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Ms. Kizlyk – English 3B Unit #6: Remembering the Wars Analyzing War Poetry – Individual Work

Assignment: For your individual assignment, pick a poem written by an author/soldier concerning an aspect of WWII. You need to (1) fill out the blank chart on the back, and (2) you need to print out your poem and mark the figurative language on it as well. Use this chart to help you analyze your poem and follow its guidelines. Use the following website to help you decide on which poem to analyze: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/articles/detail/91359. If you find another poem not on that website, please add it to the bottom of my list. This assignment is due on 4/26 & 4/29.

Poetry Analysis: “TP-FLATT”

T Look at the title again after reading the poem. From what you have discovered Title about the poem, and why is the title appropriate?

P Restate the poem in your own words. What is going on? What is the “plot” of the Paraphrase poem? Write 4-5 sentences to summarize the poem.

FLA Directions: 1) Find at least 3 poetic devices in your poem (think about the devices that we learned about in our poetry unit in English 2B). 2) You must use at least 2 different devices (This means that you can use one Figurative device twice). Language 3) If you are choosing “rhyme” as a device, then you need to chart the rhyme scheme of the poem using letters at the end of each line. 4) Next, label and describe (give a full explanation) for each device. o If you are using irony as a device, be sure to label which of the three types of irony you are using. o You cannot use “repetition” as a device. o You cannot use the same repeated word as an example of alliteration, consonance, or assonance. You must use different words for those examples.

What is the speaker’s attitude about his or her subject? (Decide on an adjective T Tone and then describe why you chose that adjective to define the tone).

T Theme is always stated in a complete sentence. Looking at what you determined Theme to be the plot of the poem as well as the subjects discussed by the poem, determine what the poet is trying to say about each subject and write a complete sentence. (Ex: It is human nature to…)

It was many and many a year ago, (A) In a kingdom by the sea, (B) That a maiden there lived whom you may know (A) By the name of ANNABEL LEE; (B) And this maiden she lived with no other thought (C) Than to love and be loved by me. (B) Hyperbole: the poet is using exaggeration by saying that Annabel Lee had no other I was a child and she was a child, (D) thoughts than to love the poet. In this kingdom by the sea; (B) But we loved with a love that was more than love- (E) I and my Annabel Lee; (B) With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven (F) Coveted her and me. (B) Remember that a metaphor is a comparison And this was the reason that, long ago, (A) without using “like” or “as” and a simile is a In this kingdom by the sea, (B) comparison using “like” or “as” A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling (G) My beautiful Annabel Lee; (B) So that her highborn kinsman came (H) Alliteration: the words half, And bore her away from me, (B) happy, and heaven, all begin To shut her up in a sepulcher (I) In this kingdom by the sea. (B) with the same first letter – “h.”

The angels, not half so happy in heaven, (F) Personification: the poet is giving Went envying her and me- (B) human qualities to the wind by Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know, (A) In this kingdom by the sea) (B) saying that the wind is killing That the wind came out of the cloud by night, (J) Annabel Lee. Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. (B) Internal rhyme: the word ever is in But our love it was stronger by far than the love (E) the middle of the sentence, and it Of those who were older than we- (B) rhymes with dissever, which is also Of many far wiser than we- (B) in the middle of the sentence. And neither the angels in heaven above, (E) Nor the demons down under the sea, (B) Can ever dissever my soul from the soul (K) Internal rhyme: the word beams is Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. (B) in the middle of the sentence, and it rhymes with dreams, which is at the For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams (L) end of the sentence. Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; (B) And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes (M) Paradox: the moon cannot give people Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; (B) dreams, but it can actually be somewhat And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side (N) Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, (N) true because people usually dream at In the sepulchre there by the sea, (B) night when the moon is out. In her tomb by the sounding sea. (B)

Assonance: the words rise, I, bright, and eyes all have the same long “I” sound.

Unit #6: Remembering the Wars Analyzing War Poetry – Individual Work

Poetry Analysis: “TP-FLATT”

T Title

P Paraphrase

FLA Figurative Language Fill out this portion on the actual poem.

