Setting and Mood in Poetry

Setting and Mood in Poetry

6. Imagine you are in the middle of a large jungle. It is hot and humid. Night is falling fast and you are lost. Strange animal noises can be heard close to you through the trees. What MOOD does this setting help to create?

Imma up at Brooklyn,

now Im down in Tribeca,

right next to DeNiro,

But i’ll be hood forever,

I’m the new Sinatra,

and since i made it here,

i can make it anywhere,

yeah they love me everywhere,

Say what up to Ty Ty,

still sipping mai-tai

sitting courtside

Knicks and Nets give me high fives,

I be spiked out,

I can trip a referee,

tell by my attitude

that I most definitely from…

In New York,

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,

There’s nothing you can’t do,

Now you’re in New York,

these streets will make you feel brand new,

the lights will inspire you,

lets here it for New York, New York, New York

One hand in the air for the big city,

Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty,

no place in the World that can compare,

Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door

" 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--"

Only this and nothing more.

Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow

From my books an end of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore,.

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore,

Nameless here forevermore.

OBJECTIVE

Warm-Up:

1) What is your mood today?

2) What is your mood when you wake up and know you have to come to school?

Students will be able to identify mood in poetry and describe how setting has helped to create mood.

Warm-up:

1) What is the mood in this picture?

2) How does the setting affect the mood?

What is mood?

What is setting?

MOOD is the feeling that the author tries to create for the reader in a poem or story

SETTING is the time and place in which a poem or story occurs

The author is trying to get you to FEEL a certain way!

Examples

1) In a poem about someone's death (an ELEGY) what mood should a poet try to establish?

1) The setting of the poem Casey at the Bat is ...

What's the connection between SETTING and MOOD?

2) The setting of the movie Transformers 3 is ...

2) In a poem with a setting in a haunted graveyard, what mood should a poet try to establish?

Remember, sometimes the setting can change many times!

KEY POINT

The setting helps to establish the mood by creating atmosphere and providing details that would make a reader have an emotional response.

EMPIRE STATE OF MIND

Setting and Mood Shuffle

JAY-Z

Directions: On a blank piece of paper, number from 1-6.

4. Describe a setting that might create a TENSE or NERVOUS mood

APPLYING THE SKILL

1. What MOOD does this setting help to create?

3. What mood does this setting help to create?

5. Describe a setting that might create a mood of WONDER or SHOCK

2. What mood does this setting help to create?

The Raven

Edgar Allen Poe