https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377 en-us 2018-04-30 03:28:56 UTC 2023-05-26 22:16:33 UTC hello@padlet.com bridgerlemmon https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256394952 - born December 22, 1869 in Head Tide, Maine
- attended Harvard University
- won 3 Pulitzer Prizes (also nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature four times)
- "One of the most prolific major American poets of the twentieth century"
- "Edwin Arlington Robinson is poetry"]]> 2018-04-30 04:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256394952 bridgerlemmon https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256395493 2018-04-30 04:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256395493 bridgerlemmon https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256395927 Setting: (hill near town he's lived his whole life) "Over the hill between the town below And the forsaken upland hermitage That held as much as he should ever know"
Behavior: (sad and lonesome) "He raised again the jug regretfully And shook his head, and was again alone."]]> 2018-04-30 04:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256395927 bridgerlemmon https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256397091 Simile: "He stood there in the middle of the road Like Roland's ghost" (comparing Eben Flood to an old friend named Roland's ghost)
Metaphor: "Then, as a mother lays her sleeping child Down tenderly, fearing it may awake, He set the jug down slowly at his feet" (stressing how carefully Eben put down the jug)
Personification: "Secure, with only two moons listening" (moons cannot actually physically listen)

]]> 2018-04-30 04:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256397091 bridgerlemmon https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256398460 - Eben Flood returns to alcohol after being dry for a time, because he is sad and lonely
"Only a very little, Mr. Flood--- For auld lang syne."
- Eben's friends and everyone his age are all dead 
"And there was nothing in the town below--- Where strangers would have shut the many doors That many friends had opened long ago."]]> 2018-04-30 04:43:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256398460 bridgerlemmon https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256399241 Compare:
- both older
"Old Eben Flood" (Mr. Flood's Party)
"He's 63 years old!" (Death of a Salesman)
Contrast:
- Eben is not depressed ("With trembling care") ("Of night he lifted up his voice and sang")
- Willy is suicidal ("He's been trying to kill himself.")]]> 2018-04-30 04:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256399241 bridgerlemmon https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256401238 2018-04-30 05:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256401238 bridgerlemmon https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256401438 2018-04-30 05:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgerlemmon/ufa6mgecj377/wish/256401438