The Flower-Fed Buffaloes

1. The Flower-Fed Buffaloes Created by Jenna Heywood

2. Type of Literature: Poetry • Form: Iambic Meter • Rhyme Scheme: ABAB (First Quatrain only) • Synopsis: There were once buffalo where all of the American civilization has grown. They flourished in nature with the Native American tribes, but now there are locomotives and wheat that have taken their place. • Key Figurative Language: • Personification: “Ranged where the locomotives sing” • Repetition: “Lying low” and “wheels and wheels and wheels…” • Dissonance: “They gore no more, they bellow no more” • Theme: Everything changes through time and some beautiful things will be destroyed. • Imagery: • “Tossing, blooming, perfumed grass”

3. How does the author vividly convey thoughts and feelings through imagery? • Vachel Lindsay conveys ideas of change and effects of the nature of a land, through the auditory, visual, and olfactory imagery. The auditory imagery of “the locomotives sing[ing]” conveys the idea of positive progress. It becomes easier to relate to as the idea of music is brought into the new times. Also, Lindsay writes, “they bellow no more.” This adds the change in auditory images and how the buffaloes stop creating contrast between the times presented in the poem. The visual imagery also changes from “the prairie flowers [that] lie low” to the “wheels and wheels and wheels [that] spin by.” Once again, the contrast between the time of buffaloes and modern times was heightened and emphasized. The olfactory imagery conveys thoughts of the buffalo. Lindsay writes that there is, “…perfumed grass.” This gives a sense of beauty amongst the flowers and the buffalo. After describing the wheels, Lindsay satisfies the sense again, “in the spring that still is sweet.” Not only does the alliteration create a flowing calm sound, but the sweetness of spring can almost be smelt and tasted. This unifies the buffaloes and modern times with that sense and it is simply change in objects but not meaning of life. Lindsay creates differences and unification between the flower-fed buffaloes and the locomotives that sing and the wheels that spin.

4. Full Moon and Little Frieda By Ted Hughes on page 149 Powerpoint By: Amanda Vaillancourt

5. Information about poem • type of literature- poem • genre- farm; nature • brief synopsis- A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket- And you are listening. • key figurative language terms- tense, brimming, amazed • themes- farm life; spider webs, cows going home, moon • connotation- pail lifted, still brimming: creates suspense. Cows going home: everyday occurances. Moon is amazed: shows that the moon feels shocked by Frieda calling up. • imagery- a dark river of blood, boulders balancing unspilled milk,a spiders web tense.

6. How does the author memorably convey his feelings about little frieda and the moon? The author conveyed his bias toward little frieda when she yells up to the moon like her life depended on it. It’s as if she just discovered the moon for the first time. However, it stated that ‘the moon stepped back like an artist amazed at a work… points at him amazed.’ making us think that they saw little frieda on a higher level than the moon. Making us believe that the moon is jealous, because little frieda has a greater innocence over the moon.

7. One Art Elizabeth Bishop

8. One Art by: Elizabeth Bishop • Poetry • ABA CBA ABA CBA ABA CBAA • This poem is about the poets feelings about losing things in life. It mentions things she has lost and how you have to get over it because it happens and you cant help it.

9. Question How does the author convey meaning about life and death? • She mentions things in life that she has lost over time, such as time, moving away from cities, a watch, and names. Then she talked about the loss of a person, but all of this that she has lost, she feels, was no disaster. The meaning she conveys behind this, is that we all gain things and lose things, we all live and then die. It is a part of life and we cannot escape it, so we should not see these losses as disasters.

10. Sonnet 43 By: Hannah Jeffries

11. Sonnet 43 • Author- Elizabeth Barrett Browning • Type of Literature- Sonnet • Genre- Love • Synopsis- In the sonnet the author describes the different ways they love their partner. • Figurative Language- Diction, symbolism, similes, and metaphors.

12. How does the author express his feelings in a striking or unusual way? On example the author expresses his love in an usual way would be through the use of similes. An example of this would be “I love thee freely, as men strive for Right- I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise;” The author also expresses his love in a striking way would be relating his love to biblical phrases. An example “Being and Ideal Grace, With my lost Saints-And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after my death,”.

