Kipling and the Haiku

 

Narrative Poetry

Goal: Students will read, comprehend, and interpret poetry
Students will relate poems to personal connections
Students will identify the speaker in the poem
Students will recognize elements of narrative poetry


Bell Ringer:  Explain the following statement:  One's immediate actions may result in immediate consequences.

Introduction to Rudyard Kipling:

Rudyard Kipling - 1865-1936
Most famous work:  The Jungle Book

Born in India to English Parents.
Spoke Hindustani and English as a child
Went to England for formal education
At the age of 18, he returned to India as a journalist

Many of his first poems appeared in newspapers
In 1907, he became the first English author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

1. Students will read the poem pg 851 in the packet
2. Students will discuss How the passage has narrative and dramatic elements of poetry

Terms:
Narrative poem- Tells a story and is usually longer than other types of poems.
-Like a story, a narrrative poem has one or more charaters, a setting, a conflict and a series of events that come to a conclusion

-Most narrative poems are divided into stanzas --- groups of lines that have the same pattern, rhythm and rhyme

Dramatic Poetry-
Poetry where one or more characters speak
Uses the words of one or more characters to directly convey what is happening
- Dramatic poetry creates the illusion that the reader is actually witnessing a dramatic event

Questions:
A. How would you feel if you were in the regiment about to watch the hanging of a friend?
B. What might lead someone like Danny Deever to make a choice that he must have known would result in execution?
C. Describe the setting in Danny Deever
D. Of the two speakers, which has prior experience with military executions?
E. Why is Danny being executed?
F. What does Files-on-Parade mean when he says "I've drunk 'is beer a score o' times?"
G. Compare and contrast the two speakers
H. "Bitter cold" - CS excuse for the soldiers hard breathing
""A touch o' sun" - CS excuse for a fainting in the ranks
Are these excuses believable?  What really accounts for the physical problems of the men?

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The Haiku

-Can be read from line 1-3 and line 3-1

-The Camellia Flower

The Haiku
-Can be read from line 1-3 and line 3-1

- Sumida River

-Discuss structure
-Students will Read BASHO and ISSA

Basho- Most famous of the Japanese haiku poets.
-Believed that a poet must express the essential nature of an object

-He was a master of the long-inked poem - the regna.  He traveled teaching people to write the regna.  A regna could consist of 100 stanzas or more.  It was usually the work of 2-4 poets.  The haiku evolved from the starting verse of the regna.

Falling upon the earth.

Pure water spills from the cup

Of the camellia

Issa- Favorite haiku poet
-led a life of hardship and personal loss
-Lived in poverty
-All children died in infancy
-His young wives died during his lifetime
-Found strength in small creatures and insects (Creatures whose lives are fleeting and appear overwhelmed by the elements)

A gentle spring rain

Look, a rat is lapping

Sumida River

Chiyojo- Japanese poet;  little known.  When her husband, a servant, of a samurai died, she became a nunand studied poetry with a well- known teacher of ahiku.  Her works reflect a gentle light of spirit.

Having viewed the moon

I say farewell to the world

With heartfelt blessing

(page 6 in packet)

1. What simple/ natural elements do these poets describe?
2. A haiku can make us see two things at the same time.  What two things do we see in these works?