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Poetry Devices

• Alliteration: the repetition of initial

consonant sounds.

•Example: The Cute Cuddly Kitten hid in the

pantry.

• Allusion: reference to a well-known person,

place, literary work or work of art.

•Example: I compared myself to Toni Braxton,

thought I would never catch my breath.

• Figurative Language: Writing or speech not

meant to be interpreted literally.

•Example: Donny was so angry flames of fire

came out of his mouth.

• Metaphor: Speaking of a person place or

thing as if it is something or someone else.

•Example: Life is a broken winged bird that

cannot fly.

• Extended Metaphor: continuing a

metaphor over many lines or an entire poem

or essay.

•Example: Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem

“Sympathy”

• Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate sound.

•Example: The bacon sizzled in the pan.

• Personification: Giving human

characteristics to non-human things.

•Example: When I sat down, the chair wrapped

its arms around me comfortingly.

• Rhyme: Repetition of sounds at the end of

words or the end of a line of poetry.

•Example: now I lay me down to sleep. / I pray

the Lord my soul to keep.

• Repetition: Restating a word or phrase

multiple times.

•Example: Martin Luther King’s speech “I Have a

Dream”

• Simile: Comparing two items using “like” or

“as.”

•Example: Float like a butterfly sting like a

bee.

Sympathy By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Previewing the poem

Title:

Poet:

Background information:

Sympathy

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar was the son of slaves who escaped using the Underground Railroad. He worked as a writer and published many poems and short stories. Dunbar explored the themes of slavery and life in the South.

Previewing the poem Subject of poem:

Repeated words and phrases:

Structure of the poem:

Rhyme Scheme:

A caged bird

I know why; caged bird; first

3 stanzas with 7 lines in each

abaabcc

After we read What I liked about the poem:

What the poet is saying:

The mood of the poem:

Why does he repeat the phrase “I know why the caged bird”?

It is easy to read

He seems to be comparing a caged bird to a human slave

Sad in some parts and angry in others

He wants the reader to know that he too has felt this way

Thoughts and feelings

“I know what the caged bird feels, alas”

“Till its blood is red on the cruel bars”

“But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings”

Alas makes me think that he has been a caged bird too

Speaker seems to be getting angrier because his images are getting more violent

„caged bird‟ seems very desperate to fling a prayer upward

Connect to the poem When I read this poem, I felt:

I felt this because:

How does the speaker feel about slavery:

I know this because:

Confusion first, then sadness and then sympathy

Once I figured out that bird was a metaphor for slaves, it was sad to think about how they wanted to get away but couldn‟t.

He thinks that slavery is horrible. The slaves/birds are locked up and can‟t get free even though they keep trying to get away

Paraphrase

“When the first bird sings and the first bud opes”

Birds are singing songs of Spring and flowers are blooming

Paraphrase

“I know why the caged bird beats his wing/ Till its blood is red on the cruel bars”

Speaker understands the bird‟s frustration. Bird knows that escape is impossible but it still beats its wings against the bar, trying to get away.

Paraphrase

“It is not a carol of joy or glee./ But a prayer that he sends from his heart‟s deep core.”

The songs that the bird is singing are not happy ones; they are a sad pleading for freedom.

Literary Devices from poem Alliteration

when the wind stirs soft through the springing grass

Simile

the river flows like a stream of glass

Metaphor

Caged bird = slaves or African Americans who are not FREE

Rhyme

Alas, grass and glass

Imagery

first bird sings (hearing) and the first bud opes (sight), and the faint perfume from (smell)

Repetition

I Know what the caged bird feels

What caged birds do you know?

Continue Dunbar‟s metaphor and compose a paragraph describing the plight of 3 other caged birds that you know about. Give examples of people today who can be compared to the caged bird.