The Cross of Snow by https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel Made with good vibes en-us 2016-10-27 17:06:54 UTC 2023-10-14 02:50:01 UTC hello@padlet.com The Poem bobo_rossio https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133707855  In the long, sleepless watches of the night, 
   A gentle face — the face of one long dead — 
   Looks at me from the wall, where round its head 
   The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. 
Here in this room she died; and soul more white 
   Never through martyrdom of fire was led 
   To its repose; nor can in books be read 
   The legend of a life more benedight. 
There is a mountain in the distant West 
   That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines 
   Displays a cross of snow upon its side. 
Such is the cross I wear upon my breast 
   These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes 
   And seasons, changeless since the day she died. 

]]> 2016-10-27 17:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133707855 Background Info- Maya bobo_rossio https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133708401
  • Born in Portland, Maine in 1807
  • death in 1882
  • went to bowdoin college
  • later taught english in cambridge massachusetts.
  • He also lived in the house of george washington in cambridge
    • http://www.hwlongfellow.org/life_overview.shtml 
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow

    ]]>     2016-10-27 17:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133708401     The meaning- Mackenzie https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133709894 This poem basically talks about the death of a loved one, and how the presence of them is still there. ]]> 2016-10-27 17:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133709894 How it's important- Brad https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133710475 The poem is about a man who loves his wife and uncontrollably thinks about his wife all the time. She has died 18 years prior and can't get over it. It shows that even when someone dies you can still feel his or her presence.]]> 2016-10-27 17:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133710475 Important vocab- Solomon bobo_rossio https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133710944
    Personification: the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.

    Rhyme: identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.

    Repetition: the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again.

    Hyperbole: obvious and intentional exaggeration.

    Symbolism: the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.

    Benedight: Archaic

    Martyrdom: Suffering or dying for your beliefs

    Repose: be lying, situated, or kept in a particular place.

    The type of sonnet of this poem is Petrarchan which is an Italian sonnet, describing a subject, then comparing that subject to something else at the end.

    ]]>     2016-10-27 17:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133710944     Figurative Speech: 18zafarf https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133711531 Personification:
    There is a mountain in the distant West 
    That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines
    Displays a cross of snow upon its side. 
    Such is the cross I wear upon my breast 
    ]]>     2016-10-27 17:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bobo_rossio/mz0pdwjhdjel/wish/133711531