Lesson 2.4 - Figurative Language in Coming of Age Poetry
Specific Expectations:
Reading for Meaning - 1.4; 1.6
Understanding Form and Style - 2.2
Learning Goals:
In this lesson you will become aware of how literature reflects the challenges we all face in life from our childhood to old age. Although as students you live day-to-day under the care of adults, there will come a time, as the poems we examine in the lesson show, when you will make your way independently in the world. How we can cope with the challenges we face as we grow are lessons that literature can teach us.
- These are the key words you will need to learn that are related to this Lesson.
Read the poem titled 'Problem Child' by the Canadian poet Elizabeth Brewster.
- Identify the two similes used in the poem. Explain the technical meanings of each simile and what they suggest.
- Identify the metaphor used in the second stanza. What two things/ideas are being linked?
- Identify the touch imagery in the poem and explain its meaning.
Lecture 2.4.5 – Imagery and Childhood Fantasy in ‘Fern Hill’ Lesson
Your homework is to write two descriptive paragraphs (by paraphrasing lines) of between 50-75 words for any two stanzas of your choice.
ALSO: look at the whole poem and write down 2 examples of the poet's use of personification and mark it as personification; 2 examples of alliteration,1 example of a simile and 1 example of a metaphor.
DOUBLE-SPACE YOUR ANSWERS and save as PDF File
Submission: PDF format. (file size can't be more than 20 MB)Students to complete this after you've finished all activities/tasks in today's lesson.