Those Winter Sundays Essay

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Poetry Project Ms. Goddard English 10 Due Date: Monday, March 3, 2014 Task: For this multimedia project, you will write five short poems – one sonnet, one free verse, one narrative, one cinquain, and one acrostic. Next, you will upload these poems to PowerPoint. If you do not have access to PowerPoint you will have to create a presentation that looks like a Power Point written. Finally, after each poem you will write a brief 3-5 sentence paragraph analyzing the tone of each poem, using the list of tone words provided. Step 1: Write your five poems. See model below. You should have already written the first three during the past three weeks, so you only have two new poems to write. Step 2: Decide how you are going to create your…show more content…
When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? Analysis of Tone: The tone of Those Winter Sundays is both bitter but understanding. The author seems to be angry about how distant fathers can be to their own children, so this suggests bitterness toward the subject of parent-child relationships. The tone, however, is also understanding because at the end of the poem the author suggest that over time, children learn that they’re parents can’t be perfect, and sometimes they only know how to express their love through actions instead of words, touch, or emotions II. Poem #2: Free Verse Poem/Romantic Love (Write-Like Models – Love Without Love, The Taxi) TASK: Write a write-like poem using “The Taxi” or “Love Without Love” as your model. This poem should be about a reflection on the nature of romantic love. What does love mean to you? Your poem can be in free-verse. Model Poems: Love Without Love
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Poem 3#: Sonnet/Love or another Subject (Write-Like Models – Sonnet 18, Sonnet 30) What is a sonnet? = 14 line poem = “little song” in Italian; originated in Italy = subject is often ROMANTIC LOVE What is an English/Shakespearean sonnet? =Fixed structure (three quatrains – abab, cdcd, efef; followed by one couplet – gg TASK: Write a sonnet about the subject of love. It needs to be 14 lines and should use the rhyme scheme above that we talked about in class. Use the poems we read in class as your models to follow when you write your own. Remember, this is a "write-like" poem, so you should try to write like the authors of the poems below. Your poem should pose a question/situation/problem, a turning point, and a resolution - just like the sonnets did that we read in class. Sonnet 18 Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 
 Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
 And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 
 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
 And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; 
 And every fair from fair sometime

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