english 11 poem presentation martin, ryan, amy, akzhan
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English 11 Poem Presentation
Martin, Ryan, Amy, Akzhan
Titles of our 3 Poems:
The Voices Ignored by the Rich
Immigrant
No Luggage
About the Poems
All of them have some kind of meaning/theme relating society, and its problems
Free verse
George Bowering
Has won “many” literary Awards
was the first ever “Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate” (Official appointed Poet of the Canadian government)
Was also novelist, historian and biographer
Also was made an officer of the “Order of Canada”, which is a Canadian service award
These things relate to the fact that most if not all his poems (the ones in our Book) are political and social
Question 1: What do you think this poem is generally about? (meaning/theme)
Question 2: This poem is generally addressed in in first person plural point of view (we). Who do you think those voices represent?
Question 3: What do you think is meant by the first four lines of the 2nd stanza?
“We have never known a need
For anything this world can give us,
But we feel a thirst
Large enough to swallow a gilded sea.”
Question 4: What do you think is this poem generally about? (meaning/theme)
Question 5: What do you think is meant in the 4th stanza?/What is the person trying to say?
“I’ve taken a new name,
You have no claim on me,
no baggage I will have to redeem.”
Question 6: What do you think of the last line?
Question 7: What do you think this author is trying to say by this poem?
Question 8: Why do you think this poem is called “No Luggage”?
Question 9: What do you think is meant by the first four lines?
QUESTION 10: Which of the poems themes do you like the best and why?