Please take out your Frost packet Please take out your Frost packet & Literary Characteristics pages. & Literary Characteristics pages.

TODAY:TODAY: Share Frost ImitationsShare Frost Imitations Discuss: “The Road Not Discuss: “The Road Not

Taken,” “The Wood Taken,” “The Wood Pile” & “After Apple-Pile” & “After Apple-Picking”Picking”

Frost ImitationsFrost Imitations

Have you marked your own poem, for all Have you marked your own poem, for all literary devices, including rhyme, meter, literary devices, including rhyme, meter, language, etc.?language, etc.?

Any volunteers to share?Any volunteers to share?

““I’m always saying something that’s I’m always saying something that’s just the edge of something more” just the edge of something more”

(Frost). (Frost).

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Notetaking Assignment worth 25 points at end Notetaking Assignment worth 25 points at end of unit. of unit.

You MUST mark up every assigned poem. You MUST mark up every assigned poem. Begin when you read it on your own; add to Begin when you read it on your own; add to notes in class. notes in class.

25 = Evidence of original thinking, in addition 25 = Evidence of original thinking, in addition to poetic devices, rhythm, meter, etc. to poetic devices, rhythm, meter, etc.

20 = What we discuss in class20 = What we discuss in class

““The Road Not Taken”The Road Not Taken”

This poem has This poem has been called the been called the most most misunderstood misunderstood poem in poem in American American literature! literature!

Let’s make sure we understand Let’s make sure we understand the following, about each poem…the following, about each poem…

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““The Road Not Taken”The Road Not Taken”

Literal meaning:Literal meaning:

““The Road Not Taken”The Road Not Taken”

Literal meaning:Literal meaning: Speaker at crossroads, Speaker at crossroads, chooses one. chooses one.

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““The Road Not Taken”The Road Not Taken”

Literal meaningLiteral meaning: Speaker at crossroads, chooses : Speaker at crossroads, chooses one. one.

Topics:Topics: N.E.Countryside, Seasons, N.E.Countryside, Seasons, Commonplace settingCommonplace setting

Themes/Ideas:Themes/Ideas:

““The Road Not Taken”The Road Not Taken”

Literal meaningLiteral meaning: Speaker at crossroads, chooses : Speaker at crossroads, chooses one. one.

Topics:Topics: N.E.Countryside, Seasons, N.E.Countryside, Seasons, Commonplace settingCommonplace setting

Themes/Ideas:Themes/Ideas: Contrasts and contradictions; Contrasts and contradictions; refusal to give absolute answers; individual refusal to give absolute answers; individual life choices/decision-making; life lived at life choices/decision-making; life lived at meeting point of powerful forcesmeeting point of powerful forces

““The Road Not Taken”The Road Not Taken”

Form/formatForm/format::

““The Road Not Taken”The Road Not Taken”

Form/formatForm/format: Lyric poem; Dramatic : Lyric poem; Dramatic monologue; punctuation; stanzas; line length monologue; punctuation; stanzas; line length (8-9 syllables per line)(8-9 syllables per line)

Sound: Sound:

““The Road Not Taken”The Road Not Taken”

Form/formatForm/format: Lyric poem; Dramatic : Lyric poem; Dramatic monologue; punctuation; stanzas; line lengthmonologue; punctuation; stanzas; line length

Sound: Sound: Rhyme scheme (abaab, cdccd, etc.); Rhyme scheme (abaab, cdccd, etc.); rhythm/meter (almost iambic with double-rhythm/meter (almost iambic with double-steps, skips); etc. steps, skips); etc.

Literary Devices: Literary Devices:

““The Road Not Taken”The Road Not Taken”

Form/formatForm/format: Lyric poem; Dramatic : Lyric poem; Dramatic monologue; punctuation; stanzas; line lengthmonologue; punctuation; stanzas; line length

Sound: Sound: Rhyme scheme (abaab, cdccd, etc.); Rhyme scheme (abaab, cdccd, etc.); rhythm/meter (almost iambic with double-rhythm/meter (almost iambic with double-steps, skips); etc. steps, skips); etc.

Literary Devices/Figurative Language: Literary Devices/Figurative Language: no no similes/metaphors (except, perhaps, the whole similes/metaphors (except, perhaps, the whole poem)poem)

How does the form connect with the How does the form connect with the meaning? meaning?

So, which road is the road not taken? So, which road is the road not taken? The one he takes, or the one he didn’t take? The one he takes, or the one he didn’t take?

Do you agree with Frost that this is a Do you agree with Frost that this is a

““very tricky” poem? very tricky” poem?

Main ideas in Main ideas in “The Figure a Poem Makes” “The Figure a Poem Makes”

““Poetry as merely one more art of having Poetry as merely one more art of having something to say.” something to say.”

Wildness within restraintsWildness within restraints ““It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

(like love!)(like love!) Poetry offers a “clarification of life,” “a Poetry offers a “clarification of life,” “a

momentary stay against confusion.” momentary stay against confusion.” ““the surprise of remembering something I the surprise of remembering something I

didn’t know I knew.” didn’t know I knew.”

““The Wood Pile” (pg. 13)The Wood Pile” (pg. 13)

““The Wood Pile”The Wood Pile”

Your observations (Add to your notes!)Your observations (Add to your notes!)

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““After Apple-Picking”After Apple-Picking”

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Also…Also…

Note sounds and appeals to the sensesNote sounds and appeals to the senses Where is the shift in specific to general? Or, Where is the shift in specific to general? Or,

Where does it “begin in delight and end in Where does it “begin in delight and end in wisdom” wisdom”

Note line lengthNote line length Note Rhyme schemeNote Rhyme scheme

How do erratic line length and rhyme scheme How do erratic line length and rhyme scheme effect meaning?effect meaning?

HomeworkHomework

Finish “After Apple-Picking” (p. 14) Re-read, Finish “After Apple-Picking” (p. 14) Re-read, Annotate, InterpretAnnotate, Interpret

Read & Annotate “Home Burial” (p. 18-19)Read & Annotate “Home Burial” (p. 18-19)