Frost Poetry Assignment by MsU Lyrics
Assignment:
Annotate your assigned Frost poem. You will teach the poem to the class by presenting your Poetry Genius annotations on the due date.
Links to our class pages for each of the poems are listed at the bottom of this page. For this assignment, you will make all your annotations on one poem.
GUIDELINES AND EXPECTATIONS:
BE SURE TO…cite information that you gain from other sources. Do this by providing a link to the website where you found that information at the end of the annotation. Also give links to credit images, audio files, etc. that you found on the internet. This is part of the guidelines for Poetry Genius. You must cite at least three credible sources, and I expect you will have many more. Remember that anything you gain from another source, whether it be information, image, or other resource needs to be credited or else it is plagiarism. This is especially important since this work will have a public audience.
N.B. I recommend that you avoid looking at your poem elsewhere on the Genius site so that you keep a fresh perspective and aren't tempted to copy other annotations. After we finish this project, I hope that we all will be adding annotations to the public pages of these poems so that others can learn from your analysis. So resist the urge to look until then! Doing research at a credible site to inform your thinking is a different thing from copying an annotation elsewhere on the site, which would be plagiarism and result in a 0.
Your annotated poem should include:
As indicated on the page, edit the description (at the top) to include:
o historical context (Background/contextual information that you can locate relevant to the publication of the poem: what may have inspired it, what critics have said about it, when it was written)
o a summary of the work’s overall themes
o a description of the work’s overall style and tone (you might want to look at samples of other poems on Poetry Genius as a model for this information).
o As best you can, situate this poem in the context of Frost’s other work: how is your poem like/unlike his other poetry in both technique and content?
o Note that your summary of the work’s overall themes and description of overall style and tone is essentially your thesis/overall argument for a commentary.
If a high-quality reading of the text exists on YouTube (or you may find audio elsewhere) upload at the top of the page (“add audio or video”). Even better if you can find Frost reading the poem himself (a few do exist out there, OK if quality is not as good).
Images, especially for difficult words or ideas (what does a “white heal-all” look like)? Be sure to give credit to website for images, unless you use images from Wikimedia Commons. You might embed other multimedia elements into your analysis if they are relevant (of course, cite these as well).
In-depth analysis of both the content (ideas) presented in the poem as well as the style (authorial techniques) used to present that content, i.e. What is your poem about? What is the meaning of the poem (theme)? How do the author’s choices (i.e. figurative language, syntax, diction, etc.) contribute to the meaning of the poem?
Use the “How to Write a Commentary” sheet as a guideline for your annotations. Throughout your annotations, I expect to see your analysis of ALL of the following (see questions on the sheet):
• Topic
• Voice
• Form
• Message
• Tone
• Imagery
• Figurative Language
• Diction
• Syntax
• Sound
• Conclusion
Don’t include more than a single line in each annotation. Maybe there are a few times where you make a single annotation for two lines, but the point is to engage in close reading. You never should be writing one annotation for a group of lines. Genius won’t let you make multiple annotations for the same line, so think carefully about how to divide the text and annotate appropriately.
Since commentaries are thorough and extensive, make every effort to annotate every line of your poem. The best annotations take small parts of the text and discuss them in detail. The longer poems might not have every single line annotated or might allow for occasional line groupings of annotations, but the shortest poems should probably have multiple annotations within lines.
Avoid just paraphrasing the lines. Your job is analysis, not just restating what the poet’s saying in your own words.
At least once (and more for extra points), provide a link to another work. You may think the lines are referencing another poem or are reminiscent of another poem in some way. You can link to a Frost poem or other poem on the site, or even a link to a song, a clip from a favorite movie, an article, anything you feel may be echoing the poem or expressing a similar idea.
Remember to cite information from sources with hyperlinks or other appropriate citations. minimum 3 credible sources
This presentation will be graded using the IB commentary rubric. Make sure your language use is sophisticated and appropriate. No first person, please. Make sure that you edit your writing.
Be sure to look over the Lit Genius Guidelines.
