B. A poem. C. An interview. D. An introduction. C There?s nothing quite like falling sound asleep after a full day of work. Like people,animals need to rest after working hard. Some animals sleep in water. Others dig holes under the ground. Some even sleep high in trees or under ...
This is a love poem.The speaker compares his beloved to the summer,yet he goes on to say that the beloved surpasses summer since summer is too short and it is subject to the changes of the sun,which is casted into shadow at times.Every ordinary beauty will lose her beauty as time goes...
this distinction alone cannot save a poem from dropping into prose. The difficulty of maintaining a high level of poetic intensity may account for the preference for short verse forms that could be polished with perfectionist care. But however moving atanka(verse in 31 syllables) is, it clearly...
The natural world, the poem suggests, can be a harsh place. Summer or winter, one can run into trouble: the summer sun gets so hot that the "birds are faint" in the trees, and the winter can freeze and "silence" the whole world. Symbolically speaking, these pictures of exhausting heat...
Learn more:Poem of the Week Nouvelle ELA 10. Go on a poetry speed date This is a cool way to introduce older readers to a poetry unit. Gather up all the poetry books you can find, and invite students to bring their favorites too. Students spend the class period “speed dating” the ...
Wilde testified brilliantly, drawing applause (and some hisses) after giving an eloquent speech about “the love that dare not speak its name,” an expression in Douglas’s poem “Two Loves.” Interpreting it as a coy reference to homosexuality, the prosecution demanded that Wilde explain its ...
What is the nature of literature?Most literary histories do include treatment of philosophers, historians, theologians, moralists, politicians, and even some scientists.Within the history of imaginative literature, limitation to the great books makes incomprehensible the continuity of literary tradition, ...
(partial correspondence between pieces of text) as seen in Where –e'er you walk, cool Gales shall fan the Glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowed into as shade; Ali Akbar Khansir 244 Where,e'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn ...
Elementary poem lessons Wynken, Blynken, and Nod(Grade 2):In this adaptation of Eugene Field’s poem “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,” students join an adventure at sea. The Jumblies(Grades 2-5):In Edward Lear’s 1874 nonsense poem, the Jumblies go to sea in a sieve. ...
In all but the “Poems for Further Reading” chapter each poem has a few questions after it for class discussion or “homework,” a dwindling practice that needs invigoration. From the set after Marvell’s: “2. What is the speaker urging his sweetheart to do? Why is she being so ‘coy...