Ben and Sammy's Tp-castt project

1. The poem we did is called “flakes of the light falling (plague poem)” by Karen Press Ben and Sammy's Tp-castt project

2. The poem approximately and here also one in four vanishing even as we speak- lightly and without technique they are dying slowly and beyond the duration of love good citizens of a good country, dying modestly embrace of the infected is a national project Rejection the prerogative of the intimate circle metaphors of love crack open, out of their varnished shells people emerge, dying Howling is not possible where children sleep and their mothers, dying blossoms of blue light inside the cloudbursts of men’s love very close to the ground children and their mothers and then also their fathers die here in the way of poor people, struggling for small dignities and the simplest food astonished softly over and over I touch my lips to each death approximately and here also on in four vanishing- how many little pallbearers for one coffin? to wrap your father in a sheet takes days and days tangling yourself in the web of bones who will bury him if you don’t? you saw helplessly at the tree all night my little makes a vastly solemn noise like a child treading the long dark passage in her grandfather’s shoes among blades of grass against crumbled walls let cows offer their udders to the babies lying upturned, helpless as beetles metaphors of love crack open suddenly one day you will hear how silently the black sky blazes how wildly the empty street is searching for a footstep we are ending, we are ending flakes of the light falling away

3. “flakes of light falling” hmmm… What comes to mind is: depressing, like the world is dying, like she’s trying to describe the hope in her life leaving… What comes to you? T- title

4. It seems as though “flakes of the light falling” is describing how one in four people die from this ‘infection’, which to us is better known as AIDS. She’s speaking about how even through all this death there is love, and families. But also pointing out the people dying. Just dying not like whisking away peacefully in their sleep, horrible painful deaths. She’s describing the sad helplessness of every survivor watching sadly as all they know, and all they love fall away from them. She feels as though the life in this area is fading and like we’d predicted that hope is leaving the picture. Pandora’s box, just without a promising light keeping us from giving up. P- paraphrase

5. “lying upturned, helpless as beetles” – From a position on it’s back a beetle is completely immobile leaving it unable to protect itself “all night my little clock makes a vastly solemn noise like a child treading the long dark passage in her grandfather’s shoes” – Just imagine the echoing footsteps through the dark hall, all threatening and tedious. She’s describing the noise of her clock like this. C- connotation

6. A- Attitude Speaker’s Attitude Somebody who’s seemed to have given up. The person seems to feel as though there’s no help left, and they’re trying to get you to understand that. Poet’s Attitude We believe that the speaker’s and the poet’s attitude is very much the same.

7. As the poem begins the speaker is solemn and depressed, describing the many people that die. That good people from a respectable country that doesn’t deserve a punishment of this force. Then it seems like the mood changes slightly as the speaker begins to describe the feeling of caring for your helpless loved ones as they slowly begin to leave as well. Lastly it seems to go to a mood that all hope is lost for saving the speaker, and as your reading this passage you’ll be affected by it. S- Shifts

8. The titles meaning has taken on a slight change from when we first looked at it. Ben - “flakes of light falling” seems like as the person is dying in such a horrible way, that as “flakes of light falling” is like from the “light at the end of the tunnel” is dying away and falling from the sky Sam – Truthfully I don’t believe that the meaning has changed at all. I’d assumed that this had something to do with a loss of hope and moral and I believe still that is what it is meant as. T- Title (again)

9. T- Theme We believe the theme to be: That some horrible things happen to even the most modest people, and that no one can escape the inevitable (death), but that we should at the very least try to protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our friends so that life can go on. You can still hold onto the hope that life will be easier for them.