1.

Define poetry and identify its elements;

2. Analyze the figures of speech, imagery and

symbolism in a poem;

3. distinguish the Feminism approach from

formalism and reader-response approaches,

4. analyze the poem, To the Man I Married

using feminism, and

5. conduct a debate using concepts of

feminism
Is concerned with the
role, position, and
influence of women
in literary text.

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Asserts that most
“literature”
throughout time has
been written by men,
for men.
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Examines the way
that the female
consciousness is
depicted by both male
and female writers.
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4 Basic Principles of Feminist
Criticism:
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1. Western civilization is patriarchal.

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2. The concepts of gender are mainly cultural ideas created
by patriarchal societies

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3. Patriarchal ideals pervade literature

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4. Most “literature” through time has been
gender-biased.

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Poetry is the artistic expression of an idea in a
rhythmical pattern. It stirs the emotion and
stimulates the mind through the following:

1. String metrical rhythm

2. Musical lines
3. Sense impression
4. Language
 CONNOTATION
The basic literal meaning of words is called
denotation and the additional shade of
meaning that words imply aside from their
actual meaning is called connotation.
• The poet uses words that appeal to the senses. His
words create an image in our mind.
• The “senses of the mind: are analogous to the physical
senses:
sight, hearing, smelling, taste and touch
• Images provide a mental picture of an idea which
speaks to any of the five senses.
• The most important sound device in
poetry is rhythm.
• It refers to the arrangement of words –
the variation of stress and unstressed
syllables.
• Is a literary device used to
arouse a vivid picture in the
imagination of the reader.
 SOUND
• Poetry communicates through mental pictures but
it does so through the euphonious sound, the
music of words.
• The sound does not only accompany the sense
but also helps to convey it.
Poetry repeats the
sound in several
ways:
 ALLITERATION
• The repetition of the
same initial consonant
sounds.
 ASSONANCE
The similarity of sound
between vowels
 RHYME
The repetition of
sounds, particularly at
the end of the lines
 ONOMATOPOEIA
The use of words whose
sound suggests the meaning
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TONE
is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an
audience.
• is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the
viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject.
• The manner in which a writer approaches his theme and
subject
• It can be formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, and
cheerful or it may be any other existing attitudes.

• https://literarydevices.net/tone
 THEME
• is defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of
a literary work that may be stated directly or
indirectly.
• Major and minor themes are two types of themes
that appear in literary works. A major theme is an
idea that a writer repeats in his work, making it the
most significant idea in a literary work. A minor
theme, on the other hand, refers to an idea that
appears in a work briefly and gives way to another
minor theme.
• https://literarydevices.net/theme/
TO THE MAN I MARRIED
To the Man I Married
Angela Manalang-Gloria
I
You are my earth and all the earth implies:
The gravity that ballasts me in space,
The air I breathe, the land that stills my cries
For food and shelter against devouring days.
You are the earth whose orbit marks my way
And sets my north and south, my east and west,
You are the final, elemented clay
The driven heart must turn to for its rest.
If in your arms that hold me now so near
I lift my keening thoughts to Helicon
As trees long rooted to the earth uprear
Their quickening leaves and flowers to
the sun,
You who are earth, O never doubt that I
Need you no less because I need the sky!
I can not love you with a love
That outcompares the boundless sea,
For that were false, as no such love
And no such ocean can ever be.
But I can love you with a love
As finite as the wave that dies
And dying holds from crest to crest
The blue of everlasting skies.