A Red, Red Rose

BY ROBERT BURNS

O my Luve is like a red, red rose

   That’s newly sprung in June;

O my Luve is like the melody

   That’s sweetly played in tune.

So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

   So deep in luve am I;

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

   Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

   And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;

I will love thee still, my dear,

   While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve!

   And fare thee weel awhile!

And I will come again, my luve,

   Though it were ten thousand mile.


Oral and Written activity- Presentation + Padlet

-Simile, for example: “O my Luve is like a red, red rose”.

-Metaphor: “O my Luve is like the melody,That’s sweetly played in tune”.

-Hyperbole: “Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,

 While the sands o’ life shall run”.

6-Symbols: The symbols used in the poetry is a Red Rose to talk about Love. .

Maria Luiza e Anthony Axel

John Hollander was born on October 28 in 1929 and died on August 17, 2013. His career as poet was more acknowledged for the works: Spectral Emanation, Powers of Thirteen And A Crackling of Thorns which was chosen for the Yalen series of Younger Poets.

This poem has the clear characteristic of having a shape that resembles a column broken in half, in Its composition the form of the poem creates a rhythm that dictates how this should be read. 

The theme revolving around this poem is dedicated to a man named William Arrowsmith, a classicist, academic, and translator - the poem takes the form of a broken column, It appears to either criticize or compliment the person the poem is directed to - by using the images of a broken and torn column who refuses to fall even after being damaged. (The theme could also include subjects such as "pride","self-esteem" and "self-respect")

There's a very prominent use of Image in the poem, from It's very own structure (the shape of a broken column) to the scenarios It creates on the text ("by piling up stone on baser stone…", "from springing green vide lawn and clusterings of acanthus…" and more) - Simile It's also present, principally when the context of the poem It's taken into consideration, that the things present in the poem are referring to Willian Arrowsmith.

-Symbols 

The column being broken symbolizes William Arrowsmith. Showing that even after the passage of time, this one person insists to keep living, and this action will result in an inevitable ruin. The shape of a column broken in half could also indicate the fact that William is old now, the history and magnificence that he one day possessed is just a part of his past, and now, he is fated to crumble and turn into a memory for the next generations. 

 “ For shame, deny that thou bear’st love to any, Who for thyself art so unprovident. Grant, if thou wilt, thou art belov’d of many, But that thou none lov’st is most evident; For thou art so possess’d with murderous hate That ’gainst thyself thou stick’st not to conspire, Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate Which to repair should be thy chief desire.   

• Main Characteristics:  It’s a shakespearean sonnet with a three Quatrains and a couple. In this sonnet there are words at the end of one line that rhyme with a word at the end of another line.                    

• Theme:  The author warns the young man for his egoism.                  

• Figurative Language:
- Hyperbole: “Grant, if thou wilt, thou art belov’d of many,”
-Litotes: “For thou art so possess’d with murderous hate”  “That ’gainst thyself thou stick’st not to conspire,” “Who for thyself art so unprovident.”
- Idiom: “Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate”        “Which to repair should be thy chief desire.”
• Symbolism:  The Hate.           

Gazing with silly sickness on that fool

You’ve given your love to, your adoring hands

Touch his so intimately that each understands,

I know, most hidden things; and when I know

Your holiest dreams yield to the stupid bow

Of his red lips, and that the empty grace

Of those strong legs and arms, that rosy face,

Has beaten your heart to such a flame of love,

That you have given him every touch and move,

Wrinkle and secret of you, all your life,

—Oh! then I know I’m waiting, lover-wife,

For the great time when love is at a close,

And all its fruit’s to watch the thickening nose

And sweaty neck and dulling face and eye,

That are yours, and you, most surely, till you die!

Day after day you’ll sit with him and note

The greasier tie, the dingy wrinkling coat;

As prettiness turns to pomp, and strength to fat,

And love, love, love to habit!

                                                     And after that,

When all that’s fine in man is at an end,

And you, that loved young life and clean, must tend

A foul sick fumbling dribbling body and old,

When his rare lips hang flabby and can’t hold

Slobber, and you’re enduring that worst thing,

Senility’s queasy furtive love-making,

And searching those dear eyes for human meaning,

Propping the bald and helpless head, and cleaning

A scrap that life’s flung by, and love’s forgotten,—

Then you’ll be tired; and passion dead and rotten;

And he’ll be dirty, dirty!

