poetry analysis

Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour,

      And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping!

With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,

      To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,

Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary;

      Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move,

And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,

      And all the little emptiness of love!

Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there,

      Where there’s no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,

            Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;

Nothing to shake the laughing heart’s long peace there,

      But only agony, and that has ending;

            And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

it has 14 lines which is for writing in a eomantic style

the rhythm goes like 4,4,6

imagery-clear eye, and sharpened power

simile-as swimmers

world grown old and cold and weary;personififation amd imagery

Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move- personification

foreshadowing in the sound of a thunder

"We guarantee nothing".Foreshadowing is when something at the beggining of the story hints us that something is going to happen later on in the story. The writer of the Sound of a thunder uses foreshadowing to make the story interesting and to make the reader want to read more into it.

For example it already uses foreshadowing in its title because it's going to end with a sound of a thunder. It also uses it in the beggining with the sign and with the sentence which says 'Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?' because now we know something is foing to happen and someone will die.

notes on poems

the slodier

it is a love poem for england and the idea that dying for your country is glorious

italian sonnet -2idea

england explicit +inplicit using imagery 

engalnd mental/spiritual

the sentry

The Sentry

I'm blind..I'm blind.

This poem is about what a brutal nightmare war is which is shown through imagery, onomatopoelia, alliteration and metaphor.

The firts paragraph tells us where the poem is set. "Shrinks of death" shows what a horrible and awful place it is. never ending nightmare is the word that comes into your mind after you've read the second paragraph since it gives an impression of a living nightmare which continues and you can't be awakend from it. But there is still hope as the 3rd paragraph tells us. People still hopeing they might survive ot it might end although at the end of the poem, people loose this and the 'light dies out'.

examples of repetations

-rain

-die/death

-love

-soltitude

Rain,Rain Rain

Repetation is when you write down a word lots of times.

The writer repeats rain because as he listens to the rain he is thinking and the rain makes the atmosphere more miserable and sad. Because rain is usually the symbol of darkness and sadness and dullness so this makes it easier to imagine the badness of being a soldier. And also the rain whashes you clear when ypu die.

He uses the word 'die/death' a lots of times because everyone's always thinking about death beavuse they know they are going to die. This gives it a dull picture and shows how miserable it was.

Love is also repated many times because everyone is losing the ones they love and they know they shouldn't love anyone because they are going to loose them. And this connects to the thought of death.

The writer also uses soltitude more then one times because it is not meant in the way that it's written down. Soltitude means being alone but in this situatuon he is not alone but he's surrounded by people who are just as miserable as he is and noone talks to each other because they know that they are going to die and they don't want to make new friends because it's going to be hard for them to see them die.

jargen: there are groups if you are part of the group it is inclusive and if you are not then its exclusive
Latin american dance

rumba: basic, new york, spot turn, karadja, hand to hand, swivel
cha cha: basic, time step, new york, spot turn, cuban break, double cuban break, swivel
samba: basic, whisk
jive
bachata
salsa
merenge

For the first time since I realized that Teddy was gone, too, I feel something unclench. I feel myself breathe. I know that Gramps can't be that late-inning pinch hitter I'd hoped for. He won't unplug my breathing tube or overdoes me with morphine or anything like that. But this is the first time today that anyone has acknowledged what I have lost. I know that the social worker warned Gran and Gramps not to upset me, but Gramps's recognition, and the permission he just offered me--it feels like a gift .Gramps doesn't leave me. He slumps back into the chair. It's quiet now. So quiet you can almost hear other people's dreams. So quiet that you can almost hear me tell Gramps, 'Thank you.

Alanysis:
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