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?
The beginning of the lesson started off with us being instructed to come up with words related to the word, “bell”. We were sent to our breakout rooms with our respective groups as usual, and we discussed words that related to it. The group that came up with the most words had come up with 14 of them. My own group finished with a total of 13 (Church bells, hand bell, school bell, bicycle bell, door bell, alarm clock bell, cow bell, call bell, chime bell, sleigh bell, silver bells, miniature bells, Liberty bell.) Following that, the students did a spirit read of a biography. The reading called, “Oh Woe is Poe”
Once we had finished reading this biography, we were told to examine some images that had meaning and value within Poe’s life. The image on the left side representing and paying respects to his late friends and family that had passed away from Tuberculosis. The image on the far right represents his addiction to alcohol and how he was an alcoholic.
The next part of the lesson is when we moved onto the types and usage of Poetic Sound Devices. It is basically how messages and meaning of words are increased and have more impact through the use of sounds.
After we read this aloud, we were sent back into our breakout rooms to discuss what words belong under certain categories of Poetic Sound Devices. We also were given videos to give us a further concept of what these words mean in case we were not able to understand it just through the reading of the definitions.
We were tasked to complete work with our groups, but unfortunately ran out of time so we had to work with them asynchronously.
Reflection: The most important thing I learned from this lesson was about the various sound devices and how they affect a poem's meaning, such as cacophony, euphony, alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, and rhyme. We also looked at Edgar Poe's poem "The Bells" in small groups to see how he used sound instruments to improve the poem.
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