Assignment:

1.Answer the questions to the right of

the poem.
2. Identify ideas from the Romantic
time period
3. how would the Puritans have
reacted to this piece?
4. How would the Deists react to this
piece?
5. Identify ALL poetic devices-start
with rhyme scheme thats easy

To a Waterfowl

Word Bank
Sound is the phonetic aspect of human
speech
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
End Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Internal Rhyme
Figurative Language is the use of
words to mean something other than
their literal meaning
Personification
Imagery
Metaphor
Extended Metaphor
Simile
Symbol
Allusion
Hyperbole
Understatement
Structure/Form is the external
appearance or structure of a poem
Line
Break
Stanza
Fixed
Free
Rhymed
Unrhymed
Narrative
Lyric
Speaker of the poem is the voice that
relates the ideas or story of the poem.

by William Cullen Bryant

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Whither , 'midst falling dew,

While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,
Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue
Thy solitary way?

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Vainly the fowler's eye2

Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,
Thy figure floats along.

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Seek'st thou the plashy3 brink

Of weedy lake, or marge 4of river wide,
Or where the rocking billows5 rise and sink
On the chafed 6ocean side?

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There is a Power whose care

Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,-The desert and illimitable 7air,-Lone wandering, but not lost.

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All day thy wings have fann'd

At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere:
Yet stoop not, weary, 8to the welcome land,
Though the dark night is near.

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And soon that toil shall end,

Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest,
And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend
Soon o'er thy sheltered nest.

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Thou'rt gone, the abyss9 of heaven

Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart
Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,
And shall not soon depart.

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He, who, from zone to zone,

Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my steps aright.

Theme is central idea or message of a

work, the insight it offers into life.

Whiter-- To what place.

Fowlers eye-- the person who shoots fowls
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plashy-- marshy pool or puddle
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marge-- margin
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billows- large swells or waves of water
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chafed- Rubbed away by friction, constant irritation
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illimitable-- without limits or an end
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weary-- feeling or showing tiredness, esp. as a result of excessive exertion or
lack of sleep
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abyss--An unfathomable chasm; a yawning gulf.
2. An immeasurably profound depth or void.
3.a. The primeval chaos out of which it was believed that the earth and sky were
formed. b. The abode of evil spirits; hell."
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Assignment:
1.Answer the questions to the right of
the poem.
2. Identify ideas from the Romantic
time period
3. how would the Puritans have
reacted to this piece?
4. How would the Deists react to this
piece?
5. Identify ALL poetic devices-start
with rhyme scheme thats easy

A PSALM 10OF LIFE by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN
SAID TO THE PSALMIST11

TELL me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream !
For the soul is dead that slumbers12,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest13!
And the grave is not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Word Bank
Sound is the phonetic aspect of human
speech
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
End Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Internal Rhyme
Figurative Language is the use of
words to mean something other than
their literal meaning
Personification
Imagery
Metaphor
Extended Metaphor
Simile
Symbol
Allusion
Hyperbole
Understatement

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

Is our destined end or way ;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout14 and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac15 of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
Be a hero in the strife16 !
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant !
Let the dead Past bury its dead !
Act, act in the living Present !
Heart within, and God o'erhead17 !

Structure/Form is the external

appearance or structure of a poem
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Stanza
Fixed
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Unrhymed
Narrative
Lyric
Speaker of the poem is the voice that
relates the ideas or story of the poem.

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime18,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time ;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn19 main,
A forlorn 20and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

Theme is central idea or message of a

work, the insight it offers into life.

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Psalm--a sacred song or hymn, in particular any of those contained in the

biblical Book of Psalms and used in Christian and Jewish worship
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psalmist-the author or composer of a psalm
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slumber--sleep
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earnest--resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction
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stout- (of an act, quality, or person) brave and determined
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bivouac-- a temporary camp without tents or cover, used esp. by soldiers or
mountaineers.
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Strife--angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict
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overhead
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sublime- of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration
or awe
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solemn- formal and dignified
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forlorn-- pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely, of an aim or endeavor) unlikely
to succeed or be fulfilled; hopeless

Assignment:
1.Answer the questions to the right of
the poem.
2. Identify ideas from the Romantic
time period
3. how would the Puritans have
reacted to this piece?
4. How would the Deists react to this
piece?
5. Identify ALL poetic devices-start
with rhyme scheme thats easy
Word Bank
Sound is the phonetic aspect of human
speech
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
End Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Internal Rhyme
Figurative Language is the use of
words to mean something other than
their literal meaning
Personification
Imagery
Metaphor
Extended Metaphor
Simile
Symbol
Allusion
Hyperbole
Understatement

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew21 calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveler hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface22 the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveler to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
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What imagery is present in this piece?

What might the traveler be a symbol for?
The constant mention of the tide rising and falling serves what poetic
purpose in the poem?
How is the mood established in this poem?

Structure/Form is the external

appearance or structure of a poem
Line
Break
Stanza
Fixed
Free
Rhymed
Unrhymed
Narrative
Lyric
Speaker of the poem is the voice that
relates the ideas or story of the poem.
Theme is central idea or message of a
work, the insight it offers into life.

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curlew--Type of Bird
efface-- erase (a mark)

from a surface