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A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky By Lewis Carroll

A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky By Lewis Carroll. By: Virginia Anderson. Annotations. 21 lines 7 stanza Lyric poem Approximate Rhyme Rhythm Personification Imagery. A BOAT beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July — Children three that nestle near,

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A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky By Lewis Carroll

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  1. A Boat Beneath a Sunny SkyBy Lewis Carroll By: Virginia Anderson

  2. Annotations • 21 lines • 7 stanza • Lyric poem • Approximate Rhyme • Rhythm • Personification • Imagery

  3. A BOAT beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July — Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing ear, Pleased a simple tale to hear — Long has paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die: Autumn frosts have slain July. A A A B B B C C C Approximate Rhyme is used in the first stanza because sky and dreamily do not rhyme but are close enough.

  4. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: D D D E E E F F F Rhythm is used in the poem because you get rhythm from end rhyme.

  5. A BOAT beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily Personification is when a non living object is giving human qualities. A boat cannot linger on its own.

  6. A BOAT beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily Ever drifting down the stream — Imagery is where the poet use words so that you can imagine the poem.

  7. Literary The literary meaning of A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky is that a person is in a boat going down a river at sunset and they are passing by children that are playing on the riverside.

  8. Figurative The figurative meaning of A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky is the boat is life carrying you through life. The children are your friends. The children are playing to show the good times you have with your friends but you keep going through life as you lose those friends.

  9. Biographical Info. • Carroll wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) • Carroll wrote the sequel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) • He got the idea for Alice from Henry George Lidell’s daughter Alice Lidell.

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  11. The first letter of each line spells out Alice Pleasant Lidell which is who Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland was writing about. A BOAT beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July — Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing ear, Pleased a simple tale to hear — Long has paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die: Autumn frosts have slain July. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream — Lingering in the golden gleam — Life, what is it but a dream?

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