Module 1 questions Washing Day 1. What significance does the parallel between infancy and old age, suggested by the epigraph, have in the poem? The difference in the ages shows both sides of the story. One parallel shows how the writer view washing day as a child; yet the other side shows how she viewed it as an adult. It shows the significance of the day from two different viewpoints. 2. What evidence does the poem provide for a shift in patriarchal power in the home during washing day? Lines 30-50 show how the husband views the washing day. He goes out to ask his wife to go on a leisurely walk through the woods or to mend his socks. The husband doesn’t view the washing day as important as the wife does; and thinks that the wife has tons of free time to do what he wants. The wife tells him what will happen if does in fact try this, he will be …show more content…
eating dinner by himself. 3. How does the voice of the speaker change at line 58? “I well remember, when a child, the awe.” The speaker changes their perspective of the story from old age to that of a child. 4. How is the power of the imagination represented in the poem? The child’s view of the world is represented by the carefully chosen words “The floating bubbles; little dreaming.” The child’s imagination wonders and distracts the child from the rigors of the washing day. A summary should consist of at least three to five lines of your thoughts on the poem. It should not be copied or similar to any post by a classmate. 5. Write a summary of the poem "The Chimney Sweeper" in the Songs of Innocence. The speaker starts out telling us a little bit about his own life. His mother died as he was a child and his father sold him as a chimney sweeper. He then tells the story of another chimney sweeper, Tom Dacre. He then tells the story of a dream that Tom had one night about an angel coming and saving both of them. It ends with the story of how they got back to work after waking in the morning. 6. Write a summary of the poem "The Chimney Sweeper" in the Songs of Experience. This version of “The Chimney Sweeper” takes a darker turn than the “songs of innocence” version. This version is the story of a lonely chimney sweeper who is left in the snow while his parents are in the church praying. This story shows how we focus on things that are out of our control and forget about the problems we have at home. While his parents and the church are focusing on heaven and praying rather than the child on their front steps. 7. Are there any similarities between the two poems? Justify your response with line numbers. There are a few similarities between the two versions. Line 2 in the “songs of experience” version is “crying ‘weep, ‘weep. in the notes of woe!” and line 3 of the “songs of innocence” version is “could scarcely cry ‘weep! ‘weep!, ‘weep! ‘weep!“ 8. Write a summary of the poem "Holy Thursday" in the Songs of Innocence. The story of “Holy Thursday” is the story of the annual march of six thousand children to St. Paul’s Cathedral. The story tells the story of the elders of the church watching over the praying children and being moved by the view of all of the bowed heads of the children. 9. Write a summary of the poem "Holy Thursday" in the Songs of Experience. This version of “Holy Thursday” is a critique of society during his time. How the church prides itself on their reverence and their great works, yet the children are still poor and hungry. 10. Are there any differences in the two poems? Justify your response with line numbers. Yes. the “songs of innocence” version is a glorified version of the story. It shows the good side of the story and how everyone viewed the event. The “songs of experience” version is commentary on the society in which the speaker lives in. 11.
What do you think the rose or the worm in "The Sick Rose" symbolizes? The worm represents the wrong lover. The rose is a beautiful, loving woman and the worm is a man who is destructive to her. Just like a worm is to a rose. 12. Blake notes several things that have changed in "The Garden of Love". List the changes. A chapel was built where the speaker used to play on the green. The graves were located where sweet flowers used to grow. 13. What is the rhyme scheme of "A Poison Tree'? The rhyme scheme is AABB. 14. Relate the first stanza of "A Poison Tree" to your life. Being angry at one’s friend will pass, just like in real life. I have been upset at my girlfriend or my friends, but it passed after discussing my “wrath” towards the friend. I have been mad at my foes as well, such as bullies or people who treat me and my friends wrong. Those people I can’t discuss my anger towards sometimes. Mostly because I want nothing to do with the foe. 15. Why happens to the "foe"? How could this have been avoided? It could be avoided by discussing the problem you have with the “foe”. Just like you discuss with the
friend.
When writing poetry, there are many descriptive methods an author may employ to communicate an idea or concept to their audience. One of the more effective methods that authors often use is linking devices, such as metaphors and similes. Throughout “The Elder Sister,” Olds uses linking devices effectively in many ways. An effective image Olds uses is that of “the pressure of Mother’s muscles on her brain,” (5) providing a link to the mother’s expectations for her children. She also uses images of water and fluidity to demonstrate the natural progression of a child into womanhood. Another image is that of the speaker’s elder sister as a metaphorical shield, the one who protected her from the mental strain inflicted by their mother.
but washing must be done and procrastination won’t do it for me (Schlissel 83).” Although this woman obviously did not like doing the washing, she saw it as her job to do. In addition, the book describes this scene, “The banks of a river would be lined with women who carried their kettles, their washtubs, and piles of unwashed linen (Schlissel 82).” Again, it is the women who are doing the cleaning. The McGuffey Readers, being the handbook that young girls would read in school, taught them that it was their place to do the cleaning.