                                                 O lithe and free

And lightfoot, that the poor heart cries to see,

That’s how I’ll see your man and you!—

                                                                         But you

—Oh, when that time comes, you’ll be dirty too!

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Author: Rupert Chawner Brooke 

(Born: 3 August 1887 - Died 23 April 1915)

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Main characteristics: This is a poem where the author describe how does he feel when his "lover-wife" engage with another guy, he seems to curse their life. He is embittered with his life and he can only be "happy" when his "lover-wife" and her husband became old and dirty.
Blank Verse is written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter. 
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Theme: A monologue of a embittered lover that lost his "lover-wife".
The poem is about love rejection, the author uses language that is almost childish. 
Gradually he transfigures the image of the beloved into anger, hatred and feelings of resentment. 
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Language Figures: Metaphor and Personification.
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Symbol: The relentless time and its consequences, being old and tired and do not have strength to desire something new.
Imagery: "Has beaten your heart to such a flame of love."
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- Recording of the Reading:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17pfVPl4l2gqZB24fqO0ouKOyhYgjo847/view?usp=drivesdk

- Author: Walt Whitman
Born in May 31, 1819, in West Hills, New York, USA.
Died in March 26, 1892, in Camden, New Jersey, USA.

- Main Characteristics:

This poem was written as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln, the American President. The poem is lyric and it is classified as Elegy, meaning a funeral song. Whitman used very strong figurative language throughout the poem to express his respect and to mourn the loss of Abraham Lincoln. The expression of mourning and grief mark the center of the poem. However, what stays in the mind of the readers is the speaker’s passionate expression of his love for his dead captain.

- Theme:  ELEGY

 The speaker admires his captain for the victory they have won together. The major theme that runs throughout the poem is the death of Abraham Lincoln at the end of the Civil War.
This poem portrays the end of a trip that was successful and the mission was complete. Arriving at the port, several people watch the ship arrive, but what could be a happy arrival turns into a sad moment, because the captain is in the deck, cold and dead. We can find characteristics like pain, sadness, melancholy, lament and tribute for the dead captain, wich characterizes an lyric poem, Elegy.

- Language Figure:

     Metaphor   -  Imagery  - Personification

Metaphor:  Walt Whitman wrote the poem after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The "ship" he speaks of is intended to represent the United States of America, while his "terrible voyage" recalls the troubles of the American Civil War. The titular character "Captain" is Lincoln himself.

Imagery:  The poet has used visual imagery such as, “cold and dead”, “Lips are pale and still”, bleeding drops of red” and “mournful tread.” Whitman’s choice of powerful words has made the reader visualize the death of the captain.

Personification: He has personified the walk of the speaker as a “mournful tread” because he cannot live without his captain. He has also personified shores in line 21 where it is stated, “Exult, O Shores!” As if the shores are humans and they are going to do something like blow trumpets of victory.

- Symbols:

The Ship’s Anchor :
 The ship’s anchor in “O Captain! My Captain!” is a symbol for the end of Civil War and Lincoln’s death. While the voyage symbolizes the Civil War, it may also symbolize Lincoln’s life. When the speaker says that the anchored ship is safe and sound, Whitman refers to the country being out of war and in a state of peace. The dropped anchor in the third stanza means that the trip is “closed and done.”

Swaying Masses:
 The speaker describes a crowd on the shore that’s excited to welcome the captain and the returning ship. The mass of people in the poem symbolize the American people who supported Lincoln and felt happy about the end of the war.


- References:

https://literarydevices.net/o-captain-my-captain/

Students: Miriã Sidrim and Layza Andrade 

Author: Walt Whitman ( born on May 31 1819 and died on March 26, 1892)

Main Characteristics: Is a Free-verse poem and has elements like repetition, imagery, and motif.

Theme: Even the little things that happen in our daily lives and we don't pay much attention to are miracles/should be considered as one.

Language Figures: The author uses personification "stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring" he also makes use of refrain and imagery.

Thus we descended into the fourth chasm,

Gaining still farther on the dolesome shore

Which all the woe of the universe insacks. [...]

[…] Here saw I people, more than elsewhere, many,

On one side and the other, with great howls,

Rolling weights forward by main force of chest.

They clashed together, and then at that point

Each one turned backward, rolling retrograde,

Crying, "Why keepest?" and, "Why squanderest thou?"

Thus they returned along the lurid circle

On either hand unto the opposite point,

Shouting their shameful metre evermore.

