individual oral interpretation of literature

8/3/2019 Individual Oral Interpretation of Literature

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Interpretation entailsresponsiveness to the literary

in order that the reader mayexperience its sense of realitypresence.

The interpreter responds in teof his/her voice, body, mind, and heart.


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The Ingredients of PRESEN

Tensiveness Rhythmic movement of two contrary pulls whic

created in language though meter, rhyme and t

in poetry Conflict in drama and,

Movements between summary and scene anddescription in fiction.


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Coalescence Melding together of the parts to make a co

wholePerspective

Point of view, attitude or angle of vision unevery piece of literature. You hear him/her speaking to himself/hers You hear the poet speaking to a specific per

group You hear him speaking to a big audience.


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Three Basic Patterns of Litera

Arrangement:

1) Lyric PoemLyric poetry is especially song-like anemotional. Sonnets and odes are exa

of poems that are lyrical in nature. Lpoems do not tell a story, but focus omore personal emotions, attitudes, aauthors state of mind. (Ex. How DoTheeby Elizabeth Browning)


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Interpreting Lyrics Poems Concerned with the inner world of the p

realm of the private feelings, thoughts, por fantasies.-has only one point of view.-may be addressed to one specific personobject, or it may be a reflective one,wherpoet voices out thoughts-visual focus is usually the back wall of tabove the heads of the audience.


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Analysis The WindRobert Louis Stevenson

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Persona: a curious child

Addresses: the wind

I saw you toss the kites on high,And blow the birds about the sky,And all around I heared you pass,

Like ladies skirts across the grass,O wind a-blowing all day long,O wind that sings so loud a song,

I saw the different things you did,But always you yourself you hid,I felt you push, I heard you call,I could not see yourself at all,

O wind a blowing all day long,O wind that sing so loud a song,

O you that are so strong and cold,O blower, are you young or old?Are you a beast of field and tree,Or just a stronger child than me:

O wind a blowing all day long,O wind that sings so loud a song.

Look abovthe audienwhere you

to be


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2) Narrative/Descriptive PoemA narrative poem tells a story, usually of huma

interest, and includes the epic, which is a longand the ballad, which was originally meant towhile dancing. Well known examples of poemare ballads include:

"The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

"Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Interpreting the

Narrative/Descriptive PoemMay be poetry or fictionMoves through severalThe writer takes the reader on a kin

guided tour through an external wowitnessed by narrator.The narrator moves people in and t

a setting and works out their relatio


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A) Description- the performance involves two robehaviors whose objectives are to narrate and to suthe scene.

B) Summary Narrative- condensation of events iwords. It is sometimes called time telescoping. Thdelivered briefly, directly and conversationally to taudience with constant eye contact with them.

C) Direct Address- includes quoting the dialogueby the characters to each other. It can be projectedscene and directed at another person in the scene

whom it is intended. In interpreting this, you can an imaged scene.


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D) Indirect Address- the narrator speaks whacharacters have said or are saying or even thinkThere are performed like description. The intemay point to the character whose thoughts arereported.

E) Exposition- refers to explanations why cha

feel the way they do or do what they do. Whenthrough these passages, the interpreter looks aaudience and maintains eye contact.


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Example of a Descriptive Poem

The Dance of the Pencils

By Dale Trumbore

Pencils live at my school.They would rather waltz than write numbers and letters.

They wait until all of the children leave,And then they dance on their sharp, pointy ends.

Sometimes, they skate on each desktopAs if it were made of ice.

At the end of each dance, the pencils use their erasersTo wipe away the marks that they have made.Their erasers slide along the desktops slowly, like slugs.

When they are done, the pencils sleep.They know they need their rest

In order to write lots of letters and numbers the next day. Then they do a different sort of dance

The dance of pencils on paper.


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3) Dramatic PoemDramatic poetry is any drama that i

written in verse that is meant to berecited. It usually tells a story or refa situation. This would include closdrama, dramatic monologues, and

verse. Examples of dramatic poetrycome from Shakespeare, ChristophMarlowe, and Ben Jonson.


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Interpreting Dramatic Poem The point of view is objective, there is no narra When interpreting this type of work, you have

the two characters not necessarily using vocalaffectations

Project the characters in their respective places Be consistent in you visual focus


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Example of Dramatic Poem

The Dream Called Life

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

DREAM it was in which I found myself.And you that hail me now, then hailed me king,

In a brave palace that was all my own,Within, and all without it, mine; until,

Drunk with excess of majesty and pride,Methought I towered so big and swelled so wide

That of myself I burst the glittering bubbleWhich my ambition had about me blown

And all again was darkness. Such a dreamAs this, in which I may be walking now,

Dispensing solemn justice to you shadows,Who make believe to listen; but anon

Kings, princes, captains, warriors, plume andsteel,

Ay, even with all your airy theater,

May flit into the air you seWith acclamations, leaving

In the dark tower; or dreaminFrom this that waking is; or t

Both waking and both dreamingConfounds and clouds our moBut whether wake or dreamin

How dreamwise human gloriesWhose momentary tenure n

Walking as one who knows he sSo fairly carry the full cup

Disordered insolence and paThat there be nothing afterDreamer or doer in the part

Whether tomorrow's dawn shallOr the last trumpet of the E

When dreaming, with the night,


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Lyric Narrativ

Dramatic

The Dream Called Life

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The Dance of the Pencils

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QUIZ


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Description Direct Address

Summary Narrative Indirect Address Exp

6) It refers to the condensation of events in a few w

is sometimes called time telescoping 7) Refers to explanations why characters feel the w

do or do what they do. 8) It is the performance that involves two role beh

whose objectives are to narrate and to suggest the 9) It includes quoting the dialogue spoken by the

characters to each other. 10) This is where the narrator speaks what the cha

have said or are saying or even thinking.


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Bonus 1)It refers to the point of view, attitude or anglevision unique in every piece of literature.

2)It is the rhythmic movement of two contrarywhich may be created in language though metrhyme and tone color in poetry.

3) It refers to the melding together of the partsa complete whole

Tensiveness CoalescenPerspective

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