own words.

19 How does the poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca, use figurative language to convey his theme or message? Evaluate: What theme, or message do you think the poem conveys?

20 What is figurative language? How does it help convey an author s message or theme? Figurative Language is. Its purpose is to. Three types of figurative language are,, and. In the poem titled, the poet, uses figurative language to convey/communicate/express. It helps the reader understand/experience/ learn