Using the following links to the Frontline video Inside the Meltdown, answer the following questions: Short Version: https://youtu.be/HX6Fg62l0e8 What was the impact of the near failure of Bear Stea
Explicate a Poem
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Consider the elements of a poem: its speaker or "voice," its intended audience, its language (the figurative or literal meaning of the words), its images, sounds, rhythm and rhyme scheme, (read it aloud), any symbols, its overall theme, and its genre (lyrical, narrative, dramatic, or didactic). Now, consider its tone, or the attitude the speaker takes towards the subject. (TONE IS WHAT MANY READERS MISS – watch for it!) Does it tell a story? Finally, consider its effect on you, the reader. [See Chapters 4 & 6 in our textbook and study the Writing about Poetry (Links to an external site.) site.https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/writing_about_poetry.html and "Poetry Q&A" worksheets to get started.)
Assignment: After familiarizing yourself with the elements of a poem, compose a post in which you first summarize the poem and then explain how its elements combine to make it meaningful. About 200-250 words. Put author's name and the title of the poem in the first sentence of the post. Explicate of one of the following:
Billy Collins "Introduction to Poetry"
William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” OR
Sarah Kay's spoken-word poem "The Astronaut" https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_how_many_lives_can_you_live
Your second post should comment on something you learned from a peer's explication. Have some fun, here! Obviously, this exercise could easily become an early draft of Essay #3.( I will send you this once I get the poem from my PEER)
* DO NOT USE SOURCES OTHER THAN the Unit Three Module links. the Writing Checklists, and YOUR TEXTBOOK.
Poems by Billy Collins
Introduction to Poetry [DB#5 option on analyzing poetry]
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1815) by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed- and gazed- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
