(Although I missed a couple days of school this week, I think I got the general gist of this week's lesson) This week we focused on the poem, “The Eagle” by Lord Alfred Tennyson, but more specifically, we honed in on learning how to analyze the poem. Through the course of the week, we completed multiple activities to help the class get different perspectives and break down the poem. We discussed our ideas as a class, discussed what specific phrases in the poem may mean, and filled out the TPCASTT form. I’m going to be honest, I’ve never liked poetry and I’m not very good at trying to decipher the meaning behind it. I think it’s because I’m a very literal person. The first time I read “The Eagle”, I legitimately thought it was about an eagle. I’m dead serious I thought it was about an eagle that climbed a cliff, stood there, and fell and died. I was so out of tune with this poem that I thought the eagle died! And as embarrassing as it is, I didn’t realize there could’ve been a different interpretation until we discussed the poem in class. Once, we started our class conversation it dawned on me that there is so much going on in the poem, and that maybe the eagle wasn’t meant to be interpreted as an actual eagle ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ who would’ve thought). I did find TPCASTT a bit confusing, and I think it was because my brain couldn’t comprehend that there could be so much meaning in such a short poem, as well as the fact that some of the boxes purposes’ seemed to overlap a bit, but breaking down the poem little by little really helped me focus and figure out what was happening. Another source that really helped was this article, which broke down most of the key elements in a poem and really helped me properly analyze “The Eagle”. I may have struggled with this week’s poem, but I actually really excited to analyze more poetry, and I’m glad that we get to do it every week!
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Ben
9/26/2017 05:10:49 pm
Hey again,
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