God and Goddesses of BSEDFil

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GOD AND GODDESSES OF BSES

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English 211

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Poetry Materials

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English 44 Understanding Poetry

Images – appeals to us through our senses. They deal in color or sound, temperature, feelings or physical contact

Concrete Image – appeals  to us as bodily sensations

            Ex. Men do their broken weapons rather use

                        Than their bare hands.

Abstract Images – appeals to us a ideas, aspirations, et al.

            Ex. Just because you’re so proper, does that mean other people cannot enjoy?

Symbol – from Greek word Symbolon which means something put together; an image that stands for more than it denotes literally

Figures of Speech

‘The most exalting word is the word LIKE, whether it is pronounced or implied.”

-          Andre Breton

Simile – Latin word for “like”

Metaphor - - from Greek word for transfer; stronger than simile since it is more concentrated, it                            hits with greater impact.

Analogy – shows resemblance in form or function, between unlike objects

Synesthesia – from a Greek word which means blended feeling

Allusion – follows a “it-reminds-me-of” pattern; an incomplete reference to something that those              who share our knowledge or background will understand

Personification – seeing abstractions, movements, or events as people

Mythology – natural product of the symbolizing mind; it allows us to see people, places,                           abstractions, or events in a different light as associated to the figure with which they                     stand

Synecdoche – from Greek word which means taking as a whole ; it singles out some part of a       thing as important enough to stand for the whole thing

Metonymy – so close that it overlaps. Ex. I saw the Axe today!

Allegory – a narrative in which characters and events stand for ideas and actions on another

            Level.

Paradox – a statement that seems to imply contradiction

Oxymoron – translated from the Greek as cleverly stupid or paraphrased as absurd on purpose

Irony – directs our attention, to a play of opposites

Archetypal Image – patterning whose unconscious charge can stir and disturb us

Emotions

Dark                                                                Light

Despair                                                            Pity

Apathy                                                            Love

Sorrow                                                           Pride

Fear                                                                 Joy

Hate                                                                wonder

Anger                                                              Hope

Please make certain you have known by heart the poems we have tackled in class. 

           

Let's talk about the girls....

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Kindly upload your answers on the comments section of this entry on or before November 26, 2015. Have a good time!

With a partner, discuss the following:

1. Identify least 3 symbols found in the poems. What do these symbols stand for?

2. Discuss how these symbols help achieve the meaning of the poem.

3 For Girls Working in Banks, discuss how Shapiro described to us the nature of banks and hoe important these establishments to different kinds of civilization.

4. For Loose Woman, Who killed the woman. Why do you say that is the killed?

5. A. What is the theme of Girls Working in Banks?

B. What is the theme of Loose Woman?

6. Kindly upload your softcopy on my blogspot on or before Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015.

Girls  Working in Banks

By: karl Shapiro

Girls working I banks wear bouffant hair and shed

In their passage over the rather magnificent floors

Tiny shreds of perforated paper, body flakes.

They walk through rows of youngwish vice-presidents

With faraway looks, who dandle pencils and tend to ignore

The little tigerish lights flashing on their telephones.

When the girls return to their stations behind a friendly grid

They out money neatly or graciously take it,

For not far from them the great interior glow of a vault

Built out of beaten dimes, stands open, shines,

Beaming security without ostentation.

If you glance inside it there’s nothing to be seen

But burnished drawers and poslished steel elbows

Of the great machine of the door. It’s s speckles world

With nobody inside it, like the bestroom in a crate.

The girls change places frequently, moving their own addresses

From Open to close, next counter, or they walk away

With surprising  freedom behind a wall or rise up on escalators

Past aging and well-groomed guards whose pistols seem

Almost a apologetic as they watch people

Bending over Formica stand-up desks writing

With ballpoint pens attached  to rosary chains,

After which the people select a queue in which they stand

Pious, abashed at the papery transactions,

And eventually walk with the subtlest sense if relief

Out  of revolving doors into the glorious anonymous streets.

Loose woman

By: X.J. Kennedy

Someone who well new how shed toss her chin

Passing the firehouse oglers, at their taunt,

Let it be flung up higher than shed want,

Just held fast by a little hinge of skin

Two boys come from the river

                Of underbrush and stooped. One wrecked a pair

                Of sneakers blundering into her hair

And that day made a different sort of catch.

Her next-best talent, setting tonues to buzz,

                Lasts longer than her best. It still occurs

                To wonderhad she been our fault or hers

And had she loved him. Who the bastard was,

Though long tyhey asked and notebooked round about

                And turned up not afew who would have known

                That white inch where her neck met shoulderbone,

Was one thing more we never did find out.

Visual Poetry

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To spend a better weekend that is both enjoyable and intellectually enriching, I am encouraging you to do the activity. Kindly submit an encoded answer on November 17, 2015. As agreed, please upload your soft copy in the comments section of this entry. Thank you.

1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?

 Habitation

- Margaret Atwood

Marriage is not
a house or even a tent

it is before that, and colder:


the edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert
the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn

the edge of the receding glacier

where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far

we are learning to make fire 

2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?

Her bosom’s like a frozen lake

            On whose cold brink I stand;

Oh, buckle on my spirit’s skates,

            And take me by the hand!

And lead thou, loving saint, the way

            To where the ice is thin

That it may beak beneath my feet

            And let a lover in.