'Second stanza' presentation slideshows

Cavaliers and Metaphysical Poets

Cavaliers and Metaphysical Poets. The Jacobean Period and the Commonwealth. The Later Cavaliers. A group of young men loyal of the king Poetry characterized by great wit and intended to entertain the audience Conversational style Elaborate conceits

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The Second Coming

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Death of a Naturalist

Death of a Naturalist. by Seamus Heaney. Themes/ideas Nature Growing up Military imagery First person monologue. Key Terms: Onomatopoeia Personification Simile Metaphor Blank Verse. The poem. Death of a Naturalist. All year the flax-dam festered in the heart

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Writing a free verse poem

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Mirror by Sylvia Plath

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Procne and Philomela

Procne and Philomela. Detail of attic red-figure kylix depicting Philomela, Procne and Itys. Elizabeth Gardener Bourgureau 1837-1932. Tereus King of Thrace Wed to Procne Rapes Her Sister Philomela.

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Fable for Blackboard

Fable for Blackboard. By: George Starbuck. Fable for Blackboard. Here is the grackle, people. Here is the fox, folks. The grackle sits in the bracken. The fox 4 hopes. Here are the fronds, friends, that cover the fox. The fronds get in a frenzy. The grackle 8 looks.

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The Journey of the Magi

The Journey of the Magi . T S Eliot. Trence Blevins Mrs Johnson D2.

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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time. By: Ali Miskinis , Nicole Ehrhardt , and Allie Gaye . Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,

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The Arrow and the Song

The Arrow and the Song. Jonathan Lewis. The Arrow and the Song By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air,

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Corn Maze

Corn Maze. By: David Barber. Structure. It has 5 stanzas. It has 25 lines. Each stanza has 5 lines. It has end rhyme. . First Stanza . Here is where You can get nowhere Faster than ever As you go under Deeper and deeper . Second Stanza. In the fertile smother Of another acre

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Mid-Term Break By Seamus Heaney

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Seafarer

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Arms a nd the Boy

Arms a nd the Boy. By Wilfred Owen. The Poem. Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood; Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash; And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh. Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-heads

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Gabriela Mistral

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A Birthday (1861)

A Birthday (1861). Christina Rossetti. 1. Read the poem through. Underline the sentence that tells you whose birthday the poet is celebrating. The poet is celebrating the birthday of her life (see line 15). What makes it a birthday. The fact that the poet has fallen in love.

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