Then each, when he arrived there, wheeled about

Through his half-circle to another joust;

And I, who had my heart pierced as it were,

Exclaimed: "My Master, now declare to me

What people these are, and if all were clerks,

These shaven crowns upon the left of us."

And he to me: "All of them were asquint

In intellect in the first life, so much

That there with measure they no spending made.

Clearly enough their voices bark it forth,

Whene'er they reach the two points of the circle,

Where sunders them the opposite defect.

Clerks those were who no hairy covering

Have on the head, and Popes and Cardinals,

In whom doth Avarice practise its excess."

And I: "My Master, among such as these

I ought forsooth to recognise some few,

Who were infected with these maladies."

The author: Dante Alighieri, Born in 1265  and died in 1321. 

Theme: the divine comedy is a story about the conversion of a lost sinner (Dante) who went from hell to the way of God and heaven. The verses tell of the need to follow the path of goodness and ethics.

symbols: Hell: place of sinners, Purgatory: place of sinners awaiting the final judgment, Paradise: place of purification, which means holiness; Virgil: a Roman poet, who represent the human reason; Beatrice: she is the personification of faith.

language figures: the author will use metaphorical language to tell his way through hell and heaven, which means a reflection on life.

reading: audio 

main characteristics: It's narrated in first person by the protagonist, Dante; the poems are written in decasyllable triplets (ABA, CDC).

“Fear not. It will come. At least I hope it does. And when you least expect it. Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot. Just remember: I am here. Right now you may not want to feel anything. Perhaps you never wished to feel anything. And perhaps it’s not with me that you’ll want to speak about these things. But feel something you did.

Look, you had a beautiful friendship. Maybe more than a friendship. And I envy you. In my place, most parents would hope the whole thing goes away, or pray that their sons land on their feet soon enough. But I am not such a parent. In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal with it. 

Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we’d want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!

Have I spoken out of turn? Then let me say one more thing. It will clear the air. I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way. How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can’t help but live as though we’ve got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there’s only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it.

Right now there’s sorrow. I don’t envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.

We may never speak about this again. But I hope you’ll never hold it against me that we did. I will have been a terrible father if, one day, you’d want to speak to me and felt that the door was shut or not sufficiently open.”

Book: Call me by your name, 2008.

Role: Mr. Perlman (Elio's Father).

Main characteristics: 

→ Voice of character: one of the main purposes of a monologue in a dramatic work is because it allows readers to become familiar with the character’s authentic voice and point of view.

→ Motivation of character: A well-written monologue can help readers understand a character’s motivation in terms of behavior within a narrative.

→ Backstory of character: Monologues can reveal details about both character and plot development. These details provide information and meaning for the reader, move the narrative forward, and indicate the impact of a character’s traits and past events in terms of the overall story.

Plus, a monologue is usually put in a literary work to allow a single character to deliver a speech to other characters with the clear intent of being heard by them. Another characteristic is that monologues are commonly used as a powerful method for writers to deliver their thoughts, ideas, and beliefs regarding an important subject through one of their characters.

Theme: Father-to-son speech about first love and heartbroken.

Language figures: In monologues there is no need to use many language figures to ensure a good writing, because the more appropriate is using a language that sounds more authentically, just like the character.

Symbols: Flame (it represents that the love and happy feelings/memories were not gone); Door (this one was used in order to represent trust - Mr. Pearlman intended to say he was opening the door of his “heart”, so his son could talk about anything)

“Fear not. It will come. At least I hope it does. And when you least expect it. Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot. Just remember: I am here. Right now you may not want to feel anything. Perhaps you never wished to feel anything. And perhaps it’s not with me that you’ll want to speak about these things. But feel something you did.

Look, you had a beautiful friendship. Maybe more than a friendship. And I envy you. In my place, most parents would hope the whole thing goes away, or pray that their sons land on their feet soon enough. But I am not such a parent. In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal with it. 

Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we’d want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!

Have I spoken out of turn? Then let me say one more thing. It will clear the air. I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way. How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can’t help but live as though we’ve got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there’s only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it.

Right now there’s sorrow. I don’t envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.

We may never speak about this again. But I hope you’ll never hold it against me that we did. I will have been a terrible father if, one day, you’d want to speak to me and felt that the door was shut or not sufficiently open.”

link of the audio recorded by students Maria Eduarda and Vitória Regina: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uG6QKWUyAL5zrMuQNnegw3AtBUh0KouB/view

ACIMAN, André. Call me by your name. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.