ENGLISH 10 – QUARTER 4

(Week - 2)

Topic/s: Listening to Determine the Emotional Appeal of a Poem & Determining Emotional Appeal
Through Tone and Mood
Date Coverage: April 22-23
Student Teacher: Lorenz B. Padilla

Objectives: Determine emotional appeal of a poem

Identify emotional appeal in writing samples using the tone and mood.
Appreciate emotional appeal of a poem or any literary piece.

me with feelings…
Ely to Mia: “Stop acting like you know my pain. Stop acting like you own it! Hindi ikaw si
Celine! And you will never be Celine!”
Mia to Ely: “‘Wag mo akong mahalin dahil mahal kita. Mahalin mo ako dahil mahal mo ako.
Because that’s what I deserve.”
Line From Barcelona A Love Untold

What do you feel while reading the lines?

Listening to Determine the Emotional Appeal of a Poem
To appreciate the emotional appeal of a poem or any literary piece, you have to discover the mood that the
author wishes to convey. One way to get the mood is to interpret symbols, allusions and other figures of
speech used in the poem. Another way is to put yourself in the author's shoes and read the literary piece from
the author's point of view.
 Emotional appeal is a logical fallacy, whereby a debater attempts to win an argument by trying to get
an emotional reaction from the opponent and audience.

! Listen to Martin Luther King, Jr. “I have a dream” and try to identify the emotional feeling that is
being express in his speech. Open the link provided below.
https://youtu.be/vP4iY1TtS3s
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King Jr.
August 28, 1963

I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a
dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these
truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal".
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice,
sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the
color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips
dripping with the words of interposition and nullification one day right there in Alabama little black boys and
black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the
rough places will be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall
be revealed, and all the flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of
brotherhood.
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to
stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning, "My country 'tis of
thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my father died, land of pilgrims' pride, from every
mountainside, let freedom ring".
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops
of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the
heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of
California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout
Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi. From every
mountainside, let freedom ring, and when this happens,
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and
every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews
and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro
spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last"!

What is symbolism?

Symbol is a person, object, place, event, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning.

In poetry, symbols can be categorized as conventional, something that is generally recognized to

represent a certain idea (i.e., a “rose” conventionally symbolizes romance, love, or beauty); in addition,
symbols can be categorized as contextual or literary, something that goes beyond a traditional, public
meaning (i.e., “night” conventionally symbolizes darkness, death, or grief; contextually it symbolizes other
possibilities such as loneliness, isolation, fear, or emptiness). Whereas conventional symbols are used in
poetry to convey tone and meaning, contextual or literary symbols reflect the internal state of mind of the
speaker as revealed through the images.

REMEMBER
In order to have a better understanding of how poems are written, it is important to review the use of direct
and indirect comparison. Authors used figures of speech to emphasis the emotions and symbols that they want
to express to the readers.
Some Figures of Speech that Poets usually used:
Simile: Comparing using like or as
Metaphor: Direct comparison
Hyperbole uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
Irony: occurs when there's a marked contrast between what is said and what is meant, or between appearance
and reality.
Onomatopoeia: is the term for a word that sounds like what it is describing.
Example
Imtiaz Dharker “Blessing”
https://vimeo.com/78272480
The skin cracks like a pod.
There never is enough water.
Imagine the drip of it,
the small splash, echo
in a tin mug,
the voice of a kindly god.
Sometimes, the sudden rush
of fortune. The municipal pipe bursts,
silver crashes to the ground
and the flow has found
a roar of tongues. From the huts,
a congregation: every man woman
child for streets around
butts in, with pots,
brass, copper, aluminum,
plastic buckets,
frantic hands,
and naked children
screaming in the liquid sun,
their highlights polished to perfection,
flashing light,
as the blessing sings
over their small bones.

Determining Emotional Appeal Through Tone and Mood

The tone of the poem is the attitude of the poet to the object in the poem and sometimes towards the
persona in the poem as well. This is achieved with specific words that highlight the implied tone. The mood of
the poem is the atmosphere created in the poem. Just like tone, it is dependent on the words used in the poem
in establishing the mood of the poem.

Example
I should have tried to explain
But tongue-tied I was
For I could clearly see
That I won’t be lucky.
Excerpt in FRUSTRATED WISH by Leona
Florentino

What tone and mood that you

observe in the poem?

References
(n.d.). A Great Public College in New York City | Hunter College. https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/rwc/repository/files/writing-for-english-courses/Symbolism-in-Poetry.pdf
Figure of speech examples. (n.d.). Example Articles & Resources | Your Dictionary. https://examples.yourdictionary.com/figure-of-speech-examples.html
Martin Luther King Jr: "I have a dream". (n.d.). Human Rights / Child Rights. https://boes.org/docs2/mking01.html
Language in Literature World Literature pages 461
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Answer Sheet
Name: ________________________ Date Coverage: ________________Score: _______
Date Submitted: ____________________ Teacher: Lorenz B. Padilla
Evaluation:

Read each mood below. Decide whether the mood is positive or negative. Write
a P on the line if it is positive and an N if it is negative. Use your dictionary skills
if you come across a word, you are unsure of. The first one is done for you.
____ 1. angry ____ 11. irritated ____ 20. sad
____ 2. anxious ____ 12. mournful ____ 21. scared
____ 3. bored ____ 12. disappointed ____ 22. flattered
____ 4. joyful ____ 13. offended ____ 23. threatened
____ 5. embarrassed ____ 14. optimistic
____ 6. excited ____ 15. passionate
____ 7. frustrated ____ 16. reassured
____ 8. guilty ____ 17. relaxed
____ 9. happy ____ 18. relieved
____ 10. heartbroken ____ 19. restless

Read this poem and answer the questions BELOW.

Loneliness
Katherine Mansfield
Now it is Loneliness who comes at night
Instead of Sleep, to sit beside my bed.
Like a tired child I lie and wait her tread,
I watch her softly blowing out the light.
Motionless sitting, neither left or right
She turns, and weary, weary droops her head.
She, too, is old; she, too, has fought the fight.
So, with the laurel she is garlanded.
Through the sad dark the slowly ebbing tide
Breaks on a barren shore, unsatisfied.
A strange wind flows... then silence. I am fain
To turn to Loneliness, to take her hand,
Cling to her, waiting, till the barren land
Fills with the dreadful monotone of rain.

24. Which word best describes the tone of this poem?

a. inspired
b. somber
c. optimistic
d. frustrated
25. Which word best describes the mood of this poem?
a. excited
b. playful
c. angry
d. gloomy