I write to offer my unconditional endorsement of Blakely Byrd as a Triple-Impact Competitor. I have known Blakely for 13 years and have served as her classmate, friend, and teammate on both our club and high school teams. If there is one thing I can say about Blakely, it is that she always embraces challenges. Whether it is being the first to accept the invitation to take a penalty kick or the last person to leave the field after practice, she never stops working and always does it with joy. My father nicknamed Blakely "Flash" because of her lightning speed and her self-confidence and determination to uplift and inspire everyone else around her. To me, Blakely epitomizes the concept of leading by example. No matter how tough our opponent is,
Not only the words, but the figures of speech and other such elements are important to analyzing the poem. Alliteration is seen throughout the entire poem, as in lines one through four, and seven through eight. The alliteration in one through four (whisky, waltzing, was) flows nicely, contrasting to the negativity of the first stanza, while seven through eight (countenance, could) sound unpleasing to the ear, emphasizing the mother’s disapproval. The imagery of the father beating time on the child’s head with his palm sounds harmful, as well as the image of the father’s bruised hands holding the child’s wrists. It portrays the dad as having an ultimate power over the child, instead of holding his hands, he grabs his wrists.
can be when they are sent away from their families to work at a very
Throughout the life of Emily Grierson, she remains locked up, never experiencing love from anyone but her father. She lives a life of loneliness, left only to dream of the love missing from her life. The rose from the title symbolizes this absent love. It symbolizes the roses and flowers that Emily never received, the lovers that overlooked her.
William Blake is remembered by his poetry, engravements, printmaking, and paintings. He was born in Soho, London, Great Britain on November 28, 1757. William was the third of seven siblings, which two of them died from infancy. As a kid he didn’t attend school, instead he was homeschooled by his mother. His mother thought him to read and write. As a little boy he was always different. Most kids of his age were going to school, hanging out with friends, or just simply playing. While William was getting visions of unusual things. At the age of four he had a vision of god and when he was nine he had another vision of angles on trees.
Early on, poetry was often used with rhyme to remember things more accurately, this still rings true today, even though its use is more often to entertain. However, although it appeals to both the young, in children's books, and the old, in a more sophisticated and complex form, people are bound to have different preferences towards the different styles of poetry. Dobson’s poetry covers a variation of styles that captivate different individuals. “Her Story” is a lengthy poem with shorter stanzas. It’s free verse structure and simplistic language and face value ideas might appeal better to a younger audience. This poem includes quotes with informal language that children or teens would better understand. It’s narrative-based style is easy to follow, and although the poem covers very basic concepts, it’s message is still communicated subliminally. This particular poem is interesting because it focusses on the universal experience of pain and it’s relation to time. Similar to this is “The Householder”, written in a cyclical style, opening with a “house” and ending with a “home”. With only three stanzas, it is
Gray begins with his argument by explaining the roles of women and men, both in lower class families and in the noble houses, focusing on their submissive roles. "The busy housewife [plies] her evening care," minding the children until "their sire's return" from a hard day of work (lines 22-23). Gray depicts the work of a lower class male as a ploughman, working from morning until night at his useful toil, without ambition and wit...
Why did William Blake decide to illustrate his own poems? In 1789, he published Songs of Innocence, and in 1794, he published its partner Songs of Experience. While it is not unusual for authors to publish their poems, Blake’s sets are different because he not only wrote the poems but illustrated and printed them himself. Blake could have done this because he could. He had experience and skills as a printer, but because he created the illustrations himself, it is possible to use them to find a deeper meaning for each poem (Lynch). This could have possibly been his intention. Using this, one can find more meanings for his pieces even when the illustrations do not necessarily compare with their poem.
The speaker in the poem uses images to help to support the theme. For example the statement that "sometimes the woman borrowed my grandmother's face" displays the inability of the children to relate the dilemma to themselves, something that the speaker has learned later on with time and experience. In this poem, the speaker is an old woman, and she places a high emphasis on the burden of years from which she speaks by saying "old woman, / or nearly so, myself." "I know now that woman / and painting and season are almost one / and all beyond saving by children." clearly states that the poem is not written for the amusement of children but somebody that has reached the speaker's age, thus supporting the idea of the theme that children cannot help or understand her or anybody of her age. In addition, when the speakers describes the kids in the classroom as "restless on hard chairs" and "caring little for picture or old age" we can picture them in our minds sitting, ready to leave the class as soon as possible, unwilling and unable to understand the ethics dilemma or what the speaker is feeling.
I found that throughout this poem there was much symbolism within it. Identifying that it was written in first person form showed that this poem relates to the author on a personal basis, and that it was probably written to symbolize his life. But when talking about people’s lives, you can conclude that people’s lives are generally and individually very diffe...
As the poem goes on, the speaker and reader alike grow more empathetic toward the woman because the idea that she is unappreciated by her husband becomes more apparent. First, it is unusual that she is still clad in sleepwear, possibly lingerie, so late in the...
The cruel child laboring of sweeping chimneys in the late 1700s stirred many emotions through William Blake’s poetic work. His two poems both named, The Chimney Sweeper, expressed a creative perspective on children sweeping chimneys. Both the first and second poems contained similar poetic techniques to convey a similar meaning, but also contrasted in poetic techniques to portray different perspectives of children who were forced to endure the risky job.
William Blake was one of England’s greatest writers (Tejvan) in the nineteenth century, but his brilliancy was not noticed until after he was deceased. Blake was very much a free spirit who often spoke his mind and was very sensitive to cruelty. At the age of twenty five he married a woman named Catherine Boucher. They created a book of all Blake’s poems called Songs on Innocence, which was not very popular while he was alive. On the other hand Blake’s other book of poems, Songs of Experience, were much more popular. These two collections are so magnificent because it is two different forms of writing successfully written by one man. Two major poems written by William Blake were “The Tyger” and “The Lamb”. The Lamb is from Songs of Innocence while The Tyger is from Songs of Experience, they may share different perspectives on the world yet they both complement one another very well. Blake believed that life could be viewed from two different perspectives, those being innocence and experience. To Blake, innocence is not better than experience. Both states have their good and bad sides. The positive side of innocence is joy and optimism, while the bad side is naivety. The negative side of experience is cynicism, but the good side is wisdom (Shmoop Editorial Team). The Tyger and The Lamb are two completely different styles of poems yet it wouldn’t have the same affect on a reader if one poem didn’t exist.