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Lesson Question

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Lesson Goals

Comparing Poetry and Art

Read “Sonnet in Primary Colors” and “Monet’s ‘Waterlilies.’”

Recognize poetic

.Analyze the use of

language and

in poetry.

Compare and

contrast how a

subject is portrayed in

two different artistic

.


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WK2 Words to KnowFill in this table as you work through the lesson. You may also use the glossary to

help you.

medium a means of an idea or feeling

allusiona reference in a text to another text,

person, event, or thing

fixed form poetry that relies on a number of lines, stanzas,

rhyme, or rhythm

free versepoetry that has no regular of rhyme or meter;

also known as form

imagery vivid language that appeals to the

metaphor a comparison of unlike things

similefigurative language that uses or as to compare

things



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Artistic Expression

Art is the of using creativity to beautiful or thought-

provoking works.

• Visual – paintings and

• Graphic – drawing, printmaking, and design

• Plastic – sculptures and

• Literary – poetry, , and stories

• Decorative – , baskets, tapestry

• Performing – music, dance, theater



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Structural Elements of PoetryFill in the graphic organizer.


Rhyme

of poetry

Meter

Stanzas

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Poetic Forms

Poetry that has no regular structural patterns is called or open

form.

Poems with have established structures.

• Elizabethan sonnets

• lines with a specific scheme

• Haiku

• lines with a certain number of in each line

• Villanelles

• 19 lines with a regular pattern of repeating lines

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Analyzing Poetic Structure

This poem is an example of a poem. There is no specific

structure.

Today as the news from Selma and Saigon poisons the air like fallout, I come again to see the serene great picture that I love.

Here space and time exist in light the eye like the eye of faith believes. The seen, the known dissolve in iridescence, become illusive flesh of light that was not, was, forever is.

–“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’”Robert Hayden

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Figurative Language in Poetry

language uses words to express something

their ordinary meaning.

Types of figurative language: metaphor, , and allusion.

Metaphor

• A direct between one thing and another

• Example: You’re a light in my life.

Simile

• Figurative language that uses the word or as to compare two things• Example: His attitude is as cold as ice.

Allusion

• A to another text, person, event, or thing

• Example: I’m carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders.

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Imagery

is vivid language that appeals to the .

Does not include imagery:

We went to see a movie. I ate some popcorn, and I had a good time. The music of

the opening credits was pretty loud.

This could be greatly improved with words that the popcorn or

maybe the music in more .

Includes imagery:

Underline the imagery that appeals to the senses of sight, smell, sound, and feel.


Includes imagery

The movie theater filled with the scent of freshly popped popcorn as we approached our seats. The lights dimmed to a faint glow, and music came thumping out of the speakers. The vibrations from the bass made the hair on my arms stand up. I was so excited to see this movie!

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Figurative Language and Imagery in Poetry

Underline the poet’s use of simile in the poem “Monet’s ‘Waterlilies.’”


Here space and time exist in light the eye like the eye of faith believes. The seen, the known dissolve in iridescence, become illusive flesh of light that was not, was, forever is.

–“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’”Robert Hayden

Underline the allusions in “Sonnet in Primary Colors.”

Each night she lay down in pain and roseto the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved Dead,Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead.

–“Sonnet in Primary Colors,”Rita Dove

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Rita Dove (b. 1952)

• Was born in Akron,

• Studied at Miami University in Ohio and the University of Tübingen in

• Writes verse-novels, , essays, and poetry

• Served as poet laureate of the United States; was the

person ever to be named US Poet Laureate

• Won the Pulitzer for her poetry

• Wrote a poem about famous Mexican painter , “Sonnet in

Primary Colors”

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Frida Kahlo (1907–54)

• Was born in City in 1907

• Contracted polio at the age of

• Was in an accident at age 18.

• Painted in a surrealist style.

• Was to painter Diego Rivera

• Lived for a time in Detroit and San Francisco


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Analyzing Art

Analyzing a work of art is similar to analyzing a literary work.

Viewers should consider:

• structural such as lines, colors, and the

of the artwork.

• the mood, emotions, or tone the artwork evokes.

• the context and life experiences of the artist.


Comparing Art and Poetry

To compare with poetry, ask the following questions:

• Does the writing how the painting looks or the feeling it

creates?

• What are the similarities or differences in the of the work?

• What specific can I analyze in each piece?

• What are the titles of the poem and artwork?

• What is the in each piece?

• What are evoked?


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Comparing a Poem and a Painting


This is for the woman with one black wing

perched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erect

among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant,

who painted herself a present—wildflowers entwining the plaster corsether spine resides in, that flaming

pillar—–“Sonnet in Primary Colors,”

Rita Dove

the poem and the artwork create images of Frida’s

and the animals.

Both the poem and painting create feelings of and

.

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Robert Hayden (1913–80)

• Was born in Detroit, Michigan

• Attended Northern High School and Detroit City College

• Wrote his in the 1930s, inspired by the

Renaissance

• Wrote about and the civil rights era

• Was the African American to serve as the

of the United States

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Claude Monet (1840–1928)

• Was born in Paris,

• Had an early interest in painting and focused on

• Painted Impression: Sunrise, the painting that gave the

school its name, in 1872


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Summary

Answer

How do different artistic mediums present similar topics? Lesson Question

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