PDF handout of the 32 Powerpoints - Mark Fullmer

6/5/2012Whose woods these are I think I know. AHis house is in the village though; AHe will not see me stopping here BTo watch his woods fill up with snow. AMy little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.BBCBCCDCThe woods are lovely, dark and deep. DBut I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,DDAnd miles to go before I sleep. D1. Sound. This is the“music” that is createdin the words used. Onevery common soundtechnique in poetry isrhyme. Look at how theends of each line rhyme.Similar lines arerepresented with thesame letter of thealphabet.Note: marking letters likethis is called the “rhymescheme.”Whose woods these are I think I know. AHis house is in the village though; AHe will not see me stopping here BTo watch his woods fill up with snow. AMy little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.BBCBCCDCThe woods are lovely, dark and deep. DBut I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,DDAnd miles to go before I sleep. DPoems that do not havea regular rhyme schemeare called “blank verse.”For example, WilliamShakespeare wroteblank verse for his plays.They had a meter(“iambic pentameter”),but they did not have arhyme scheme.Note: marking letters likethis is called the “rhymescheme.”2. Rhythm. This is the beat of the poem. Let’s count out thesyllables in this poem to find if it has a pattern…1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Whose woods these are I think I know.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8His house is in the village though;1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8He will not see me stopping here1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8To watch his woods fill up with snow.Note: marking the beat ofthe poem is called “meter.”Each line has exactly 8 syllables. That means this poem has aregular meter. Poems without a pattern are called “freeverse.”Note: there arenames for each1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8differentmeter. Some1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8common ones:“tetrameter”(which means1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8four beats perline),“pentameter”1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (five), and“hexameter”(six).Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.3. Speaker. The speakeris the narrator of thepoem. Oftentimes, weare not told the name ofthe speaker, but in thispoem, we can guess thatthe speaker is a travellerwho lives nearby.Note: do not assume thatthe speaker of the poem isthe author of the poem,even if it says “I”. Usuallypoets create characters totell their stories.Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.4. Audience. Askyourself, who is thespeaker speaking to? Hislover? His enemy? Hisfellow countrymen? Inthis poem, we are nottold who the audienceis. Maybe the speaker issimply speaking tohimself.Note: Many poems do nothave a clear audience, so beprepared to makeinferences and guesses.2