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1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
Habitation
- Margaret Atwood
Marriage is not
a house or even a tent
it is before that, and colder:
the edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert
the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn
the edge of the receding glacier
where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far
we are learning to make fire
a house or even a tent
it is before that, and colder:
the edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert
the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn
the edge of the receding glacier
where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far
we are learning to make fire
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
Her bosom’s like a frozen lake
On whose cold brink I stand;
Oh, buckle on my spirit’s skates,
And take me by the hand!
And lead thou, loving saint, the way
To where the ice is thin
That it may beak beneath my feet
And let a lover in.
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Stefanemy S. Mangitngit
Ab-English3
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Poetry Enthusiasts!
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The poem was beginning with a simple understanding what is marriage, and then followed by the bonding of both couple, where they survived in every obstacle and challenges in life. The poem tells how the couple shared their childhood or rather experiences’. Then first, how they learned to love each other, and second, how they find what is the true meaning of love, lastly how to they continue cherishing every moment they have with in their relationship.
The figure is speech in the poem that used by the poet in the poem is that using of metaphor in the “the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert,” represent that married life was have many challenges, struggles, obstacles and also an opportunity they may encounter that was endless or it said to be forever, infinity and beyond. Couples are sometimes having a problem, issue and other circumstances that it’s hard to face off, but in the poem state that “the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert”, that can explain that whatever the problem big or small, light or dark, but if the couple will holding on each other hand there’s no reason to give up on that situation. The forest signifies their nurtured them together, the memories that they shared that gives more strength to their relationship. In this statement that “it is before that, and colder” that can explain that in every problem sometimes they cannot understand and hard to deal with it but it was supported the lines “the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert the unpainted stairs” that I can say that there’s is no reason to give up that kind of forest like problem because there is a “stair” that represent as a new hope or next steps of that problem. In this line “the edge of the receding glacier where painfully and with wonder” I can say that how wide the place of the problem in your heart and mind, with embarrassment and wondering, why it’s happened. But “at having survived, even
this far we are learning to make fire” they can survived on that kind of hilarious problem that can they learn to make a fire that fire means the strength of their love.
Yes, it’s yes for me because the delivering of each line was created so much interesting meaning to the reader because of the device used in the poem. That explain everything how the life of being married. The uses of device that can catch an eye and amazed in the story it helps to make the poem surprised to the reader.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, and thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
• Lake -the lake in my own imaginary it represent as long lasting love, as freshwater in the world of love. Her heart that like a lake that is very wide, clear and pure.
• Skates- the skate represent his emotion to the lady that catch his attention and moves smoothly to like her.
• Saint- the saint was represented as the priest that if the lady will take his hand and accept his love and then he will bring the lady to the ice of thin.
• Thin ice- the ice of thin represent the church that the boy is going to do if the lady will accept his love and ready to settle and his dream will be fulfilled.
Dayonayos, Rinan T.
AB English 3
TTh (4-5:30pm)
Understanding Poetry
1. 1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
In the poem entitled Habitation written by Margaret Atwood is using the metaphor in the whole poem or to describe marriage. She doesn’t believe that marriage is a stable shelter such as in a poem stated a “house or even a tent,” but describes an unstable “edge” of a desert or forest. The poem describes the couple how to “learning to make fire” together while trying to survive both “painfully and with wonder.” This line has metaphor that marriage is hard work but at the core is building a life together usually from the ground up.
The poem appeals to describe the core of a marriage. The core is love and love is all you need. Also this poem tells us that a marriage is not about where you live or where you are only if you are together. Before the relationship progresses we need to add more about going to be more fire and anger and you will start to realize how this relationship still is running. We are learning to start this fire and anger instead of learning how to love and be one.
Yes, because somehow the author successful to deliver the intended meaning of the poem by using the device she used and it is clearly described about marriage. The habitation poem tells about marriage it is comparison between two things. Maybe it can also be about trust to each other. Because in our life we need to trust first or to know more better the person whom you love. Because even you are married to someone but the trust of your partner is none they could be possibility that you together might be broken.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
The imagery that I think in the poem is about the man and woman who are love each other and then they did hug tight in their body. Then the man describes what he felt or he did when he hugs the woman and their chest links each other. Maybe there’s a lot interpretation to that poem but rather the image come to my mind is the lover who love each other and they simply gets intercourse in their relationship.
Noquial, Jireh Grace V. November 16, 2015
ASENGL3
Habitation by Margaret Atwood is a portrayal of a relationship between Husband and a wife. The words put together to picture out in our minds of a couple that has been experienced to see both the astonishing days and the faint. Through their various common experiences, they have taken the true meaning of love as they continue assembling and support their relationship.
In any case, one of the figures of speech found in the poem is a metaphor. In the second stanza of the poem says “the edge of the forest” “the edge of the dessert” “Represents as a metaphor for marriage which implies that opportunities are unending. Some couple has problem which seem to be so big that sometimes they cannot deal with. The author allow us to imagine a forest possibly as a maze that gives off an impression of being hard to get away. The peacefulness of the forest and the desert demonstrate to us that despite the feeling that things aren't going to work and you feel just you're "on the edge" of holding it together, all that you have encountered together and shared together is the thing that makes you hold tight. They may be encountered storm and creates turmoil in the forest, it moreover has its days of calm and peace and basically as one can stay at the edge of a forest and see just a maze of trees, it's the bits of peace that one has similarly felt there that allows them to look back at their relationship and see that same "forest" of issues as experiences which have expected a key part on the building and supporting of their relationship. To add to this, the "unpainted stairs" give us a supposition trust and consider.
Another figures of speech that could be found in the poem is the Irony. In the last sentence of the poem typically shows the effort of the couple to develop their relationship as one putting to build a fire. "It is before that and colder," shows the unpleasant days of the couple in which there problems leads them to outrage.
Efren B. Santiago Jr
Ab- English3
Understanding Poetry (4:00-5:30pm)
The Habitation
The poem is basically stating that the idea of marriage is still almost primitive; something humans cannot quite understand and need to work at. It is not natural to humans. Atwood is also saying that marriage is work, and needs to be built from the ground up. Furthermore, Habitation describes the core of a marriage. Atwood is saying that marriage is based only on love, not physical trappings
Love is not instant, or expressed by some fanciful feelings that Mother Nature fills us with in her goal to have us procreate. Love is something that comes long after that - something that must be forged by pain and sacrifice - compromise and acceptance. Learning to make fire is to learn to knock the coldness from it. Another aesthetic device Atwood uses in Habitation is repetition of the word edge. She uses the word three times, first the edge of a forest, then the edge of a desert, and finally the edge of a receding glacier. The three different places could be where a relationship is headed.
