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– ## directionsPoemAnalysis.docx
– ## RuinsOfAGreatHousebyDerekWalcott.docx
– ## ElementsofPoetry22.pptx
**## directionsPoemAnalysis.docx**
Write a 2-page literary analysis of one of the poems assigned. You should use some literary elements to support your points. Read the elements of poetry attached where the poems are posted to help with your analysis. You may also start with a brief biography of the author of the poem you are analyzing. You should make your thesis clear in paragraph 1. If you use sources, it must not be more than 2 secondary sources. If you do not want to use sources, you should do an intertextual analysis. The grading of this paper will focus on content, structure, MLA documentation format, grammar and mechanics.
**Turnitin will be used for it to be graded.**
**## RuinsOfAGreatHousebyDerekWalcott.docx**
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[Ruins Of A Great House](https://allpoetry.com/poem/14327963-Ruins-Of-A-Great-House-by-Derek-Walcott) by Derek Walcott
though our longest sun sets at right declensions and
makes but winter arches,
it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and
have our light in ashes. . .
Browne, Urn Burial
Stones only, the disjecta membra of this Great House,
Whose moth-like girls are mixed with candledust,
Remain to file the lizard's dragonish claws.
The mouths of those gate cherubs shriek with stain;
Axle and coach wheel silted under the muck
Of cattle droppings.
Three crows flap for the trees
And settle, creaking the eucalyptus boughs.
A smell of dead limes quickens in the nose
The leprosy of empire.
‘Farewell, green fields,
Farewell, ye happy groves!'
Marble like Greece, like Faulkner's South in stone,
Deciduous beauty prospered and is gone,
But where the lawn breaks in a rash of trees
A spade below dead leaves will ring the bone
Of some dead animal or human thing
Fallen from evil days, from evil times.
It seems that the original crops were limes
Grown in that silt that clogs the river's skirt;
The imperious rakes are gone, their bright girls gone,
The river flows, obliterating hurt.
I climbed a wall with the grille ironwork
Of exiled craftsmen protecting that great house
From guilt, perhaps, but not from the worm's rent
Nor from the padded calvary of the mouse.
And when a wind shook in the limes I heard
What Kipling heard, the death of a great empire, the
abuse
Of ignorance by Bible and by sword.
A green lawn, broken by low walls of stone,
Dipped to the rivulet, and pacing, I thought next
Of men like Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, Drake,
Ancestral murderers and poets, more perplex4ed
In memory now by every ulcerous crime.
The world's green age then was rotting lime
Whose stench became the charnel galleon's text.
The rot remains with us, the men are gone.
But, as dead ash is lifted in a wind
That fans the blackening ember of the mind,
My eyes burned from the ashen prose of Donne.
Ablaze with rage I thought,
Some slave is rotting in this manorial lake,
But still the coal of my compassion fought
That Albion too was once
A colony like ours, ‘part of the continent, piece of the
main',
Nook-shotten, rook o'erblown, deranged
By foaming channels and the vain expense
Of bitter faction.
All in compassion ends
So differently from what the heart arranged:
‘as well as if a manor of thy friend's. . . ‘
© by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes
**## ElementsofPoetry22.pptx**
Elements of Poetry
When analyzing poetry, there are some literary elements that can be used.
Tone
Tone refers to the mood and manner, in which the author uses to express him or herself. For example, anger, humor, sensitive, satirical.
The tone is always revealed through the author’s words
Sometimes through his actions.
Diction
Diction is the author’s choice of words to suit his purpose.
Example: formal language, —proper, elevated, and often polysyllabic language
Neutral or middle diction—-Correct language characterized by directness and simplicity
Informal or low —– Relaxed, conversational and familiar language
Denotation and Connotation
Denotation is the direct meaning of
For example, Mr. John is a man.
Connotation is the implied meaning of a word in addition to its literal meaning.
For example: Mr. Jones is childlike.
Imagery
Imagery is the use of words to create sensory impressions such as
touch, sight, smell, taste, sound
It creates emotional responses in the reader.
Figures of Speech
These are symbolic and emblematic meanings in relation to artistic representations of animate and inanimate objects.
Examples: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole.
Simile—direct comparison between two things using “like” or “as”
Metaphor—-One thing conceived as representing another. A comparison between two unlike things.
Personification—-attributing human qualities to an animal, idea or object
Hyperbole—This is where exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
Litotes —–is an understatement for effect
Rhymes and Rhythms
Rhymes— The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of line.
For example: Hue—-Blue
Rhythm—–The organization of sound patterns
For example—-She was hungry
She made him angry
Symbol
Symbol—- A person, place, or object that stands for something beyond itself.
For example: A dove stands for peace.
A dove is a symbol of peace
**## ElementsofPoetry22.pptx**
Elements of Poetry
When analyzing poetry, there are some literary elements that can be used.
Tone
Tone refers to the mood and manner, in which the author uses to express him or herself. For example, anger, humor, sensitive, satirical.
The tone is always revealed through the author’s words
Sometimes through his actions.
Diction
Diction is the author’s choice of words to suit his purpose.
Example: formal language, —proper, elevated, and often polysyllabic language
Neutral or middle diction—-Correct language characterized by directness and simplicity
Informal or low —– Relaxed, conversational and familiar language
Denotation and Connotation
Denotation is the direct meaning of
For example, Mr. John is a man.
Connotation is the implied meaning of a word in addition to its literal meaning.
