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Group 6

Structure: 

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4 stanzas

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7 lines in each stanza

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Random structure of beats per line

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1st stanza is about darkness

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2-4TH stanzas are about silence and a
dream

 

Content:

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Speaker: A person 

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The individual is waking up from a dream

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The person’s attitude is somber and gloomy

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“Darkness” is being addressed. 

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In prose: The person is waking up from a dream
where he/she was walking on a cobblestone road. A bright light shines in the
person’s eyes. In the light he sees other people having light conversation “Talking
without speaking”, “Hearing without listening” 

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No one is discussing the real issues going on in
the world (written in the 1960’s about issues such as civil right movement,
racism, cold war, Vietnam etc.) 

Style: 

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Personifies darkness 

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Metaphor compares vision to a plant that leaves
its seeds

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Imagery 

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Alliteration

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Paradox “ people talking without speaking” “hearing
without listening” 

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Similie “ silence like a  cancer”

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Group 6

Structure: 

·        
4 stanzas

·        
7 lines in each stanza

·        
Random structure of beats per line

·        
1st stanza is about darkness

·        
2-4TH stanzas are about silence and a
dream

 

Content:

·        
Speaker: A person 

·        
The individual is waking up from a dream

·        
The person’s attitude is somber and gloomy

·        
“Darkness” is being addressed. 

·        
In prose: The person is waking up from a dream
where he/she was walking on a cobblestone road. A bright light shines in the
person’s eyes. In the light he sees other people having light conversation “Talking
without speaking”, “Hearing without listening” 

·        
No one is discussing the real issues going on in
the world (written in the 1960’s about issues such as civil right movement,
racism, cold war, Vietnam etc.) 

Style: 

·        
Personifies darkness 

·        
Metaphor compares vision to a plant that leaves
its seeds

·        
Imagery 

·        
Alliteration

·        
Paradox “ people talking without speaking” “hearing
without listening” 

·        
Similie “ silence like a  cancer”

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Content:

The speaker is a person describing his dream

“Left its seeds while I was sleeping” –his dream being planted in his head, dream is metaphorically growing

Structure:

4 stanzas

7 lines in each

Silence is 7 letters long

28 lines in total

Rhyme scheme in first 2 stanzas; A, A, B, B, C, C, D

As the poem goes on, it loses the rhyme scheme

Internal rhyme in the last stanza

Style:

Sound devices: rhyme, repetition

Musical poem

Similes, imagery, personification

Adds a dramatic feel to the poem

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Content:
-Man dreaming about societal issues
-Takes place in the past
-Busy city
-People Scared to speak against society
- Silence growing among people
- Everyone is too scared to

be individual
Structure:
- 4 stanza
- 7 lines
Style:
- Personification (darkness, my old friend ~line 1)
-Metaphor "left its seed..." ~line 4
- "Flash of neon light..." (Stanza 2, line 5)
- Imagery "Silent raindrops fell" (Stanza 4, line 5)

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Content:
-pregnant woman
-comparing pregnancy size to an elephant, a big house
-melon represents the belly, and the tendrils are the legs
-fruit= represents ovaries / womb
-timber is used in building, represents building a child
-loaf=baby, the loaf rising= baby growing
-money represents baby, shows how speaker values baby & sees it as worth more b/c she referred to herself as a “fat purse”
-“ a means, a stage, a cow in a calf” shows how she sees herself as a stage in the child’s life, calf= new, unfamiliar to motherhood
-green apples are sour, maybe regrets decision & feels anxious about baby
-the train’s destination is the baby’s birth, the train’s journey is pregnancy
-she’s already pregnant, can’t go back

Structure:
-9 lines (represents 9 months of pregnancy)
-each line has 9 syllables
-1st 5 lines are about excitement for a child
-6th line is showing how she values her child & sees them as worth more
-7-9th line shows regret, nervousness about pregnancy

Style:
-every line is a metaphor
-alliteration, “ cow in a calf”, “two tendrils”

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-first line is a metaphor for the speakers pregnancy
-she compares her self to a slowly moving huge object, through metaphors
Personification for giving inanimate objects to things like the melon
- The bread rising symbolizes that she is growing bigger throughout her pregnancy
-The speaker shows worry with her pregnancy in the last line

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Content:

-Speaker is self conscious of her size
-Comparing herself to huge things (elephant, house, yeast rising, etc)
-Negative thoughts/views on pregnancy

-"Boarded the train there's no getting off" Loss of control, at the mercy of another in her own body

- "Moneys new minted in this fat purse" new life growing in her fat stomach

- "I've eaten a bag of green apples" the sickness and bloated feeling involved with pregnancy, sour apples=her sour views towards being pregnant

Structure:

-1 stanza

-9 lines=9 months of pregnancy

- 9 syllables per line

- Each line describes her negative view on pregnancy

-No rhyme, closed structure

Style:

- Metaphors ex: "I'm a riddle in nine syllables"

- Imagery ex: "A melon strolling on two tendrils"

-Alliteration ex: "Money's new minted in this fat purse" Alliteration with "N" and "S".

-Symbol: "An elephant" only valuable for its ivory, ""Fat purse" valuable for the money it carries.

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9 lines
9 syllables
1 stanza
9 represents the growth in pregnancey

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The speaker is a women
Self conscious of body size

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