Music as Poetry: Both music and poems try to convey a message through words using imagery, similes, metaphors, rhyme, creative syntax, and many other literary devices.
- In class I demonstrated the connection to Robert Frost's "Birches" and Florida Georgia Line's "Hell Raisin' Heat of the Summer".
- Read the following poems (or any we have worked on EXCEPT: Spelling, The Road Not Taken, and You Fit into Me" and choose one the one that speaks to you the most. Analyze that poem using the attached sheet, and then find a song that you believe is similar to the message being conveyed in the song. Then fill out the comparison on to the poem on the back.
Poems (Read all, but choose only 1)
Birches by Robert Frost
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Harlem (A Dream Deferred) by Langston Hughes
The Broken Heart by John Donne
Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Then choose a song that will compare and complete both sides of the attached worksheet
Due Date: These will be presented in class on Mon, 9/12. Please bring all materials to class and be prepared to play 15 - 20 seconds of your song.
- In class I demonstrated the connection to Robert Frost's "Birches" and Florida Georgia Line's "Hell Raisin' Heat of the Summer".
- Read the following poems (or any we have worked on EXCEPT: Spelling, The Road Not Taken, and You Fit into Me" and choose one the one that speaks to you the most. Analyze that poem using the attached sheet, and then find a song that you believe is similar to the message being conveyed in the song. Then fill out the comparison on to the poem on the back.
Poems (Read all, but choose only 1)
Birches by Robert Frost
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Harlem (A Dream Deferred) by Langston Hughes
The Broken Heart by John Donne
Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Then choose a song that will compare and complete both sides of the attached worksheet
Due Date: These will be presented in class on Mon, 9/12. Please bring all materials to class and be prepared to play 15 - 20 seconds of your song.
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