Read this excerpt from a poem.The dock was far from viewThe hour of night was nearUnbeknown to the laboring crewCruel darkness crept o’er the stern.Which line contains personification?
What figurative language does the narrator use to describe her life in "Mother to Son"?
Read these stanzas from the poem "Chorus" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.Give away her gowns,Give away her shoes;She has no more useFor her fragrant gowns;Take them all down,Blue, green, blue,Lilac, pink, blue,From their padded hangers;She will dance no moreIn her narrow shoes;Sweep her narrow shoesFrom the closet floor. How is the message of this poem similar to the poet’s message in "The Courage That My Mother Had"?
Read the poem "The Death of Autumn" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes,And feathered pampas-grass rides into the windLike aged warriors westward, tragic, thinnedOf half their tribe, and over the flattened rushes,Stripped of its secret, open, stark and bleak,Blackens afar the half-forgotten creek,—Then leans on me the weight of the year, and crushesMy heart. I know that Beauty must ail and die,And will be born again,—but ah, to seeBeauty stiffened, staring up at the sky!Oh, Autumn! Autumn!—What is the Spring to me?What is the central idea of this poem?
Read these stanzas from the poem "Ballad" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.I know my love is true,And oh the day is fair.The sky is dear and blue,The flowers are rich of hue,The air I breathe is rare,I have no grief or care;For my own love is true,And oh the day is fair. My love is false I find,And oh the day is dark.Blows sadly down the wind,While sorrow holds my mind;I do not hear the lark,For quenched is life's dear spark,—My love is false I find,And oh the day is dark!What is the central idea of this poem?
Read the poem "Travel" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.The railroad track is miles away,And the day is loud with voices speaking,Yet there isn't a train goes by all dayBut I hear its whistle shrieking. All night there isn't a train goes by,Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming,But I see its cinders red on the sky,And hear its engine steaming. My heart is warm with friends I make,And better friends I'll not be knowing;Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,No matter where it's going.What is the central idea of this poem?
Read these stanzas from the poem "Frederick Douglass" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.A hush is over all the teeming lists,And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife;A spirit brave has passed beyond the mistsAnd vapors that obscure the sun of life.And Ethiopia, with bosom torn,Laments the passing of her noblest born. And he was no soft-tongued apologist;He spoke straight-forward, fearlessly uncowed;The sunlight of his truth dispelled the mistAnd set in bold relief each dark-hued cloud;To sin and crime he gave their proper hue,And hurled at evil what was evil's due. Thro' good and ill report he cleaved his wayRight onward, with his face set toward the heights,Nor feared to face the foeman's dread array—The lash of scorn, the sting of petty spites.He dared the lightning in the lightning's track,And answered thunder with his thunder back.How is the message of this poem similar to the poet’s message in "The Courage That My Mother Had"?
Read the poem "City Trees" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.The trees along this city street,Save for the traffic and the trains,Would make a sound as thin and sweetAs trees in country lanes. And people standing in their shadeOut of a shower, undoubtedlyWould hear such music as is madeUpon a country tree. Oh, little leaves that are so dumbAgainst the shrieking city air,I watch you when the wind has come,—I know what sound is there.What is the central idea of this poem?
What figurative language does the narrator use with the images of tacks and splinters in "Mother to Son"?
Read these stanzas from the poem "A Poet and His Song" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.My days are never days of ease;I till my ground and prune my trees.When ripened gold is all the plain,I put my sickle to the grain.I labor hard, and toil and sweat,While others dream within the dell;But even while my brow is wet,I sing my song, and all is well. Sometimes the sun, unkindly hot,My garden makes a desert spot;Sometimes a blight upon the treeTakes all my fruit away from me;And then with throes of bitter painRebellious passions rise and swell;But—life is more than fruit or grain,And so I sing, and all is well.How is the message of this poem similar to the poet’s message in "Mother to Son"?
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