english 44 final poetry analyses

There is a saying about virtue:
She nestles in rough untroden rocks
And reigns a divine, sacred land.
Not all mortals can see her.
Only those,
whose burning desire in their heart
leads them to the greatest deeds
http://homoecumenicus.com/ioannidis_ancient_greek_texts.htm


This is your application of the tenets of poetry you have learned in our class discussion. On your blue book, you are to do the following tasks:

1. Analyze the sounds of the poem

Greek Poetry
SOLON
2. discuss what makes the following poems pleasurable:
A. Chinese poetry
Outside the Eastern Gate

Green Mountain Perch

B. Japanese Poetry
Lady Sanuki

C. Korean Poetry
SIJO
beneath wisteria clusters, hidden, I wait in purple.
perfumed by petals, these longings rise, twine, intertwine and rise...
rise to break apart among clouds...silently break among clouds.

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3. Pick at least three (3) images from each of the poems that follow and discuss their function in the poems.
A. English Poetry
Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins

B. The Scot Poetry
Poets Need Not


C. American poetry
The Chambered Nautilus


4. Pick at least five lines that uses figures of Speech from the following poems and discuss your classification in two-three simple sentences:
A. African Poetry
sorrows of eve

B. French Poetry
A Strange Poem

5. Analyze comprehensively the following poem using all the elements of poetry. Do not forget to show your supporting proofs in the analysis.
Bisong

Kalayo


*** these poems are all linked without consent yet

Submit your blue book Monday after the final exams week, that is MARCH 14, 2011 at &o'clock A.M. in the office.

Enjoy!!!
Have a great summer holiday ahead!