Universidad de los Lagos

Pedagogía en Inglés y Traducción.

Escuela de Pedagogía.
Departamento Humanidades y Arte
www.ulagos.cl

GUIDELINES
UNIT 2 ASSESSMENT: ORAL PRESENTATION 30%
INDIVIDUAL WORK
DATES: Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th*, July

INSTRUCTIONS

STEP 1

Go to the ‘Assessment’ folder on Platea. There you will find a selection of poems, choose one to work with.

You can read all the poems and choose the one you like the most or, if you want to challenge yourself, you can choose a
poem only by its title.

STEP 2
Read the poem and identify the following elements:

1. The title
2. The voice: Who is speaking? Is it a first-person point of view? Is it the poet? Is it an invented voice? Is it a third-
person point of view? An invisible narrator? Is there more than one voice speaking? Or having a dialogue?

To answer this question, please, refer to the document ‘Poetry: The Speaker’ on Platea (Guiding Documents
and Resources folder)

3. The main theme (or themes): What is the meaning or message of the poem?
4. The mood: What is the atmosphere of the poem?
5. The tone: What is the speaker’s attitude towards the poem?

To answer these questions, please, refer to the document ‘The Choice of Words’ on Platea (Guiding
Documents and Resources folder)

STEP 3

Read the poem again and focus on the language (diction) and analyse as follows:

1. What does the title tell us about the poem?

2. How does diction relate to the author's theme (themes)?
3. How does diction help to establish the mood and tone of the poem?

STEP 4

Look at the overall structure of the poem: How many lines does it have? How many stanzas? Then, think how – if so – the
poem’s structure reflects on the theme of the poem.
Universidad de los Lagos
Pedagogía en Inglés y Traducción.
Escuela de Pedagogía.
Departamento Humanidades y Arte
www.ulagos.cl

STEP 5

You need to think of the poem as a movie and ask yourself: What kind of movie the poem would be? A drama? A thriller? A
comedy? Then, find a short movie clip that you think cinematically represents the poem (theme, tone, mood, structure).

IMPORTANT: You have to upload a summary of your analysis of steps 2, 3 and 4 on Platea in written form. You will
find attached a suggested format to do this analysis at the end.

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES ( 20 – 25 minutes approximately)

Prepare an oral presentation to explain your analysis. BUT, you have to explain your poem as if you were pitching a
screenplay to a producer. Let me put this into the context of a movie.

Divide the presentation into 5 parts.

Part 1: Introduce your movie by telling its title.

Part 2: Introduce the character(s) of the movie.

If the speaker (voice) of the poem is using a first-person point of view, then the speaker can be the narrator of the
story and also a character.

If the speaker is using a third-person point of view, then he is an invisible narrator. This type of narrator is telling the
story of other people (characters).

Other characters can be people, animals, inanimate objects, places or abstract ideas.

Part 3: Introduce the theme, mood and tone of your movie.

Part 4: Explain the structure of your movie (the structure of the poem).

You have to present these elements by referencing the poem itself, particularly its diction (choice of words).
Remember that in this ‘scenario’ the poem represents your screenplay: the words and lines in the poem are
‘depicting’ the story.

Part 5: Finally, show the movie clip as the final pitch of your movie or the ‘cinematic’ representation.

REFERENCES FOR RESEARCH

Spurr, B. (2006). Studying Poetry (2nd ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Wolosky, S. (2001). The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem. New York: Oxford University Press
Platea
Guiding Documents and Resources
Universidad de los Lagos
Pedagogía en Inglés y Traducción.
Escuela de Pedagogía.
Departamento Humanidades y Arte
www.ulagos.cl

UNIT 2 ASSESSMENT: ORAL PRESENTATION 30%

ANALYSIS

Student’s name :
Poem :
Author :

PART 1 THE CHOICE OF WORDS

Read the poem and identify the following elements:

1. The voice: Who is speaking? What’s the poet’s point of view (first person, third person, multiplicity of voices)?
2. The main theme (or themes): What is the meaning or message of the poem?
3. The mood: What is the atmosphere of the poem?
4. The tone: What is the speaker’s attitude towards the poem?

Read the poem again and focus on the language (diction) and analyse:

4. What does the title tell us about the poem?

5. How does diction relate to the author's theme (themes)?
6. How does diction help to establish the mood and tone of the poem?

PART 2 THE STRUCTURE OF WORDS

Look at the overall structure of the poem: How many lines does it have? How many stanzas?
How does this structure reflect on the theme of the poem?