Setting The Stage
Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry. Aristotle stated that the perfect style for writing poetry was one that was clear without meanness. He went on to define meanness of style as the deliberate avoidance of unusual words – “ordinary words in it will secure the requisite clearness”.
Since the Modernists, poetry has approached all words as inherently interesting, it is the choice of words, their arrangement, and the force, accuracy, and distinction with which they are used that makes poetry successful.
Response Stance
Invite students to return to the poem and mark the words and lines they found were memorable examples of poetic diction.
Invite students to discuss poems that have remained with them, even after the page was turned or the book was closed. What poems left a piece of your head-and heart inside of it (Heard, 1998)?
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you have done a great job mrs walter keep it up
ReplyDeleteI Really like how Emily Dickinson uses personification in her poems.
ReplyDeletethe pome was interesting and cool at the same time
ReplyDeleteI like how the author of Dear March,come in shows that March is sometimes really nice , but other times its not really a good month and how that when its March all the colors come back again.
ReplyDeleteThe poem is saying that march is coming.
ReplyDeletefor the poem "dear march , come in"
ReplyDeletei liked how they used personification to make march move like "dear march , come right up the stairs with me" , and i dont know who exactly was talking to march,it could be anything,but it was a fun poem.