13. Song “Tears, Idle Tears” Poem by: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Presentation by: Tristan Giles

14. What it be? -Type of Literature: Poetry -Genre: OF the words -Form: Song -Synopsis: Though this poem holds many thought provoking and meaningful factors within it, it mainly about the sadness of our tears snd why we shed them.

15. What it be?.....continued -Key fig. lang. terms, etc.: It is composed of the sadness of life and its tears which is expressed through metaphors, repetition, and depression. This poem has a strong connotation of sorrow and the depression of life.

16. How does the author use words in a particular striking way? The author uses descriptive words such as “beam glittering”, “divine despair”, and even “hopeless fancy feigned” to help to convey a sense of a impermanent beauty that is looked upon in something akin to a memory. This sense of fleeting joy seems to to be the main purpose of the authors words.

17. The Rights of Woman by: Timothy Smith

18. Basic information • The rights of women by anna laetitia barbauld • it is considered poetry • Women basically need to demand their rights from men and deserve to be equal in all rights. • There is a great deal of imagery and there is also a immense amount of different uses of speechs that have been used for women rights

19. How does the author make powerful use of sound and rhythm • The author uses many forms of Punctuation to formulate rhythm. She tends to use many exclamation points to reinforce her point throughout the course of the piece. She also uses various amount of commas to pause herself so you must listen to her call to action

20. Sonnet 29 Jacob Avils

21. Sonnet 29 by Edna St Vincent Millay • Type of Literature: Poetry • Form: Sonnet • Brief Synopsis: Through this poem the poet is weeping and feels that need to be forgotten by whom ever she is writing too. The poet expresses herself in this poem as insecure, troubled, unlucky and shamed. An example from the poem that proves this expression from the poet was, “Pity me that the heart is slow to learn”. • The key figurative language term that was crucial in this poem was the point of view used. In this poem 1ST point of view was used and this point of view helped the reader feel as if they were in the same shoes of the poet and at the same time was exposed to the poets feelings. • The connotation is this poem was to forget. Throughout the poem its saying to let go and just not to worry about the past anymore for example it said, “Pity me not for beauties passed away”.

22. Q:How does the author strikingly convey his feelings in this poem about________? A: The author uses strong use of diction to convey his feelings which was the feeling of in secureness. Diction that gave me the hint that the author was insecure was when she said, “And you no longer look with love on me”. In this line the poet is basically saying that the feelings have changed between these two people negatively and that this person shouldn’t love her anymore because how worthless she is. This diction affected the reader because it opened the eyes of the reader on how selfless this persons esteem is, and makes the reader than have sympathy for the poet.

23. “Mid-Term Break” Seamus Heaney

24. “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus Heaney • Type: poem • Form: free verse • Synopsis: A student returns home from college to attend the funeral of a four-year-old sibling. • Key Terms: • Enjambment: “Snowdrops/and candles”; “arrived/with the corpse” • Imagery: “poppy bruise,” “stanched and bandaged” • Details: “Big Jim Evans,” “first time in six weeks” • Other: “knelling” bells--like for a funeral • Themes: death, youth, family

