Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Friday, April 29, 2016
Henry V
Ethos (morality, religion, great people) Edward the third was a great warrior
- gift of heaven
Pathos (emotion)
Logos (reason)
- law of nature
- law of nations
Fierce tempest, Thunder, Earthquake are metaphors and imagery of nature
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Concluding Paragrph
"Oh Jesus make it stop!"
Ww1 was the First World War that ever happened so this is why so many poets wrote about the experience from there, to describe these things they used figurative language. Most WW1 poetry is about the war's brutality, tragedy and horrors, and how we should never forget. Powerful points that prove this statement are how those left behind can only remember their lost ones in their khaki tunic and not their faces or how they used to be. Also considered is how the men were full of fear, the horrors of 'drowning' in gas and how people are not designed to kill. After such a terrifying and horrible war, how could anyone wish for something like this to ever happen again?
The Soldier:
"Under an English heaven"
The soldier is an important poem for a number of reasons. It exemplifies the attitudes of people at the beginning of WW1, as well as being a very invested example of the sonnet form. The main idea of the poem is how glorious it is to die for England. There are several things that serve the poem. Repetition of England imagery, metaphors, the 2 ideas of the 2 stanzas. The poem is based on England. You can easily tell that the poem is based on England and that ding for England is glorious, this is because they have used England or English in so many ways, to specify that it is England; "English dust, English heaven"... There are many ww1 poems written but even though there are so many, they are all so different with all different options towards the war. The Soldier for example is just based on how glorious it is didn't for England in the war but however there are many poems that disagree with the idea of this one and so they are based on how horrible it is downing for your country and that the war was just a brutal nightmare.
The Sentry:
"Eyeballs, huge bulged like squids"
The Sentry is a poem about the First World War which includes information about the experience of being in war and how brutal it was being apart of it. War is a brutal nightmare. War is a brutal nightmare. This example is the key to what the Sentry poem is about and in the poem it uses several quotations which refers to the main idea; "Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime, kept slush waist-high and rising", "'O sir, my eyes - I'm blind, - I'm blind, I'm blind!", "Eyeballs, huge-bulged like squids'", "Shrieking air", " Drowned himself for good". Wilfred Owen uses figurative language to serve the big idea; onomatopoeia, metaphors, alliteration, imagery of sight, sound, feel and smell. Including all of these figurative languages in a poem makes it really powerful to the reader and also to get a better understanding but also to look deeper in the poem and finding all the different figurative languages in it.
The wind of the Downs:
"It seemed impossible that you should die"
The wind of the Downs, by Marian Allen is a poem which uses some imagery and all of the similies and the repetition of; You, I, Me and We are all bits of figurative language that help serve the big idea in this poem. The big idea of the poem is that Marian Allen can't remember her boyfriends face but she can only remember his khaki figure. An example of imagery of sight from the poem is "In khaki tunic. Sam Brown belt and all..." This quote makes us get the idea of how she can only imagine her boyfriend in the khaki tunic which is his soldier uniform and so this example of imagery makes us see that picture of him in his uniform. The fact that the poem is based on Marian and her feelings when her boyfriend had to leave her to join the war, it uses a lot of repetition of I, You, Me, We and this makes it stronger because we get an opinion from a woman experiencing her boyfriend in the war and how terrified she is that he would be dead, but she still believes that he is not dead. She can only remember him in his khaki tunic and not his face or how he used to be, this is why the first stanza of the poem is about her describing him as she wants to see him and not imagine that he could be dead. The second stanza of the poem is about her remembering and describing their old memories of what they used to do together and how she is now doing them alone, but she doesn't want to be thinking that he is dead so she is still waiting for him to come back from the war again.
Attack:
"Oh Jesus make it stop!"
Attack, by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem about "going over the top", and it uses imagery and metaphors to serve the big idea. The main idea of the poem is that the situation is hopeless and the men are desperate. An example of auditory (sound) imagery is "the barrage roars and lifts", this quote is very powerful because it also includes a really strong metaphor which is "roars" because a barrage doesn't actually roar but since it is so loud it sounds as if it does roar. The sight imagery is best exemplified by "lines of grey, masked with fear". This quote of imagery of sight uses a really great metaphor which is "masked" as if they are all wearing a mask of fear. "Hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists" in this quote the metaphor is "hope" since they are hopeless meaning there is no hope left.
Arms and the boy:
"Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death."
