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Using language for effect
ACTIvITy 4.2
Learning Targets
• Analyzetheuseofvocabulary,diction,punctuation,andmusicaldevicesinpoetry.
• Apply an analysis of a poem’s meaning and form to an oral interpretation.
• Use precise language to compare and contrast two poems.
Preview
In this part of the activity, you will read a poem and think about the way the author uses language.
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• As you read the poem, underline words and phrases that create an image.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
• As you read, pause at the end of stanzas or in other places where there seems to be a natural break. Write a backslash ( / ) where you pause.
my Notes
About the Author
Robert Frost (1874–1963) was one of America’s most popular 20th century poets. For much of his life, he lived on a farm in New Hampshire and wrote poems about farm life and the New England landscape. He wrote “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” in 1922, and he described it as his favorite work, calling it his “best bid for remembrance.”
poetry
Stopping
Woods
on a SnowyEvening by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
5 My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.
Unit 4 • How We Choose to Act 251
leArNING sTrATeGIes:
Summarizing, Questioning the Text, Rereading, Marking the Text, Note-taking, Drafting
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