Assignment:
Pick a poem from below
Number the lines of your poem on the left side of the poem. Label in green.
Find the rhyme scheme of your poem. Label it in pink at the end of each line.
Who is your author? Do some research on your author.
I want you to explain the poem through hyperlinks. Your hyperlinks can be images, short videos (TikToks), memes, or gifs. Warning: If you are dealing with a serious poem, your links should not be silly.
You must hyperlink…
2 examples of figurative language. Hyperlink a picture that explains the figurative language
2 examples of imagery (sight, touch, smell, taste, sound)
Some of these may overlap with the figurative language. I want 2 different hyperlinks in that case (you may have to hyperlink half of the word/phrase and then hyperlink the other half)
1 line/phrase that represents the theme

In a single paragraph that is no less than 9 sentences long, write about the following and include cited evidence from your poem!
Explain who your author is. How does this knowledge add to your understanding of the text?
Briefly explain the format of your poem. Address the amount of stanzas, what type of stanzas are in your poem (couplet, triplet, quatrain, quintet, etc), and the rhyme scheme.
Directly explain why you picked 1 of the figurative language examples. How did the hyperlinked image help you understand the poem? (explanation should be 2-3 sentences) Cite the lines.
Directly explain 1 example of imagery. Why do you think the author included this example of imagery? What did it add to the text and to your understanding? Cite the lines.
Identify the overall tone of the poem. Was there a shift in the tone? Why or why not? Identify a line from the text that supports your tone and explain. Cite the lines.
Explain the theme of the poem. Why is this theme important? Explain how the line you hyperlinked explains the theme. Cite the lines.

HOW TO HYPERLINK
Find a word/phrase that you would like to hyperlink and highlight it.
Google an image
Click on “images”
Click on the picture of your choosing
Right click and click on “copy image address”. This will copy the image link for you.
Go back to your poem and highlight the word/phrase that the image is being used for
On the toolbar, click the “Link” button
Paste the link where it says and then click “Apply”

“I Am Offering this Poem”
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

I am offering this poem to you,
since I have nothing else to give.
Keep it like a warm coat
when winter comes to cover you,
or like a pair of thick socks
the cold cannot bite through,

I love you,

I have nothing else to give you,
so it is a pot full of yellow corn
to warm your belly in winter,
it is a scarf for your head, to wear
over your hair, to tie up around your face,

I love you,

Keep it, treasure this as you would
if you were lost, needing direction,
in the wilderness life becomes when mature;
and in the corner of your drawer,
tucked away like a cabin or hogan
in dense trees, come knocking,
and I will answer, give you directions,
and let you warm yourself by this fire,
rest by this fire, and make you feel safe

I love you,

It’s all I have to give,
and all anyone needs to live,
and to go on living inside,
when the world outside
no longer cares if you live or die;
remember,

I love you.

“The Secret Heart”
By Robert Peter Tristram Coffin

Across the years he could recall
His father one way best of all.
In the stillest hour of night
The boy awakened to a light.
Half in dreams, he was his sire
With his great hands full of fire.
The man had struck a match to see
If his son slept peacefully.
He held his palms each side the spark
His love had kindled in the dark.
His two hands were curved apart
In the semblance of a heart.
He wore, it seemed to his small son,
A bare heart on his hidden one,
A heart that gave out such a glow
No son awake could bare to know.
It showed a look upon a face
Too tender for the day to trace.
One instant, it lit all about,
And then the secret heart went out.
But shone long enough for one
To know that hands held up the sun.

From Milk and Honey
By Rupi Kaur

did you think i was a city
big enough for a weekend getaway
i am the town surrounding it
the one you’ve never heard of
but always pass through
there are no neon lights here
no skyscrapers or statues
but there is thunder
for i make bridges tremble
i am not street meat i am homemade jam
thick enough to cut the sweetest
thing your lips will touch
i am not police sirens
i am the crackle of a fireplace
i’d burn you and you still
couldn’t take your eyes off me
cause i’d look so beautiful doing it
you’d blush
i am not a hotel room i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don’t come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me