Understanding and Appreciating Poems
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Understanding and Appreciating Poems
- 1. Lesson Plan for Grade 9 August 24 & 26, September 1 & 3, 2015 I. OBJECTIVES At the end of the lesson, the students must have: a. Deciphered the difference of narrative, descriptive, lyric and dramatic poems; b. Known the forms of the poem – verses and stanzas; c. Known the rhyme pattern; d. Understood the literal and symbolic meaning of the poem; and e. Related the poem to real-life situation. II. SUBJECT MATTER TOPIC Literature:”A Man with the Hoe” by Edwin Markham Language: Understand and Appreciating Poems REFERENCE A Journey through Anglo-American Literature, pp.135- 136 English towards Effective Communication, pp.17-31 MATERIALS cartolina, sentence strips, textbook, whiteboard and marker, handouts III. LEARNING PROCEDURE Teacher’s Dialogue (Day 1) Students’ Dialogue A. Learning Activity Good morning Grade 9. Facilitators, kindly lead our initial activity for today. Thank you and please take your seats now. B. Motivation Poems are introduced to us since we’re in our elementary, right? Before we start our lesson for today, let’s have an activity first called KNOW MY LINE, KNOW MY TITLE, KNOW ME. So from the title itself, you are going to identify the poet’s name and title of selected lines presented here. Through this, we will be Good morning Ma’am Jovs. Yes, ma’am.
- 2. reminded of the different poems we have in literature. So who wants to answer number one, number two… so on. (This activity is for 10 minutes only.) C. Introduction Thank you class for your participation. So this activity is very related to our lesson for today about understanding and appreciating poems. (name of student), how can you understand and appreciate poems that you read? Thank you. So remember that in understand and appreciating our poems, we must know what it means, what does it imply and how will it affect our daily living. D. Lesson Proper There are three important things we need to remember to fully understand and appreciate our poems: 1. Explore the literal meaning of the poem; 2. Explore the symbolic meaning of the poem; and 3. Integrate the poem to real-life situation. Let’s focus first on how to explore for the literal meaning of the poem. This will talk about the Formalist Perspective in criticizing literature. However, in your case we will only be discussing the kind, the form and the pattern of the poem. Let’s talk about the KINDS of the POEM. Written in your handouts are the excerpts or sample poems by the different poets. Last Night in London Airport Learners’ responses may vary.
- 3. Last night in London Airport I saw a wooden bin Labeled UNWANTED LITERATURE IS TO BE PLACED HEREIN So I wrote a poem And popped it in. - Christopher Logue So what have you noticed in this poem? Okay, very good. Does the poem tell a story? If that is the case, then we call it a NARRATIVE POEM. Remember the greatest rule, it must tell a story. A Madrigal Youthis full of pleasance, Ageis full of care; Youthlikesummer morn Agelikewinter weather. - William Shakespeare Now, let’s unto this poem. What do you think this poem suggest? Okay, thank you. This poem show an image, isn’t it? What are the images presented? Okay, very good. We have learned that our images/imageries must appeal to our senses, right? This kind of poem is called the DESCRIPTIVE POEM. It is because images are created in the poem and appeals to our senses. Do not be confused with the two kinds of poem. Narrative poem merely tells a story and Descriptive poem depicts a person, animal or inanimate It tells about what happened to the speaker when he was in London Airport. Learners’ responses may vary Yes, ma’am. Learners’ responses may vary. Yes, it describes the youth and age of a man. Yes, ma’am.
- 4. objects deeply. Ode to Aphrodite Deathless Aphrodite, throned in flowers DaughterofZeus,O terrible enchantress Withthe sorrow,withthis anguish, breakmy spirit What have you noticed in this poem? Basically, it is the poet who expresses his feelings and thoughts and directly tells it to the receiver. So if the poet directly addresses his/her own feelings, state of mind and perception, it is called a LYRIC POEM. It is a kind of poem which expresses personal and emotional feelings, thoughts and observations. Clown Song from ACT V Scene I: Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare This kind of poem is actually called a DRAMATIC POEM. This poem speaks through characters. This poem is written though it’s a dialogue. It is told through one or more characters voice, perspective and language. So after we have identified the KINDS of the POEM, let us now identify the FORMS of the poem. I shall haunt you, O my lost one,as the twilight Haunts a reed- entangledtrail. - To A Lost One (Angela Mananlang Gloria) How many verses are there in this poem? Verse is a single line of the poem. It is the basic unit of a stanza. So what do we call a poem consist of two verses? Learners’ responses may vary. Two lines. It is called a couplet.
- 5. Who’er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me - Wishes for the (Supposed)Mistress(Richard Crashaw) How many lines are there in this poem? So when a poem is composed of three lines, it is called… A poem consists of four verses is called a quatrain. A five-verse poem is called a cinquain. Our sonnets and haikus are exception to the rules. A solid stanza or in several stanzas of fourteen verses is called a sonnet. And if the poem consists of three verses of 17 syllables with a 5-7-5 division, it’s called a haiku. After we have discussed the verse and stanza, we will now talk about the rhyme. We have learned the difference of internal and end-rhymes right? Again, what is the difference of the two? Okay, very good. But END RHYMES has two components. The single or masculine end-rhyme and double or feminine end-rhyme. She holds no joys beyond the day’s tomorrow, She finds no worlds beyond his arms embrace, She looks upon the Form behind the furrow Who is her mind, her Motion, Time and Space. - The Spouse (Luis G. Dato) Let’s find the pair of words which is an example of an end- rhyme. It has three lines. It is called a tercet. If the rhyme is within the verse, it is called an internal rhyme. However, if the rhyme is found at the end of different verses, it is called an end-rhyme.
- 6. tomorrow-furrow embrace-space In the first pair of words, how many pronounced syllables have the same sound? So when there is two pronounced syllable of one line and last two syllable of another line are the same, it is called a double or feminine end-rhyme. If we have the last pronounced syllable in one line and last pronounced syllable in another line, it is called a single or masculine end-rhyme. Okay, these are the following included to explore for the literal meaning of the poem. After we have tried to explore for the literal meaning, let us now go and explore for the symbolic meaning of poems. This symbolic meaning is the meaning drawn from the words or expressions not used literally rather they suggest a different meaning. 1. Get the literal meaning. 2. Look for words or expressions which actually have connotations. 3. Try to think of how the writer used the symbols in his poem. 4. Try to associate this to some possible situations. These are the things you must remember in order to get the symbolic meaning of the poem. Lastly, let’s integrate the poem’s importance to life. In this part where we will be able to arrive with the theme and see our full way to understand the poem. Two.