The lamb - William Blake
Little Lamb, who made thee
Does thou know who made thee
Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
By the stream & o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing woolly bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice.
Making all the vales rejoice:
Little Lamb who made thee
Does thou know who made thee
Little Lamb I'll tell thee,
Little Lamb I'll tell thee;
He is called by thy name,
For he calls himself a Lamb:
He is meek & he is mild,
He became a little child
I a child & thou a lamb,
We are called by His name,
Little Lamb God bless thee,
Little Lamb God bless thee.
1. Not knowing who made it
2. Structure: every two lines is a rhyme
3. Theme: knowing ones origins
4. Grammar: old English
5. Images: The lamb
6. Diction: simple
7. Tone: curious
8. Lit. Techniques: personification and reputation
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Sonnet 89
Sonnet 89- Shakespeare
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offense.
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
Against thy reasons making no defense.
Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I’ll myself disgrace, knowing thy will;
I will acquaintance strangle and look strange,
Be absent from thy walks, and in my tongue
Thy sweet belovèd name no more shall dwell,
Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong
And haply of our old acquaintance tell.
For thee against myself I’ll vow debate,
For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate.
1. First person(man/woman)
2.4 stanzas, 4 verses no rhymes
3. Theme: love
4. Grammar: Elizabethan
5. Images: "speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt."
6. Words: die, love, live, want
7. Tone: hopeful
8. Lit. Techniques: imagery
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offense.
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
Against thy reasons making no defense.
Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I’ll myself disgrace, knowing thy will;
I will acquaintance strangle and look strange,
Be absent from thy walks, and in my tongue
Thy sweet belovèd name no more shall dwell,
Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong
And haply of our old acquaintance tell.
For thee against myself I’ll vow debate,
For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate.
1. First person(man/woman)
2.4 stanzas, 4 verses no rhymes
3. Theme: love
4. Grammar: Elizabethan
5. Images: "speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt."
6. Words: die, love, live, want
7. Tone: hopeful
8. Lit. Techniques: imagery
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Sonnet 69
Pablo Neruda-Sonnet 69
Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence,
without you moving, slicing the noon
like a blue flower, without you walking
later through the fog and the cobbles,
without the light you carry in your hand,
golden, which maybe others will not see,
which maybe no one knew was growing
like the red beginnings of a rose.
In short, without your presence: without your coming
suddenly, incitingly, to know my life,
gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind:
since then I am because you are,
since then you are, I am, we are,
and through love I will be, you will be, we'll be.
1. Dramatic Situation- The narrator is the speaker, he is in live, and sees his love interest and himself as one.
2. Structure- Sonnet, 2 quatrains, and 2 triplets
3. Theme- Love for a woman
4. Grammar- Continuos sentences
5. Figure of speech- Appearance "..Without the light you carry in your hand."
6. Diction- Old English
7. Tone- hopeful and love-stricken
8. Literary Techniques- imagery, metaphors, repition
Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence,
without you moving, slicing the noon
like a blue flower, without you walking
later through the fog and the cobbles,
without the light you carry in your hand,
golden, which maybe others will not see,
which maybe no one knew was growing
like the red beginnings of a rose.
In short, without your presence: without your coming
suddenly, incitingly, to know my life,
gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind:
since then I am because you are,
since then you are, I am, we are,
and through love I will be, you will be, we'll be.
