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Check Your Understanding
7. Theme refers to the central idea or message of a poem. A poem’s theme
makes a comment about the subject. What is a possible theme of the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”?
Possible theme: Scenes of natural beauty can have a lasting effect on one’s life because they can be revisited in one’s memory.
8. Choose one line from the poem and explain how it helps you understand the poem’s tone or theme.
“I gazed—and gazed—but little thought/What wealth the show to me had brought:” gives the poem a tone of wonder and helps develop the theme that this show of nature has enriched the speaker’s life in a lasting way.
ACTIVITY 2
Writing a Poem as a Class
WRITING PROMPT: Work with the class to write a lyric poem. Be sure to include: • Imagery: descriptive and figurative language (for example: simile,
personification, connotative diction, sensory detail)
• Poetic techniques (for example: rhyme, alliteration, assonance, enjambment) • Poetic elements (for example: stanzas, lines, rhyme scheme, meter)
Refer to the Scoring Guide for this writing task at the end of the workshop to help you understand where to focus your attention and efforts.
Prewriting
1. Reread “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and complete the chart on the next page in order to define and identify figurative language, poetic techniques, and poetic elements that you can apply to your class- constructed poem.
Writing Workshop 8 • Poetry 5
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