Tuesday, February 25 Spoon River Anthology introduction: The Hill
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Learning Targets
Coming Up: vocabulary quiz on Friday, February 28. This is only defining and identifying the part of speech. Handed out yesterday; another copy below.
In class: The Hill by Edgar Lee Masters. Please collect your notebooks. (no chromebooks today). Create an MLA heading. The date is 25 February 2020; the title is The Hill.
Conversational Language
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11-12R3: In literary texts, analyze the impact of author’s choices. In informational
texts, analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific
individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop.
11-12R4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including figurative and connotative meanings. Analyze the impact of specific word
choices on meaning, tone, and mood, including words with multiple meanings.
Analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of technical or key term(s) over
the course of a text
11-12R6: Analyze how authors employ point of view, perspective, and purpose, to
shape explicit and implicit messages (e.g., persuasiveness, aesthetic quality, satire,
sarcasm, irony, or understatement)
After we have finished reading the introduction. Write a reflective response to the following: MLA heading, title The Hill minimum 250 words. Share 2006630
1. We have a plethora (learn that word) of knowledge at our fingertips about the world. How did an individual from a small town at the beginning of the 20th century navigate life? (Draw on your own knowledge: historical, social (gender, economics and
political.) How different were their lives from ours?
Spoon River Anthology is
a series of poems in free verse (poetry
that does not rhyme
or have a regular meter). In most of the
poems, a deceased native of the
fictional town of Spoon River
delivers a monologue about his or her life or a
specific incident
in his or her life. These monologues are, in effect,
epitaphs. (know this word!)
The Hill
.......Dead men tell no
tales. So says an ancient proverb. But
in Spoon River Anthology dead men—and women—do
tell
tales. Speaking from the grave, more than two hundred forty
deceased residents of a fictional Midwestern town,
Spoon
River, each present short monologues about their lives.
They reveal their heartaches, disappointments, failures,
and unfulfilled dreams. Sometimes they tell of the moral
trespasses of themselves or of others. Occasionally, they
tell
of an incident that reveals the good or bad
qualities of another person.
Format: Free Verse.......Besides introducing
characters in Spoon River Anthology, "The Hill"
introduces the format, free verse. Free verse is poetry that ignores standard
rules of meter in favor of the rhythms
of ordinary conversation. In effect, free verse liberates poetry from
conformity to rigid metrical rules that dictate stress patterns and the number
of syllables per line.
Conversational Language
.......Except for a
poem entitled "The Spooniad," the language in Spoon River
Anthology is simple, conversational, and realistic, with plenty of
local color and regional references—like the reference in "The Hill"
to "the horse races long ago at Clary's Hill" (line 32). Many of the
poems contain a figure of speech called anaphora. Anaphora is
the repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of successive
phrases, clauses or sentences.
The
Introductory Poem
The Hill
1.Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,
The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter?
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
2.One passed in a fever,
One was burned in a mine,
One was killed in a brawl,
One died in a jail,
One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife-
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
3.Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith,
The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?--
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
4.One died in shameful child-birth,
One of a thwarted love,
One at the hands of a brute in a brothel,
One of a broken pride, in the search for heart's desire;
One after life in far-away London and Paris
Was brought to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag--
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
5.Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily,
And old Towny Kincaid and Sevigne Houghton,
And Major Walker who had talked With venerable men of the revolution?--
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
6.They brought them dead sons from the war,
And daughters whom life had crushed,
And their children fatherless, crying--
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Where is Old Fiddler Jones
Who played with life all his ninety years,
Braving the sleet with bared breast,
Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin,
Nor gold, nor love, nor heaven?
Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago,
Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary's Grove,
Of what Abe Lincoln said
One time at Springfield.
The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter?
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
2.One passed in a fever,
One was burned in a mine,
One was killed in a brawl,
One died in a jail,
One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife-
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
3.Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith,
The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?--
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
4.One died in shameful child-birth,
One of a thwarted love,
One at the hands of a brute in a brothel,
One of a broken pride, in the search for heart's desire;
One after life in far-away London and Paris
Was brought to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag--
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
5.Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily,
And old Towny Kincaid and Sevigne Houghton,
And Major Walker who had talked With venerable men of the revolution?--
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
6.They brought them dead sons from the war,
And daughters whom life had crushed,
And their children fatherless, crying--
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Where is Old Fiddler Jones
Who played with life all his ninety years,
Braving the sleet with bared breast,
Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin,
Nor gold, nor love, nor heaven?
Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago,
Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary's Grove,
Of what Abe Lincoln said
One time at Springfield.
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The quiz will consist of defining the words only and identifying the part of speech.
1. cornice (noun)- a molding around a room just below the ceiling. Cornices are often decorative.
2. to surmise (verb)- to suppose or deduce You may surmise that with little effort, you will not succeed.
3. cindery (adjective)- ashy......Cinderella’s hair was gray and cindery from cleaning out the fireplace.
4. incandescent (adjective) emitting a fiery light His smile was incandescent, and his kisses ever-flowing.
5. ominous (adjective)- threatening, something bad happening A dark sky is an ominous sign.
6. fawn (noun)- young deer A mother deer might neglect its fawn, if a human touches it.
7. to kindle (noun) – to light a fire or to awaken a thought The poem kindled a latent thought.
8. a plank (noun)- thin, long piece of timber While iron is substituted for planks in buildings, once they were only wood
9. attired (adjective)- dressed …How are you attired today?
10. visage (noun)-face- His visage wore a trail of tears.
11. to mock (verb)- to tease or laugh at. To mock another individual is often a form of bullying.
12. colossal (adjective)-extremely large The sphynx is an ancient, colossal structure.
13. sycamore (noun)- a tree Deciduous sycamore trees grow large, shady leaves.
14. rankish (adjective)-growing out of control. The weeds were rankish, so it took several hours to tame them.
15. to dapple (verb)- to mark with spots The sun radiating through the leaves dappled the afternoon grass.
16. katydid (noun) - type of cricket The chirping katydids sang to us as the moon rose.
17. to begirt (verb)- to surround A series of ponds begirt the farmer’s field.
18. bayou (noun)- a marshy outlet in the southern US. Crawdads and shrimp are fished for in Louisiana’s bayous.
19. conviction (noun) – a firmly held belief The conviction in his voice was poignant, as we affirmed out beliefs.
20. spiritus mundi (noun) spiritual world After World War I, many feared that the spiritus mundi had collapsed
21. muscadine (nou n)- a southern grape Muscadine grades are sweet and make a refreshing summer refresher.
to grope (verb) - to feel about blindly Sometimes we feel like we grope through life, not knowing what’s to come.
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