T Tone

T Theme

Unit #6: Remembering the Wars Analyzing War Poetry – Individual Work Rubric

 TPFLATT chart ______/10 ____/2 (Title) ____/2 (Tone) ____/4 (Paraphrase) ____/2 (Theme)

 Labels & explains at least 3 poetic devices correctly ______/15 1) ______/5 2) ______/5 3) ______/5

______/25

Unit #6: Remembering the Wars Analyzing War Poetry – Individual Work Rubric

 TPFLATT chart ______/10 ____/2 (Title) ____/2 (Tone) ____/4 (Paraphrase) ____/2 (Theme)

 Labels & explains at least 3 poetic devices correctly ______/15 1) ______/5 2) ______/5 3) ______/5

______/25

Sign-Up Sheet for Poems

Poem Student Name “Involuntary Spies” by Marion Strobel (1939) “Death That Need Not Have Been” by Flora Hendricks (1939) “On the Summer Sky the Airship Hangs” by Oscar Williams (1939) “After the Bombing of Barcelona” by Norman Macleod (1939) “In the Shadow of Great Times” by Helen Goldbaum (1939) “Lutany at Brink of Armageddon” by James Daly (1939) “The Watcher” by Ridgeley Torrence (1939) “September 2, 1939” by M. Jean Prussing (1939) “9.19.1939” by Robinson Jeffers (1940) “The Bloody Sire” by Robinson Jeffers (1940) “To Napoleon, in an Evil Time” by Babette Deutsch (1940) “Victory” by Arthur J. Kramer (1940) “Foamy Sky” by Miklós Radnóti (1940) “Guernica” by James Johnson Sweeney (1940) “On a Photograph of a German Soldier Dead in Poland” by John Ciardi (1940) “Address to the Refugees” by John Malcolm Brinnin (1940) “End of a Year” by Julian Symons (1940) “Now That the War is Here” by R.N. Currey (1940) “For Wilfred Owen” by (1940) “Midnight Air Raid” by J.F. Hendry (1940) “Sierran Aftermath” by Ewart Milne (1941) “Refugees” by Harry Roskolenko (1941) “Soliloquy in an Air-Raid” by Roy Fuller (1941) “The Invaded Field” by E.J. Pratt (1941) “When I see the falling bombs...”] by F.R. Scott (1941) “Memorial for 1940” by (1941) “The Error of the Tyrant” by Jeremy Ingalls (1941) “Ditty for Departing Troops” by Eve Merriam (1941) “Prelude to War” by Carleton Ford Shaw (1941) “Scyros” by (1941) “Sonnet (‘I saw men’s homes burst...’)” by John Buxton (1942) “Interval of Peace” by Katherine Garrison Chapin (1942) “A Dirge” by Thomas James Merton (1942) “Going to the War” by Karl Shapiro (1942) “For the Bombed Cities” by Margaret Stanley-Wrench

(1942) “Return to Sender: Died of Wounds” by Marion Strobel (1942) “Soliloquy by a Parachute Jumper” by Mary E. Bulkley (1942) “Apocalypse” by John Frederick Nims (1942) “The Forgotten Soldier” by E.L. Mayo (1942) “The Liberators” by H.R. Hays (1942) “A Spring Memorandum” by Robert Duncan (1942) “Small Soldiers with Drum in Large Landscape” by (1943) “Reflections on War as Art” by Helen Goldbaum (1943) “War Poem” by Oscar Williams (1943) “Military Camp” by Patrick Anderson (1943) “Killed in Action” by Doris Bailey (1943) “For My Pupils in the War Years” by John Malcolm Brinnin (1943) “For Those Fighting” by Clarence Weinstock (1943) “Poem for a Soldier's Girl” by John Ciardi (1943) “Paris” by Karl Shapiro (1943) “Ode to England” by Julia Garcia Games (1943) “Soldier Boy” by Selwyn S. Schwartz (1943) “Shot Down at Night” by John Frederick Nims (1943) “Poem (“Lord, I have seen…”) by Karl Shapiro (1943) “Strength to War” by Stephen Stepanchev (1943) “This Day This World” by (1943) “War Poem for Britain” by David Daiches (1943) “War Time” by Josephine Miles (1943) “Absent with Official Leave” by (1943) “Poem in Time of War” by William Abrahams (1943) [“what if a much of a which of a wind”] by E.E. Cummings (1943) “Reflection by a Mailbox” by Stanley Kunitz (1943) “Galileo Goes to War” by Preston Newman (1944) “Concert, in Wartime” by Eve Merriam (1944) “Ten-Day Leave” by William Meredith (1944) “For R. A. S. (1925-1943) ” by F.R. Scott (1944) from “Epitaphs” by Abraham Sutzkever (1944) “Letter to My Wife” by Miklós Radnóti (1944) “Field Hospital” by Robert Wistrand (1944) “Old Men at Air Base” by Le Garde S. Doughty (1944) “Poem near Pearl Harbor” by William Jay Smith (1944) “Reflections while Oiling a Machine Gun” by John Ciardi (1944)

“Days and Battles Go On” by David Cornel De Jong (1944) “A Front” by Randall Jarrell (1944) “Love Letter from an Impossible Land” by William Meredith (1944) “An Epitaph for the American Dead” by Yvor Winters (1944) “The Children's Elegy” by Muriel Rukeyser (1944) “Moonlight Alert” by Yvor Winters (1944) “Losses” by Randall Jarrell (1944) “Navy Field” by William Meredith (1944) “Troop Train” by Karl Shapiro (1944) “Notes for an Elegy” by William Meredith (1944) “Leave of Absence” by James E. Schevill (1945) “Aubade: Chant of the Innocents” by (1945) “Death of U-Boat” by John Morton Poole (1945) “It's Me, Oh Lord, Standing with a Gun” by Hubert Creekmore (1945) “Song for War” by W.R. Rodgers (1945) “Casualty” by Edwin Rolfe (1945) “Octaves in Wartime” by Ray Smith (1945) “A Pilot from the Carrier” by Randall Jarrell (1945) “Gunner” by Randall Jarrell (1945) “Landscape with Bayonets” by Ephim G. Fogel (1945) “Ritual for the Night” by Harold Heifetz (1945) “For Alun Lewis” by Brenda Chamberlain (1945) “The Siege of Leningrad” by James E. Schevill (1945) “The Conscientious Objector” by Karl Shapiro (1946) “Homecoming” by Thomas McGrath (1946) “Port of Aerial Embarkation” by John Ciardi (1947) “Vale” from Carthage” by Peter Viereck (1947) “The War in the Air” by (1947) “Three Sonnets on the Necessity of Narrowly Escaping Death” by Hayden Carruth (1948) “The Pilot in the Jungle” by Paul Ciardi (1949) “Carentan O Carentan” by (1949) “Elegy, for Alun Lewis” by (1950) “Liberty” by Archibald MacLeish (1952) “The Spool by Ben Belitt (1955) “Eighth Air Force” by Randall Jarrell (1955) “The Performance” by (1959) “Memories of West Street and Lepke” by (1959) “At the Bomb Testing Site” by (1960)

“A Story About Chicken Soup” by Louis Simpson (1963) “The Firebombing” by James Dickey (1964) “The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten” by Edgar Bowers (1964) “All the Dead Soldiers” by Thomas McGrath (1967) “More Light! More Light!” by (1967) “The Lost Pilot” by James Tate (1967) from “Of Being Numerous” by George Oppen (1968) “The Extermination of the Jews” by Marvin Bell (1968) [During the Second World War…] by (1969) “Getting Lost in Nazi Germany” by Marvin Bell (1971) “From Our Album” by Lawson Fusao Inada (1971) “The Invocation to Kali” by May Sarton (1971) “Stentor and Mourning” by Alan Dugan (1972) “Rain in Leningrad” by William Heinesen (1976) “Fable for a War” by Thomas James Merton (1977) “Dr. Joseph Goebbels (22 April 1945)” by W.D. Snodgrass (1977) “Magda Goebbels (30 April 1945)” by W.D. Snodgrass (1977) “At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border” by William Stafford (1977) “Hiroshima” by Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1980) “To Ariel Bloch, My Arabist Friend” by Stanley Moss (1987) “Znamenskaya Square, Leningrad, 1941” by Sharon Olds (1989) “Everything” by Lawson Fusao Inada (1993) “My Father and Myself Facing the Sun” by Lawson Fusao Inada (1993) “The Hiroshima Horse” by Jack Barrack (1994) “World War II Watchtowers” by Elise Partridge (2005) “During the War” by (2006) “The Jews that We Are” by Richard Michelson (2006) “Counting to Six Million” by Richard Michelson (2006)