The poem uses hyperbole for which is stated that, “At the edge of a desert” meaning couples could be heading into a life-threatening situation and Atwood is saying that the basis marriage is very difficult to keep alive. “The edge of a receding glacier” meaning that couples might feel like they are trapped with nowhere to go but down, and will drown themselves trying so hard to make a relationship work. Also, the repetition of the word edge may mean that happiness in a marriage is always on the edge; arguments are constantly on the verge and can happen over the most miniscule problems.
The poem uses imagery and that is the love that conquers the man and the woman. It symbolizes how technical and difficult to be in a couple in a sense that there are many circumstances and problems that will exist in days. However, upon this tough time of having a couple, there may always have a solution because love has its never ending bloom. That’s why, were painfully hurt by the love and through it we may be able to learn from it and understand it that love is majesty and unconditional. The last section is just one line, “we are learning to make fire” which stands alone because the only thing that will really create a strong marriage is passion and love, symbolized by fire.
And yes, the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning for the devices that she used because it awakened the harmony echo of love and it gives refreshment to the reader and idea of how really marriage.
Efren B. Santiago Jr.
Ab-Eng3
Understanding Poetry (4:00-5:30pm)
November 17, 2015
I think the images lakes, skate, thin and ice works in the love poem because through these images it is easily to describe and to filter what could love really is and what really trying love could empower to the people. It is usually the ideas in which it has a strong meaning that could love would relate. It has the power to identify love, acknowledge love, and enumerate love from its tender care. Love would really matter to the imagery that which could best suit to describe what love really is. It is very satisfactory to have this symbol in giving certain meaning to love, for love, has its many ways to be defined but certain imagery that would really fit to designate love. It could be that these images would have the potential by giving importance to one’s satisfaction and needs. It is, therefore, that these images would really man’s touches when it comes to symbolizing love.
Noquial, Jireh Grace V. November 16, 2015
ASENGL3
Frozen lake- portraying the breast of a woman.
Skates- the experienced that makes the boy happy.
Saints – it makes the boy blessed after he hugged the girl.
Thin ice – it creates affection to the couple.
Unson, Hershey Rose N. November 16, 2015
ASENGL3
Margaret Atwood's poem "Habitation," is short however a somewhat a portrayal of a relationship between husband and a wife. The words are collected to paint in our mind to picture out a couple that has been together to see both the splendid days and the dim. Though they have numerous mutual encounters, they have taken the genuine significance of love as they keep on building and sustaining their relationship.
The figures of speech found in the poem are metaphor and irony that assists us with visualizing and understand the poem better. In the second stanza of the poem “the edge of the forest” “the edge of the dessert” are metaphors that described as marriage which means opportunities has no end. There are times that a couple’s issues can appear to be so huge thus difficult to manage, and the author portrays this by permitting us to imagine an expansive forest that appears to be difficult for us to escape. But, the serenity of the forest and the desert showed to us that even when you feel like things aren't going to work and you feel like you're "on the edge" of holding it together, one look behind you at all that you have experienced together and shared together is the thing that makes you hang on. As what I have noticed in the poem is that there are no periods used, because of that just like marriage, it doesn’t have an end, it just need to have an effort for the both of you to go through with your journey together. Furthermore, the forest and the desert speak to the hindrances, the journey, the experiences and everything that has signified to make their relationship worth it, just like the trees, the animals, the dirt, the plants and the atmosphere all have influence in making the forest worth it also. In addition, the "unpainted stairs" that can also be found in the second stanza of the poem gave us a sentiment trust and wonder. Showing to us that just like the stairs with no paint, the future of the couple is still unwritten that it’s them and only then can pick what happens.
The irony can be found in the third stanza of the poem. “We are learning to make a fire” is typical of the couple attempting to cultivate their relationship as one putting their efforts to build a fire. "It is before that and colder," shows the rough times of the couple in which there is nothing can be colder than the problems that turns to anger. It shows to us that marriage and relationship are two ideas that shouldn't be complex or even that difficult to make, it ought to easily fall into place. In any cases, we tend to make it complex of the things that are simple which could be the irony of the poem.
Unson, Hershey Rose N. November 16, 2015
ASENGL3
Frozen lake – in my own interpretation, a frozen lake is a woman’s breast described by the man.
Skates- symbolize the happiness of the boy when he hugged the girl.
Saints – it shows how the boy treasured the girl
Thin ice – it caused the lover to make love
Ruita, Sarah Mae O.
ASENGL3
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The poem Habitation by Margaret Atwood, describes the core of a marriage. And it uses metaphor in describing the core of love, which is the need love and to be loved back. This poem also tells us that a marriage is not about where you live or where you are only if you're together. It is perceived that it is not easy to be in the bondage of marriage it so hard to escape the responsibility. It needs a great patience and perseverance to stay in the bondage, because in the first stage of married life it is assumed that couples can encounter several problems.
To add as the relationship progresses they’re going to be more fire and anger and you start to realize how is this relationship still running. We are learning to start this fire and anger instead of learning how to love and be one.
Thus it uses metaphor because it compares two different objects like, a house or a tent is intertwined to the daily life of being couple.
It also uses paradox because the poem that tackles the opposite meaning of what really marriage is.
Yes, it gives a successful meaning in delivering the poem because it uses figure of speech that describes that married life is not an easy thing to enter in.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
The imagery that being portrayed in the poem , is the representation of "desire" and "hate."
Thus lake, skates, saint, thin ice are imagery drawn in the poem and played symbolically interconnected with love and the desire of a lover to be loved also.
We can attribute part of the poem’s effect to the contrast between the simple, the precision of its vocabulary and the vague gravity of its subject. The real meaning of “Fire and Ice,” however, is in its form.
The language remains simple, but it is devastating, it is one thing to pull off an offhand remark about the end of days; it is another to make it poetry.
Pamawos, Vanessa C.
ASENGL3
TTh (4:00-5:30)
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The figures of speech that the poet used in the poem "Habitation" are imagery and symbolism. The poem shows abstract images and symbols to understand the true meaning of marriage. The poet uses literary images and at the same time, symbols such as house or tent, edge of the forest, desert, and glacier and fire. These literary images appeal to my dense of sight. The poem successfully delivered its intended meaning because of the used imagery. The image of the house or tent appeals to our sense of sight. When you heard a house you can easily imagine a building or structure where a husband and wife will. This means that marriage is not only having a house where you can live together with your wife/husband. It is not only based on physical things. The image of the forest, desert, and the glacier appeals to my sense of sight. When you heard about the forest, there is a vivid image of an area that has many trees, plants and wild creatures. It tells us that marriage is like you are in the edge of the forest, you don't know where to go, you have a long way to go through and you will encounter problems in your way. The desert creates a vivid image of a place with no rainfall and where plants, water and trees don't exist. This image tells us that marriage is not easy, couple will face a lot of problems and hardships in their relationship and they must overcome it. The forest, desert and glacier symbolize the hardships of marriage. The fire in the last stanza suggests a great feeling of passion and love. It symbolizes love. The poem tells us that love is important foundation of a successful marriage. Even if the couple will encounter challenges and problems, if love is there, they can overcome it.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
I think the imagery works well in the poem. The literary images such as lakes, skates, saint create a vivid image that helps us to understand the poem. In the poem, the bosom of a girl was being compared to a frozen lake. The image of a frozen lake creates a vivid image a closed body of water that is cold. I come up to an idea that the bosom is actually the girl's heart and the bosom is where the heart can be found. The girl has heart of stone or a numb heart because of a frozen lake. This suggests that she doesn't want to love or be in love. The skates appeals to the sense of touch because she asked the girl to buckle and take his hand. This suggests that the boy is trying to get the girls attention. The saint appeals to the sense of sight. The boy is referring to the girl. She is saint because she is precious for him. The boy wants her to lead him the way to her heart. The boy desires to be loved by the girl.
