Interpreting TextPart 1

Survey of Literature 2012Mrs. Morrell

Working with a Partner…• Collaborative to write

answers to each question.

• Be ready to show and tell

1. d'Holbachie Yoko

What is the subject of this art piece?

List the outstanding details.

How does the piece make you feel?

Why?

What is the tone of this art piece?

2. Edvard MunchWhat is the subject?

What are the outstanding details?

How does the piece make you feel?

Why?

What is the tone of this art piece?

What is the subject?

List the outstanding

details.

How does the piece make you feel?

Why?

What is the tone?

3. Edgar Degas

4. Claude MonetWhat is the

subject?

Outstanding Details?

How does it make you

feel? Why?

What is the tone?

5. Anne Julie AubreyWhat is the

subject?

List outstanding

details.

How does it make you feel?

Why?

What is the tone?

Co-author this piece:Identify the features of ONE of the art works, using the terms you prepared for class today, marking the “text” with inserted comments.

• Terms: Line, Tone, Color, Space, Shape, Texture, Pattern, Theme

Before you present…

• What does this work SAY?

• What does it MEAN?

• Why does it MATTER?

And FinallyBe Ready to share

Interpreting TextPart 2

Survey of Literature 2012Mrs. Morrell

Next Step:• Read the following poems– aloud--

together. (Yes, really.)• Annotate ONE of the poems.• “Match” a poem to the painting you

worked with during the last class.• Be ready to defend your choice.

Annotation CuesSpeakerHyperboleUnderstatementFree verseMetaphor / SimilePersonificationTone

MoodRhymeImageAlliteration

SAYMEANMATTER

1. Hazel Tells Lavernelast nightim cleanin out myhoward johynsons ladies roomwhen all of a suddenup pops this frogmusta come from the sewerswimming around an tryin taclimb up the sida the bowlso I goes ta flushm downbut sohelpmegod he starts talkinbout a golden ballan how I can be a princessme a princess

well my mouth dropsall the way to the flooran he sayskiss me just kiss meonce on the nosewell I screamsya little green pervertan I hitsm with my mopan has ta flushthe toilet down three timesmea princess

Katharyn Howd Machan

2. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

Randall Jarrell

3. There Will Come Soft Rains There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire,Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not oneWill care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawnWould scarcely know that we were gone.  

Sara Teasdale

4. An Ancient GestureI thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron:Penelope did this too.And more than once: you can't keep weaving all dayAnd undoing it all through the night;Your arms get tired, and the back of your neck gets tight;And along towards morning, when you think it will never be light,And your husband has been gone, and you don't know where, for years.Suddenly you burst into tears;There is simply nothing else to do. And I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron:This is an ancient gesture, authentic, antique,In the very best tradition, classic, Greek;Ulysses did this too.But only as a gesture,—a gesture which impliedTo the assembled throng that he was much too moved to speak.He learned it from Penelope...Penelope, who really cried. Edna St. Vincent Millay

5. The Red Wheelbarrow

so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens.

-William Carlos Williams

OK--

Ready to share?