Insightful Images

 

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ind 6 different poems, each of which illustrates a different literary device listed below.  The student will write a brief, but insightful analytical paragraph that includes an explanation of how the poetic device contributes to the author’s purpose. The student will also create an original picture (digital or 35mm) that illustrates some meaningful aspect of the poem. This effort will result in 6 poems, 6 pictures, and 6 analyses.  The final project will be in the form of a Power Point presentation that will consist of13 slides.  For each poem that the student studies there will be one slide with the actual text of the poem.  On that slide, the poetic device will be hyperlinked to another slide that will include the picture and the analysis.  No effects allowed. 

 

 

Poetic Devices

simile/metaphor, symbolism, apostrophe, metonymy/synecdoche, onomatopoeia, allusion, personification, tone/mood, persona, oxymoron

 

 

Poets

William Shakespeare, Girard Manley Hopkins, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Edgar Lee Masters, Wilfred Owen, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Lawrence Dunbar, William Wadsworth Longfellow, Marianne Moor, Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson, e. e. cummings, Ambrose Bierce, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Christine Rossetti, William Carlos Williams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, E. A. Poe, Ezra Pound, William Wordsworth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Keats, Langston Hughes, Wallace Stevens, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Butler Yeats, Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell, John Crowe Ransom, Phyllis Wheatley, Walt Whitman, Matthew Arnold, Claude McKay, John Masefield, Herman Melville, Alfred Noyes, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy Parker, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Blake