The Call of the Whippoorwill: September 21, 2017

Focus: How do we unravel the extended metaphor in a contemporary poem?

1. Warming up with a circle read of "The Whippoorwill in the Woods," sentence by sentence

2. Rereading the first half of the poem with a focus on its extended metaphor (conceit)

Throwback Thursday:

• The paper doll is a metaphor for a fragile woman (the comparison: both are too easily changeable in the hands of another)

• Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes is a metaphor for reading her poetry (the comparison: both activities involve grappling with tricky "locks," but both expose something vulnerably beautiful when accomplished)

• A prison is a metaphor for traditional prose (the comparison: prose locks up the speaker's mind, while poetry offers her the mental freedom of wonder and curiosity)

• _____ is a metaphor for _____, and here's how:

3. Taking on the MC practice and comparing your choices

(The sound of the whippoorwill)

4. Enjoying 20 minutes of reading time

HW:
Read Chapters 27 through 30 for Friday's Socratic; create a ticket that you will turn in on Friday. Braxton: Please record the Socratic. Someone else: Please scribe.