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: 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 only have 2 Minutes
We spirit read Oh Woe is Poe!. Oh Woe is Poe! It is basically a biography of Edgar Allen Poe. It shows how his life was full of hardships, such as most of his family dying from Tuberculosis. Because he was always struggling, he started writing poems and stories to express himself, which are what he is famous for now. This explains why his works are all so dark, because he had to live through many deaths of loved ones. Going through the biography, we can see that he had a drinking problem and even committed election fraud. Eventually, he died at the age of 40 with the cause of death being unsure. However, when doctors look back at his death, they speculate that he could have died from rabies.
After Spirit Reading, we looked at images and determined how it is related to Edgar Aleen Poe.
For example, we looked at a picture of a raccoon saying “RABIES: it wasn’t me.”
RABIES: It wasn’t Me!
This relates to Edgar Allen Poe because it is thought that he died of rabies.
Another image was a picture of a detective.
This relates to Edgar Allen Poe because it is thought that he wrote the first detective story.
Another picture is a picture of a bottle of alcohol and a cup.
This relates to him because he is known to be an alcoholic.
Another picture is a picture of a voting box with “FRAUD???” written above it.
FRAUD???
This picture relates to him because he is thought to have committed voting fraud.
One picture is a gravestone.
This relates to Edgar Allen Poe because he experiences a lot of death in his life.
The last picture is a death toll of how many people died of tuberculosis vs how many people died in WWII.
This relates to him because most of his family died from tuberculosis.
Poetic Sound devices
Musical or sound devices: convey and reinforce meaning (or experience) through the use of sound
Cacophony: Cacophony comes from the Greek word meaning, “bad sound.” Or Involving or producing a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. In other words, consider the noises you may hear on a crowded city street: cars honking, people yelling, dogs barking etc...
Explosive Consonants: (k, t, g, d, p, b, q, c, x, ch-, sh- etc...)
Hissing Sounds: (ch-, sh, and s)
Example: He is a rotten, dirty, terrible, trudging, stupid dude!
Cacophony can be used to convey dark feelings/thoughts, harsh or loud noises, chaos, violence or fear.
Euphonious: involving sounds that are soothing or pleasant to the ear. It is the opposite of cacophony.
It includes all the vowels
It has harmonious consonants,such as: (l, m, n, r and softer f and v, sounds).
Additionally, it uses soft consonants or semi-vowels such as: (w, s, y and th or wh) extensively to create more pleasant sounds.
Example: “While the stars that oversprinkle all the heavens seem to twinkle” -Edgar Allen Poe
Euphony is used to make language sound beautiful and melodic. If a writer is describing something they want to make seem attractive, pleasant, or beautiful, one of the best ways of achieving this is to make the language itself sound harmonious.
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
Example: Jackrabbits jump and jiggle jauntily.
Red Room Poetry Object Poetic Device #1: Alliteration [2:00]
Onomatopoeia: A word which imitates the natural sound of a thing.
Example: The buzzing bee flew by
Example: The rustling leaves kept me awake.
Red Room Poetry Object Poetic Device #4: Onomatopoeia [2:36]
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
Example: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
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 (ex: pencil" and "stencil”)
Imperfect rhyme or “slant rhyme” involves the repetition of similar sounds that are not quite as precise as perfect rhyme (ex: “uptown” and “frown”)
The pleasure of poetic pattern - David Silverstein [4:46
After going over poetic sound devices, we read Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Bells” We had to identify poetic devices used in each stanza and what effect it had on the poem. For example, in stanza 1, he uses Euphony to make the tone more positive.
Reflection:
I learned about Edgar Allen Poe and different poetic sound devices, and how he uses them in his poems.
I learned it so that I could understand Poe’s use of poetic sound devices and how it can affect the stanza or even the whole poem.
I will use what I learned when I am writing poetry to improve the quality of my poems in the future.
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