Poetry Station - A - Read and Respond to Poetry

PART I - 1. Select a poem to read.

2. Write the title of the poem and the poet's name in your Reader's Notebook.

3. Create a SAIDS chart for the selected poem. (S.-et- example)

Note: You must select3 poems to analyze.

PART II -

1. Write a short analysis for each poem you completed a SAIDS chart.

2. Your analysis should describe the poet's tone in the poem and how tone sets the mood for the reader.

Alternatively, you can describe the poet's theme in poem and how the imagery in the poem supports the theme.

Important: You must cite lines from the poem to support your analysis. Beer Iv 1 1-erarmFram fa,5s1.ceS

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beauty and expresses the importance of cherishing its beauty as it's fleeting. Frost supports his message with strong imagery woven throughout the poem. For example, in stanza 1, Frost compares the rich, green of nature to gold. Gold is widely recognized as a precious metal. He then continues, stating that nature's gold is "her hardest hue to hold." Throughout the poem, Frost emphasizes the brevity of nature's beauty. In stanza 2, Frost describes her beauty as a flower, but its beauty only lasts momentarily, "only so an hour." Frost ends his poem on resigned note, concluding with the lines "dawn goes down today/nothing gold can stay." His final lines solidify his message that nature's beauty does not last.

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"Life is Fine" Langston Hughes (1902 — 1967)

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank.

I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried!

If that water hadn't a-been so cold I might've sunk and died.

But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!

I took the elevator Sixteen floors above the ground.

I thought about my baby And thought I would jump down.

I stood there and I hollered! I stood there and I cried!

If it hadn't a-been so high I might've jumped and died.

But it was High up there! It was high!

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on.

I could've died for love— But for livin' I was born

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry— I'll be dogged, sweet baby,

If you gonna see me die.

Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life-is fine!

"The Rose that Grew from the Concrete" Tupac Shakur

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?

Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk without having feet.

Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.

Love is more thicker than forget by Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings

Love is more thicker than forget

more thinner than recall

more seldom than a wave is wet

more frequent than to fail

Its most mad and moonly

and less it shall unbe

than all the sea which only

is deeper than the sea

Love is more always than to win

less never than alive

less bigger than the least begin

less litter than forgive

It's most sane and sunly

and more it cannot die

than all the sky which only

is higher than the sky

Whatif by Shel Silverstein

Last night, while I lay thinking here, some Whatifs crawled inside my ear and pranced and partied all night long and sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I'm dumb in school? Whatif they've closed the swimming pool? Whatif I get beat up? Whatif there's poison in my cup? Whatif I start to cry? Whatif I get sick and die? Whatif I flunk that test? Whatif green hair grows on my chest? Whatif nobody likes me? Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me? Whatif I don't grow talle? Whatif my head starts getting smaller? Whatif the fish won't bite? Whatif the wind tears up my kite? Whatif they start a war? Whatif my parents get divorced? Whatif the bus is late? Whatif my teeth don't grow in straight? Whatif I tear my pants? Whatif I never learn to dance? Everything seems well, and then the nighttime Whatifs strike again!

"Still I Rise" Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies,. You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise

"I Cry"

by Tupac Shakur

Sometimes when I'm alone

I Cry,

Cause I am on my own.

The tears I cry are bitter and warm.

They flow with life but take no form

I Cry because my heart is torn.

I find it difficult to carry on.

If I had an ear to confiding,

I would cry among my treasured friend,

but who do you know that stops that long,

to help another carry on.

The world moves fast and it would rather pass by.

Then to stop and see what makes one cry,

so painful and sad.

And sometimes...

I Cry

and no one cares about why

"Dreams" by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Patterns Late afternoon light kisses translucent curtains the way it has year after year, as familiar as the wallpaper I chose from a patchwork quilt of samples back when I couldn't imagine a time I'd want to look at anything else.

The wallpaper frames a sampler embroidered Friendship, Love, and Truth: words that take on new meanings as friends come, go, stay. And the books overflowing their shelves—each is a relic left behind as a timeline of this room and the person who lives here.

A life hides in a jumble of outgrown running shoes, the blank pages of journals too beautiful to write in, the empty vcindows of a dollhouse too precious to put away, a dusty pink boa framing a cloudy mirror, the collection of boxes, each housing a story, a memory, the worn red collar -of the dog that died, and, under the bed, a puppy's lost tennis ball.

Darkness will come soon. I know, because it has every other night. I'll rest my head upon a pillow that witnessed a thousand emotions. I'll blink into the orange glow of the streetlight until my eyelids close and I dream amidst the pinks and blues of my past, my present, my room.

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