Poetry Unlocked: Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!"
Dana Lorelle, Writing, Vocabulary, Essays
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Is Walt Whitman's classic poem about a ship's captain...or something else?
Class experience
US Grade 5 - 8
Walt Whitman composed this poem about one of the most significant events and turning points in American history. Beyond an explanation of the subject matter, vocabulary, and the structure of the poem, students will identify Bend-Your-Ear Devices such as alliteration, consonance, and repetition, and Dress-Up Devices such as extended metaphors. For the second class, students will be encouraged to compose their own elegy. The second class will include a study of the more modern elegy "In...
My passion is writing and poetry -- seriously, I have prints of my favorite poems (just 20 or so!) lining the walls of our family room -- and it's my great joy that my five kids can quote Shakespeare and Longfellow. So many students claim to "hate" poetry, but that's often because poetry is difficult to understand. My goal is to give students the tools they need to unlock poems. Like John Keats suddenly understanding Homer once he read the English translation, I want my students to look "...at each other with a wild surmise/ Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
1 file available upon enrollment1 copy (provided ahead of class) of Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" 1 copy (provided after first class) of poetry-writing assignment
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
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***Use coupon code LORELLE20245 for $5 off any class.*** Welcome! I'm here because I love writing, reading, and teaching, and through Outschool I'm able to blend all three. I offer classes in writing and literature analysis (especially poetry),...
Group Class
$28
for 2 classes1x per week, 2 weeks
55 min
Completed by 58 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 10-16
3-9 learners per class
