02-10-2013

ANNOTATIONS chargerlit405.weebly.com Annotate the poem write out what you are thinking. Label literary devices Equate literary devices with developing meaning. THESIS Poet + Title + Interpretation + How/why elements are working Mention the literary devices in the poem!

Make certain you can see the board.

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(or more) perspectives are examined with different pieces.

Passionate Shepherd to His Love I Hear America Singing How Do I Love Thee? Bread and the Knife You Should Be Dancing

Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd I, too, Hear America Singing Sonnet 130 Litany I Dont Feel Like Dancing

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will choose two poems that speak to each other in some thematically, tonally, literarily, etc. You will analyze both poems together. The goal of the comparison poems is to generate one thesis that addresses the elements in both poems. Tomorrow, I will have the poems out for you to peruse. You select two. Alternatively, you may select one poem from my choices and one of your own.

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a song or poem that seems to respond to one of the poems. Write a response poem. TP-CASTT analysis of both

EXAMPLE using Sonnet 130 and Litany:

In both Billy Collinss Litany and William Shakespeares Sonnet 130, the trope of the idolized love is broken down. In Shakespeares extreme contrasts and Collinss absurd metaphors, the speakers use sarcasm and humor to point out how unrealistic it is to compare a loved one to these ideals.

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at the first stanza, what does the speaker remember about the relationship? What is his recollection of the breakup? Why is he angry now? What new information do we get about the relationship from the womans perspective? How does her perspective change our view of the male speaker?

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does listening to these two perspectives increase our understanding of the song as a whole? What might our Thesis about this song be?

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Passionate Shepherd to His Love, by Christopher Marlowe The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd, by Sir Walter Raleigh

How

does reading these two poems together and comparing their messages increase the impact of each poem?

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your small group, look at the two poems I have given you. Annotate both poems and write one thesis.