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Poetry Presentation

Poetry Presentation

Q 1. In this assignment upload location, please upload the PowerPoint or Google Slides Show for our Poetry Unit 2. o RUBRIC FOR THE PROJECT: Slide 1---5 points Cover Slide: Photos of EACH of Poet/Poetess (or painting/portraits) Names of poem next to the photo By: Your name Your Course Number: Choose from below COM 121.1132 (MW) COM 121.1132 (T/Th) COM 121.1475 (Th) Slide 2---5 points Biography of this poet/poetess for POEM 1 Photo of poet/poetess (Poet--male writer of poetry) (Poetess--female writer of poetry) Slide 3---5 points Poem 1-Visual representation of the poems you selected (paste poem on a slide) Slide 4---5 points Poem 1-Explain the following for this poem: Subject? Meaning? Action in the poem? -Must have ONE graphic or photo on the slide -SOURCE: place the source/website in Notes at the bottom of each slide Slide 5---5 points Poem 1-Explain the following poetic devices for this poem: (SOME OF THESE MAY NOT BE PRESENT) Simile? Metaphor? Personification? Tone? Point of View? Imagery? Alliteration? Themes? -Must have ONE graphic or photo on the slide -SOURCE: place the source/website in Notes at the bottom of each slide Slide 6---5 points Biography of this poet/poetess for POEM 2 Photo of poet/poetess (Poet--male writer of poetry) (Poetess--female writer of poetry) Slide 7---5 points Poem 2-Visual representation of the poems you selected (paste poem on a slide) Slide 8---5 points Poem 2-Explain the following for this poem: Subject? Meaning? Action in the poem? -Must have ONE graphic or photo on the slide -SOURCE: place the source/website in Notes at the bottom of each slide Slide 9---5 points Poem 2-Explain the following poetic devices for this poem: (SOME OF THESE MAY NOT BE PRESENT) Simile? Metaphor? Personification? Tone? Point of View? Imagery? Alliteration? Themes? -Must have ONE graphic or photo on the slide -SOURCE: place the source/website in Notes at the bottom of each slide Slide 10---5 points Biography of this poet/poetess for POEM 3 Photo of poet/poetess (Poet--male writer of poetry) (Poetess--female writer of poetry) Slide 11---5 points Poem 3-Visual representation of the poems you selected (paste poem on a slide) Slide 12---5 points Poem 3-Explain the following for this poem: Subject? Meaning? Action in the poem? -Must have ONE graphic or photo on the slide -SOURCE: place the source/website in Notes at the bottom of each slide Slide 13---5 points Poem 3-Explain the following poetic devices for this poem: (SOME OF THESE MAY NOT BE PRESENT) Simile? Metaphor? Personification? Tone? Point of View? Imagery? Alliteration? Themes? -Must have ONE graphic or photo on the slide -SOURCE: place the source/website in Notes at the bottom of each slide Slide 14--Student Reflection---10 points Poem 1- Why did you pick this poem? How did it “speak” to you or affect you? Would you read more poems by this poet/poetess? Slide 15--Student Reflection---10 points Poem 2- Why did you pick this poem? How did it “speak” to you or affect you? Would you read more poems by this poet/poetess? Slide 16--Student Reflection---10 points Poem 3- Why did you pick this poem? How did it “speak” to you or affect you? Would you read more poems by this poet/poetess? Poem Analysis Sheets: These are not part of the slide show, but they are part of the project. Poem 1-Poem Analysis Sheet-5 points Poem 2-Poem Analysis Sheet-5 points Poem 2-Poem Analysis Sheet-5 points Total: 110 points for the presentation

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• Walt Whitman, an American poet and journalist • Born on May 31,1819 in Long Island • Wrote Leaves of Grass which gathered him public praise • Expressed Union sentiments in his poem and is considered an American hero •Tended to the wounded in Washington D.C during the Civil war •Died on March 26, 1892 in New Jersey O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead