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?
We started off the lesson with a timed team challenge, we had to list as many bells as we could think of in our groups. The time allotted was 2 mins and the group with the most got points. Our team came up with 10 types of bells.
Afterwards, we read “Oh Woe is Poe!,” a excerpt from How They Croaked. It spoke of the misfortunes in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, a famous poet from the 1800s. We discussed his life and death, he was plagued with bad luck and most who loved him died from tuberculosis, leading to his alcohol problem. He died at the age of 40 in mysterious circumstances.
Next was the topic of poetic sound devices; cacophony, euphony, rhyme, alliteration, repetition, and onamonapia.
We would need to know all of this for the next portion of the lesson, we would be reading “The Bells” By Edgar Allan Poe" and analyzing it with our teams. The poem consists of 4 stanzas, all describing different bells. It is filled with poetic sound devices and the 4 stanzas are all distinctly different.
We then had an asynchronous assignment, to analyse the poem and organize our findings in a chart.
Reflection
We learned about linguistic devices relating to poetic sound devices, especially harsh cacophony and harmonious euphony. We had to learn about this to understand word choices and we had to put what we learned to use for an asynchronous assignment, as well as to help with our poem anthology and how it would sound if someone read it.
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