UNIT I

Communicating Through
Poems, Songs, Jazz,
Speech Choir, Parables,
and Short Stories

Lesson 1: Poems
and Songs: Mans
Expression of
Thoughts and
Sentiments

What is a Song?
A short piece of music with
words that are sung
The act of singing
A series of musical sounds
A short musical composition
of words and music

Self-Awareness
1.What really a song is?
2.Is it also considered as a
Poetical composition
poem?
A poem easily set to
3.Why music
I enjoy listening to it? Is
it because
of musical
the rhythm? Or
A short
the message
it convey?
composition
of words
and music

What is poem?
a composition in verse
a piece of writing that usually has
figurative language and that is written in
separate lies that often have repeated
rhythm and sometimes rhyme
Figurative Language used with a meaning
that is different from the basic meaning
and that expresses idea in an interesting
way by using language that usually
describes something else: not literal.

What is poem for you?

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

One of the 18th century Americal
poets whose works are widely read in
the world
Was born on 1807
Became popular because people
loved the musical quality of his
poems
A national literary figure and a world
famous personality at the time of his
death in 1882.

Some popular quotes of Longfellow:

What
Victory
ideas
In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
about
Time
It takes less time to do things
right
Longfell
than to explain why you did it
ow
wrong.
come to
Hope
The setting of great hopeyour
is like the
setting of the sun. The brightness of
mind as
our life is gone.

ROBERT FROST
Started writing poem at the age of 15 and
continued until he died at the age of 88
Enjoyed
wordplay
challenges
Tone
is what
comes and
through
a closedin
creating
complexare
idea
in the form
door
whena people
speaking
out of
of a
poem through the crafty use of language
earshot. We cannot understand the
A poetry lover and great talker and
exact words, but the tones of voice tell
conversationalist
us what is going on. You can tell if the
Regarded poems as the highest art of
voice is pleading, demanding or
language
doubtful.
Great lover of sounds and tones

Poem Analysis
Group 1: Questions:
1. What kind of day was described by
Longfellow in poem1? Cite the words that
describe the day.
2. Do all the stanza in poem 1 just talk about
that particular day?
3. What main ideas are conveyed in poem 1?
4. Are feelings also conveyed in poem 1?
5. What lessons in life does Longfellow share
with us in the poem?

Group 2. Questions:
1. Was the speaker in A Time to Talk the
person who received a visit, or was he the
visitor?
2. Did the speaker in Poem 2 shout to his
friend from his place?
3. What are the main ideas of poem 2?
4. What did the speaker in poem 2 feel that
day?
5. Is it okay to leave your work to spend time
with a friend?

The Rainy Day

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Time to Talk
by Robert Frost
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I dont stand still and look around
On all the hills I havent hoed,
And shout from where i am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.

Criteria:

Cooperation
10
Group Discipline
5

Clarity of explanation/
Confidence 10

Total
25

Assignment:
Make your own poem and write it in a
short bond paper. Put a background
design. This would be recorded in
your written work.