Haiku Imagery/Mood Practice
For each haiku poem:
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Circle the words that trigger your eyes/ears/nose/skin/taste.
Classify the imagery by sense.
Infer the mood of the poem.
Imagery
Mood
Heaps of red cherries
Glittering with drops of rain
In the evening sun.
Visual
Tactile
Auditory
Tense
Gloomy
Cheerful
Whitecaps on the bay:
A broken signboard banging
In the April wind.
Visual
Tactile
Auditory
Tense
Peaceful
Upbeat
2)
3)
Crying and crying,
Melodious strings of geese
Passing a graveyard.
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Tone Practice
“This is Just to Say”
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Read “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams.
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Compare it to the other versions and answer the questions!
This Is Just To Say
By William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
1) What can you observe/infer about the speaker of the poem?
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2) How does the speaker’s tone (toward “you” and the act of
taking the plums) shift in version 2?
A) From casual to apologetic
B) From cheerful to angry
C) From playful to sarcastic
This Is Just To Say
Version 2
D) From serious to satisfied
3) What’s your evidence of this new tone in version 2?
I sort of ate
some—well, all—
of the plums
that were in
the icebox
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and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast.
Please forgive me!
They just looked so
delicious that I
couldn’t resist.
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This Is Just To Say
Version 3
Remember those plums
you were saving for breakfast?
The perfectly ripe ones?
Ya, I ate ‘em.
All of them.
And they were just
as sweet as they looked.
Maybe sweeter.
Don’t worry:
I left you
the sticky purple pits
on your pillow.
4) What is the speaker’s tone in version 3?
A) Ashamed and fearful
B) Light-hearted and enthusiastic
C) Boastful and mocking
D) Shocked and confused
5) What’s your evidence of this new tone in version 3?
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This Is Just To Say
Version 4
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I ate the plums that
you left right there
in the icebox.
6) What is the speaker’s tone in version 4?
Well, the third
one had a giant pit
that chipped
my front tooth.
You probably
planned that,
didn’t you?
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7) What’s your evidence of this new tone in version 4?
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