Republic of the Philippines

Bulacan State University

Sarmiento Campus

Brgy. Kaypian, City of San Jose Del Monte,

Bulacan

Module in Educational Technology

(Grade 10 Literature)

Submitted by:

Janella mei D. Buban

Joeram Canillo

Angelyn A. Carvajal

Carmela Lasala

Jonalyn Sahagun

BSEd English 3D

Submitted to:
 Ms. Jean Rose Regala

POETRY

The basic elements of the poetry include the speaker, content, theme, shape

and form, mood or tone, imagery, diction, figurative language and sound-effect

devices.

Exercise No.1

Identify the basic elements of poetry. Choose from the box below.

Speaker Diction
Content Figurative language
Theme Free-verse poetry
Structured poetry Mood or tone
Imagery

__________ 1. Poet’s choice of words. The poet chooses each word carefully so that

both its meaning and sound contribute to the tone and feeling of the poem.

__________2. The person who is addressing the reader in the poem.

__________3. It refers to the pictures which we perceive with our minds, eyes, ears,

nose, tongue, skin and through which we experience the ‘duplicate world’ created by

poetic language.
__________4. It is the subject of the poem. It answers the question “what?” What is the

poem all about? What happens in the poem?

_________5. It is the feeling that the poet creates in the poem and that the reader

senses through the poet’s choice of words.

_________6. It is the meaning of the poem – the main idea that the poet is trying to

communicate.

_________7. Shape and form of the poetry that has predictable patterns of rhyme,

rhythm, line-length and stanza construction.

________8. The poet experiments with the form of the poem.

Greek Lyric Poetry

In Greek literature, as in all other literatures, some forms of songs, words set to

music, were among the earliest modes of expression.

HYMN TO VENUS

Immortal Venus, throned above

In radiant beauty, child of Jove

O skilled in every art of love

And artful snare;

Dread power, to whom I bend the knee,

Release my soul and set it free

From bonds of pircing agony

And gloomy care.

Yet come thyself, if e’er, benign,

Thy listening ears thou didst incline

To my rude lay, the starry shine

In chariot yoked with courses fair,

Thy own immortal birds that bear

Thees swift to earth, the middle air

With bright wing cleaving.

Soon they were sped- and thou, most blest,

In thine own smiles ambrosial dressed,

Didst ask what griefs mhy mind oppressed—

What meant my song

What end my frenzied thoughts pursue—

For what loved youth I spread anew

My amorous nets—“Who, Sappho, who

Hath done thee wrong?

“What though he fly, he’ll soon return—

Heed not his coldness—soon he’ll burn,

E’en though thou chide”.

--And sadist thou thus, dread goddess? O,

Come then once more to ease my woe;

Grant all, and thy great self bestow,

My shield and guide!

COMPREHENSION RESPONSE

1. In what mood is the poem written?

2. Who is the persona in the poem?

3. What favor does the persona in the poem ask Venus?

4. What answer does Venus gives?

5. Why does the persona call Venus her shield and guide?

ONE GIRL

Like the sweet apple which reddens

Upon the topmost bough,

Pluckers forgot, somehow—

Forgot it not, nay! But got in not, for

None could get it till now.

II

Like the wild hyacinth flower which on

The hills is found,

Which the passing feet of the shepherds

Forever tear and wound,

Until the purple blossom is trodden into the ground.

COMPREHENSION RESPONSE

1. What type of girl is sown in the first stanza?

2. What does “atop the topmost bough” suggest about the girl?

3. Who are the”pluckers”?

4. Does the stanza mean that the girl has no suitors?

5. What type of girl is shown in the second stanza?

6. Who are implied in “the passing feet off shepherds”?

7. What is the unhappy fate of the second girl?

Exercise No.3

LITERARY APPRECIATION

Let us review what rhyme is. Answer these questions briefly.

1. What is rhyme?

2. Is rhyme based on the initial sound of words?

3. Sometimes writers base rhyme on spelling, not on the sound. Such

rhymes are called eye rhyme. “Stood” and “blood” are an eye rhyme. Scan

“Hymn to Venus” and pick the eye rhyme in the first stanza.

4. What is the eye rhyme in “One Girl?

5. –7. When only the final of syllable of words rhyme, the rhyme is a

masculine rhyme. If the final two syllables rhyme, it is a feminine rhyme.

What kind of rhyme is used in lines 13,14, and 15 in “Hymn to Venus”? in

lines 12 and 16?

8-9. Study these lines:

I wish I were a cassowary

Upon the plains in Timbuktoo,

I swear I’d eat a missionary—

Hair and bones and hymnbook too.

10. Lines 25—28, “Hymn to Venus are in quotation marks. Who said the

words?
11-15. Archaic words are words used in English of the past, like thee,

thou, thine. Verb end with –st, and contractions are often used. List 4

archaism in stanza 3 of the first poem.

16-17. In lines 25 and 27, is “he’ll” an archaism? What does “e’en in 28

stand for?

18. (Choose your answer) What do you call a comparison between two

unlike objects using like or as?

a. Personification

b. Metaphor

c. Simile

19-20. To what two objects does the writer of “One Girl” compare

herself?
Exercise No.4

Grammar Mini-Review

Choose your answer, fill in the blank, or answer the “Hymn to Venus”

1. Why is there a comma after “ Immortal Venus”? because Venus is

a. a proper noun

b. a direct object

c. a noun address

2. -3 In stanza 2, there are two verbs in the imperative mood –ie., ommand

or request. What are the verbs?

4. In stanza 4, what is the subject of the clause?

a. None

b. Birds

c. Thee

5-6. In stanza 5, convert the indirect questions in lines19 and20 into indirect

questions.

7. In lines 23 ad24, What are the direct objects?

a. Sappho c. nets

b. Thee d. wrong
8. In line 25, to whom does “he” refer? To a man who

a. does not love Sappho

b. presses his gifts on Sappho; is burning for love for Sappho

9-11. In “One Girl”, copy the three negative words in the first stanza.

12. The last uses the

a. superlative degree

b. passive voice

c. subjunctive mood
Exercise No.5

MAKE YOUR OWN

Write a short poem applying the various elements techniques and literary

devices. Write your own in the spaces provide.

1. Acrostic poem

The first letter of each line is aligned vertically to form a word.

Example:

L-ove is

O-ver the moon in you

V-alentine

E-yes

2. Couplet

A couplet is a pair of lines. They rhyme and have the same meter.

Examples:

Grandmother sits in her old rocking chair.

She rocks and rocks all day there.

What oft was though , but ne’er so well express’d.

-Alexander Pope

Whether or not we find what we are seeking

Is idle, biologically speaking.

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

3. Haiku

Old Japanese poetry that consists of seventeen syllables and has

nature as its subject or theme, has a 5-7-5 syllable structure.

Example:

As I lay and gaze

Blue skies and white clouds above

Billowing up high.

4. Tanka

Japanese poetry that consists of 31 syllables (5-7-5-7-7) Its theme are

love, nature, seasons, and friedship.

Example:
 WIND

Wind blowing my face

Making my cheeks rosy red

It’s biting my nose

And chilling through all my bones

It is pushing me along

5. Concrete poem

What concrete poem does is to act out the meaning of a word.

Example: