Unit 2

1. Unit 2 Night Moves Poetry

2. RIVER-MOON: Connect 2 Ur Life What is it like to go boating on a river? What does the motion of the boat like?

3. RIVER-MOON: Key 2 the Poem • Look at the FORM of the poem! How its shape differs from other poems. River goes sliding, sliding by. Rio goes gliding under night black sky.           River goes hiding in canyons dry. Rio goes sliding, sliding by. Moon goes sliding, sliding by. Luna goes gliding under night black sky. Moon goes hiding in canyons dry. Luna goes sliding, sliding by, river-moon sliding, sliding by, rio and luna gliding under night black sky. 

4. LITERATURE: FORM • Form: arrangement of the words and lines. • Poets arrange words into lines, lines into stanzas to create an image. 1. The poet uses repetition to create a wavy FORM. What important sentence parts are repeated? Goes sliding, sliding by; gliding under black sky; hiding in canyons dry. 2. What does the shape of stanzas moving to the right make you think of? Moving water.

5. Think it through 1. What makes the sentences look as if they are moving? Every line in the stanza is set farther to the right. 2. What two words in the poem describe a kind of movement? Sliding, gliding 3. What do the river and the moon have in common? Sliding, hiding, gliding 4. Why do you think the poet repeated the ryhming words sliding, gliding, and hiding? To create a pattern, to look like moving water.