1. Dramatic Situation- The narrator is the speaker, he is in live, and sees his love interest and himself as one.
2. Structure- Sonnet, 2 quatrains, and 2 triplets
3. Theme- Love for a woman
4. Grammar- Continuos sentences
5. Figure of speech- Appearance "..Without the light you carry in your hand."
6. Diction- Old English
7. Tone- hopeful and love-stricken
8. Literary Techniques- imagery, metaphors, repition
Thursday, March 1, 2012
The Crucible
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
1.In Salem, Massachusetts a group of younger girls go into a forest with a slave named Tituba who practices witchcraft . Reverend Parris surprises them, discovering their activity and his daughter, Betty, falls into a coma. The townspeople suspect witchcraft but Abigail, the niece of Parris, swears they were only dancing. John Proctor enters Betty’s room and Abigail tries to rekindle their past affair. Reverend Hale, is called for help and suspects not only suspects but diagnosis witchcraft. Abigail puts the blame upon Tituba and Hale goes to her and she admits that they were communicating with the devil. She also mentions that there are other towns people who communicate with the devil. That is when Abigail and Betty start blurting out other names of people in the town who are supposedly dealing in witchcraft. People randomly start getting arrested, and that is when Abigail accuses Elizabeth, Proctors wife, of witchcraft. She goes even further by setting her up with a voodu looking doll, accusing Elizabeth stabbed her with a needle through the doll. Proctor demands Mary that she confess to the Judge but the other girls insist that Mary is bewitching them. Proctor tells the court that Abigail and him had an affair and her accusation is based on pure jealousy. Elizabeth is brought in to testify but she protects Proctors dignity and denies everything about the affair. Procter is arrested is then arrested, due to seeing the devil. Parris and Hale insist the prisoners to confess seeing the devil.The Judge wants him to sign his confession so it could be hung on the church door, and in the end, he is hung.
2. The theme of this novel would have to be the intolerance of the Puritan religion. This life style is very strict, and there doesn't seem to be room for error. It is either black or white. For God or against God. With the devil or against the devil.
ACT III-“A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it.”
3.The tone Miller has set u has to be a more formal and serious one. He gets the innocence of the girls across, and yet their role in this hole fiasco.
4.The two literary elements in the passages below show character development. Here you see Abigail’s threat and it shows that she will kill to protect her dignity. The other would be the language or diction used. the use of words by the author for example -“the edge of a word” it just adds to Abigail’s threat making her sound even more menacing.
-“Let either of You breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to You in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you”
1.In Salem, Massachusetts a group of younger girls go into a forest with a slave named Tituba who practices witchcraft . Reverend Parris surprises them, discovering their activity and his daughter, Betty, falls into a coma. The townspeople suspect witchcraft but Abigail, the niece of Parris, swears they were only dancing. John Proctor enters Betty’s room and Abigail tries to rekindle their past affair. Reverend Hale, is called for help and suspects not only suspects but diagnosis witchcraft. Abigail puts the blame upon Tituba and Hale goes to her and she admits that they were communicating with the devil. She also mentions that there are other towns people who communicate with the devil. That is when Abigail and Betty start blurting out other names of people in the town who are supposedly dealing in witchcraft. People randomly start getting arrested, and that is when Abigail accuses Elizabeth, Proctors wife, of witchcraft. She goes even further by setting her up with a voodu looking doll, accusing Elizabeth stabbed her with a needle through the doll. Proctor demands Mary that she confess to the Judge but the other girls insist that Mary is bewitching them. Proctor tells the court that Abigail and him had an affair and her accusation is based on pure jealousy. Elizabeth is brought in to testify but she protects Proctors dignity and denies everything about the affair. Procter is arrested is then arrested, due to seeing the devil. Parris and Hale insist the prisoners to confess seeing the devil.The Judge wants him to sign his confession so it could be hung on the church door, and in the end, he is hung.
2. The theme of this novel would have to be the intolerance of the Puritan religion. This life style is very strict, and there doesn't seem to be room for error. It is either black or white. For God or against God. With the devil or against the devil.
ACT III-“A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it.”
3.The tone Miller has set u has to be a more formal and serious one. He gets the innocence of the girls across, and yet their role in this hole fiasco.
4.The two literary elements in the passages below show character development. Here you see Abigail’s threat and it shows that she will kill to protect her dignity. The other would be the language or diction used. the use of words by the author for example -“the edge of a word” it just adds to Abigail’s threat making her sound even more menacing.
-“Let either of You breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to You in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you”
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