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Winter Poems

Winter Poems. PERSONIFICATION. Giving an inanimate object or abstract idea the qualities of a living being. The wind was a prowling tiger The telephone bleated angrily Merrily dodging through the traffic, the VW Beetle pottered back home. Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Winter Poems

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  1. Winter Poems

  2. PERSONIFICATION • Giving an inanimate object or abstract idea the qualities of a living being. • The wind was a prowling tiger • The telephone bleated angrily • Merrily dodging through the traffic, the VW Beetle pottered back home.

  3. Winter-Timeby Robert Louis Stevenson • Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, A blood-red orange, sets again. Before the stars have left the skies, At morning in the dark I rise; And shivering in my nakedness, By the cold candle, bathe and dress. Close by the jolly fire I sit To warm my frozen bones a bit; Or with a reindeer-sled, explore The colder countries round the door. When to go out, my nurse doth wrap Me in my comforter and cap; The cold wind burns my face, and blows Its frosty pepper up my nose. Black are my steps on silver sod; Thick blows my frosty breath abroad; And tree and house, and hill and lake, Are frosted like a wedding cake.

  4. Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, A blood-red orange, sets again. Before the stars have left the skies, At morning in the dark I rise; And shivering in my nakedness, By the cold candle, bathe and dress. 

  5. Close by the jolly fire I sit To warm my frozen bones a bit; Or with a reindeer-sled, explore The colder countries round the door. When to go out, my nurse doth wrap Me in my comforter and cap; The cold wind burns my face, and blows Its frosty pepper up my nose. 

  6. Black are my steps on silver sod; Thick blows my frosty breath abroad; And tree and house, and hill and lake, Are frosted like a wedding cake.

  7. Winter-Timeby Robert Louis Stevenson • Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, A blood-red orange, sets again. Before the stars have left the skies, At morning in the dark I rise; And shivering in my nakedness, By the cold candle, bathe and dress. Close by the jolly fire I sit To warm my frozen bones a bit; Or with a reindeer-sled, explore The colder countries round the door. When to go out, my nurse doth wrap Me in my comforter and cap; The cold wind burns my face, and blows Its frosty pepper up my nose. Black are my steps on silver sod; Thick blows my frosty breath abroad; And tree and house, and hill and lake, Are frosted like a wedding cake.

  8. What is personified here? • The sun • “A frosty, fiery sleepyhead” • The fire “jolly” • The wind • “ blows • Its frosty pepper up my nose.”

  9. What are they personified as? • The sun is…… • A lazy person • The wind is ….. • A joker, or a cook

  10. Other Techniques • Rhyme • Rhythm • Alliteration • Assonance • Repetition • Simile • Metaphor

  11. In Verse One, find rhyme and alliteration: • Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, A blood-red orange, sets again. 

  12. In verse three find assonance: • Close by the jolly fire I sit To warm my frozen bones a bit; Or with a reindeer-sled, explore The colder countries round the door. 

  13. In verse five, find repetition and simile • Black are my steps on silver sod; Thick blows my frosty breath abroad; And tree and house, and hill and lake, Are frosted like a wedding cake.

  14. What could YOU personify winter as? • Jack Frost • An old woman • A polar bear • A fox • A queen • ?????

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