The purpose of this activity is to understand the meaning of, and be able to find, the elements that poets use in their craft. This will equip you as an essay writer to provide evidence for a poem’s analysis, draw conclusions about a poem’s meanings, and work with the New Critical Literary Approach to poetry.
Directions:
- Match literary terms with their meanings in the following Drag and Drop activitity:
- Watch a wonderful video on metaphor, a great tool in poetry:
- Read the following two links about the New Critical Approach to poetry, an interpretative approach that relies heavily on the Drag on Drop literary terms practiced in this activity.
- com/literature-glossary/close-reading.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Close Readinghttps://www.shmoop.com/literature-glossary/close-reading.html
- This webpage also has an embedded link to the New Critics, if you wish to learn more about them.
- New Critical Approachhttps://learn.vccs.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-108491747-dt-content-rid-117595680_2/courses/NV280.ENG.125.E82W.SP18/3.6_New_Critical_Approach.pdf
- This webpage describes the New Critical Approach to poetry analysis.
- com/literature-glossary/close-reading.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Close Readinghttps://www.shmoop.com/literature-glossary/close-reading.html
- Review the following webpage that looks at the Elements of Poetry:
- Choose a poetry term, for example metaphor, and click on it.
- Read the definition that appears on the page for the poetry term.
- Click on the link at the bottom of the page which says, for example, “Go to metaphor exercise.”
- Familiarize yourself with the meaning of the poetry term.
- Answer the exercise questions in the boxes (optional).
- Write the following:
- Your own definition of five of these elements by paraphrasing the website’s definitions and using examples from the exercises you read about it.
- Provide, under each of your five definitions, one example from a poem the term is linked to. The link to a poem is found right below the exercise for that element. Follow this example using the word “Metaphor:”
- A metaphor compares two very different objects that have something in common. “The fog comes on little cat feet…” is an example that compares fog to cat’s feet. Although both are very different objects, what they have in common is the quiet, light, and even surprising way they enter any space.
- Add the terms repetition and opposition: Define each and copy and paste one example found in the poems referenced in this link or the poetry in the video on metaphor.
- Post your paragraph
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