English 10B Unit 4 Analysis of Poetry
Unit 4: Analysis of Poetry
This Unit Activity will help you meet these educational goals:
21st Century Skills—You will use critical-thinking and problem-solving skills and communicate effectively.
Introduction
In this activity, you will read and analyze three poems by different poets and examine the similarities and differences among them.
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Directions and Analysis
Task 1: Read and Analyze Poetry
Read these poems, which revolve around the ideas of darkness and the night:
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
"Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost
"We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickinson
Read the poems a few times, noting each one’s theme, mood, form, structure, rhyme scheme, and use of imagery and figurative language. Use the provided table to record your analysis.
Type your response here:
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
“Acquainted with the Night”
“We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” theme Mortality
Isolation
To “find the light” imagery Sunrise and sunset
Loneliness
figurative language
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay
Personification and rhyming
Darkness and light mood Somber desperation
Discomfort
Sadness form Villanelle
Iambic pentameter
Lyric poem meter, structure, and rhyme scheme five three-line stanzas and a sixth stanza with four lines
Terza rima, ABABCBCDCDADAA, Italian form Rhythm is similar throughout, but changes from eight and six syllable lines to seven and six syllables to seven and six syllables.
Task 2: Make Comparisons
Write a 250-500-word essay describing the similarities and differences you found in the poems. Address the following points in your essay:
Examine how the subject of darkness is used in each of the three poems. How has each poet woven the central idea of the poem around the subject?
Compare and contrast the figurative devices used in
This Unit Activity will help you meet these educational goals:
21st Century Skills—You will use critical-thinking and problem-solving skills and communicate effectively.
Introduction
In this activity, you will read and analyze three poems by different poets and examine the similarities and differences among them.
__________________________________________________________________________
Directions and Analysis
Task 1: Read and Analyze Poetry
Read these poems, which revolve around the ideas of darkness and the night:
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
"Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost
"We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickinson
Read the poems a few times, noting each one’s theme, mood, form, structure, rhyme scheme, and use of imagery and figurative language. Use the provided table to record your analysis.
Type your response here:
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
“Acquainted with the Night”
“We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” theme Mortality
Isolation
To “find the light” imagery Sunrise and sunset
Loneliness
figurative language
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay
Personification and rhyming
Darkness and light mood Somber desperation
Discomfort
Sadness form Villanelle
Iambic pentameter
Lyric poem meter, structure, and rhyme scheme five three-line stanzas and a sixth stanza with four lines
Terza rima, ABABCBCDCDADAA, Italian form Rhythm is similar throughout, but changes from eight and six syllable lines to seven and six syllables to seven and six syllables.
Task 2: Make Comparisons
Write a 250-500-word essay describing the similarities and differences you found in the poems. Address the following points in your essay:
Examine how the subject of darkness is used in each of the three poems. How has each poet woven the central idea of the poem around the subject?
Compare and contrast the figurative devices used in