Today’s Activities:
Finish the material from yestiddy.
Moo vaughn to the Poem. This one will be looking for SYMBOLISM.
Symbolism -
things can mean other things
those other things are usually more complex and wider in scope and may have to do with UNIVERSALS - issues that affect all people probably throughout time (some of them don’t affect only specific time periods - note: see the poem from yestiddy)
ie refugees are always with us - we might see images of refugees or symbols that suggest something about the refugee experience
what could you see as an image or a reference in a poem that might suggest something about the refugee experience?
1. one trick - words have multiple meanings - ie in Goya, groaning can have multiple layers of meaning
people can groan - with pain, with tears, with the weight of something, with struggle or as they die
a wooden cart can groan under the weight of objects
2. What COULD X mean?
3. Find things that also have value - negative, positive, light, dark,
cement - hard, heavy, powerful, gray, ominous, same colour as old black and white photos of war, same colour as uniforms, bullets, barrels, weapons, etc.
The value could be emotional, historical, sociological, scientific, etc
To find these things, it may help to read the poem aloud and play it.
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