Poems exercise
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Read the poem aloud to yourself, letting its images play over your imagination. Then compose a brief 200-300 word Summary/Response essay in which you consider the power of the images in the poem. In your response paragraph, consider how the images in the poem comment on the new and unfamiliar feelings the speaker may have about this apparently new relationship? Quote at least one image in your response, one that helps us understand how you see it. Do some of the images work as metaphors for the speaker’s uncertain exploration of this apparently new relationship?
- “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
For this poem, read the poem aloud to yourself at least twice before composing a brief 200-300 word Summary/Response essay. In the summary, consider the literal meaning of the poem. What happens? In a second paragraph, the response, consider the figurative (implied) meaning of the speaker’s words. In your response, concentrate on how the figurative meanings influence the literal meaning of the language? What’s the point the speaker is really trying to make? Why do you think so?
- “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
For this poem, also read the poem aloud to yourself at least twice, letting its images play over your imagination. Then compose a brief 200-300 word Summary/Response essay in which you consider, first, the landscape described by the speaker to an unnamed audience. What specific landscape is this? Summarize the “where” of the poem and draw out a point (a thesis) about how its images create possible meanings. In a second paragraph, consider the tone or attitude the speaker takes towards this landscape. What is it and how does that shape the message you take away from the poem?
COMBINE ALL THREE MINI-ESSAYS into ONE DOCUMENT. Separate the three mini-essays by a double space and let the poet’s name and/or title of the poem precede each essay.
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HERE THE POEMS --------->>
1) First Poem for You
BY KIM ADDONIZIO (Links to an external site.) (1964 -- )
I like to touch your tattoos in complete
darkness, when I can’t see them. I’m sure of
where they are, know by heart the neat
lines of lightning pulsing just above
your nipple, can find, as if by instinct, the blue
swirls of water on your shoulder where a serpent
twists, facing a dragon. When I pull you
to me, taking you until we’re spent
and quiet on the sheets, I love to kiss
the pictures in your skin. They’ll last until
you’re seared to ashes; whatever persists
or turns to pain between us, they will still
be there. Such permanence is terrifying.
So I touch them in the dark; but touch them, trying.
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2) This Is Just To Say
BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (Links to an external site.) (1883-1963)
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
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3)Ozymandias
By PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (Links to an external site.) (1792-1822)
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
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