This poem featuring Neil Hilborm is a story about a man with OCD. The centered theme is about love and how his disorder causes him to lose people he loves yet his attraction and obsession for them stays just as strong. It helps you see how other people think of things, how people with OCD have issues with commitment and letting going. How disorders such as this one effects their entire life.
Modern Technology
Safety is an issue
Privacy is the wish
Secrets are impossible
Exposure is a given
Tell us to stop
Tell us to hide
Tell us to run
Tell us to leave
This is our life
Since tots we have learned
Till we see no more
And the screens is our world
Keep us safe
Keep us aware
Don't give up on us now
We need you to care
Friday, 11 April 2014
Legends and Stories
The Forsaken: Duncan Campbell Scott
1. Write a paragraph that discusses the themes of survival and sacrifice in The Forsaken. (6 marks)
Survival and sacrifice are huge and very imposing themes that were placed in this poem. The survival was purely for her son, the survival showed the love that one shows for her/his son or daughter. Survival is a key human emotion before all else, yet love and sacrifice seemed to overcome the primal urge. This mother sacrificed her own flesh and her own comfort for her child. She stayed in the cold, fishing, so that she could bring the child to safety. Her first instinct was to protect her child and keep him from being left in the cold to starve and his bright light to go extinct. She put her child before herself and in the end he abandoned her not realizing the sacrifice that all parents make for their kids, with or without thanks.This was comparing survival and sacrifice wit someone else to put before yourself.
The Ice-Floes: E.J. Pratt
2. Write a paragraph that explains the harsh irony ofThe Ice-Floes. (6 marks)
This poem was one large irony filled poem. Men going out to kill seals for money buy essentials for the winter. The whole day they are gone, 20 000 dead seals on their hands, yet a storm creeps closer without them noticing. By the end of the day the storm is upon them. So with little choice they try to make it back to the boat, to get to shelter to go back to their homes and families. Yet they to are left out in the cold and like the seals, they are killed, frozen solid as well. Together it was all for nothing, going to kill and being killed. It was a war that had a risk, and they perished.
David- Earle Birney
3. Write a paragraph that describes Birney’s technique of foreshadowing in the poemDavid. (6 marks)
Birney uses foreshadowing to indicate the impending doom at the end of the poem. He describes the climbing they do, and no matter how many incidents almost happen they never do. When you know for certain that something bad will happen is in the second part and the fifth stanza. This describes the danger of climbing, that the pounding of the water and even the darkening of the firs shows a hidden meaning. Using metaphors and allusion to think of the possibilities of what could happen. This poem uses foreshadowing to forewarn the reader of what will happen. It isn't obvious foreshadowing, you really have to pay attention to the words and analyze it. That is what makes poems worth reading. The allusions and the illusions that the words perform, you have to read between the lines.
4. Embed a video that features information about one of these poets or poems. (2 marks)
Earle Birney's "David"
Thursday, 10 April 2014
People and Places
Warren Pryor- by A. Nowlan
1. What work is done by Warren’s family? (1 mark)
Warren's family are farmers.
2. How did Warren represent their hopes and dreams? (1 mark)
Warren was educated and had potential to go beyond the farm to be come a banker, a well middle class job.
3. Explainthe allusion used in the thirdstanza (see p. 215). What is the poem’s setting? (2 marks)
The third stanza when it says "their cups ran over" (line 9) is alluding to the Twenty-Third Psalm. This poem is set in New Brunswick, the "red dirt" (line 12) give it away
4. Identify themetaphor in the second stanza and thesimile in the fourth stanza. (2 marks)
The metaphor in the second stanza would be "the slender scroll / his passport" (line 6-7), it is comparing graduation as a ticket to freedom off the farm. The simile in the fourth stanza would be "Hard and serious / like a young bear inside his teller's cage, " (line 13-14) compares his life and job to being in a cage, without liberty.
5. Explain thesituational irony of “Warren Pryor. “ (2 marks)
The situational irony is that Warren's family gave up everything so he could go to school and get a good job. In the end Warren felt that he wasn't happy with his life even after everything that he could and had accomplished.
6. Create hyperlinks to online definitions for the termsallusion, metaphor, simile, andsituational irony in the questions above. (2 marks)
1. What types of imagery can you identify in this poem? (2 marks)
This poem mainly uses visual imagery to stimulate the readers. There is also several words that invigorate the use of hearing.
2. What forms of life inhabit the lonely land? (2 marks)
Apparently trees live on this land, cedars, firs, and most of all, pines. Also wild ducks inhabit the lonely land, their cries lost over the stones.
3.
Which three adjectives used by Smith do you think best portray the
strength and beauty of the land he describes? Give your reasons for
selecting each one. (6 marks)
The first adjective that truly captivated my attention to portray strength and beauty was whirling, the whirling sky. This creates and image of a beautiful sky, tossing and turning, for that any moment it could snap and the anger of a storm will engross you.
The second adjective is passionate, as the wild duck uses passionate tones. This evokes the thoughts of longing and the strength to regain the ability to search for ones lost friend, ones lost partner.
The third and final adjective that truly engages imagery to portray strength and beauty is lapping, as the lapping of the water against the stones. This is the sounds of water pushed by the tides and the wind. This shows despite the sky that there is still calmness in the air and that these gentle waves could turn any moment into waves full of strength and power.
4.
Embed two imageson your blog that illustrate lines of the poem.
Caption each image with the lines represented from the poem. (4 marks)
in the lapping water / on smooth, flat stones. (lines 22-23)
at the whirling sky; / and the pine trees / lean one way. (line 10-12)
