Rev Assignment Choices An Adventure into the World of Language Poetry 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 ID: 512147
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What choices did you have to make today after you woke up? What choices are typically easy for you? Which ones are more difficult?
Rev Assignment:
ChoicesSlide2
An Adventure into the World of Language
PoetrySlide3
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; 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 thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn 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. I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere 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.
The Road Not Taken
By Robert FrostSlide4Slide5Slide6
Rhythm comes in syllables called “feet”
These feet usually consist of two syllables
Iambic:
X
/ (unstressed, stressed) ( X / ) ( X / ) ( X / )(X / )( X /)Example: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:From “Ode to Autumn” by John KeatsRhythm in Poetry
To
swell
the
gourd,
and
plump
the
ha-
-zel
shells
da
Dum
da
Dum
da
Dum
da
Dum
da
DumSlide7
Rhythm comes in syllables called “feet”
These feet usually consist of two syllables
Iambic:
X
/Trochaic: / X (stressed, unstressed) (/ X) (/ X) ( / X) (/ X)Example: Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater Rhythm in PoetrySlide8
Rhythm comes in syllables called “feet”
These feet usually consist of two syllables
Iambic:
X
/Trochaic: / X (stressed, unstressed) (/ X) (/ X) ( / X) (/ X)Example: Peter, Peter, pumpkin eaterSpondaic: / / (stressed, stressed) ( X / ) ( X / )( X / ) ( / /)(X /)Example: That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, Rhythm in PoetrySlide9
There are also feet that have three syllables in them: Anapestic: ( X
X
/)
Unstressed, unstressed, stressed
Dactyllic: (/ X X)Stressed, unstressed, unstressedRhythm in PoetrySlide10
Meter is determined by measuring the number of feet in a line of poetry:
One foot:
monometer
Two feet:
dimeterThree feet: trimeterFour feet: tetrameterFive feet: pentameterSix feet: hexameterMeter in PoetrySlide11
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; 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 thereHad worn them really about the same,The Road Not Taken by Robert FrostSlide12
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. I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere 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.The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost