To His Coy Mistress

“To His Coy Mistress” pp. 86-87; #3
1. First this poem confused me, I do not understand, is the speaker trying to woo a woman?
a. If the flood separates us yet, we lie before yonder waiting to go into this vast eternity. Therefore we must ‘grow our love, Vaster than empires, and more slow’. But eternity and life will not let them grow or use their love, on one another.

Dream Deferred

“Dream Deferred” pp. 87; #1
1. The last and most important image that is used is ‘explode’, which gives the reader a shock in a way. This is because in the beginning of the poem the author used cringing writing, or disgusting writing, next the writer uses a calm and soft tone that is used, and all of a sudden the writer uses ‘explode’ as a word to catch you again, as if he was trying to awake you with his writing.

The Hound & Bereft

Bereft
1. Describe the situation precisely. What time of day and year is it? Where is the speaker? What is happening to the Weather?
a. In this poem Bereft by Robert Frost, The speaker is describing the approach of a big storm and the effects that happens when this approaches. It must be dark so late afternoon and raining season. The weather is changing because of a storm as I said, and the speaker is in his house alone. Someone has just died that’s why this speaker is realizing the world is dark and lonely place.
The Hound
• Read it through-Done
• Define any words you don’t know
o Equivocal-Uncertain or questionable by nature.
• Identify the speaker
o The Speaker is simply telling about how a dog can be friendly or mean you never know till he or she comes close enough to touch.
• Identify the situation
o What’s happening-The speaker is describing what is happening when the dog is coming closer to him.
o When is this happening-sometime during the day.
o When is this happening-“” “”” “””” “””
o Where is this happening- in a house.
• Identify the tone of the poem
o How the poem makes you feel
• Happy and nervous for the speaker, what is going to happen?
o The Speaker and how or what he gives to you.
• Uncertainty, you don’t know what will happen.
• Identify important words or phrases
o Equivocal- Uncertain, the speaker is uncertain what the dog will do.
• Breakdown the words
o Musicality- sound- feeling
o Denotation- definition(s)
o Connotation- what the word implies
• Name the theme of the poem
• The theme is life is uncertain and doesn’t hold your plans instead makes plans of its own.
o NOT THE MORALE
o Usually implied in the poem
• Or the purpose of the poem
• How does the author achieve this affect
o By using a main literary device, metaphors.

Good Times

Good Times
How are this family’s good times different from the good times your family has?
This poem is about a family and their reunion together. My family is different because we usually don’t have family reunions and don’t sing and dance…in the kitchen.

Richard Cory

What are the reasons for why Richard Cory does what he does at the end?
The reason Richard Cory kills himself at the end is because he just wants to be normal and wants to be treated different since he has been treated like a king for so long.

We Real Cool

We Real Cool
1. The reason the English teachers at an urban school mistakenly thought parts of this poem to be immoral would be the literary device of rhyming and repetition. For example the part when the author says, “We Real Cool, We Left School”, could mean that if you were cool then you would leave school.

Cross

Cross
1. Different purposes
a. Anger
b. Intersection
c. Something that has to be endured
d. Mixture of 2 things.