Salem, Irish Joy D.
ASENGL3
Understanding Poetry
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, why? If no, why?
The figures of speech used by the poet in the poem is Metaphor. Metaphor identifies something as being the same as some unrelated things. I think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because we show thy women’s natural feelings and it is more indeed a love. The habitation describe in relation to marriage. Marriage is the intimate union and equal partnership of a man and a woman. In the poem, marriage is not just having a child, building a house but most of all conquering the challenges and obstacles as a married couple. It is normal to undergo trials as a married couple because it is just how we test our patience and this will make you stronger to your relationship as a married couple as long as you have faith to God.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following, love poem, published early this century?
I think the imagery lake in the line, “Her bosom’s like a frozen lake” is that her beauty has its own uniqueness that is one of a kind. In the line “Oh buckle on my spirit’s skates”, it means that the beat of her heart to someone of what she felt for. And in the last line “And lead thou, loving saint, the way to where the ice is thin”, means the marriage of a truly successful couple walking through the aisle.
Gerard Caylan
AB English 3
Understanding Poetry
1. The poems "Habitation" is consist of symbolism and metaphor. The poem successfully delivered its intended meaning because of the used imagery. It shows abstract images and symbols to recognize the real meaning of marriage. There are a lot of symbols desert, forest and fire which contains sense of sight. Obviously, when you catch up about house, you can imagine a structure usually consist of men and women. This means that marriage is not only based on physical things. The forest in the poem says that marriage is like you are in the edge of the forest, you don't know where to go, you have far to experience and you will experience issues in your direction. The desert obviously contains an image of a place with no rainfall and plants. This image says that marriage is not easy. It contains trials and challenges in their relationship and they must overcome it. The forest and desert symbolize the hardships of marriage. The fire in the poem means passion and love. It symbolizes affection in both sides. The poem tells us that love is important foundation of a successful marriage. Regardless of the fact that the couple will experience difficulties and issues, if affection arrives, they can overcome it.
2. The literary piece is type of an erotic poem in which tackles about affection both side of a man and woman. As what I read the poem, Forest symbolized the breast of a woman who described by the persona. Skates means happiness and pleasure of the persona while embracing the woman. Saint shows how the persona loved the woman. And thin ice which means, the passion of their love to each other. Also, it show that the persona and the woman making sexual activity.
Buntog, Jerica O.
ASENGL-3
TTH 4:00-5:30
1. Margaret Atwood used metaphor in the whole poem. The word marriage was being compared to a house or tent. Unlike strong houses and tents, marriage begins with something on the ground. The start of a marriage was weak and fragile, without the foundation of love. It can never be a house or tent. It was also said that marriage is “the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert the unpainted stairs…” with these lines it can be inferred that marriage began on the very basic before it prosper and grow.
The line, “Marriage is not a house or even a tent. It is before that, and colder…” in the poem appeals to sense of touch where the word colder was being used to equate to the word marriage. In the beginning of a marriage, the couple seemed to be in an adjusting state or cold state. On the other hand, the second stanza of the poem, “the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert” appeals to sense of sight. It means that a couple seemed to be in the wilderness that nothing to depend on except them.
Lastly, the line “at the back where we squat outside, eating popcorn…” this line appeals to sense of taste. After all the shortcomings and problems that the couple had faced it’s the time for them to celebrate and be merry.
Yes, the poem successfully delivered the intended meaning with the devices that were used. The meaning of the poem was absolutely a process when you’ll enter marriage. Just like any relationships, a married couple also passed certain points in their life that tests their love and loyalty to each other. When entering marriage, nobody knows what will happen next. Will your marriage be successful or not? In the end, it was love that builds the couple. It was love that made their relationship stronger. If there is love between the two problems will never separate them.
2. The imagery lake, skates, saint, thin ice worked in the given poem as a comparison to the flow of a relationship. A relationship is not always calm like a lake and not like a skates that goes in a straight path. It also passed on certain problem that tests their relationship. The couple must learn to trust each other just like standing in a thin ice.
Bruce Marco R. Acosta
AS English 3 TTh 4-5:30pm
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
This poem talks about the perks of marriage, but rather it talks about the hardships when you are entering marriage. The poem uses imagery and symbolism so that we can really understand on what the author is trying to say. The author is talking about the home or tent, which means secured. It is because when talking about tents or houses, we can feel the safety of the structure. But the author says that it is before that. He is now talking about the edge of the forest. When we talk about forest, herein lies the unknown of what lies inside the forest. The author is trying to say that it is not all happy when entering marriage, you will face challenges that are unknown. The desert talks about an image where there nothing in front or in the back of you, this is now trying to say that only both the husband and wife will have to trust each other because no one will help them except for themselves. The fire in the last line talks about the passion and determination that the couple is trying to work out for themselves and will discover how will their fire glow their path as married couple.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
The imagery that the author is using in his poem really got me laughing because I read the poem twice just to understand the relevance of it to the poem. The author uses the frozen lake as a woman’s chest, it may be because the woman is hard to get, like the ice of the frozen lake. After the first two lines, the persona then begs for the love of his girl. In the last 3 lines of the poem, I find it very green because I would translate it that the man wants sexy time with the woman.
Cruan, Angelyn A.
ASENGL3
TTh 4:00-5:30
1. Margaret Atwood used simile and metaphor in her poem Habitation. The poem appeals to me through my following senses: sense of touch, sense of taste and sense of sight. It appeals to my sense of touch through the line “it is before that, and colder.” In this line through using the word colder as to describe the beginning of marriage. “The edge of the forest, the edge….unpainted stairs” appeals to my sense of sight, it emphasizes that since marriage begins in nothing the married couple are the one to put something or everything on that nothing. It appeals to my sense of taste through the line “we squat outside, eating popcorn,” this line stands for love.
