Multimedia Poetry and Analysis 2019

English Multimedia Poetry and Analysis In this unit, we have been looking at different types of poem. For this assignment, you will have to find a poem on the website, Poetry in Voice, www.poetryinvoice.com. Choose one of the poems from the grade 9 to grade 12 appropriate section that is on the website. Demonstrate that you understand the poem clearly and complete the following two steps. Step #1 Whether it is a video or PowerPoint, add key images, music, or a voice over to bring the poem to life. Find a way to make the poem that you have selected visually interesting to read or hear. Ask yourself how can I make people feel the emotion or mood of this poem? How can I make the audience realize the importance of this poem? How can I highlight the important parts of the poem through images? Step #2 Include your analysis of the poem. Follow the Analysis sheet provided below and include all the information. Show that you clearly understand the poem. Once you have completed the assignment, upload your analysis and poem on Edublog by the end of Wednesday’s class. The tag for this assignment will be #Eng12poemanalysis. This assignment is worth 20 marks. The Day Lady Died Frank O’Hara It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner and I don’t know the people who will feed me I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun and have a hamburger and a malted and buy an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets in Ghana are doing these days I go on to the bank and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard) doesn’t even look up my balance for once in her life and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan Behan’s new play or Le Balcon or Les Nègres of Genet, but I don’t, I stick with Verlaine after practically going to sleep with quandariness and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing Title of Poem: The Day Lady Died Type of Poem: Elegy Author: Frank O’Hara Literal Meaning After you read the poem, what does the literal meaning seem to be? What is happening in the poem? The poem is a curious elegy written in memory of Billie Holiday the jazz singer. The setting s New York city, busy Manhattan street. It's summer and the poet are going about his everyday business. He sees a copy of a newspaper with Billie Holiday's face on the cover. Billie Holiday has died. As he tries to process the news, he starts sweating with grief or may be just from the heart. He recalls memories of Billie Holiday. Imagery Pick out three uses of imagery and write them below (this will most likely be a phrase or line from the poem), then explain what the poet is trying to convey with this image. (include line citations) 1]. IMAGE: “I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun and have a hamburger and a malted and buy" (O’Hara 7-8) MEANING: It is muggy in July. It describes the physical setting. The speaker has been thinking about the rest of the day, but now he returns to the present moment. Presumably, after the shoeshine. 2]. IMAGE: “after practically going to sleep with quandariness” (O’Hara 19) MEANING: The phrase "practically going to sleep" is just a way of expressing the difficulty of his gift dilemma. 3]. IMAGE: “while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing” (O’Hara 29) MEANING: The speaker is a big fan of Billie Holiday. The poet holds his breath for a few moments while Holiday is singing since she is amazing. Lyric Qualities Describe the sound of this poem. You will use terms like: internal rhyme, rhyme scheme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and repetition. Find two specific lines or elements of the poem to discuss. List them and then tell what you think they mean. (include line citations) Lyric Device: (internal rhyme) “and I am sweating a lot by now and 1]. thinking of” (O’Hara 26) Meaning: the parts “ing” in sweating and thinking rhyme; his sweating may relate to learning of Holiday's death or he is sweating from the heat in the club; 2]. Lyric Device: (internal rhyme) “it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine” (O’Hara 3) Meaning: O’ Hara is narrating his routine of the day he leans about Billie Holiday’s death. Figurative Meaning Find at least two figurative devices and explain what they mean. You are looking for terms like: simile, metaphor, allusion, symbolism and personification. (include line citations) 1]. Figurative Device: (hyperbole) “while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing” (O’Hara 29) Meaning: breathless quality of performance; breathless reactions to the news about Billie Holiday’s death. 2]. Figurative Device: (allusion) “and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine” (O’Hara 14) Meaning: reference to Verlaine who was a French poet with an alcohol and drug abuse problem, as was Billie Holiday 3. Figurative Device:(allusion) “an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets” (O’ Hara 9) Meaning: “NEW WORLD WRITING” in caps for no apparent reason; provides emphasis, draws attention. “NEW WORLD WRITING” is a literary magazine, and anthology of work by big name western writer. Theme What do you think is the message of this poem? life continues on its humbling way despite the tragic death of an important artist or some loved one. Multimedia Poetry Analysis Rubric Concerns: Areas to work on Criteria: Standard for this Advanced: Exceeding assignment expectations Analysis of Poem Through breakdown of the poem. Clearly demonstrates that you understand the poem and how the literary devices enhance the meaning of the poem. Creativity Presenting the poem in a way that is visually appealing to the audience. Grammar Minimal to few errors in terms of spelling and sentence structure.