Poetry Analysis

May 10, 2016

E.Q: Analyze a poem to understand its big ideas.

Obj: I can analyze a poem to understand its big ideas.

Starter:

We will complete the online assessment tutorial for the NC Final Exams.

Vocabulary:

Quiz. Quiz. Trade.

Activity:

1.John Donne Poem Analysis

We will be going over this as a class. 

The Sun Rising

Busy old fool, unruly Sun,

Why dost thou thus,

Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?

Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run?

Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide

Late schoolboys, and sour prentices,

Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,

Call country ants to harvest offices,

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,

Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Thy beams, so reverend and strong

Why shouldst thou think?

I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,

But that I would not lose her sight so long:

If her eyes have not blinded thine,

Look, and tomorrow late, tell me

Whether both the’Indias of spice and mine

Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me.

Ask for those kings whom thou saw’st yesterday,

And thou shalt hear: “All here in one bed lay.”

She’is all states, and all princes I,

Nothing else is.

Princes do but play us; compar’d to this,

All honour’s mimic, all wealth alchemy.

Thou, sun, art half as happy’as we,

In that the world’s contracted thus;

Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be

To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.

Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;

This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere.

 INSTRUCTIONS:

Annotate each stanza.

Use this time to generate meaning.Then, respond to the following questions:

A.  What is the objective summary of the poem?

B.  Which line best captures the main idea and why? 

C.  What is the speaker's attitude towards the sun?

D.  How does the speaker value love?

E.  What is meant by the hyperbole, "She is all states, and all princes I?"

F.  What is the overall theme of the poem?

2.  USAtestprep Practice

Log into usatestprep and click on poetry practice.

Go through and answer all of the questions.

For any question that you get wrong write a test correction.

Include the correct answer and why that choice is the best answer compared to your other three options.

Closure:

Using the learning target, how confident do you feel interpreting poetry?

Explain.