Day 96

Objective:  The students will analyze their first poem.

1.  Allusion notes:  Macbeth.

2.  How to Analyze Poems Notes:

2.  Listen to poem:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQBdxu9t-zs&t=10s&ab_channel=BrianMonk

3.  Read and analyze with a partner.

4.  Write an intro paragraph for the following prompt:

Robert Frost, in his poem "Out, Out," seems to be making a statement about the fragility of life.  In an essay, explain how the poet uses literary devices to present the overall purpose of the poem.

 

 

Allusion Notes:  Macbeth and “Out, out”

Allusion Notes:  Macbeth’s “Out, out brief candle!”

 “Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

·      Macbeth in Macbeth has a soliloquy at the end of the play when he hears his wife cry out as she dies.

·      Shakespeare is speaking through Macbeth.  He is saying that existence for each of us is only a moment of light before emptiness and darkness.

·      Before we are born, there is nothing.

·      After we die there is nothing.  Only darkness.

·      Being alive is like a brief light burning in the darkness.

·      We think we are important and what we do in life has significance.

·      But we are only a shadow that disappears when the light goes out.