Blogger 23 Eric Lu Period 7 March 23, 2021 Day C

Aim: How do poetic elements create a thematic effect over the

course of a poem?

Do Now: BRAINSTORM! What comes to mind when you think of the

word “Identity”. Create a word web.

We were given 2 minutes to fill out 6 different words that

we think of when we think about identity. After that, we did

some sharing, where some answers were unique, self, name, and

personality.

On the next slide, we went over some new poetic devices. The ones

we went over were Cacophonous (ka-ko-phonous, from the Greek word

Cacophony, meaning bad sound), Euphonious (involving sounds that

sound soothing or pleasant), rhythm (pattern of syllables), and

extended metaphor (metaphor that is developed over the course of a

poem. We also went over the functions of a metaphor.The function of

an extended metaphor is to let the author make a larger comparison

between two things and intensely implant it into the reader’s mind.

We used a poem called “How to eat a poem” to illustrate an example

of an extended metaphor. 

                                                                                         

After going over the poetic devices, we watched a short video (How to find a theme) which helps us find a theme. We then read and annotate a poem by Julio Noboa Polanco called Identity. We also did teamwork where we described what extended metaphor was established in the poem.     

For homework, we were told to work with a partner to fill out a chart using the TWIST analysis(tone, word choice, imagery, style and theme) and then write an interpretative statement about the poem "Identity".

What I took away from the lesson was a newfound appreciation for poetic devices because without them, the meaning of a poem would be more difficult to interpret. Something else I took away from this lesson was a liking for poems, since I didn’t like them when starting the poems unit. I learned that poetic devices are extremely helpful in finding themes because without them, we would not be able to dissect a theme from any poem, like “Identity”, where the theme I picked out was “Be who you are, not what people want you to be.” The hints that brought me to this theme was the wording of the author by describing the flower as picked by greedy humans and describing a weed as something that is ugly but free. I learned this because if I want to dissect poems down to their theme, I must know what poetic devices look like and how to pick them out. I will use this in the future to better understand any poem and find the theme after reading and analyzing the poem any teacher gives me.