Jan 29--Robert Frost, songs

Robert Frost
   Dust of Snow
   Fire and Ice
   The Mending Wall
William Carlos Williams
   The Red Wheelbarrow
   This is Just to Say
Write your own poem following the pattern of one of WCW's poems.
Start with the same first line and try to retain the same tone and the same rhythm. You also need to use descriptive words that will create imagery.

We will be studying poetry for the first few days this semester. In my experience, students typically love it, or they hate it. Today we will try to figure out what it is that they love and hate about it. My goal is for you to understand the other side and hopefully come to a deeper understanding of what poetry is.

Poetry Journal
How People Feel About Poetry
They like it because . . .

1. A few condensed words can express a lot of feelings (without directly saying it)
2. Poetry is relaxing because of its rhythm
3. It creates a picture in your mind through imagery.  It paints a picture, and a picture is worth more than a thousand words.
4. Sounds cool
5. It can be used as a mask. If you can't bring yourself to say something to someone, you can hide behind the poetry and still say it.
6. It says more than you could say by saying it directly.
7. Poems are expressive--they express powerful human emotions like: anger, love, sadness, hatred, excitement, passion, desire, relationships (dead ones, budding ones, struggling ones)
8. You can relate to it--it talks about things that you experience
9. It's helpful to see it from a different perspective
10. It can be interpreted differently--wonderfully subjective

They dislike it because . .

1. It's boring because it doesn't usually have a straight-forward plot (story) (or if you're not interested in that subject
2. They don't care about it. It doesn't seem to deal with their life.
3. It's too repetitive
4. It's confusing. Sometimes it doesn't create an image in your mind. It's too much about ideas
5. It doesn't directly say the idea
6. It can be interpreted differently--annoyingly subjective
7. It's boring if you're not interested in that subject
8. It can be offensive

People like song lyrics because . . .

Most of the same things we listed above
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
     Lyrics

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

In the poem "Fire and Ice," fire is:

(write one thing)

1.    Desire for power
2.    Desire for love
3.   Desire for money (greed)
4.  envy 

In this poem, ice is:

1.    hatred of others who are different.
2.   Racism
3. 
   

Robert Frost (1874–1963).  Mountain Interval.  1920.

1. The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;         5 Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,         10 And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.         15 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Give an example of a choice that people make that changes their lives. This Is Just To Say   by William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold How does his wife feel when she reads this note? What literary device is seen in these words? "so sweet and so" alliteration Other literary devices in this poem include: imagery. ___plums in an icebox (visual)________________ is an image Song Lyrics. Underline at least one of the following in your lyrics: imagery metaphor simile alliteration repetition of a word for emphasis rhythm personification King and Lionheart--Of Monsters and Men