The arms and the boy, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem about soldiers in WW1, it uses a lot of imagery and metaphors in 3 of the stanzas, to serve the big idea of the poem. The big idea of the poem is that war is unnatural. An example of metaphor from the first stanza of the poem is "How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood". This metaphor is describing how the bayonet-blade is and feels. The first stanza is all about the secretion of the gun. In the second stanza there is a great metaphor "Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth, Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death. This metaphor is linked to the main idea of the stanza because it is describing the cartridges and bullets. In the third stanza it uses a great bit of imagery "There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple; and God will grow no talons at his heels, nor antlers through the thickness of his curls. This imagery describes the boy and how people are not designed to kill. All three stanzas all describe something different but they still fit together because it is all about how war is unnatural and it isn't right because people aren't designed to kill each other.
Dulce et Decorum Est
"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!"
Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem using a lot of figurative language such as similes , metaphors and imagery of sight which helps to serve the big idea. The big idea of this poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful. This sentence is a great example of both simile and metaphor from the poem "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning". The simile in this sentence is the bit that says "As under a green sea" and the metaphor bit in this sentence is "I saw him drowning" this is a metaphor because his friend isn't actually drowning but it is as if he is drowning in all the gas, which he is surrounded by. A great bit of imagery of sight from the poem is "He plunges at me, guttering, chocking, drowning". This imagery of sight makes you get this picture in your mind, of a man full of fear and as if he is drowning in gas, just a picture of fear. Dulce et Decorum Est means sweet and beautiful in Latin, this means that the author is trying to say that dying for your country is sweet and beautiful. But in the end of the poem it says "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori" meaning the conclusion of this whole poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful but in reality it is terrifying and just like a brutal nightmare to be apart of a war.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
The wind of the Downs:
"It seemed impossible that you should die"
The wind of the Downs, by Marian Allen is a poem which uses some imagery and all of the similies and the repetition of; You, I, Me and We are all bits of figurative language that help serve the big idea in this poem. The big idea of the poem is that Marian Allen can't remember her boyfriends face but she can only remember his khaki figure. An example of imagery of sight from the poem is "In khaki tunic. Sam Brown belt and all..." This quote makes us get the idea of how she can only imagine her boyfriend in the khaki tunic which is his soldier uniform and so this example of imagery makes us see that picture of him in his uniform. The fact that the poem is based on Marian and her feelings when her boyfriend had to leave her to join the war, it uses a lot of repetition of I, You, Me, We and this makes it stronger because we get an opinion from a woman experiencing her boyfriend in the war and how terrified she is that he would be dead, but she still believes that he is not dead. She can only remember him in his khaki tunic and not his face or how he used to be, this is why the first stanza of the poem is about her describing him as she wants to see him and not imagine that he could be dead. The second stanza of the poem is about her remembering and describing their old memories of what they used to do together and how she is now doing them alone, but she doesn't want to be thinking that he is dead so she is still waiting for him to come back from the war again.
"It seemed impossible that you should die"
The wind of the Downs, by Marian Allen is a poem which uses some imagery and all of the similies and the repetition of; You, I, Me and We are all bits of figurative language that help serve the big idea in this poem. The big idea of the poem is that Marian Allen can't remember her boyfriends face but she can only remember his khaki figure. An example of imagery of sight from the poem is "In khaki tunic. Sam Brown belt and all..." This quote makes us get the idea of how she can only imagine her boyfriend in the khaki tunic which is his soldier uniform and so this example of imagery makes us see that picture of him in his uniform. The fact that the poem is based on Marian and her feelings when her boyfriend had to leave her to join the war, it uses a lot of repetition of I, You, Me, We and this makes it stronger because we get an opinion from a woman experiencing her boyfriend in the war and how terrified she is that he would be dead, but she still believes that he is not dead. She can only remember him in his khaki tunic and not his face or how he used to be, this is why the first stanza of the poem is about her describing him as she wants to see him and not imagine that he could be dead. The second stanza of the poem is about her remembering and describing their old memories of what they used to do together and how she is now doing them alone, but she doesn't want to be thinking that he is dead so she is still waiting for him to come back from the war again.
Dulce et Decorum Est
"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!"
Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem using a lot of figurative language such as similes , metaphors and imagery of sight which helps to serve the big idea. The big idea of this poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful. This sentence is a great example of both simile and metaphor from the poem "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning". The simile in this sentence is the bit that says "As under a green sea" and the metaphor bit in this sentence is "I saw him drowning" this is a metaphor because his friend isn't actually drowning but it is as if he is drowning in all the gas, which he is surrounded by. A great bit of imagery of sight from the poem is "He plunges at me, guttering, chocking, drowning". This imagery of sight makes you get this picture in your mind, of a man full of fear and as if he is drowning in gas, just a picture of fear. Dulce et Decorum Est means sweet and beautiful in Latin, this means that the author is trying to say that dying for your country is sweet and beautiful. But in the end of the poem it says "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori" meaning the conclusion of this whole poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful but in reality it is terrifying and just like a brutal nightmare to be apart of a war.
"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!"
Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem using a lot of figurative language such as similes , metaphors and imagery of sight which helps to serve the big idea. The big idea of this poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful. This sentence is a great example of both simile and metaphor from the poem "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning". The simile in this sentence is the bit that says "As under a green sea" and the metaphor bit in this sentence is "I saw him drowning" this is a metaphor because his friend isn't actually drowning but it is as if he is drowning in all the gas, which he is surrounded by. A great bit of imagery of sight from the poem is "He plunges at me, guttering, chocking, drowning". This imagery of sight makes you get this picture in your mind, of a man full of fear and as if he is drowning in gas, just a picture of fear. Dulce et Decorum Est means sweet and beautiful in Latin, this means that the author is trying to say that dying for your country is sweet and beautiful. But in the end of the poem it says "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori" meaning the conclusion of this whole poem is that dying for your country is not sweet and beautiful but in reality it is terrifying and just like a brutal nightmare to be apart of a war.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Arms and the boy
Arms and the boy:
"Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death."
The arms and the boy, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem about soldiers in WW1, it uses a lot of imagery and metaphors in 3 of the stanzas, to serve the big idea of the poem. The big idea of the poem is that war is unnatural. An example of metaphor from the first stanza of the poem is "How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood". This metaphor is describing how the bayonet-blade is and feels. The first stanza is all about the secretion of the gun. In the second stanza there is a great metaphor "Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth, Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death. This metaphor is linked to the main idea of the stanza because it is describing the cartridges and bullets. In the third stanza it uses a great bit of imagery "There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple; and God will grow no talons at his heels, nor antlers through the thickness of his curls. This imagery describes the boy and how people are not designed to kill. All three stanzas all describe something different but they still fit together because it is all about how war is unnatural and it isn't right because people aren't designed to kill each other.
"Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death."
The arms and the boy, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem about soldiers in WW1, it uses a lot of imagery and metaphors in 3 of the stanzas, to serve the big idea of the poem. The big idea of the poem is that war is unnatural. An example of metaphor from the first stanza of the poem is "How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood". This metaphor is describing how the bayonet-blade is and feels. The first stanza is all about the secretion of the gun. In the second stanza there is a great metaphor "Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth, Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death. This metaphor is linked to the main idea of the stanza because it is describing the cartridges and bullets. In the third stanza it uses a great bit of imagery "There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple; and God will grow no talons at his heels, nor antlers through the thickness of his curls. This imagery describes the boy and how people are not designed to kill. All three stanzas all describe something different but they still fit together because it is all about how war is unnatural and it isn't right because people aren't designed to kill each other.
Attack:
"Oh Jesus make it stop!"
Attack, by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem about "going over the top", and it uses imagery and metaphors to serve the big idea. The main idea of the poem is that the situation is hopeless and the men are desperate. An example of auditory (sound) imagery is "the barrage roars and lifts", this quote is very powerful because it also includes a really strong metaphor which is "roars" because a barrage doesn't actually roar but since it is so loud it sounds as if it does roar. The sight imagery is best exemplified by "lines of grey, masked with fear". This quote of imagery of sight uses a really great metaphor which is "masked" as if they are all wearing a mask of fear. "Hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists" in this quote the metaphor is "hope" since they are hopeless meaning there is no hope left.
"Oh Jesus make it stop!"
