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Symbolism and Sensory

Imagery in Poetry
Teaching Team: Miss Disabella and Miss Meyers
What is your favorite color?
❏ How does it taste?
❏ What does it feel like when you touch
it?
❏ What does it look like?
❏ How does it smell? DIRECTIONs:
❏ On your index card, briefly describe your
❏ What does it sound like? favorite color based on the five senses.
❏ Be brief, and try to capture the very
essence of the color.
Why do you think colors are
important when writing
and analyzing poetry?
symbolism
❏ Definition: The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
❏ Symbols express mystical ideas, emotions, or states of mind
❏ Examples: the color red could represent love, violence, danger, or anger
❏ Edgar Allen Poe uses red to symbolism danger and death in “The
masque of the red death”
❏ Symbolism originated in late 19th century france and is commonly used
throughout poetry
❏ Green = jealousy, rebirth, money ❏ Gold = happiness
❏ Purple = royalty, enlightenment, fantasy ❏ Red = anger, danger, war, passion, seduction
❏ Brown = earthly qualities ❏ Black = sorrow, death
❏ Orange = curiosity, wisdom ❏ White = purity
❏ Gray = depression, defeat, monotony, boredom ❏ Blue = sadness

More Examples of Color meaning in Poetry


Colors as Motif
❏ Definition: a recurring element that has symbolic significance within a
story
❏ Motifs can help develop other aspects of a narrative, such as theme or mood
❏ Motifs can be images, sounds, actions, or colors.
Sensory Imagery
❏ Definition: any description that involves one or more of the five senses: taste, touch, sight, smell,
sound
❏ Paints a vivid portrait of a scene, subject, idea, or object
❏ Adjectives play an important role
❏ Example: the grass is green. But, how green is it? What hue or shade of green?
❏ Metaphors and similes also better develop the sensory imagery
❏ Example: the grass is green like the forest during the winter.
Color Motif poetry packet
Groups
❏ Caroline Reel and Carolyn Conlon
❏ Cassie Hoene and Caeli Welker
❏ Mary Scanlon and Sarah Rooney
❏ Jessica Rapp, Erin Phillips, and Dana Wells
❏ Christian Stewart and Hannah Silva
❏ Bridget Morse and Kirsten Dodge
❏ Victoria Alteri and Miranda Siler
Color motif poetry packet
❏ Directions
❏ Students will read “letter in november” and “Southern Sunrise” by sylvia plath quietly by
themselves.
❏ Students will then get into their small groups and using the highlighters, analyze the texts.
❏ Students will discuss their findings using these questions:
❏ What is the significance of the color in the poem?
❏ How does the imagery the author used make you feel?
❏ Why do you think the author chose the colors he/she did?
❏ All students must write down their answers to these questions.
Paint chip poetry
❏ Directions:
❏ Students will pick a paint chip out of the paint bucket.
❏ They will then Write a poem on the paint chip. Each colored rectangle should have at least one line
of poetry.
❏ Each poem must be at least five lines; it is okay if there is more than one line of poetry in each
rectangle.
❏ The poems could be about the color they chose or about something representative of that color.
❏ The poems must demonstrate sensory imagery to paint a picture for the reader.
Paint chip
poetry example
Follow-up assignment
❏ Go to www.edmodo.com and create an account. Then enter the class code:
zyysq6 (all lowercase letters)
❏ Each student will post their answers to the in-class discussion questions
and respond to at least one peer.
❏ Students will also answer the poll questions.

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