Canadian Poetry Unit Plan
November 11th, 2007 by Mr. D. Sader | Trackback AddressI’ve selected three mini-units for our study of Canadian Poetry:
Throughout your study, think carefully and creatively about responses to your course focus questions. Maintain a connection to characters you’ve already studied. Extend your discussion of image, symbol, and archetype. Consider: Principal Images of Heaven and Hell and Principal Images of Innocence and Experience.
Magic Man…
“Mind itself is Magic coursing through the flesh, and flesh itself is Magic dancing on a clock, and time itself the Magic length of God.”
The magic reminds me of Jack from the book Lord of The Flies. “Magic never weakened, Magic ne…
Alone I Break…
“Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty.”
Across the Canadian Prairie, Jabez Harry Bowering (Grandfather), sang songs and discussed readings from Saul on the road to Damascus. This man, reminds me of Gandhi in the meaning that he traveled all ov…
God is Alive, Magic isn’t…
When the words are changed around or repeated constantly it makes the reader have to think in order to understand, since the person has to think about what they are reading the reader will understand even more then if someone just read it and they will…
Fade Upon Some Final Blast…
Pastoral is the lifestyle of shepherds and pastoralists, moving livestock around larger areas of land according to seasons and availability of water and feed. This poem is about the final feelings of a shepherd. Jones talks about what will remain after…
Temptation…
“For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,” Peter 3:18
This bible reading describes how through pain and suffering Christ saved peopl…
Believing Is Forever…
The poem “God Is Alive” was a very interesting and quite hard to read and get it into your head. It kept referring back to God and Magic, and the way that it was put together it almost seemed as if the writer was trying to say that Magic an…
Grandfather…
In the poem Grandfather, the author is trying to get across that his grandfather was a man of faith. It was ironic that he died in a Catholic Hospirtal because he spend all of his live following Jesus and building church’s for his believers.
Whe…
Doesn’t Remind Me…
I thought I have done so much in my life already, but after reading this poem I felt like I have done nothing at all. In the poem “I Have Not Lingered In European Monasteries” Leonard Cohen states everything he hasn’t done, then some …
From The Street To The Ring…
Milton Acorn, the author of “The Fights,” uses the sport of boxing to explain the relationship between the body and the mind. “Set up like a coconut on a flexible stem.” Why would Acorn use “coconut” to represent the…
Magic is Evil…
The repeating ideas and the frequent reversal of the word order is used to make us(the reader) fully understand more clearly what we are reading it makes us think. It helps us see what the author is trying to tell us and what he believes. At first…
We All Die Young…
The world has many varieties of things that humans can do in this world. We can fly like birds, sink like rocks, swim like fish, and move faster than any animal can. We don’t have any thing that we crated on our own we can only copy other sp…
Its all in your Head….
” a rude brush-cut to the chin tucks one brain safe under another.”
This quote from the poem “The Fights” made me think that they are trying to forget something or hide a memory. People put things in the back of there mind and t…
Closure…
“Even if we don’t Survive, even if the birds and bees, The plants as well.”
This poem reminds me of science, because D.G. Jones talks about “fade upon some final blast”, this must mean the big bang theory. He talks about …
Religion…
Cohen tells us the things he has not done, by doing this he is telling us who he is and who he isn’t. Cohen isn’t really a religious man, all the things he hasn’t done seem to be related to relgion. Leonardo Cohen seems satisfied w…
You Have to Choose Sometime…
A very wise person told me a story a long time ago. An old Cherokee was teaching his grandson about life.
“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is …