Poetic Analysis Virtual Discussion: Identifying Theme and Poetic Devices by Mr. Hommel https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0 (A1) Directions: Read the four poems and offer your thoughts on potential themes for each poem. We also want to identify the poetic devices in each poem. In order to receive full credit, leave at least 2 comments and 2 responses to classmates on any of the poems. Try not to repeat one another, and punctuation and grammar always matter! en-us 2020-04-18 18:46:39 UTC 2020-04-25 01:20:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f58b.png scotthommel2 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/514642190 2020-04-18 19:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/514642190 scotthommel2 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/514642950 2020-04-18 19:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/514642950 scotthommel2 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/514643704 2020-04-18 19:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/514643704 scotthommel2 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/514644304 2020-04-18 19:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/514644304 Anthony Salazar https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/521040400 my parents lounge was a gift- metaphor

]]> 2020-04-21 18:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/521040400 anthony_salazar2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/521047856 I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house - allusion
]]> 2020-04-21 18:05:54 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/521047856 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/525662773 fearing the chronic angers of that house - personification ]]> 2020-04-23 12:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/525662773 Rhetorical Question https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/525673939 " I wonder if it's that simple? "

]]> 2020-04-23 13:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/525673939 Imagery https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/525677480 I am the only colored student in my class.
The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem,
through a park, then I cross St. Nicholas,
Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and I come to the Y,
the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator
up to my room, sit down, and write this page]]> 2020-04-23 13:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/525677480 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526826629 "I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you." -imagery]]> 2020-04-23 20:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526826629 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526846472 "Being me, it will not be white.
But it will be a part of you, instructor. You are white— yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That's American." -metaphor]]> 2020-04-23 20:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526846472 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526850910 "Our bodies have been bridges." metaphor

]]> 2020-04-23 20:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526850910 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526854347 "Beat the drums of my skin."
metaphor

]]> 2020-04-23 20:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526854347 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526855790 "I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking." -Allusion]]> 2020-04-23 20:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526855790 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526858033 "fearing the chronic angers of that house" - personification ]]> 2020-04-23 20:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526858033 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526859649 " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" -metaphor]]> 2020-04-23 20:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526859649 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526862713 " And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard- And sore must be the storm" Assonance

]]> 2020-04-23 20:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/526862713 Repetition https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/527053244 The word "Harlem", "white".]]> 2020-04-23 22:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/527053244 Repetition https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/527055728 The word "cold".]]> 2020-04-23 22:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/527055728 Repetition https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/527056507 Certain words in the poem.]]> 2020-04-23 22:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/527056507 beneath are tongues-metaphor ivan_laureramos2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/528317092 2020-04-24 13:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/528317092 ivan_laureramos2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/528319482 fearing the chronic angles of the house-feelings]]> 2020-04-24 13:22:39 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/528319482 ivan_laureramos2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/528322127 And sings the tune without the words-metaphor]]> 2020-04-24 13:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/528322127 I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you ivan_laureramos2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/528324295 2020-04-24 13:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/528324295 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/528886220 "It's not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I'm what
I feel and see and hear, Harlem"]]> 2020-04-24 16:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/528886220 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529109429 "And sings the tune without the words -"-metaphor
devyn ]]> 2020-04-24 18:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529109429 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529112372 "Our bodies have been bridges."  metaphor 
devyn]]> 2020-04-24 18:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529112372 oluwadamilola_brightawonuga2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529164010 "Go home and write a page tonight and let the page come out of you"-metaphor]]> 2020-04-24 19:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529164010 oluwadamilola_brightawonuga2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529168809 "I guess being colored doesn't make me not like
the same things other folks like who are other races.
So will my page be colored that I write?"- personification]]> 2020-04-24 19:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529168809 oluwadamilola_brightawonuga2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529178188 "Read our lifeline,
birth of intertwine,
moonbeams
and starshine."- Rhyming ]]> 2020-04-24 19:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529178188 oluwadamilola_brightawonuga2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529182184 "We're not a cultural wedlock,
hair too kinky for Spain,
too wavy for dreadlocks."- Refrain]]> 2020-04-24 19:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529182184 oluwadamilola_brightawonuga2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529184405 "Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze."- Imagery]]> 2020-04-24 19:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529184405 oluwadamilola_brightawonuga2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529186920 "Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well." - Metaphor]]> 2020-04-24 19:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529186920 oluwadamilola_brightawonuga2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529187836 "“Hope” is the thing with feathers"- Imagery]]> 2020-04-24 19:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529187836 oluwadamilola_brightawonuga2022 https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529189651 "I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me."- Rhyming]]> 2020-04-24 19:28:57 UTC https://padlet.com/scotthommel2/te2w3lzhcl9blvu0/wish/529189651