Lesson Plan VII
The teacher will explain students that if a poem appears talking about a work of art it is not allusion but ecphrasis. Some professors named allusion for the reference to a work of art. Literary allusion is a direct or indirect reference to another literary text that can be understood or recognized by the reader. Allusion refers to something outside the poem. Allusion can refer almost to anything.
It is recommended to teachers to introduce T. S. Elliot or James Joyce as allusive poets for the frequency of places, images or names that requires previous knowledge, sense. Here the opportunity to encourage the students to read and acquire information, so they can identify the moment when the writer makes a reference.
he teacher will project on the screen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xqkNem9xb0 The students will enjoy the animation
of John Keats reading "Ode to a Nightingale" written in May 1819 and first published in
the Annuals of the Fine Arts in July. John Keats alludes the Inferno di Dante. It is not
easy exercise to listen to poetry and identify the allusion without readings or knowing
Dante Alighieri. "I have been half in love with easeful Death," Keats read.
"Sopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" poem by Robert Frost can be other example of allusion of Dante's Inferno for it lure of the death and isolation:
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
but I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep,
and miles to go before I sleep.
Allusion is also used in lyrics. There are thousands of examples, but one that comes to my mind is Bob Dylan biblical allusion in his song "Love is Just a Four Letter Word." The manuscript of this song is found at: http//www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/love-just-four-letter-word
After waking enough times to think I see
the holy Kiss that's supposed to last eternity
blow up in smoke, its destiny
Falls on strangers, travels free.
Romans 16:16: "Salute one another with a holy kiss." You can activate the song in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUvU7VJMuE8
This activity takes 30 minutes.
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