Attack, by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem about "going over the top", and it uses imagery and metaphors to serve the big idea. The main idea of the poem is that the situation is hopeless and the men are desperate. An example of auditory (sound) imagery is "the barrage roars and lifts", this quote is very powerful because it also includes a really strong metaphor which is "roars" because a barrage doesn't actually roar but since it is so loud it sounds as if it does roar. The sight imagery is best exemplified by "lines of grey, masked with fear". This quote of imagery of sight uses a really great metaphor which is "masked" as if they are all wearing a mask of fear. "Hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists" in this quote the metaphor is "hope" since they are hopeless meaning there is no hope left.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
The Soldier paragraph
"Under an English heaven"
The soldier is an important poem for a number of reasons. It exemplifies the attitudes of people at the beginning of WW1, as well as being a very invested example of the sonnet form. The main idea of the poem is how glorious it is to die for England. There are several things that serve the poem. Repetition of England imagery, metaphors, the 2 ideas of the 2 stanzas. The poem is based on England. You can easily tell that the poem is based on England and that ding for England is glorious, this is because they have used England or English in so many ways, to specify that it is England; "English dust, English heaven"... Ther are many ww1 poems written but even though there are so many, they are all so different with all different options towards the war. The Soldier for example is just based on how glorious it is didnt for England in the war but however there are many poems that disagree with the idea of this one and so they are based on how horrible it is downing for your country and that the war was just a brutal nightmare.
The soldier is an important poem for a number of reasons. It exemplifies the attitudes of people at the beginning of WW1, as well as being a very invested example of the sonnet form. The main idea of the poem is how glorious it is to die for England. There are several things that serve the poem. Repetition of England imagery, metaphors, the 2 ideas of the 2 stanzas. The poem is based on England. You can easily tell that the poem is based on England and that ding for England is glorious, this is because they have used England or English in so many ways, to specify that it is England; "English dust, English heaven"... Ther are many ww1 poems written but even though there are so many, they are all so different with all different options towards the war. The Soldier for example is just based on how glorious it is didnt for England in the war but however there are many poems that disagree with the idea of this one and so they are based on how horrible it is downing for your country and that the war was just a brutal nightmare.
The Sentry paragraph
"Eyeballs, huge bulged like squids"
The Sentry is a poem about the First World War which includes information about the experience of being in war and how brutal it was being apart of it. War is a brutal nightmare. War is a brutal nightmare. This example is the key to what the Sentry poem is about and in the poem it uses several quotations which refers to the main idea; "Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime, kept slush waist-high and rising", "'O sir, my eyes - I'm blind, - I'm blind, I'm blind!", "Eyeballs, huge-bulged like squids'", "Shrieking air", " Drowned himself for good". Wilfred Owen uses figurative language to serve the big idea; onomatopoeia, metaphors, alliteration, imagery of sight, sound, feel and smell. Including all of these figurative languages in a poem makes it really powerful to the reader and also to get a better understanding but also to look deeper in the poem and finding all the different figurative languages in it.
The Sentry is a poem about the First World War which includes information about the experience of being in war and how brutal it was being apart of it. War is a brutal nightmare. War is a brutal nightmare. This example is the key to what the Sentry poem is about and in the poem it uses several quotations which refers to the main idea; "Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime, kept slush waist-high and rising", "'O sir, my eyes - I'm blind, - I'm blind, I'm blind!", "Eyeballs, huge-bulged like squids'", "Shrieking air", " Drowned himself for good". Wilfred Owen uses figurative language to serve the big idea; onomatopoeia, metaphors, alliteration, imagery of sight, sound, feel and smell. Including all of these figurative languages in a poem makes it really powerful to the reader and also to get a better understanding but also to look deeper in the poem and finding all the different figurative languages in it.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Metaphor paragraph "Rain"
Outline for paragraph:
Example 1: For washing me cleaner than I have ever been
Example 2: Born into this solitude
Thesis: The poem Rain includes a lot of very powerful metaphors since it makes the piece much more affective when reading it
"Born into this solitude"
A defenition of a metaphor from vocabulary.com is "A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest similarity". The poem Rain includes a lot of very powerful metaphors since it makes the piece much more affective when reading it. "For washing me cleaner than I have ever been". This one metaphor is about him death but it is mentioned in an implicit way meaning that it does not say it directly in the text. The word washing in this metaphor, is describing all his feelings, thoughts, emotions and so on since all of these things are being washed away. What it means by "For washing me cleaner than I have ever been" is that when he dies, he will be clean from everything and he will be free from the war. Another metaphor that is included in the same sentence as the other one, is "Born into this solitude". He wasn't actually born into solitude but the war brought him into solitude because he was taken away from all of the people that he loves and now is just alone, in the war fighting. Having metaphors in a poem is something that is quite important for a poem to include since then you will have to really consider what is happening in it.
