The Soldier

BY RUPERT BROOKE

If I should die, think only this of me: 

      That there’s some corner of a foreign field 

That is for ever England. There shall be 

      In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; 

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, 

      Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; 

A body of England’s, breathing English air, 

      Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. 

And think, this heart, all evil shed away, 

      A pulse in the eternal mind, no less 

            Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; 

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; 

      And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, 

            In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Peace out dude

Please annotate the last stanza of our Italian sonnet.

metaphors
rhyme
similes
imagery
symbols

WWI poetry

It begins....

please annotate this poem for,

imagery
metaphors
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Peace

BY RUPERT BROOKE

Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour,

      And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping!

With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,

      To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,

Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary;

      Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move,

And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,

      And all the little emptiness of love!

Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there,

      Where there’s no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,

            Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;

Nothing to shake the laughing heart’s long peace there,

      But only agony, and that has ending;

            And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

Source: Poetry (April 1915).

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/2277

Monologue Presentations

Full outlines and first drafts, we will be wrapping up on Friday.

• video format
• background music and/or sound effects
• full plan of your analysis discussion

Presentations uploaded no later than Tuesday morning.

upload to the google drive account in

 yearninegoespop@gmail.com

monologues and folder

monologue analysis

all annotations complete for Monday please

MONOLOGUES. WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR?

Tone. is it changing? emotional? What emotions does it express?

Meter, Pacing. Does it have a pattern of beats? does it speed up?  does it slow down?

repetition?

listing?

Naming?

Diction how sophisticated? how diverse?

Syntax

Links to class in Utrecht

Document is here