Wednesday: November 25, 2020 (No live zoom meeting - work done asynchronously)
Blogger #16- Stanley Khaskelzon - Period 9 - 11/25/2020 - Day C - Freshmen Lit 2021
Aim: How does Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells” convey and reinforce the meaning of the life cycle through his choice of poetic sound devices?
Do Now Question:
Create a list of ALL the kinds/types of bells you’ve ever heard. The Team to create a list with the most amount WINS the points!!! You have only 2 Minutes!
The class was given a couple of minutes to think about the types of bells they have heard before with their teams. The team who got the most bells would win points. In the video, Team 1 got 10 bells, team 2 got 8, team 3 got around 13-14, team 4 got 10 bells, team 5 got 15, and team 6 got 8. Some examples of answers were doorbells, cowbells, jingle bells, bicycle bells, music bells, minecraft bell, school bell, and more.
Slide 2: After reading the poem together, the class had a discussion about the pictures on slide 2. The class compared the raccoon to Edgar Allan Poe to maybe having died from rabies and the alcohol comparing him to being drunk and connecting to voter fraud which was another one of the images. The tombstone compares to the poet because in his life, Edgar Allan Poe experienced a lot of death from his family. I thought it was interesting that all these images were indirectly explaining Edgar Allan poe’s life. All the images are showing important events and aspects of his life.
The class had a discussion about slide 3 which explained cacophony and poetic sound devices. The discussion helped me get a better understanding of the word cacophony by comparing it to unpleasant sounds and explosive sounds.
Cacophony: comes from the Greek word meaning “bad sound”. Involving or producing a harsh discordant mixture of sounds. Most of the cacophonous sounds are consonants such as c, and q which are very harsh and explosive
Euphonious is the opposite of cacophony, meaning sounds that are pleasant to hear such as vowels and consonants such as l and m, n.
Summary: Cacophony = unpleasant… Euphonious = pleasant
Slide 5 discussed other poetic devices such as:
Alliteration- A stylistic device in which consecutive words or words that occur close together in a series all begin with the same first consonant letter or sound
Onomatopoeia: A word which imitates the natural sound of a thing.
Repetition: Repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. Repetition is used to emphasize a feeling or idea, create rhythm, and/or develop a sense of urgency
Rhyme: a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words (especially common at the ends of words). Rhyme is pleasing the ear and also lends a sense of rhythm and order to the language.
Perfect rhyme occurs when stressed syllables of the words, along with all subsequent syllables, share identical sounds
Imperfect rhyme or “slant rhyme” involves the repetition of similar sounds that are not quite as precise as perfect rhyme
The examples helped the class and me understand how each device can be used in poems and how each device actually affects the writing.
The class then watched a short video about all the devics explaining how and why they are used.
The videos were very helpful because they applied the different poetic devices in actual poems that helped the classmates get a better understanding of their purposes.
After watching all the videos on the different poetic devices, the class listened to a reading of “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe while reading along on the text version. Then the class had to answer the questions on the next few slides
The 12th slide had the class fill in a table that analyzed the 4 stanzas of the poem. We had to identify the poetic devices and then explain the effects of the devices used.
Slide 13 and 14 had us answer 4 questions about the poem in our breakout rooms with our team.
Reflection:
After reading the slides and watching the lesson video I think that this lesson was very useful to my understanding of poetry. I learned about some of the different sound and poetic devices that are used by poets such as Edgar Allan Poe. We heard a reading of a few different poems that helped us have a better understanding of how to apply different devices in poems and their effect on the writing and the reader. “The Bells” also helped us know how to apply different poetic devices. We got a better understanding of how different sound devices have an effect on poems and how our understanding of the writing changes.
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