25. How does the author make powerful use of sound and rhythm? • In poetry, meaning depends on sound and rhythm. Poetry resembles a song, based on music, and the music behind lyrics can carry a piece’s most powerful meaning. In “Mid-Term Break,” Seamus Heaney powerfully evokes despair and loss through a disbelieving sound and rhythm. • Throughout the poem, the diction reinforces a harsh and unforgiving sound that echoes the atmosphere of the accident. The wording begins mundanely, referring to a “college sick bay” that would usually signify an average scene. The narrator notes the time of “two o’clock” and the appearance of “Big Jim Evans,” who similarly refers to a normal presence in the narrator’s life. However, as the poem progresses, the vocabulary shifts from everyday to dark. The narrator views “strangers” rather than familiar names, and when the mother “coughed out tearless sighs” each word aches with cacophonous exhaustion. The “stanched and bandaged” body sounds harsh and unforgiving, like the grip of death. Though the final line of a “four-foot box” is plain, its simplicity awakens a more painful shock in readers than euphemism could ever offer. As the poem reveals the disaster beneath its surface, the abrupt and painful diction evokes in readers the sound of tragedy. • Heaney develops a disjointed rhythm through diction and grammar across the poem. Enjambment permeates the poem, appearing at crucial moments in many stanzas. The narrator recalls that the baby “rocked the pram / When I came in,” and that “Snowdrops / And candles soothed the bedside,” breaking each thought into separate lines. He seems to hesitate within these pauses, as if reluctant to admit to the truth of the scenes. When he observes that his sibling is “paler now,” he struggles for a full stanza before speaking of the “poppy bruise” that signifies the accident. The author’s words stutter along with the narrator’s thoughts until he confronts the sight of his sibling’s corpse. When he places the final evidence in its own stanza, “a foot for every year” stands alone, where the narrator’s pauses cannot conceal it. The narrator finally faces the tragic sight past the limits of enjambment, and as the rhythm settles, his thoughts find no other way to hide the truth. Through diction and grammar, the poem develops the choked rhythm of the narrator’s thoughts.

26. “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket” John Keats

27. Christiana G. “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket” by John Keats • Poetry • Italian (Petrarchan sonnet) • A grasshopper plays in a meadow in the summer. A cricket chirps in winter and is mistaken for a grasshopper. • Theme: Nature’s poetry (beauty) lasts forever as it is “never dead.” • Similar to how the grasshopper and cricket continuously play in the warm or cold seasons • Key Terms: • “The poetry of earth is ceasing never” • “a voice will run” • “there shrills the cricket’s song”

28. Christiana G. How does the author movingly convey sadness or regret in the poem? “The cricket’s song… seems to one in drowsiness half lost, the grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.” This line represents regret for the summer season (the grasshopper) being gone. It highlights how the cricket and grasshopper are similar to each other, as well as how the grasshopper will inevitably return. However, when seasons change we tend to regret what we could have done during the previous season while still knowing it will return.

29. “Lament” Analysis By:Ciara Earl

30. Slide 1 • “Lament” by Gillian Clarke • Poetry • Tercet • In “Lament”, Gillian Clarke showcases the sorrow and hardships that humans have inflicted on the world. • Imagery- hooked beaked turtles, nest of sickness, veil of iridescence on the sand, funeral silk, pulsing burden, veiled sun, and scalded ocean. • Figurative Language-Personification The Ocean’s lap with its mortal stain. • Theme- Man Made destruction • Connotation- “Burnt earth” the denotative definition of burnt is red and painful through exposure to the sun, but in the poem it means hurt or scorned.

31. Slide 2 Question- How does the author make powerful use of sound and rhythm? In “Lament”, Gillian Clarke’s use of repetitious transitions create an effective rhythm in the poem. Clarke uses “for” as her transition to each new stanza ,thus creating a rhythm to the poem. This rhythm facilitates the reading fluency of the poem and increases the emphasis of her descriptions of the destruction of mankind. Gillian Clarke also utilizes figurative language to create rhyme. For example, “the dugong and the dolphin” is alliteration and “the hooked-beaked turtles” is an example of consonance. Clarke’s use of alliteration ,consonance, and repetition produces an effective rhythm. Also Clarke produces a unique mixture of soft phrases (unemphasized) like “ funeral silk” and harsher phrases (emphasized) like” nest of sickness” ,which also produces and implicate sound that become evident when reading “Lament” aloud.

32. “A Married State”

33. “A Married State” • “The Married State” is by Katherine Philips • This poem is aimed to tell young women that being married is a rough job and with it comes much discontent. That marriage distracts you from the good in life and having children will cause dread. • The author of this poem uses a lot of figurative language, he also uses punctuation like commas and semi colons and things like that to make for a very sharp voice. • The tone of this poem Is disbelief , the speaker does not believe that marriage is the right thing and tries to persuade the audience of the same thought. • The theme of this poem is that marriage is not what everyone says it to be, for women it is not worth it because all that they get out of it is negativity.