Example 1: For washing me cleaner than I have ever been
Example 2: Born into this solitude
Thesis: The poem Rain includes a lot of very powerful metaphors since it makes the piece much more affective when reading it
A defenition of a metaphor from vocabulary.com is "A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest similarity". The poem Rain includes a lot of very powerful metaphors since it makes the piece much more affective when reading it. "For washing me cleaner than I have ever been". This one metaphor is about him death but it is mentioned in an implicit way meaning that it does not say it directly in the text. The word washing in this metaphor, is describing all his feelings, thoughts, emotions and so on since all of these things are being washed away. What it means by "For washing me cleaner than I have ever been" is that when he dies, he will be clean from everything and he will be free from the war. Another metaphor that is included in the same sentence as the other one, is "Born into this solitude". He wasn't actually born into solitude but the war brought him into solitude because he was taken away from all of the people that he loves and now is just alone, in the war fighting. Having metaphors in a poem is something that is quite important for a poem to include since then you will have to really consider what is happening in it.
Friday, January 22, 2016
The Soldier
If I should die, think only this of me: A That there’s some corner of a foreign field B That is for ever England. There shall be A In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; B A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, C All of this is part of the poem is Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, D about that u Had something A body of England’s, breathing English air, C Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. D And think, this heart, all evil shed away, E A pulse in the eternal mind, no less. F Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; G This part is about that you Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; E Become something And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, F In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. G
- Natural / Physical, England explicit + implicit using imagery
- England, Mental / Spiritual
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Ww1 poem
The poem is an Italian Sonnet "love poem about war"
It's a love poem to war entitled "Peace" which is to the whole poem ironic
Dieting for your country in war brings spiritual peace which is why the poem is called "Peace
The whole poem is about, going to war brings you inner peace, everything bad becomes good
Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, A
And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping! B
With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, A
To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, B
Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary; C
Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move, D (slant rhyme)
And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, C
And all the little emptiness of love! D (slant rhyme)
Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, E
Where there’s no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending, F
Naught broken save this body, lost but breath; G
Nothing to shake the laughing heart’s long peace there, E
But only agony, and that has ending; F
And the worst friend and enemy is but Death. G
= Rhyme
= Repetition
= Similie
= Listing
= Juxtaposition and Listing
Ab = Personification
Ab = Metaphor
= Listing
= Juxtaposition and Listing
Ab = Personification
Ab = Metaphor
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Monologue from The Avengers
Monologue from the Avengers, Loki:
Can you? Can you wipe out that much red? Drakov's daughter? Sao Paulo? The hospital fire? Barton told me everything. Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything? This is the basest sentimentality. This is a child, a prayer. Pathetic! You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you, and they will never go away. I won't touch Barton! Not until I make him kill you. Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear. And then he'll wake just long enough to see his good work, and when he screams I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!= Rhetorical questions - It uses rhetorical questions in the beginning, (example) to convince the person that she can't wipe out that much red
= Simple syntax and Simple diction - The monologue changes between simple and Sophysticated syntax and diction since that makes it more effective while reading it, because when it uses more simple diction and syntax, you read it more calmly and when it's more Sophysticated, you dad it more loudly or aggressively
= Sophysticated syntax and Sophysticated diction
= Sophysticated diction
= Metaphor - "Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red" this one sentence includes 2 metaphors. one of them is "ledger" which refers to her soul and then there is the "gushing red" this refers to the blood of others which she has killed. Loki ups the metaphor by saying gushing instead of dripping since it is a more powerful word and it means like "it's not dripping, it's gushing red!"
= Repetition - In the monologue it uses repetition such as "You......you....you" because then it higlights the fact that he is speaking to "you"
= Naming - The way he uses naming is by saying "pathetic!" which in this context means that what she has done is just childish
= Listing - When he uses listing in the monologue it higlights the meaning of his expressions of example "Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear"
= Jargon - Jargon is used in the monologue "code, something that makes up for the horrors" to describe how she thinks that she can be separate from the others but she is just like any other killer out there
The way that the monologue is written, makes you say / read the monologue in a more aggressive way, because of the language used, for example:
When Loki asks his rhetorical questions to Black Widow he says the questions with a tone which is to make her feel bad and it's like he is beating her down but with words and tone (Can you?.........The hospital fire?)
After he asked and said all of the questions he stands up from a chair and the tone that he is speaking in gets much more aggressive and he starts walking towards Black Widow and seems as if he would attack her (Barton told me everything........never go away)
When he starts saying that he has plans to kill her his voice raises very loud and he talks very aggressively, so much that Black Widow gets very frightened and ends up calling him a monster (I won't touch Barton!.....you mewling quim)
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