Yes, the poem successfully delivered its intended meaning through the devices used. First, the poem stated that “marriage is not a house…before that, a colder.” It mean that marriage is not a fully build house it begins with nothing, it begins on the colder and coldest side of every relationship. Second, on the second paragraph, marriage start on the edge of every relationship and everything is unpainted and it is the task of the married people to give paint, to give colors to their unpainted story. Lastly, “where we squat outside, eating popcorn,” this line symbolizes, love. That no matter how difficult and no matter how everything seems so ugly and nothing, these two people inside that marriage should always never forget their love for each other. For this love they have will be their foundation to paint good and meaningful color on their canvas.
2. On the second poem, lake, skates, saint and thin ice these imageries symbolizes anything that is under love. Through these imageries, this poem talked sexual or romantic things in love for lake is being used to compare to a woman or girls’ bosom. Skates, saint and thin ice stands for love. That love is not just about happy thoughts and idea but also the ugly and worse one. That even where the side of life love will take us, we should never forget that love is always beautiful.
ONIDO LEOMAR
ASENGL3 TTh4:00-5:30
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The poem Habitation by Margaret Atwood, describes the core of espousement. And it utilizes metaphor in describing the core of love, which is the desideratum love and be doted back. Love is not instant, or expressed by some fanciful feelings that Mother Nature fills us with in her goal to have us procreate.
Love is something that comes long after that - something that must be forged by pain and sacrifice - compromise and acceptance.
Learning to make fire is to learn to knock the coldness from it. This poem also tells us that a marriage is not about where you live or where you are only if you're together. It is perceived that it is not easy to be in the bondage of marriage. It is a portrayal that marriage isn’t easy and is far from the simple act of putting on a ring and having a ceremony. And it is so hard to escape the responsibility.
Trying to “start a fire/make a fire” means trying to ignite a passion in a cold desolate marriage.Despite of the circumstances that life brought in,
Thus it uses metaphor because it compares two different objects like, a house or a tent is intertwined to the daily life of being a couple.
Yes, it gives a successful meaning in delivering the poem because it uses figure of speech that describes that married life is not an easy thing to enter in.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
The concepts of fire and ice carry with them deep connotations that, of themselves, prompt the recollection of the sensations they embody. This is due to the personal connection that is shared by the engenderment of these symbols, with fire and ice, frozen dihydrogen monoxide and hate. The poem is then applied to one’s everyday life, and is interpreted as an admonishment against vices of desire and detestation in day to day life. The language remains simple, but it is devastating, it is one thing to pull off an offhand remark about the terminus of days; it is another to make it poetry.
Consequently, by making fire and frozen dihydrogen monoxide a symbol, and coercing the reader to consider their application to the poem and it’s broader admonition, this admonishment is then applied to the reader’s own life, incrementing the efficacy and impact of the poem.
Name: Jehanne Joyce U. Calabio
Section: ASEnglish3
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
There is one figure of speech, or type of figurative language, going on in Margaret Atwood poem "Habitation". Since there is a lot of figure of speech in the field of literature. I would focus on the biggest and most important bit of figurative language that dominated on the poem.
Margaret Atwood mostly used the most common poetic figures of speech, the metaphors. “It is before that, and colder" makes the most use of metaphor. The first stanza introduces that marriage is not a house or even a tent. It means that marriage is not a tangible material. The poet used metaphor to compares two things that are not alike but finds something about them to make them alike. Like in the next six lines where love is compared with the edge of forest, desert, unpainted stairs and the reading glacier. Margaret Atwood explains in the poem that marriage was meaningless. It also said in the poem that “the unpainted stairs at the back where we squat outside, eating popcorn” was like the sweetness on how teenagers having date. The poet used “where painfully and with wonder” which means that marriage is not always happy and without any reason it could really hurt you. And yet even if they it encounters a lot of problem it still cannot be stop because as it said in the poem that “at having survived even this far” and yet “we are learning to make fire”. In the last word of the poem “fire” was the highlight it means that not literary fire but it symbolizes love. If you try to observe the bonfire, the fire was so amazing but when you touch it, it hurts you. Just like marriage, it feels so wonderful to have that commitment but it has a lot of limitation so that you will not burn. Through this ideas the poet successfully delivered its intended meaning of marriage.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, and thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
In the poem’s first stanza, the speaker directly addresses the woman’s body “Her bosom’s like a frozen lake” the lake symbolizes stable but it is somehow risky and he used it as metaphor to the woman’s bosom that the narrator addressed. “Oh, buckle on my spirit’s skates” in this line it is very express the willingness of the man to do something with the woman. It is very obvious that the poem stated an erotic statement in a connection of love.
In the second stanza, the tone suddenly becomes gentler as he states about loving “saint” so the woman was acknowledged as holy and typically regarded to love the man purely. The man wanted to be taken somewhere “To where the ice is thin” and to make love.
Anasario, Kiezl Grace H.
ASEnglish3 (TTh 4:00-5:30pm)
1. HABITATION
By: Margaret Atwood
The poem of Margaret Atwood entitled "Habitation" uses one of the figures of speech named Metaphor. Metaphor is an object, activity, or idea that is used as a symbol of something else (Merriam-Webster,2010). The author used imagery like the house, tents, forest and the likes to represent the thing called marriage, because of the use of such imagery inside the poem it created a great impact to the readers analytical thinking since the author uses a very aesthetical words in the poem. The poem appeals to the readers as well through its meaning, for the poem gave such knowledge about the marriage saying that the life after and before marriage has a lot of things to consider with and somehow a lesson. A lesson saying that marriage is not just a matter of a game and a sort of a joke, once you decide about this you are obliged to accept the consequences of marriage waiting ahead.
The author delivered the message of the poem very well, yes, she's successful in doing so. Why? First, if we dig deeper on our understandings towards the poem or if we use our ability in connotation, on the first and second line of the poem the author provided a thesis statement saying that marriage is not easy. Consequently on the further lines of the poem the author then provided the reasons why so and showed some situations might happen ahead after and before marriage and then the last part would be the recommendations or an advise. Lastly the poem was also successfully delivered because the author repeated a word specifically the word "edge" which basically made the situation she showed contained a great impact to the readers for she explained and showcased a more deeper and massive ideas and examples on the situations inside a marriage.
2. The poem used the following images inside the poem function well. On my own interpretation the poem is actually telling about a boy begging for a girl's heart. Basically on the first line of the poem it shows that the girl has a heart of stone which was compared by a frozen lake, a lake, since most of us know that the water on the lake does not flow so if we analyze it more further the girl in this poem doesn't want to offer a love to anyone. On the third line of the poem where the second imagery occur shows that the boy totally begs for the girl's love shown by a skate. The skate here is the boy's feelings or his love towards the girl. He's actually telling the girl to trust (buckle) him and swear he'll never let go. Next is the saint, the saint here probably would be God, the boy is actually praying that God will help him in getting the heart of the girl and that is to find the weakness of the girl represented by the thin ice. So that if God will grant his wishes or prayers, the girl will definitely let him in into her heart then.
