USING IMAGERY TO VISUALIZE“THE RED WHEELBARROW”

“THE LIGHTENING IS A YELLOW FORK”

“MUSIC”

“THE RED WHEELBARROW”BY: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

so much depends

upon

 

a red wheel

barrow

 

glazed with rain

water

 

beside the white

chickens.

Bellwork: Draw a simple sketch of the images you can visualize when reading this poem.

POETRY AND IMAGERYTHINK AND SHARE

Review:

How have we interpreted poetry in the past? What terms did we study?

What is imagery?

Why do you think authors and poets rely on images?

(30 seconds each)

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS1883-1963

• Doctor for 40 years

• Influential American poet

• Wanted to capture American speech in writing

• Known for being an Imagist poet

• Poets who were less rigid in form

• Poets who relied heavily on images

• Wrote poetry inspired by paintings

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-carlos-williams

“LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS”PIETER BRUEGEL

“THE LIGHTENING IS A YELLOW FORK”BY: EMILY DICKINSON

 

The Lightening is a yellow Fork

From Tables in the sky

By inadvertent fingers dropt

The awful Cutlery

 

Of mansions never quite disclosed

And never quite concealed

The Apparatus of the Dark

To ignorance revealed.

EMILY DICKINSON1830-1886

• Poetry and Style

• Poetry was published after her death• Sought to make the abstract concrete

through poetry• Wrote about nature and misperceptions

society could be making• Did not title her poems, but numbered

them.• Well educated

• but left school because she did not agree with the Calvinistic beliefs of the school she attended

• Reclusive

• There is speculation that she suffered from depression, agoraphobia, and/or anxiety http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/emily-dickinson