Poetry English 2 Eastern Regional High School Mr.Wm.T.Fulton Imagery _____ / 10 Name: _____________________________ Date: __________ Period(s): ________ The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-­‐loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, 5 10 I hear it in the deep heart's core. Directions: Answer the questions by making notes in the poem.
1. What specific images help you visualize what the speaker is looking for?
2. The next-to-last line describes the speaker’s present surroundings. How do these images contrast with the
others in the poem?
3. What images help you hear the sounds the speaker longs to hear?
4. The speaker says that he wants peace. Highlight images of peacefulness.
IMAGERY Reapers by Jean Toomer Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Are sharpening scythes. I see the place the hones In their hip-­‐pockets as a thing that's done, And start their silent swinging, one by one. Black horses drive a mower through the weeds, And there, a field rat, startled, squealing bleeds, His belly close to ground. I see the blade, Blood-­‐stained, continue cutting weeds and shade. Directions: Answer the questions
within the poem itself.
1. What images in this poem help
you see and hear what the reapers
and mower are doing?
2. What details suggest the mower
is impersonal – with no feeling for
the life around it?
3. What images in the poem help
create a sense of malice?
5 IMAGERY Above Pate Valley by Gary Snyder We finished clearing the last Section of trail by noon, High on the ridge-­‐side Two thousand feet above the creek Reached the pass, went on Beyond the white pine groves, Granite shoulders, to a small Green meadow watered by the snow, Edged with Aspen—sun Straight high and blazing But the air was cool. Ate a cold fried trout in the Trembling shadows. I spied A glitter, and found a flake Black volcanic glass—obsidian— By a flower. Hands and knees Pushing the Bear grass, thousands Of arrowhead leavings over a Hundred yards. Not one good Head, just razor flakes On a hill snowed all but summer, A land of fat summer deer, They came to camp. On their Own trails. I followed my own Trail here. Picked up the cold-­‐drill, Pick, singlejack, and sack Of dynamite. Ten thousand years. Directions: Answer the questions and make notes in the poem.
1. What images help you experience the setting of “Above Pate Valley”?
2. How do the images make you feel about this setting?
3. The speaker talks about his tools in lines 25-27. How do these tools contrast with the
remains he finds in the Bear grass?
4. The poet emphasizes dynamite by putting it on a separate line. What does dynamite
suggest to you?
5. How is this valley going to be affected after remaining the same for ten thousand
years?
6. How will this valley remain the same?