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 as many types of bells as you can with your team
My team came up with the following types of bells:
door bell, alarm bell, cow bell, phone ringtone, sleigh bells, bell peppers, clock bells, school bells, church bells
Reading & Discussion: “Oh Woe Is Poe!”
Quick Summary: Edgar Allan Poe had many people around him die of tuberculosis, and eventually he became a drunk and died. Nobody is sure how exactly he died, but alcohol poisoning and rabies are two theories.
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)
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.
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.
Onomatopoeia: A word which imitates the natural sound of a thing.
Example: The buzzing bee flew by
Example: The rustling leaves kept me awake.
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”)
Reading & Analyzation: “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe
Analyzing the poem using a chart:
Team Group Work:
We determined that stanzas 1 and 2 have a cheerful mood, which is opposite of the ominous mood found in stanzas 3 and 4.
Reflection:
During the lesson, I was able to learn the difference between euphony and cacophony, as well as review other sound devices, for the purpose of analyzing poetry. This is useful to know, and will help me determine mood, tone, and other feelings associated with literary works in the future.
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