February 26-27, 2014 - Analyzing Poetry

I can use reading strategies to help me build meaning as I struggle through a poem. 

To demonstrate this I will focus on what I do know to help me make meaning of a poetry.

I will show this by completing the graphic organizer as I discuss the poem.

Directions: Read and analyze the poem by stanza using the graphic organizer below

Its quick soft silver bell beating,
beating

And down the dark one ruby flare

Pulsing out red light like an artery,



The ambulance at top speed floating down

Past beacons and illuminated clocks

Wings in a heavy curve, dips down,

And brakes speed, entering the crowd.



The doors leap open, emptying light;

Stretchers are laid out, the mangled lifted

And stowed into the little hospital.

Then the bell, breaking the hush, tolls once,

And the ambulance with its terrible cargo

Rocking, slightly rocking, moves away,

As the doors, an afterthought, are closed.



We are deranged, walking among the
cops

Who sweep glass and are large and composed.

One is still making notes under the light.

One with a bucket pushes ponds of blood

Into the street and gutter.

One hangs lanterns on the wrecks that cling,

Empty husks of locusts, to iron poles.





But we remain, touching a wound

That opens to our richest horror.

Already old, the question, Who shall die?

Becomes unspoken, Who is innocent?

For death in war is done by hands;

Suicide has cause 


And stillbirth, logic;

And cancer, simple as a flower, blooms.

But this invites the mysterious mind,

Cancels our physics with a sneer,


and spatters all we knew of the end.

SUMMARY/GIST – Put the lines into your own words.	LITERARY DEVICES – What literary devices do you notice? Why are they being used?
	THEME TOPIC(S) – What theme topics do you think connect to these lines?

SUMMARY/GIST – Put the lines into your own words.	LITERARY DEVICES – What literary devices do you notice? Why are they being used?
	THEME TOPIC(S) – What theme topics do you think connect to these lines?

SUMMARY/GIST – Put the lines into your own words.	LITERARY DEVICES – What literary devices do you notice? Why are they being used?
	THEME TOPIC(S) – What theme topics do you think connect to these lines?

SUMMARY/GIST – Put the lines into your own words.	LITERARY DEVICES – What literary devices do you notice? Why are they being used?
	THEME TOPIC(S) – What theme topics do you think connect to these lines?

SUMMARY/GIST – Put the lines into your own words.	LITERARY DEVICES – What literary devices do you notice? Why are they being used?
	THEME TOPIC(S) – What theme topics do you think connect to these lines?

LITERARY DEVICES:

·         Metaphor

·         Simile

·         Personification

·         Alliteration

·         Symbolism

·         Tone

·         Repetition

·         Imagery

·         Mood

·         Diction

THEME TOPICS:

·         Change

·         Growing Up

·         Love

·         Death

·         Freedom

·         Hope

·         Fear

·         Identity

·         Conflict

·         Perseverance

·         Beauty

·         Injustice

·         Isolation

·         Power

·         And millions more . . . .