Problem
Read the following poems:
The Forecast
Dan Jaffe, 1964
Perhaps our age has driven us indoors.
We sprawl in the semi-darkness, dreaming sometimes
Of a vague world spinning in the wind.
But we have snapped our locks, pulled down our shades,
Taken all precautions. We shall not be disturbed.
If the earth shakes, it will be on a screen;
And if the prairie wind spills down our streets
And covers us with leaves, the weatherman will tell us.
"Reflections Dental"
Phyllis McGinley
How pure, how beautiful, how fine
Do teeth on television shine!
No flutist flutes, no dancer twirls
But comes equipped with matching pearls.
Gleeful announcers all are born
With sets like rows of hybrid corn.
Clowns, critics, clergy, commentators,
Ventriloquists and roller skaters.
M.C.s who clap their palms together,
The girl who diagrams the weather,
The crooner crooning for his supper
All flash white treasures, lower and upper.
With miles of smiles the airwaves teem,
And each an orthodontist's dream.
T'would please my eye as gold a miser's:
One charmer with uncapped incisors
Sight Devices: Metaphor, Personification,Simile, Hyperbole, Symbol, Imagery
Sound Devices:Rhyme, Free verse, Rhyming couplet, Repetition, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia
List figurative language and techniques used in poem one:
List figurative language and techniques used in poem two:
Connections between the poems: How are they similar? How are they different? (message, form, theme, etc.)