Epithet and Apostrophe Chicago by Carl Sandburg OBJECTIVE Students will analyze the effect epithet and apostrophe have on the poem Chicago Carl Sandburgs Chicago ID: 685385
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Lesson 10
Collect
epitaphs
Epithet and Apostrophe
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“Chicago” by Carl
Sandburg
OBJECTIVE: Students will analyze the effect epithet and apostrophe have on the poem “Chicago.”Slide2
Carl Sandburg’s “
Chicago
”
"My Kind of Town"Slide3
On the back of your poem…
Draw a t-chart that takes up about ¼ the page.
Remember, a t-chart looks like this:
On the left side, title it “
Chicago Now”On the right, “Chicago Then”Slide4
On the left…
Come up with as many things about Chicago as you can.
When you think of Chicago, what comes to mind?
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eather, people, the city, the suburbs, things to do, places, etc.Slide5
Now, let’s look at some pictures of Chicago from the early 1900s and fill in the “Chicago Then” column.
As you view these pictures, write down on the right column, what you see, that would describe Chicago in the past.Slide6Slide7Slide8Slide9Slide10Slide11Slide12Slide13Slide14Slide15Slide16Slide17
Sooo……What do you think?
How has Chicago changed over the century?
Chicago Now
Chicago ThenSlide18
Here’s what you need to know about Carl Sandburg…
With his writing, "attempt[
ed
] to find beauty in modern industrialism."Slide19
“Chicago”
"Chicago"
Now, you will read it a second time.
This time, as you read,
annotate the poem to create meaning.Slide20
Now, let’s talk terminology.
Simile
Comparison between two unlike objects, using
like
or asPersonificationattributing human characteristics to something that is not human“with lifted head singing so proud”Epitheta characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing “Hog Butcher for the World” – representing Chicago
Apostrophea direct address of an inanimate object, abstract qualities, or a person not living or present.Busy old fool, unruly sun,Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?Slide21
Now let’s find some examples!
With a partner or by yourself, go back through the poem and find as many examples of these terms as you can.
Highlight each example and then label either P (personification), E (epithet), S (simile), or A (apostrophe).Slide22
Now, on each colored Post-It note, choose your favorite example of each term and hand to me.
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yellow = P
,
green = E, orange = ASlide23
CHICAGO HOG Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who
sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on
job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the
little soft cities
;Slide24
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Bareheaded,
Shoveling,
Wrecking,
Planning, Building, breaking, rebuilding,Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.
and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing!Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog
Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.Slide25
In the margin next the appropriate stanza, answer the following questions:
What effect do the examples of EPITHET have in the first stanza?
What effect do the examples of APOSTROPHE have in the second stanza?
What effect do the examples of PERSONIFICATION have in the second part of the second stanza?
What effect do the examples of the SIMILES have in the final stanza?Slide26
Your Turn
For your assignment, you are going to write your own “Place I Love” poem.
As your handout says, you should follow the same organization as “Chicago.” Use the poem as a model!
You are not limited to a city! You could write about your job, your
treehouse, your car, your room, any PLACE you want!Slide27
Requirements
List
epithets
describing the place
Use apostrophe to say what others might say about itDefend itUse a simile to describe the placePersonify the place, giving it human characteristicsClose by repeating the
epithets from the beginning (or a variation)Your poem must be AT LEAST 16 linesYou must have a title (you can just call it something as simple as “Dunder Mifflin” or “Boise”)
***Before you turn in, you should label your epithets, apostrophe, simile, and personification. This shows me specifically that you used these techniques, and you know what they are.