Unit 2, Lesson # 1: Verbal Visual Collage
Unit 2, Lesson #1 – Verbal Visual Collage Analysis
Task 2
You will create a verbal-visual collage depicting the images in your chosen poem.
Download and Print the Assignment handout and Rubric. Submit your work to the assignment dropbox and email a copy to your teacher for marking.
Verbal-Visual Collage Assignment
Structure
ϖ Paragraph 1: Explain why you choose the images and symbols you did and what do they represent.
ϖ Paragraph 2: Restate and explain why the adjectives you included on your collage describe the poem.
ϖ Paragraph 3: Why did you choose statements and text pieces on your collage and further explain them.
To begin with, I organized my collage in such a way that each individual adjective, and statement from the poem …show more content…
The colors of grey, black, and white in thisthese collage of images adds to the icy mood in these stanzas. The “late blizzard” represents, rather symbolizes, the father, unwanted and unwelcomed in its wake, yet, always storming through the door. It can be said that he ishe’s affecting everything with fake words, promises, and excuses, that are clearly nothing, but trash and lies. The line creates an image of garage all over the table, rather than poems, which effectively symbolizes the child’s mistrust of their father’s words.
The words show to the reader that the man inmain the house is unwanted for causing havoc and spitting out lies, just as the weather described in the statement. These images show the father’s deception and the way is presence in the home (storming, cold, unpleasant).
Specific Images and Symbols
To be specific, the image with the door and lock depicts an old door which is slightly out of its frame with lock broken. This shows the father’s arrival disturbed the paceplace and broken down the protectorprotection barrier that the family could’ve had against this unwelcome …show more content…
I heard pa tell ma how much he loved loved loved her. I saw his fist, fall so gracefully against her cheek, she swooned…”
These lines focus on the deceit found in the relationship. The repetition of loved makes it sound like pa’s plea to ma. This gives the readers an image of how the deceitful man may sound when he is lying or controlling his family or wife. This repetition creates a lot of emphasis. There is also somewhat of an irony created with the use of “gracefully;” this is not usually a word that describes violence – but the use of it in this case creates an image of the father easily committing these violent effects, without even second thought.
Thus, it was important to pair contrasting pictures of a couple in love and in an argument, in order to show the struggle of parents found in the relationship. The contrasting images also depict the reality in what was actually happening in the broken relationship, compared to the image of how the poet romanticized it. The images are found in front of a dark background that adds to the atmosphere of the collage and poem.
To be more specific, in the picture where there is a man who seems to be aiming to hit but holds a bouquet of roses represents the actions of the
Task 2
You will create a verbal-visual collage depicting the images in your chosen poem.
Download and Print the Assignment handout and Rubric. Submit your work to the assignment dropbox and email a copy to your teacher for marking.
Verbal-Visual Collage Assignment
Structure
ϖ Paragraph 1: Explain why you choose the images and symbols you did and what do they represent.
ϖ Paragraph 2: Restate and explain why the adjectives you included on your collage describe the poem.
ϖ Paragraph 3: Why did you choose statements and text pieces on your collage and further explain them.
To begin with, I organized my collage in such a way that each individual adjective, and statement from the poem …show more content…
The colors of grey, black, and white in thisthese collage of images adds to the icy mood in these stanzas. The “late blizzard” represents, rather symbolizes, the father, unwanted and unwelcomed in its wake, yet, always storming through the door. It can be said that he ishe’s affecting everything with fake words, promises, and excuses, that are clearly nothing, but trash and lies. The line creates an image of garage all over the table, rather than poems, which effectively symbolizes the child’s mistrust of their father’s words.
The words show to the reader that the man inmain the house is unwanted for causing havoc and spitting out lies, just as the weather described in the statement. These images show the father’s deception and the way is presence in the home (storming, cold, unpleasant).
Specific Images and Symbols
To be specific, the image with the door and lock depicts an old door which is slightly out of its frame with lock broken. This shows the father’s arrival disturbed the paceplace and broken down the protectorprotection barrier that the family could’ve had against this unwelcome …show more content…
I heard pa tell ma how much he loved loved loved her. I saw his fist, fall so gracefully against her cheek, she swooned…”
These lines focus on the deceit found in the relationship. The repetition of loved makes it sound like pa’s plea to ma. This gives the readers an image of how the deceitful man may sound when he is lying or controlling his family or wife. This repetition creates a lot of emphasis. There is also somewhat of an irony created with the use of “gracefully;” this is not usually a word that describes violence – but the use of it in this case creates an image of the father easily committing these violent effects, without even second thought.
Thus, it was important to pair contrasting pictures of a couple in love and in an argument, in order to show the struggle of parents found in the relationship. The contrasting images also depict the reality in what was actually happening in the broken relationship, compared to the image of how the poet romanticized it. The images are found in front of a dark background that adds to the atmosphere of the collage and poem.
To be more specific, in the picture where there is a man who seems to be aiming to hit but holds a bouquet of roses represents the actions of the