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 as a savage pitted against the wilderness, 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 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 What are 2 characteristics of Chicago in this poem? Why do you think Sandburg personified Chicago?
2. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 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, 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. What is the theme of the poem?
3. Spring and Fall: to a Young Child Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sorrow's springs are the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What héart héard of, ghóst guéssed: It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for. -Gerard Manley Hopkins Identify: 2 internal rhymes The end rhyme scheme What is Margaret mourning?
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 1 personification 1 allusion
6. If You Should Go Love, leave me like the light, The gently passing day; We would not know, but for the night, 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?
7. Amanda Dreams She Has Died and Gone to the Elysian Fields This morning Amanda lies down during breakfast. The hay is hip high. The sun sleeps on her back as it did on the spine of the dinosaur the fossil bat the first fish with feet she was once. A breeze fans the deerflies from lighting. Only a gaggle of gnats housekeeps in her ears. A hay plume sticks out of her mouth. I come calling with a carrot 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. Identify: 1 allusion 2 alliterations 1 personification Who is Amanda? We sit together. In this time and place we are heart and bone. For an hour we are incorruptible. - Maxine Kumin
8. My Heart Leaps Up My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky. So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. - William Wordsworth - Identify: 1 Personification 1 Metaphor(extended)and explain Rhyme Scheme How does the first line of the poem change in meaning if it said instead: My heart beats when I behold?
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, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core. Identify: -William Butler Yeats 1892 rhyme scheme for each stanza 1 personification 2 imagery Explain the speakers feeling about the cabin at Innisfree.
11. I Dwell in Possibility I dwell in Possibility-- A fairer House than Prose-- More numerous of Windows-- 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-- The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise-- -Emily Dickinson Identify: 2 Slant Rhymes Explain what would be considered an Everlasting Roof? Explain what it would mean to dwell in possibility?
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 Identify: internal rhyme 2 alliterations What is the theme of the poem? Jazz June. We Die soon. -Gwendolyn Brooks
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 Whispering that home is just ahead. 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 spenta lamp Glowing warm through a curtained window. -Gordon Parks Identify: 2 personifications 1 imagery Explain this line: Perhaps I have helped to shape its course what does this mean? How would the meaning of the last line of the poem change, if the line was: Blazing warm through a curtained window.?
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. Identify: 1 hyperbole My mother ran my homework through the washer and the dryer. An airplane crashed into our house. My homework caught on fire. 2 personifications Which excuse is your favorite? 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
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