Into My Own
Acquainted with the Night
Design
After Apple Picking
The Death of the Hired Man
Home Burial
Birches
"Out, Out--"
Mending Wall
Annotate your assigned Frost poem. You will teach the poem to the class by presenting your Poetry Genius annotations on the due date.
Links to our class pages for each of the poems are listed at the bottom of this page. For this assignment, you will make all your annotations on one poem.
GUIDELINES AND EXPECTATIONS:
BE SURE TO…cite information that you gain from other sources. Do this by providing a link to the website where you found that information at the end of the annotation. Also give links to credit images, audio files, etc. that you found on the internet. This is part of the guidelines for Poetry Genius. You must cite at least three credible sources, and I expect you will have many more. Remember that anything you gain from another source, whether it be information, image, or other resource needs to be credited or else it is plagiarism. This is especially important since this work will have a public audience.
N.B. I recommend that you avoid looking at your poem elsewhere on the Genius site so that you keep a fresh perspective and aren't tempted to copy other annotations. After we finish this project, I hope that we all will be adding annotations to the public pages of these poems so that others can learn from your analysis. So resist the urge to look until then! Doing research at a credible site to inform your thinking is a different thing from copying an annotation elsewhere on the site, which would be plagiarism and result in a 0.
Your annotated poem should include:
As indicated on the page, edit the description (at the top) to include:
o historical context (Background/contextual information that you can locate relevant to the publication of the poem: what may have inspired it, what critics have said about it, when it was written)
o a summary of the work’s overall themes
o a description of the work’s overall style and tone (you might want to look at samples of other poems on Poetry Genius as a model for this information).
o As best you can, situate this poem in the context of Frost’s other work: how is your poem like/unlike his other poetry in both technique and content?
o Note that your summary of the work’s overall themes and description of overall style and tone is essentially your thesis/overall argument for a commentary.
If a high-quality reading of the text exists on YouTube (or you may find audio elsewhere) upload at the top of the page (“add audio or video”). Even better if you can find Frost reading the poem himself (a few do exist out there, OK if quality is not as good).
Images, especially for difficult words or ideas (what does a “white heal-all” look like)? Be sure to give credit to website for images, unless you use images from Wikimedia Commons. You might embed other multimedia elements into your analysis if they are relevant (of course, cite these as well).
In-depth analysis of both the content (ideas) presented in the poem as well as the style (authorial techniques) used to present that content, i.e. What is your poem about? What is the meaning of the poem (theme)? How do the author’s choices (i.e. figurative language, syntax, diction, etc.) contribute to the meaning of the poem?
Use the “How to Write a Commentary” sheet as a guideline for your annotations. Throughout your annotations, I expect to see your analysis of ALL of the following (see questions on the sheet):
• Topic
• Voice
• Form
• Message
• Tone
• Imagery
• Figurative Language
• Diction
• Syntax
• Sound
• Conclusion
Don’t include more than a single line in each annotation. Maybe there are a few times where you make a single annotation for two lines, but the point is to engage in close reading. You never should be writing one annotation for a group of lines. Genius won’t let you make multiple annotations for the same line, so think carefully about how to divide the text and annotate appropriately.
Since commentaries are thorough and extensive, make every effort to annotate every line of your poem. The best annotations take small parts of the text and discuss them in detail. The longer poems might not have every single line annotated or might allow for occasional line groupings of annotations, but the shortest poems should probably have multiple annotations within lines.
Avoid just paraphrasing the lines. Your job is analysis, not just restating what the poet’s saying in your own words.
At least once (and more for extra points), provide a link to another work. You may think the lines are referencing another poem or are reminiscent of another poem in some way. You can link to a Frost poem or other poem on the site, or even a link to a song, a clip from a favorite movie, an article, anything you feel may be echoing the poem or expressing a similar idea.
Remember to cite information from sources with hyperlinks or other appropriate citations. minimum 3 credible sources
This presentation will be graded using the IB commentary rubric. Make sure your language use is sophisticated and appropriate. No first person, please. Make sure that you edit your writing.
Be sure to look over the Lit Genius Guidelines.
Into My Own
Acquainted with the Night
Design
After Apple Picking
The Death of the Hired Man
Home Burial
Birches
"Out, Out--"
Mending Wall