I’ve attached a picture of the class questions about the paragraph form of our 2nd Larkin poem?

Your commentary on “The Mower” is due Wednesday 9/16. Your essay should be 1000-1500 words and emailed to pmarble@sturgischarterschool.org. You’ll hand in all related work on the 16th. Please see today’s class notes below.

Style

Last stanza is a couplet

Stanza – 3 / 3/ 3/ 2 (lines) —– (333 x 2 = 666 – connection with title – is the Mower a devilish figure)

Title of poem – “The Mower”

Symbolism (In the Zodiac, a hedgehog can represent happiness, energy) – Does the Mower kill happiness an energy (in the persona?)

Hedgehog – symbolic of…. ?

Qualities:

-        Thorny outside

-        “Cute”

-        Small

-        You can hold it in a certain way comfortably, but held differently it can hurt

-        Mammal

-        A sense of innocence (small, cute… a bit of protection)

Enjambment/punctuation emphasizes specific words and phrases

• Killed, unmendably, burial was no help, we should be careful, once, twice, kneeling, mauled

Prefix – UN

Past tense verbs – stalled, mauled, killed

Consonance/Assonance

• E and I at end

Consonance

• Bit of S sound
• D sound

Please spend 20-30 minutes tonight (or more, if you so choose) constructing a SCASI that reflects your knowledge and understanding of “The Mower” at this point. You will use that work in class tomorrow when we begin to construct possible arguments for a commentary.

Today, we used the “making meaning protocol” to examine the text that we’ve been working with for the first few days. Please keep all of your materials as you’ll be using them to build your commentary (and handing them to me, as well).

Your homework is to continue examining “The Mower” and peruse the notes that you took during our double block; apply those thoughts and observations to a SCASI.  Make sure that you have all your work from class and homework with you on Wednesday as I’ll collect them all.  You’ll be building a commentary on this poem in the near future.

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