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“Spin” explores the idea of controlling reality and memory through story. Write a blog entry explaining how this is explored in this chapter. Be sure to explain concepts using detail and commentary.
The chapter “Spin” in The Things They Carried is about perception, point of view, and how it its changed person to person. The [...]
Filed by tittle at March 31st, 2008 under AP English, The Things They Carried
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In the first part of The Things They Carried it talks about how they carry both tangible and intangible things. It said “the things they carried were largely determined by necesity.” It also said “what they carried varied by mission.” They carried the things that they needed to survive, wether it be guns, ammunition, [...]
Filed by tittle at March 27th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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1. The speaker is a man who is trying date a woman, whom he calls rose.
2. Go and tell the wasteful girl that she seemed sweet and fair. Tell her shes young and (something). Looks arent worth much, but she trys hard to be desired. Everything dies, they don’t live long but are sweet and [...]
Filed by tittle at March 19th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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Spring and Fall
Hopkins’s short lyric shares some elements with the sonnet, but it is a nonce form, invented for this poem only. Hopkkins’ idiosyncratic meter, which he dubbed “sprung rhythm”, uses accent marks over certain syllables. What is the dominant meter and line length? What is the rhyme scheme? Describe the poem’s structure. (Hint: The [...]
Filed by tittle at March 12th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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The Story We Know
1. Describe a villanelle by explicating the stanza pattern and the rhyme scheme of this poem. How many different end rhymes are in the poem? How many times is each sound repeated? Which words are repeated exactly at the ends of lines, in what pattern? How does the last stanza use the [...]
Filed by tittle at March 7th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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1. As the title tells us, this poem is written in a form called a sestina, first used by a French troubadour in the twelfth century. In describing the prosody of Alvarez’s poem, you will be describing a sestina. Hint: Instead of looking for a rhyme scheme, look for a pattern in the repetition of the [...]
Filed by tittle at March 6th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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Dear Edublog.
Please work.
1. In what ways does this poem conform to a common sonnet form? What variations are notable, and what is their effect?
-A common sonnet is in the form of abab cdcd efef gg. This poem is in the form of abba cddc gg. The couplet at the end is supposed to rhyme, even [...]
Filed by tittle at March 4th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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The rest will be posted this morning, due to the fact that last night it decided it would only post my previously saved version.
ThankyouverymuchEdublog..Yousuck.
To Death:
Describe the form and structure off the poem.
- Finch’s 16 line poem is essentially just 8 rhyming couplets. They break themselves off into 3 groups almost in the poem being: lines [...]
Filed by tittle at March 4th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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Filed by tittle at March 4th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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Well after three days of waiting…
and waiting…
and waiting…
and waiting a little more…
it finally sent me my password.!
THANKYOU EDUBLOG
Filed by tittle at March 3rd, 2008 under Uncategorized
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