Setting The Stage
Onomatopoeia is the literary device that relies on words that imitate the sound that they name. They are sound effect words or noise words. Poets choose these words as a way of conveying the sound of the things that they are describing and emphasizing something about the scene that they are describing.
Response Stance
Invite students to identify and record examples of onomatopoeia and indicate why they think Poe made the choices that he did. Using ReadWriteThink’s Exploring Onomatopoeia worksheet, students record their response.
Invite students to choose, or to create, their own onomatopoeic words. The ReadWriteThink’s Exploring Onomatopoeia interactive explores onomatopoeia by having students' list words that describe the heard sound.
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Hi my name is Tony L.
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By Wallace Stevens
The Onomatopoia in
Depression Before Spring
is so cool because
it describes anamal
sounds.
hi my name is Matthew D.
ReplyDeleteWallace Stevens poem The Bells uses omomatopoeia on the word bell so you get the main idea in the readers mind using imagry, rhythem and repetition.
Jonah.T
ReplyDeleteThe poem by edgar allen poe. The bells
starts off by hearing bells kind of like
church bells. Then it turns into wedding
bells celebrating somebody's wedding.
then it turns into alarm bells and people get really scared and terrified and you get the
fealing that something very bad is about to
happen. The church bells start ringing and a ghoul is ringing the bell and on the last page
YOU SEE A GHOUL RINGING THE BELL!
The bells is a really cool and discribing poem about what could happen to you when you die. how it hase different paragraphes.
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ReplyDeleteEverytime when the Auther was thinking to write something he got disturbed by a rooster, a cow and a dove so he used this in his poem and he made fun of himself in the poem and he used noise in his poem and he made differnt noises for each animal and make the readers think what kind of noises.The animals would make
all by marcie s. Writing about Bells
ReplyDeleteI think bells is a very intersting poem. It is long, scary, funny and very confusing, it`s not too too confusing but just a little. I like how he puts "bells bells bells." over and over again. He kind of used onomatopoiea cause he said it in a way you really have to think.
So it starts all happy and exiting but then at the end the bells a making a weird nose and nobody knows who is claing it cause they though it would only ring at the hour but i ghoul. I think the ghoul was mad os something cause he hit it in a mad and terrifing sound.
This is a great poem!!!!
All by marcie s. Always read poems!!!!!!
Priya B
ReplyDeleteThe poem starts out happy and beutiful and then it gets dark and scary and disturbing to the people hearing and listening to it.Everybody is so happy at the start and then they get anoyed by it.
The Bells
ReplyDeleteThe Bells by Edgar Allen Poe Is a poem about bells.First the bells are peaceful and nice but then there are dark and scarey bells and they put fright and misery into people.Then theres a ghoul ringing the bell!!!!! I think people hear lots of bells in life and when they hear the dark,scarey bells its thier time to go with the ghouls to the graveyard(you know what I mean!).The Bells is a good poem and I loved it!
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ReplyDeleteI am writing about the poem Depression Before Spring, by Wallace Stevens. I think the otomatopoeia makes it easier to understand, and helps make the image clearer. It shows me what the poet was thinking, it doesn't tell me. I could imagine the rooster telling everyone that it is morning. I think it also sort of gives the poem rhythm, like a song(sort of.) The only thing I didn't like about this poem is that I didn't really get the first part that much, with "the hair of my blonde is dazzling". I didn't really get what that has to do with the fact that spring is there. Overall I liked this poem because the otomatopoeia made it interesting and gave me a better image.
Thanks!!!
I read the poem Depression Before Spring. I think Wallace Stevens uses onomatopoeia because it gives a strange feeling that this poem is a new type. I like how shows the sounds of the animals and not the name.
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ReplyDeleteI think the poet used onomatopoeia because you don't get the same feeling when it just says "the song of a mourning dove." You can literally hear the rooster and the dove. The sounds make the reader more engaged.
I liked Depression Before Spring because it's saying when he is trying to write a poem he keeps gatting distracted and then he decides to write a poem about how he can not write a poem because he keeps getting distracted, even though he will be humiliated.
ReplyDeleteI read the poem 'Depression Before Spring' by Wallace Stevens. I think he is trying to get the reader to visualize a farm in early morning. The way he wrote the poem, with the animal sounds instead of the animals helps me visualize the poem.
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ReplyDeleteI read the poem "Depression Before Spring".
I think the author put onomatopoeia in this poem make you get the feeling of it. The rooster sound, 'ki-ki-ri-ki' sounds depressing and un-like a normal rooster in my opinion and
if the peom is called 'Depression Before Spring' then it fits perfectly. When it says 'ki-ki-ri-ki brings no no rou-cou, No rou-cou-cou' I think he is emphazing what the rooster should sound like not depressing. Wow I'm saying depressing a lot. Anyways I have to go.
Bye,Emily
I'm writing about the poem Depression Before spring by Wallace Stevens. I think this poem is easier to read because of the otomatopoeia. I this poem it shows and not tells you what the poet is thinking. When it says ki-ki-ri-ki I get an image of a rooster and I hear a rooster too. I agree with Natalie T that the "the hair of my blonde is dazzling" doesn't really have anything to do with the fact that spring is coming.
ReplyDeleteThe Bells... a very intresting poem. It gets into your mind and stays there. It is like a metronome: from the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells...
ReplyDeleteDepression before spring. I think onomatopoeia was used here in this poem because it helps make it easier, and it makes it more exiting for the reader and to pull them in.
ReplyDeleteI am writing about Depression Before Spring and I think that the onomatopoeia was used because the author wanted to describe how the rooster or dove sounds like. Instead of "cokadoodle doo" he put what rooster actually sound like (to him).
ReplyDeleteHi. It's me, Nishaath.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to write about Deppresion before spring. I think that the author used natral sounds like the cokadoodledoo because it would add more feeling and depth to it. So that when kids and even adults read it, they actually have a chance to use their imagination.
I read the poem Depression Before Spring, and I liked that the poet used onomatopoeia because it was like my thought's companion, meaning that it helped me understand what the poet wanted the readers to hear in their minds. When the poet wrote this, I think that he might have gotten some laughs and understanding because some of the world might have respected him, and some of the world might have thought that he was crazy for the way he worded the sounds of the rooster and the mourning dove.
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ReplyDeleteIn the poem the bells the poet makes the sound of the bells which is better then saying the bell rang. Its also fun to say the sounds. I also like that at first the bells make happy sounds then they turn into unhappy sounds.
Depression Before Spring
ReplyDeleteThe animal sounds deffinetely help me see what is happening during the poem. Onomatopoeia also adds to poem in different ways like it makes the reader want to read more.
Depression before Spring
ReplyDeleteThe onomatopoeia is very entrancing because it is used to create actual animal sounds. He merely has to listen, and onomatopoeia will come by itself to the poet who needs inspiration. This can also be a source of inspiration to other poets. Indeed, it can be reused.
Hi. I'm giving my opinion on the poem Depression Before Spring. I think the poet uses onomatopoeia to add texture and life to his/her poem. The onomatopoeia in Depression Before Spring makes the poem feel like a morning on the farm just after rain. The line But ki-ki-ri-ki brings no cou cou rou cou probably means the roster scared the dove away.
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