Aim: How do poetic elements create a thematic effect over the course of a poem?
Do Now: For our Do Now, we brainstormed phrases and words that we think of when we think "Identity". Most people said names, facial features, DNA, and fingerprints. A lot of people had different thoughts about identity, but the main idea was the same; it was something unique to every one of us.
Poetic Devices: We now move on to poetic devices after the Do Now. The first poetic devices we learned are musical or sound devices, and they convey and strengthen meanings. For example, cacophonous sounds are sounds that produce a harsh sound, like (ch-, k, and g). On the other hand, euphonious sounds are pleasant sounding, like (f, v, r, and w). Here’s a short video on it. We learned about rhythm, which is stressed and unstressed syllables. Here’s some examples of rhythm in poetry. The last poetic device we learned today are extended metaphors. Extended metaphors are metaphors that aren’t stated directly in a line, but rather spread over a few lines, or even the entire poem. Here is the corresponding video.
Here are some examples of extended metaphors:
Example: As You Like It (By William Shakespeare)
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
In this metaphor, the earth itself is compared with a theater stage.
Example: Habitation (By Margaret Atwood)
“Marriage is not / a house or even a tent / it is before that, and colder: / the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert / the unpainted stairs / at the back where we squat / outside, eating popcorn / the edge of the receding glacier / where painfully and with wonder / at having survived even this far / we are learning to make fire”
In this metaphor, Atwood compares a marriage to various different biomes. Marriage isn’t stable like a house or a tent, but rather many new experiences after one another. It’s full of its ups and downs, but at the same time, you’re learning from your mistakes and improving it.
Functions of the Extended Metaphors:
Extended metaphors are very effective, as they allow the author to make a large comparison between two objects. Instead of doing it all on one line, it’s instead throughout the whole poem, making the comparison more impactful. Readers can then have a better understanding of the metaphor, and can interpret it however they want.
Theme:
The theme is the moral or a meaning of a story. The theme is defined as the central idea, point, or the underlying meaning. Here’s a video on theme.
After themes, we read “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco, annotated it, and filled out the chart.
What extended metaphor is established in this poem?
Here’s what me and my group said:
After this chart, we had to fill out a TWIST chart, analyzing the poem. Here’s what our group did for the chart.
Reflection:
Today, we went over the concept of theme, along with learning poetic devices such as cacophonous and euphonious sounds. We learned about rhythms in poems and the use of extended metaphors in poems, and how they’re effective. Extended metaphors emphasize the comparison between the two objects, as the comparison is more fleshed out and expanded upon. An example would be the poem that we read, “Identity”, by Julio Noboa Polanco. The extended metaphor with freedom and conformity was enhanced and elaborated through tone and imagery. We broadened our knowledge of themes, how to find them, and why they’re important in this lesson. All of these would be useful later in the poem project.
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