Reference:
Reifel, A. (2012). English 210 Blog; Habitation by Margaret Atwood. Retrieved from http://reifelenglish.blogspot.com on Nov.15, 2015
Junio, Carradine M.
AS ENGLISH3
TTh 4:00-5:30 PM
1. The figure of speech on the poem Habitation, Margaret Atwood usedsimile and metaphor. The poem appeals to me by using the sense of sight for the line “Marriage is not a house or even a tent….edge of the forest, the edge of the desert the unpainted stairs”, sense of touch for the line “it is before that, and colder”, and for the sense of taste for the line “outside, eating popcorn”. I think this further illustrates the idea that a marriage is written from the ground up.
Yes, the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning through the devices used. The device Atwood uses in the poem is repetition of the word “edge”.She uses the word three times, first was the edge of a forest, then the edge of a desert, and lastly the edge of a receding glacier. The three different places could be where a relationship is headed. I think Margaret Atwood is stating that couples may not know what they are getting themselves into when they agree to marry. At the edge of a desert, couples could be heading into a life-threatening situation, and Atwood is saying that the basis marriage is very difficult to keep alive. The edge of a receding glacier could mean that couples might feel like they are trapped with nowhere to go but down, and will drown themselves trying so hard to make a relationship work. The repetition of the word edge may also mean that the happiness in a marriage is always on the edge.Atwood’s poem uses these devices and shows that marriage needs to be built from the ground up, the basis being love.
2. The imagery lake, skates, saint, thin ice works in the following love poem greatly links and undermines the flow of a relationship.These imageries are more like a stark contrast to the harsh reality showing that the boundaries of love are not concealed and produced by objects, more indeed love.
Dela Cerna, Queenie B. ASENGL3 TTH 4-5:30
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The poem habitation by Margaret Atwood talks about how marriage life is. In her poem, she discusses that marriage life is not easy. She uses metaphor as the figure of speech in her poem. She even compared marriage that it is not like a house or even a tent, which appeals to me that marriage life, is not a game anymore. It is ore serious than other relationships. Moreover, marriage life is not all about happiness, but also trials and sadness, which will make your relationship, grow and become stronger. Yes, because it appeals a lot when the author used metaphor in delivering the poem because the author made the readers think on what really the author means about her poem and it became more interesting to read.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, and thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
The imagery lake, skates, saint, thin ice are things that was under love. These things represent different meaning than how it had stated in the poem. The lake means the cold love of the person towards other. The skates seemed to be the courage to go along the way and continue the journey. The saint seems to be the fate and the thin ice maybe the person who started to overcome about the past and face the present with a new beginning.
EMBERGA, Gerald A.
ASENGL-3 TTh 4-5:30pm
Understanding Poetry
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
This lyric discusses the advantages of marriage, but instead it discusses the hardships when you are entering marriage. The lyric uses symbolism and imagery so we can truly comprehend on what the creator is attempting to say. The creator is discussing the home or tent, which means secured. It is on the grounds that when discussing tents or houses, we can feel the security of the structure. Be that as it may, the creator says that it is before that. He is presently discussing the edge of the woodland. When we discuss woods, in this falsehoods the obscure of what lies inside the backwoods. The creator is attempting to say that it is not all upbeat when entering marriage, you will face challenges that are obscure. The desert discusses a picture where there nothing in front or in the back of you, this is presently attempting to say that just both the spouse and wife will need to believe one another in light of the fact that nobody will help them aside from themselves. The fire in the last line discusses the energy and determination that the couple is attempting to work out for themselves and will find by what means will their fire sparkle their way as wedded associate.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
The symbolism lake, skates, holy person, slender ice worked in the given sonnet as a correlation to the stream of a relationship. A relationship is not generally quiet like a lake and not care for a skates that goes in a straight way. It likewise breezed through on certain issue that tests their relationship. The couple must figure out how to believe one another simply like remaining in a flimsy ice.
Pahunang, Chantal Dominique
ASENGL-3
Understanding Poetry (TTH 4-5:30 PM)
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The figure of speech used by the poet is the metaphor of habitation or where one resides to describe marriage. She describes that marriage is unstable like an “edge” of a desert before you can call it a well-founded. One thing I know about the first year of marriage is often full of close-quarters to cupidity. There’s a fact that a number of couples in healthy, long-term marriages who still fight the urge to love stupidly. The core is love and love is all you need. There should be a strong foundation between the couple so they can survive any obstacles that may come along the way and stay steady in what you called home. In the lines “Marriage is not a house or even a tent it is before that, and colder:” is the sense of touch. In the lines, “the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert the unpainted stairs” appeals the sense of sight. The poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because she already stated marriage at the line; it is up to the readers to comprehend what she really means about marriage.
2 How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
The use of the imagery of lake, skates, saint and thin ice is kind of luring in the mind. In my own interpretation, it talks about how a man assume they have the same needs, motivations, and desires, so love should be easy. The idea of what the opposite sex is thinking unravels right in front of him.
RENTUTAR, Reyjan
ASENGL-3 TTH 4-5:30pm
UNDERSTANDING POETRY
1.) Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, why? If no, why?
The ballads "Habitation" is comprise of imagery and allegory. The sonnet effectively conveyed its proposed meaning as a result of the utilized symbolism. It shows unique pictures and images to perceive the genuine importance of marriage. There are great deal of images abandon, woods and flame which contains feeling of sight. Clearly, when you get up to speed about house, you can envision a structure normally comprise of men and ladies. This implies marriage is not just in light of physical things. The timberland in the ballad says that marriage is similar to you are in the edge of the backwoods, you don't know where to go, you have far to experience and you will experience issues toward you. The desert clearly contains a picture of a spot with no precipitation and plants. This picture says that marriage is difficult. It contains trials and difficulties in their relationship and they must overcome it. The backwoods and desert symbolize the hardships of marriage. The flame in the ballad implies energy and adoration. It symbolizes friendship in both sides. The sonnet lets us know that adoration is essential establishment of an effective marriage. Despite the way that the couple will encounter challenges and issues, if warmth arrives, they can overcome it.
2.) How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following, love poem, published early this century?
The artistic piece is kind of a sensual ballad in which handles about love both side of a man and lady. As what I read the sonnet, Forest symbolized the bosom of a lady who depicted by the persona. Skate’s Implies satisfaction and delight of the persona while grasping the lady. Holy person demonstrates how the persona cherished the lady. What's more, thin ice which Implies, the enthusiasm of their adoration to one another. Additionally, it demonstrate that the persona and the lady making sexual action.
Mary Bhel B. Ibias
ASENGL3 (TTh 4:00-5:30pm)
UNDERSTANDING POETRY
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The habitation that is written by Atwood shows the development of relationship in marriage. The figure of speech used by the poet is a metaphor that illustrates similar meanings. It still happens in a relationship most of a married couple. Atwood's uses many aesthetic devices in the poem that shows marriage built between two people. The images such as forest, desert, unpainted stairs, glacier, and fire are similar to the reality of marriage. It shows conditions that are still happening to the married couple.
