Renaissance Poetry Project English IV

You will have three to four people in your group. You may not have any more than four. Each person in your group is responsible for doing an equal quantity of work so that no one person feels the burden of the entire assignment. All parts of this assignment must be typed. There will be no exceptions made on this.

Part I: COVER ART —10 points Your group will be assigned a poem. You will create a cover for your project that artistically represents your poem. It can be a collage of the images in the poem or some other artistic representation. Color, neatness, and relevancy to the poem are all factors in the points your group receives for this part of the assignment.

Part II: MODIFIED TPCASTT—50 points When your group analyzes your poem, you will discuss it on the following levels: 1. POET – Who is your poet? Tell us some back ground information on them. Explain the form of poetry that your poem written in (narrative, sonnet, lyric)?. 2. TITLE -What does the title tell you about the poem? Does it give any information that might be helpful in knowing what your poem is about? If it does, discuss what you learned from the title. 3. PARAPHRASE-Paraphrase your poem. In other words, put this poem in your own words, line by line. 4. THEME-What is the theme of the poem? What is the author of the poem trying to say to the reader about the nature or state of mankind? 5. LITERARY LANGUAGE-What figurative language or literary devices does the author use in your poem? (Metaphor, alliteration, simile, allusions, irony, synecdoche, metonymy, apostrophe, personification, anaphora, parallelism, rhetorical questions, etc.) Write each example down, identify it, and give the line number. What are the images that come to mind as you read your poem? What does the author seem to want you to see, feel, taste, or smell? What words in the poem do “double duty?” 6. TONE-What is the tone or attitude that the speaker takes in the poem? Is the tone of the poem solemn, irreverent, light-hearted, serious, etc? How does the tone of the poem affect the work as a whole? Your group must agree on this analysis, and it must be complete. You will turn in only ONE analysis for the group.

Part III: PERSONAL JOURNALS—10 points Each person in the group will write a personal connection to the poem. If there are four people in your group, there will be four personal associations.  What about the poem connects the poem to your own life?  Why does this poem appeal to you?  What does this poem make you see, feel, think?  What does it make you think of that relates to your life, your experiences, or your feelings?  Be very specific here. It is not enough to say, “This poem reminds me of my grandfather.” Tell my why!

Part IV: CONNECTIONS—10 points Write about a literary connection(s) that your group has with your poem. The literary connection can be a movie, a book, or a song. How does your poem remind you of this other piece of literature? Be very specific, using lines from the poem or specific information about the poem. Be equally specific when referencing the other piece of literature. (If your group comes up with more that one literary association, discuss each one separately and specifically

Part VI: ORAL PRESENTATION—20 points  Read Poem aloud 3 pts.  Present Art and explain 3 pts.  Explain Modified TPCASTT 10 pts.  Connection to Literature 4 pts.

Poems Covered:  “The Fowle Duessa” pg. 222 narrative Spenser  “Sonnet 29” pg. 225 sonnet Shakespeare  “Sonnet 130” pg. 229 sonnet Shakespeare  “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” pg. 231 lyric Marlowe  “The Nymphs’ Reply to the Shepherd” pg. 235 lyric Raleigh  “To His Coy Mistress” pg. 241 lyric Marvell  “Death Be Not Proud” pg. 253 sonnet Donne  “On My First Son” pg. 257 lyric Jonson  “On His Blindness” pg. 435 sonnet Milton