Wonderful work today. If you had to leave early, be sure to create notes on your response to the last stanza. Look for more techniques that he uses. He addresses the reader twice in this paragraph. That technique is called apostrophe (look it up). We also did parallelism, couplet, heroic couplet, iambic pentametre, iamb, (if you left early, look up those definitions also.
Choose either question A or B below and create a formal, literary paragraph (300+) words to elucidate Crozier's or Owens' poems.
A. "The Child Who Walks Backwards" by Lorna Crozier Discuss how Crozier's uses of literary techniques such as hyperbole, imagery, sound, puns, point of view, understatement, etc serve to emphasize the theme that child abuse is secretive yet we are aware that it exists.
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B. "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owens. Discuss how Owens uses literary techniques to inform a pro-war audience the truth about war. Choose the best three techniques such as hyperbole, imagery, caesura, punctuation, juxtaposition, apostrophe, allusion to Horace, sound techniques--dissonance, assonance, etc
Friday: A Special Presentation by performance poet, Sheri-D Wilson. Have a look at her site http://sheridwilson.com/ so that you'll be somewhat familiar with her work. I suspect she may do writing exercises with us as well which will be great for your poetry writing.
Your paragraph is due on Tuesday. If you will need an extension, please email me well in advance; otherwise, I will expect them all on Tuesday.
Homework: Create a new poem (based on your anthologies or what you wrote during class). Type it up and submit Friday.