The poem appeals to a relationship that has difficulties and consequences that can be face by the people in different situation. It refers to the things connotatively. Habitation describe that marriage is based only love but the idea of the images are part of the things that the relationship become stronger. That only means that there so many ways that the relationship has a struggle.
The poem successfully delivers its meaning by the use of aesthetic devices in different images in the poem. Marriage has many trials and challenges. The first part of the poem "a marriage is not a house or even a tent" one of devices used in the poem. It shows the reader that marriage is not just a place to live over a lifetime but rather to have something to depend on and make it stronger. Just like the building of fire in the poem that represents love to make the couple sustain a stronger relationship through marriage. Atwood also uses word edge that repeat three times in the poem, the edge of a forest, desert, and a receding glacier. These three different images are example of marriage that has so many consequences. There are boundaries that are hard to pass through in a difficult situation.
No matter how hard it is, always remember that there is love that conquers all including marriage. When there is love and passion in a relationship it will become easier to deal with the problem. Marriage is like between life and death there is always an edge, unsure to what the next thing to happen. Usually part of the problems they face is hard to imagine.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
The imagery of the lake, skates, saint, and thin ice on love poem work early this century. The person who is a man who has feelings on the girl, to manipulate its presence but there are times that the girl has no interest on him.
The lake stands an idea of the flowing water but in the poem frozen lake, her feelings had just stop and it cannot overcome. The use of these image shows that the boundaries of love links to its natural feelings. But the woman in the poem is hard to please, that she didn't even recognize the love he gave to her.
The skates represent a way to deliver his love to the girl. To take her and hold her whatever the consequences it may be, he always find it more interesting more than he could imagine. He is a saint that still waits on the girl to have. He is patient to wait even though she rejected him, but still he has a hope that the girl will loved him back. He wishes that he has a chance to be love, like thin ice that could break so that he can enter her heart.
Nowadays there are still people who actually waiting to be loved. But there are things that are not easily to get especially the love that you want to have. Same with the poem, the guy who takes effort on his love, but in the end he cannot get her attention. He may end up hurting himself and hard to mend his broken heart.
Another example is having a crush on someone but he/she didn't even know that you exist. It is hard to have feelings that cannot express freely. You just secretly hiding yourself on someone you dream to have.
Ampinos, Aiza G. TTH (4:00-5:30)
ASENGLISH 3
UNDERSTANDING POETRY
1.Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
* Margarette Atwood uses figures of speech in her poem Habitation which is metaphor. The comparison between two different things. As you go on reading the entire poem, you would only come up with its one main point and it is that marriage is learninv to make fire. Getting married and making fire are two different things. But in the poem the author make it interelated as she describes marriage as learning to set a bonfire not just for your own comfort but most specially the comfort of you love ones.
The poem appeals to my emotion of what marriage is really all about. That marriage is not just simply building a house or tent to be sheltered but marriage is making a habitation. A habitation where love lies. A habitation that will make the love go fonder as time goes by.
The poem was delivered sucsessfully with it's intended meaning by the used of figures of speech and images. Figures of speech makes the poem unique and interesting by giving the reader a task to work with their imagination. And the used of images. The vivid description of gives life to the poem.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century
Lake, skates, saint, and thin ice both works as a representation of love. That it is like a lake. Stagnant but not should be frozen. That it is a skates. Rolling, leading you to different direction. That it a saint. Sacred and holy and need to be praise. That it is a thin ice. Vulnerable at times and has the possibility of being shattered.
Janelyn Ardeña
ASENGL3(TTh:04:00-05:30)
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
-The poem “Habitation” uses metaphor. The author compared marriage into something that does not yet built or not yet stable. The author also compared marriage into the edge of forest, desert and receding glacier. The metaphor is used to give a clear meaning about marriage. According to the poem, marriage is not easy. Some people engaged into marriage without knowing what will happen next. People do not know that marriage is a very serious thing, once you get in you cannot get out easily. The author compared marriage into the edge of glacier because there is no easy way out, it makes couple drown.
-For me, the devices used are successful in delivering the poem’s meaning. The author uses devices to deliver the meaning of the poem successfully. For example, the used of repetition in the poem. The word “edge” is used three times; “the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert, the edge of the receding glacier”. The repetition of the word “edge” may suggests that marriage is not easy. Everyone should work with their spouse in order to be happy and to be together until the edge. Another device used in this poem is, the breaking of the poem. The first part of the poem is all about the metaphor of marriage. It tells that marriage is not easy. The first part introduced where the poem is going. The last part is composed of one line, “we are learning to make fire” which tells a reason on how marriage will survive and stay strong. The word “fire” in the poem may suggest something warm it also means passion or love. This poem emphasizes the core of marriage, it is love. Not only the idea of home or some physical things can bind a couple it also needs love. Therefore, love is very important to make the marriage stay strong because love is the foundation of marriage.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
-Imagery is an element of literature which commonly used in any literary piece. In this love poem the imagery; lake, skates, saint and thin ice were used in order to help the readers visualize and also sense the meaning of the poem clearly. To illustrate the imagery let’s begin with the lake. The lake in the poem was described as frozen. This word make the readers see and feel a frozen lake which means both hard and cold. Secondly, the skates, it let the readers see a skates which can be used to walk in the frozen place. The poem says “spirit’s skates” this means the inner part of a person. Thirdly, the saint, as we know it refers to a very good person or a person who do not have sin. The poem says a “loving saint”, it suggests to the mind of the readers about purity. Lastly, the “thin ice”, this makes the readers see and feel a breakable foundation. Thin ice is cold and slightly smooth but because it is thin someone can break it easily. The used of imagery in this love poem really helps the readers to see and feel the things that were happening in the poem. It helps also to create the meaning of the poem more vivid in the mind of the readers, that’s why images are very important in making a creative literary works.
YAPAC, SHYKHEN B. AS-English 3
Understanding Poetry 17 November 2015
1.) Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
Marriage
The Habitation by Margaret Atwood is a poem that talks about growing up in a relationship particularly in marriage. I think the poem deals with the strong use of metaphors. And yes, the figure of speech used is very essential in conveying the message. It compares the stages of marriage into living outside a house or a tent where the couple must deal with the cold environment. It means they have to start with nothing.
The first stage will let them live at the edge of the forest which means they have to protect each other because, as well all know, it is never safe to live in a forest where you have to compete with wild animals. Then, ”the edge of the desert”, tests the couple’s ability to keep their heads cool when they are already waterless and very exposed to the sun. In real life, they must lower down their prides to cool down arguments. “The unpainted stairs” I think is referring to each other’s foul attitude. We all have this certain insolence that many people would never understand. As couples tied in the sanctity of marriage, they have to accept each other’s flaws, rudeness and even obscenity because when you marry each other, you marry everything in that person, be it ugliness and worsts behavior.