34. How does the author make you feel about the character? • Well I think that I this poem there are two characters that the author is talking about and that I the man and the women in the marriage. • I think that the author is making you feel anger towards the man because of the way the author talks about him. • For example “ The best of husbands are so hard to please” • I think the author is also trying to make the audience fell pity for the women in the marriage. • For example “This in wives’ careful faces you may spell Though they dissemble their misfortunes well.”

35. So, We’ll Go No More A-Roving Cody Byers

36. So, We’ll Go No More A-Roving by Lord Byron • It’s a simple poem, with the speaker saying about how he will no longer be going on adventures. • The writing seems to focus mostly on the things that the speaker will not be able to do anymore, and doesn’t focus at all on the things he could now be able to do. • The tone is very depressed, as the speaker repeats the words “though” and “but” quite a bit. This effectively is saying “Though all this is happening, I can’t do it.” • The theme could be “Eventually, all things must come to an end.”

37. How does this convey meaning about life and death? • Lord Byron is very clear about this point. He is speaking about an end in the poem, and the most obvious end would be death itself. • He keeps talking about how all the glories of life, such as the Sword or the Soul, wear out over time. These things were enjoyed in the past, but are now as dead as the owner. • Life now has meaning through this poem, as people realize that life is short and they should make the most of it.

38. “Amends” By: Cassie Luna

39. Title and Author • The title of this poem is “Amends”. • The author is Adrienne Rich.

40. Synopsis • The poem is about how powerful and consuming light is as it pours into and on everything and assists the most dangerous forces of nature, but it is also about how soft and tender it can be as it rests on the eyes of sleeping people.

41. Prominent features • This poem uses a lot of descriptive language as well as details to describe how light touches the wilderness of nature. • “as it licks the broken ledge, as it flows up the cliffs, as it flicks across the tracks”, “exploding out of the ark on the ground, moonlight picking at small stones”

42. Figurative language • Another prominent feature in this poem is the use of figurative language but more specifically the large amount of personification in this poem. • Rich uses a lot of personification in this poem because he makes the light appear to be human by giving it human characteristics. • “as it soaks through cracks into trailers tremulous with sleep as it dwells upon the eyelids of the sleepers as if to make amends” • “laying its cheek for moments on the sand” • By using personification Rich makes the light seem more human which makes the readers feel more connected and empathetic with the light. • The light seems to be one of us struggling through the world and apoogizing for the damage it does.

43. Tone • The tone is sorrowful because the author is describing the trails of the light and how it is powerful and yet apologetic too as it tiredly rests on the eyes of the sleepers. • “as it rises with the surf...dwells upon the eyelids of the sleepers as if to make amends”

44. Theme The theme is that even the most powerful and unstoppable forces of nature have a tender, weary side, and can be sorry for their destruction.

45. How does the author movingly convey sadness or regret in this poem? • The author shows regret and sadness by using personification to create empathy for the light. • The author makes the light sound powerful, but also helpless to do whatever nature wants it to do. • “as it unveiling pours into the gash….as it licks the broken ledge...laying its cheeks for moments on the sand” • This helplessness makes the readers pity the light and in the end the light is shown to have regret for its actions. • “tremulous with sleep as it dwells upon the eyelids of the sleepers as if to make amends”

46. The Ant or Emmet By: Isaac Watts

47. The Ant or EmmetBy: Isaac Watts • Synopsis: About two of the same things (ants), and the joy and mystery of the ants in all. • Prominent Features: Very rhythmic and whimsical in regards to the little ant. • Figurative language: “rifle away all their prime”. The purpose is to intensify the meaning of the petite ants. • Tone: They feel empowered by exclaiming emments. The attitude of this poem belittled in contrast to explaining days of an ant. • Theme: Enjoy the little things.

48. How does the author make powerful use of sound and rhythm? • Through the use of unique diction (emment, rifle away, and cottage of clay.) • Also through tone words • Look for rhythm and flow through sentence structure. • Continue to search for allusions in the poem.