PPT-Poems

By Emiliano Mesa Uribe 75 Wildrness Rivers There are rivers that I know born of ice and melting snow white with rapids swift to roar with. .. The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th century. At the age of four and five, boys were sold to clean chimneys, due to their small size. These children were oppressed and had a diminutive existence that was socially accepted at the time. In the earlier poem, a young chimney sweeper recounts a dream had by one of his fellows, in which an angel rescues the boys from coffins and takes them to a sunny meadow; in the later poem, an apparently adult speaker encounters a child chimney sweeper abandoned in the snow while his parents are at church or possibly even suffered death where church is referring to being with God.. Lawrence. Southern Medical University. World Culture. Prof . ADama. (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) . Was . an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. . His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. . To understand the . role of poems in world war one. Why were poems important?. During the war the men had very few ways to express their feelings about what life was like that could be recorded and sent home. Many wrote letters about their experiences but some of the most famous and well-remembered stories of what life was like at war came from poems that the men wrote in their spare time. . Death Personified. In your . journal. , . make a list of five important things . you haven’t . said, but would say to someone if . you had . the guts/knew there would be no consequences. . You can . Fleur Adcock. For Heidi With Blue Hair . When you dyed your hair blue. (or, at least ultramarine. for the clipped sides, with a crest. of jet-black spikes on top). you were sent home from school. because, as the headmistress put it,. A Sullivan and Costa Production. “Two Lovers And A Beachcomber By The Real Sea”. “Mad Girl’s Love Song”. “Cinderella”. “Contusion”. Who is Sylvia Plath?. Born on October 27. th. , 1932 in Boston, MA. Read the riddle and try to guess what the object is!. . Hint: You can find the answers in your classroom!. Poems are from Betsy Franco’s 201 Riddle Poems to Build Literacy (Scholastic, 2000). I have two hands. I have a face. . Found Poems. Found poems.  are poems composed from words and phrases found in another text.. You can create these found poems from nearly anything if you can be creative and inspired.. Found Poems. Using the handout, review the different found poems that were created using the same text. . (or Whiteout Poems in Honor of Max). Let’s start with blackout poems.. Blackout poems are poems, sentences or phrases created from the words of a text, such as a novel or newspaper.. You should still be able to read the poem from left to right and from top to bottom.. . The poem is clearly set around conflict, this is shown by the whole poem based on a solider rushing out of the trenches on the attack.. However the poem also looks at the ideas of humanity, nature and transformation.. William Blake. Songs of Innocence. : “Holy Thursday,” p.69. Songs of Experience. : “Holy Thursday,” p.73. Songs of Experience. : “The Sick Rose,” p.73. Songs of Experience. : “The . Tyger. . Millennium I . pp. . . 220 - 221. STUDY QUESTIONS. What are the main themes in Blake’s poetry?. Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” (1789) portray the un-fallen state of man ( the state in which humanity was before Adam and Eve were banished by God from Heaven for committing the sin of pride) while “Songs of Experience (1794) deal with the presence of evil and injustice in the world. . – What they are about.. 2. The. ideas . in the poems – what the . . poet is saying.. 3. The . mood and atmosphere . of . . the poem.. 4. How they are written – . . . stylistic. choices.. : TLW review parts of speech – including nouns, verbs, and adjectives by creating a diamante poem using the RWT app, Diamante Poems. . Diamantes are poems that are written using a recipe. A diamante consists of seven lines, arranged in the diamond shape, with specific types of words in each line:.