The bottom part of poem says that a strong marriage is something that even taciturn glaciers cannot kill the fire that they made together. Thus, the poem is comparing obstacles or hindrances in marriage with climate. That every couple must deal and adapt with all the varying weather and overcome it together without losing the other, only when they are finally able to do that, they you say that they have begun to evolve as a truly successful couple.
2.) How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
I think the poem is talking about courtship. The frozen lake, thin ice, skates, and saint describes the girl. I think the girl is just so hard to get and she’s not interested with the boy making her appear cold as ice and heartless, thus giving the boy a really hard time. The boy there stumbles upon his feet just to get the girl’s “yes”. (That’s how I understand the poem.)
Bangad, Nikki F.
ASENGL3
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The figures of speech that I had found in the poem is the Metaphor. Metaphor define as a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. Metaphor because it compares marriage to the edge of the forest, desert, receding glacier and the unpainted stairs which is obviously different from each other. The poem appeals kind of sad, maybe because of the line “marriage is not a house or even a tent, it is before that, and colder”. For me the poem failed to deliver its meaning because it is too vague. I don’t know what the edge of the forest, desert, receding glacier, unpainted stairs and marriage shares in common, maybe because I don’t know what marriage is all about or maybe my perception of marriage is a home full of love and security. I don’t know what it feels to be married. I know I can see marriage in my parents but it is way different when you experience it and also I have not been in a lovers kind of relationship, so I don’t really have any idea what it feels like with someone and much more in marriage. People also have different perception of marriage because with have different culture. Like in the Philippines, marriage is a sacred thing so we Filipinos really value marriage compared to the States where divorce is legal which makes the value of marriage weak. I assumed that the author live in a country where marriage is not being taken seriously because of the poet defines marriage as “marriage is not a house or even a tent, it is before that, and colder”.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
The lake well represented the girls’ heart in the poem. The girls’ heart is wide and deep just like a lake. Wide because it has a lot of thoughts and feelings in her heart and the meaning behind it are deep. The skates simply represented the boys’ courage to enter and capture the girls’ heart. The saint clearly represented the boys’ faith that he knows that through his prayers and guts, it will lead him to the girls’ heart. Then the thin ice plainly represented the girls’ weak spot that the boy must discover, so that he can melt that frozen lake and capture the heart of the woman he love.
Martillan, Marichu Jane
ABENGL-3 TTH 4:00-5:30pm
UNDERSTANDING POETRY
1.) Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The poem "Habitation" consisting of imaginary and allegory because it comprise the characters and event which are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or historical situation. The poem effectively conveyed its purposed meaning as a result of utilized symbolism because it’s comprised of images and picture that can capture out in your mind. The symbols represented in the poem may consist of deferent meaning about marriage. When you say about marriage couple in a house it contain of men and ladies. This implies that marriage is not just a light of physical things but also in what two people feel towards there selves. The poem also perceives genuine important of marriage but you cannot escape the challenges possible to encounter. The forest and dessert symbolize the hardship of marriage, but no matter how difficult it is they must overcome it. In last stanza in the poem talks about how the couples overcome the situation no matter how hard it is, they stick together and despite of all the challenges and issues they encounter, if warmth arrives, they can overcome it.
2.) How well you do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
The poem can relay to us how love can delight our feelings towards someone. As I read the poem, which handles about love both side of a men and a lady. The lake implies the bosom of the lady who indicated by the persona. A skate implies arousing feelings or satisfaction of the persona towards the lady. Saint demonstrates how the persona cherish the lady. The thin ice demonstrates how the persona having strong excitement, a strong feelings of active interest towards the lady. For my further understanding about the poem the persona and the lady is having something sexual action.
Tanginan, Glycel L. TTH (4:00-5:30)
ASENGLISH 3
UNDERSTANDING POETRY
1.Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The poem by Margaret Atwood entitled "Habitation" uses metaphor. As far as I've remembered in our phil.lit and world lit class, metaphor is a figure of speech which compares two things that are not alike but it finds something about them to make them alike or have in common.From the title itself "habitation", I had think of habitat or a place to live in. As I go through the poem, I think that it is about marriage, how it works, and its essence. "Marriage" in the poem is compared to a house or a tent. It was stated in the poem that marriage is not a house or even a tent. In my own understanding,marriage is not a house or a tent because marriage is a commitment to someone you love. The main ingredient of marriage is love and the essence of marriage is commitment to one another. It is not a house because a house may break or collapsed if it has a weak foundation whereas marriage have to had a strong foundation because it is a lifetime commitment. You have to think carefully before you engage into a marriage thing. It is not a hot food that you will spit out from your mouth because once you get in, you cannot easily get out. The edge of the forest, the edge of the desert, the unpainted stairs may indicate problems, struggles, or challenges in marriage.Marriage is a serious thing. There are ups and downs in marriage. It might made you feel an extreme happiness but it can bring you down sometimes when there are challenges for both of you. You will be hurt, you might feel that you are carrying the whole world but all of those heartaches and struggles will be overcome if you have a great foundation of love. You will wonder how you had survived from those obstacles but after then you will realized that you have to keep the fire burning. We are learning to make fire means that you are learning from those challenges you both have encountered in your married life. You are learning or you will learn how to keep your longer lasting passion of love for each other. Obviously, for me, the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the device used because it helps the reader to think of things or a thing which is related to the poem. It enhances the reader's mind in analyzing the poem.
2.) How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
The imagery in the poem is really symbolic. When I had my first reading of the lines in the poem, it is slightly hard to figure out what was really the poem means. I had read it several times then I analyzed something.The poem is about a boy and a girl. The girl in the poem is apathy while the boy is hoping for a chance of love by the girl. The boy is hopeless romantic while the girl is stone-hearted. The lake represents an infinite love, the skates represents the boy's love for the girl, the saint represents God because the boy is asking for guidance on how to win the girl's heart, and lastly the thin ice represents a weakness of the girl to have a chance of love. He maybe really loves the girl that he wanted to exert an effort just to win the girl's heart.
Hazel V. Nipalar
ASENGL3
Understanding Poetry
TTh (4:00-5:30)
Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The poem of Margaret Atwood entitled “Habitation” when the word habitation means the act of living in a certain place or a place where someone lives and she talked about marriage and these two words coined together to form a pair of couple. The marriage life is full of challenging aspects that molds them to fight against the odds in life because marriage is not about physical adornment for you to settle in that corner in life because you can go further to explore more adventures of life because life can give you its highest point when you done everything so much when love works together to understand each other. Marriage is the highest point of interest because it takes a long time for you to build a solid foundation to keep the couple strong.
