By Ted Kosher Poetry Analysis Write your name at the top Save this area for the second half of class Abandoned Farmhouse He was a big man says the size of his shoes on a pile of broken dishes by the house ID: 279648
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“Abandoned Farmhouse”By: Ted Kosher
Poetry AnalysisSlide2
Write your name at the top
Save this area for the second half of classSlide3
“Abandoned Farmhouse”
He was a big man, says the size of his shoes
on a pile of broken dishes by the house;
a tall man too, says the length of the bed
in an upstairs room; and a good, God-fearing man,
says the Bible with a broken back
on the floor below the window, dusty with sun;
but not a man for farming, say the fields
cluttered with boulders and the leaky barn.
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In the margin:
Underline personification
and label it each time
Illustrate the imagerySlide4
“Abandoned Farmhouse”
A woman lived with him, says the bedroom wall
papered with lilacs and the kitchen shelves
covered with oilcloth, and they had a child,
says the sandbox made from a tractor tire.
Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preserves
and canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar hole.
And the winters cold, say the rags in the window frames.
It was lonely here, says the narrow country road.
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In the margin:
Underline personification
and label it each time
Illustrate the imagerySlide5
“Abandoned Farmhouse”
Something went wrong, says the empty house
in the weed-choked yard. Stones in the fields
say he was not a farmer; the still-sealed jars
in the cellar say she left in a nervous haste.
And the child? Its toys are strewn in the yard
like branches after a storm--a rubber cow,
a rusty tractor with a broken plow,
a doll in overalls. Something went wrong, they say.
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In the margin:
Underline personification
and label it each time
Illustrate the imagerySlide6
“Abandoned Farmhouse”
He
was a big man, says the size of his shoes
on a pile of broken dishes by the house;
a tall man too, says the length of the bed
in an upstairs room; and a good, God-fearing man,
says the Bible with a broken back
on the floor below the window, dusty with sun;
but not a man for farming, say the fields
cluttered with boulders and the leaky barn.A woman lived with him, says the bedroom wallpapered with lilacs and the kitchen shelvescovered with oilcloth, and they had a child,says the sandbox made from a tractor tire.Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preservesand canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar hole.And the winters cold, say the rags in the window frames.It was lonely here, says the narrow country road.
Something went wrong, says the empty house
in the weed-choked yard. Stones in the fields
say he was not a farmer; the still-sealed jars
in the cellar say she left in a nervous haste.
And the child? Its toys are strewn in the yard
like branches after a storm--a rubber cow,
a rusty tractor with a broken plow,
a doll in overalls. Something went wrong, they say.
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Talk in a small group:
What effect does the author’s use of personification have?Slide7
Your Turn
On the back of the poem:Number your paper 1-10, skip spaces between each number
List 10 things in your house that speak of who you are as a person
Next to each item explain how it represents you
For example: Bible – I am a Christian and I grew up in a very religious familySlide8
Your Turn
Imagine you are a characterAn author is trying to communicate who you are by describing the items you ownIn the empty half of your page, rewrite the poem to represent you
For example (the first two lines):
She was a woman of medium build,
says the
length of her clothes
which hung neatly in a closet upstairs;