https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4 Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2018-12-03 08:32:11 UTC 2018-12-03 19:08:18 UTC hello@padlet.com coleewalt1 https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310306055 A wind sways the pines, 
         And below 
Not a breath of wild air; 
Still as the mosses that glow 
On the flooring and over the lines 
Of the roots here and there. 
The pine-tree drops its dead; 
They are quiet, as under the sea. 
Overhead, overhead 
Rushes life in a race, 
As the clouds the clouds chase; 
         And we go, 
And we drop like the fruits of the tree, 
         Even we, 
         Even so. 

]]> 2018-12-03 08:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310306055 coleewalt1 https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310306595 He was born Feb. 12, 1828 in Portsmouth, UK, and died May 18, 1909 in Box Hill, Surrey, UK.
He lived in the UK for his entire life, and was nominated for the nobel prize in literature 7 times, pretty good for a guy whose mom died when he was 5 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meredith
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poets/detail/george-meredith]]> 2018-12-03 08:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310306595 coleewalt1 https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310307676 Vocabulary: Sways, which means to "move or cause to move slowly or rhythmically backward and forward or from side to side."
Reference: "A wind sways the pines", a reference to breathing
Allusion: "And we drop like the fruits of the tree", alluding to dying

]]> 2018-12-03 08:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310307676 coleewalt1 https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310309742 Denotation: The wind is like a breath and sways the pine trees, yet it is calm on the ground, where the branches are covered in shiny moss. The tree drops its pine needles, which don't make a sound. The clouds rush overhead, as we do, and we also die like the fruit of a tree, quiet and insignificant.]]> 2018-12-03 08:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310309742 coleewalt1 https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310311348 Rhyme: This is the one device most commonly associated with poetry by the general public. Words that
have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike, including the final vowel sound and
everything following it, are said to rhyme.

Dirge in woods lines 8 and 13 rhyme with each-other, and being in this set up let me know that these two ideas are related to each-other. By saying that we drop quiet as the sea like the fruits of a tree he is saying we die slow and quietly.]]> 2018-12-03 08:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310311348 coleewalt1 https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310315434 Analogy: A comparison, usually something unfamiliar with something familiar.

Dirge in woods line 4 says that moss glows, this is an analogy as moss is not usually described this way, at least I haven't heard that moss glows.]]> 2018-12-03 09:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310315434 coleewalt1 https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310316138 Enjambment: The continuation of the logical sense — and therefore the grammatical construction —
beyond the end of a line of poetry. This is sometimes done with the title, which in effect becomes the
first line of the poem.

Dirge in woods enjambes in lines 4,5 and 6 to emphasize the importance of the emotions here: Stillness, sporadicalness. He emphasizes that this moss has taken control of this tree, and covers all of these random roots.]]> 2018-12-03 09:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310316138 coleewalt1 https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310317025 Connotation: George Meredith includes much connotation to dying and how bland life is throughout this poem. The first three lines set the scene, saying that a breeze sways the pines, but has no effect on the ground below. Lines 4-6 further this by saying that the moss lies still over the ground randomly, the moss is widespread. Lines 7-8 then talks about how when the pine tree drops its needles it does not make a sound. These lines finally tell us that the whole forest is quiet, and that the pine goes unnoticed when it dies. The next three lines, lines 9-12, highlight the diparity between death and nature. Nature moves on and races through as the pine tree dies, and we go as well, we move on as we die, barely looking back. Lines 13-15 wrap it up, and say that we also die like a tree does, it is nature, and we will die quietly.]]> 2018-12-03 09:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310317025 coleewalt1 https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310592674 Voice: The author uses a first person point of view in this poem, even though he himself is not experiencing this pain he still says 'we', implying the first person perspective. We can tell that this author looks poorly on how death is received in society, saying that no one cares and that people move on. He says that we all drop like fruits of a tree, and that the clouds rush past us when we do, aka time moves on just like clouds to a pine tree.]]> 2018-12-03 19:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/coleewalt1/852oglz76cw4/wish/310592674