The poem is rich in metaphor because the poet uses different representation of things in the field of marriage. First, she used the edge of the forest, because in life marriage is full of challenging aspects through the darkness because of odds. Edge of forest may stand as the point of beginning of the darkness side of marriage and they walk a long in the path of struggles. Second, she used also the edge of desert it seems that marriage is full of emptiness because desert is an area of empty or dry land without water and without vegetation and from these the couple may went to a corner or an area of their life which nothing could be taken because it is empty there is no life that surrounds the corner of marriage. Desert may stand as the emptiness side of marriage that the couple may went through to the side of unknowing the real purpose of marriage. Marriage is composed of communication and understanding that the water and vegetation may represent. These two elements must work together in order to form a functional relationship. Lastly, the edge of glacier and glacier means a very large area of ice. The couple may went through the side of coldness that they may feel like drowning and trapped from the threatening situations of life. Glacier is a substance for the couple to overcome for the relationship to work. They need to work together to overcome the portend that hindrances the relationship to work out. The life of marriage is not a ground for you to play but instead it is a core for you to build the long lasting relationship with your partner making fire to become more alive showing that love is from the ground for you to up.
Yes, the poem is successful in delivering the intended meaning because of the used of the devices. The poet is very creative in dwelling the devices that she used as if she is playing the words unto the gestures of understanding in the mind of the readers. The readers could actually comprehend the deeper meaning because the used of the devices. The author used the reality of marriage to express her feelings towards her readers.
How well you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, and thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
Lake – the lake embodies the long lasting and mysterious in life. The frozen lake may describe by the man of his love that never ends towards the girl he loves.
Skates – the skates symbolizes the man’s infinite happiness that suggest attachment from the girl to him.
Saint – A saint represent that something blesses him the way he feels the moment on his life.
Thin ice – thin ice may symbolizes a small distance that attached a solid piece of foundation.
Laguardia, Mia Raquel Q. ASENGL
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
The author used anaphora cited in the line “the edge of the forest, the edge
Of the desert”. The words “the edge” is repeated thrice which indicate that the author might be trying to make an impression. The three places could mean a relationship that might take place or headed. Aside from that, the author also used metaphor most of the time in the story to impart what really marriage is.
The poem appeals to me as something that is informative because the author tries to make the readers understand that marriage is not an easy thing. It needs to be build. In its ups and down and no matter where it is headed what really matters is the love and passion of the couple to make their marriage work.
The poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning through the devices used. Like for example, the used of metaphor which made the thought of the poem clearer and the repetition of the word “the edge” which indicates that the author is trying to make a point.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
Lake may mean the heart of the girl that is pure and as white as the frozen lake.
Skates might symbolizes the feeling for the boy towards the girl and his guts to approach the girl that he like.
Saint might indicate guidance for the boy’s affection to the girl to make a part on the girl’s heart.
Thin ice may mean as the chance for the boy to the girl that is so little thus comparing it to the thin ice.
The imagery worked together in order to deliver the boy’s affection to the girl in such a meaningful way.
Breeny Jean A. Bayta
AS ENGLISH III
Understanding Poetry
1. Identify and evaluate the figures of speech used by the poet in the poem that follows. Discuss how the poem appeals? Do you think the poem is successful in delivering its intended meaning because of the devices used? If yes, how? If no, why?
a. The figures of speech that the author use d was metaphor.
b. The poem is nice because it talks about marriage, even though I’m not yet married but this poem described what would it be like when you were married. The author said that in marriage you need to have a strong foundation and I also learned that you are taking risks when you enter marriage because you already have a big responsibility in everything.
c. Yes, by using different kinds of tangible things that would symbolize marriage. In this
Poem the readers understand easily what was the author want to tell the readers about marriage. Even though there are problems that the couple was facing but still they are learning to fix their marriage even how hard it is. The only thing that will create a strong marriage is love and respect towards each others.
2. How well do you think the imagery (lake, skates, saint, and thin ice) works in the following love poem, published early this century?
a. Lake, this image works well in the poem because lake does not stop on flowing until it reaches the sea. Just like love it does not stop on spreading until everyone feels that they are loved by their family, friends and most especially God.
b. Skates, when we heard the word skates first word that comes in our mind is balancing. It also works well in the poem because when you give love to someone you need to balance it. Balance in a sense that you will not be going to fall or slide or out-balanced because you give too much love. You need someone to willingly take your hand whenever you fall.
c. Saints, saints are the believer of God. In love you need to be spiritually ready for you to be guided in a right path, in a right person to love because when the Saints follow Jesus they did not went to the wrong path. Fate and Faith brings you to the unexpected person to love.
d. Thin ice, it also works well in the poem because in thin ice when you already step on it you are taking risks because there is a big possibility that it would break. Just like love when you give out your love to someone you are already taking risks because you do not know if they will love you back.
Verdadero, Cristel Joy B. ASENGL3
Understanding Poetry Assignment
The most obvious figure of speech present in the poem is metaphor. The speaker is talking about marriage being similar to what we have in the past, when human beings were just starting to make what we have now. That time when they were discovering things such as fire. There's also the hint of allegory, it stretches the metaphor into a long context and giving the words more meaning compare to what a metaphor could have done. With these figures of speech, the poem became more imaginative. The poem appeals that marriage is not just home, or to be in a home. Marriage is being in the beginning again, it is starting a new. The couple that is sealed with marriage will have to discover everything to have everything. These poem is truly illustrating what is "marriage", about couples starting all over again, in happiness or in pain, in the end they will both discover new things with each other. And the author successfully delivers the message, with the help of figures of speech. The few metaphors that help delivering the poem are the "house" and "tent" representing "shelter" or "home", and "fire" representing "new things" or "family".
The imagery in the poem is perfect symbols for the message of the speaker, which is a lover or wants to be a lover, to take his love for her and make him her lover. The "frozen lake" represents the "chest", which is a barrier for him to her heart. The "skates" is the instrument for him to glide into her heart. The "saint" is his "help", and the "thin ice" is something, sort of "way" or "path" into him having her "yes". With all these imageries, it complements the speaker's intention really well.
Anasario , Kiezlm Grace H.
AB-ENGLISH3
Thesis statement:
1. Significance of Taylor Swifts’ life experiences for her own written songs.
2. Influences of Taylor Swifts’ lovelife on her songs
3. The transition of Taylor Swifts’ music: from country to pop genre
Mangitngit, Stefanemy S.
AB-ENGLISH3
Thesis statement:
1. Francis Magalona is the most popular music icon.
2. Francis Magalona influenced the Filipino rap music.
3. Francis Magalona’s deep faith in the Filipino and his sense of Nationalism continues to inspire through his artistic skills and rap music.
YAPAC, SHYKHEN B.
AS-English 3
Thesis Statements:
1. Avril Lavigne's music teaches lesson to the listeners.
2. Avril Lavigne teaches to live your life like it's your last through her songs.
3. Avril Lavigne's music embodies the listener's tale of brokenness and heartaches.
Marichu Jane Martillan
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