For example: Mr. Jones is childlike.
Imagery
Imagery is the use of words to create sensory impressions such as
touch, sight, smell, taste, sound
It creates emotional responses in the reader.
Figures of Speech
These are symbolic and emblematic meanings in relation to artistic representations of animate and inanimate objects.
Examples: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole.
Simile—direct comparison between two things using “like” or “as”
Metaphor—-One thing conceived as representing another. A comparison between two unlike things.
Personification—-attributing human qualities to an animal, idea or object
Hyperbole—This is where exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
Litotes —–is an understatement for effect
Rhymes and Rhythms
Rhymes— The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of line.
For example: Hue—-Blue
Rhythm—–The organization of sound patterns
For example—-She was hungry
She made him angry
Symbol
Symbol—- A person, place, or object that stands for something beyond itself.
For example: A dove stands for peace.
A dove is a symbol of peace
**## directionsPoemAnalysis.docx**
Write a 2-page literary analysis of one of the poems assigned. You should use some literary elements to support your points. Read the elements of poetry attached where the poems are posted to help with your analysis. You may also start with a brief biography of the author of the poem you are analyzing. You should make your thesis clear in paragraph 1. If you use sources, it must not be more than 2 secondary sources. If you do not want to use sources, you should do an intertextual analysis. The grading of this paper will focus on content, structure, MLA documentation format, grammar and mechanics.
**Turnitin will be used for it to be graded.**
**## RuinsOfAGreatHousebyDerekWalcott.docx**
Top of Form
[Ruins Of A Great House](https://allpoetry.com/poem/14327963-Ruins-Of-A-Great-House-by-Derek-Walcott) by Derek Walcott
though our longest sun sets at right declensions and
makes but winter arches,
it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and
have our light in ashes. . .
Browne, Urn Burial
Stones only, the disjecta membra of this Great House,
Whose moth-like girls are mixed with candledust,
Remain to file the lizard's dragonish claws.
The mouths of those gate cherubs shriek with stain;
Axle and coach wheel silted under the muck
Of cattle droppings.
Three crows flap for the trees
And settle, creaking the eucalyptus boughs.
A smell of dead limes quickens in the nose
The leprosy of empire.
‘Farewell, green fields,
Farewell, ye happy groves!'
Marble like Greece, like Faulkner's South in stone,
Deciduous beauty prospered and is gone,
But where the lawn breaks in a rash of trees
A spade below dead leaves will ring the bone
Of some dead animal or human thing
Fallen from evil days, from evil times.
It seems that the original crops were limes
Grown in that silt that clogs the river's skirt;
The imperious rakes are gone, their bright girls gone,
The river flows, obliterating hurt.
I climbed a wall with the grille ironwork
Of exiled craftsmen protecting that great house
From guilt, perhaps, but not from the worm's rent
Nor from the padded calvary of the mouse.
And when a wind shook in the limes I heard
What Kipling heard, the death of a great empire, the
abuse
Of ignorance by Bible and by sword.
A green lawn, broken by low walls of stone,
Dipped to the rivulet, and pacing, I thought next
Of men like Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, Drake,
Ancestral murderers and poets, more perplex4ed
In memory now by every ulcerous crime.
The world's green age then was rotting lime
Whose stench became the charnel galleon's text.
The rot remains with us, the men are gone.
But, as dead ash is lifted in a wind
That fans the blackening ember of the mind,
My eyes burned from the ashen prose of Donne.
Ablaze with rage I thought,
Some slave is rotting in this manorial lake,
But still the coal of my compassion fought
That Albion too was once
A colony like ours, ‘part of the continent, piece of the
main',
Nook-shotten, rook o'erblown, deranged
By foaming channels and the vain expense
Of bitter faction.
All in compassion ends
So differently from what the heart arranged:
‘as well as if a manor of thy friend's. . . ‘
© by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes
**## ElementsofPoetry22.pptx**
Elements of Poetry
When analyzing poetry, there are some literary elements that can be used.
Tone
Tone refers to the mood and manner, in which the author uses to express him or herself. For example, anger, humor, sensitive, satirical.
The tone is always revealed through the author’s words
Sometimes through his actions.
Diction
Diction is the author’s choice of words to suit his purpose.
Example: formal language, —proper, elevated, and often polysyllabic language
Neutral or middle diction—-Correct language characterized by directness and simplicity
Informal or low —– Relaxed, conversational and familiar language
Denotation and Connotation
Denotation is the direct meaning of
For example, Mr. John is a man.
Connotation is the implied meaning of a word in addition to its literal meaning.
For example: Mr. Jones is childlike.
Imagery
Imagery is the use of words to create sensory impressions such as
touch, sight, smell, taste, sound
It creates emotional responses in the reader.
Figures of Speech
These are symbolic and emblematic meanings in relation to artistic representations of animate and inanimate objects.
Examples: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole.
Simile—direct comparison between two things using “like” or “as”
Metaphor—-One thing conceived as representing another. A comparison between two unlike things.
Personification—-attributing human qualities to an animal, idea or object
Hyperbole—This is where exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
Litotes —–is an understatement for effect
Rhymes and Rhythms
Rhymes— The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of line.
For example: Hue—-Blue
Rhythm—–The organization of sound patterns
For example—-She was hungry
She made him angry
Symbol
Symbol—- A person, place, or object that stands for something beyond itself.
For example: A dove stands for peace.
A dove is a symbol of peace
**## directionsPoemAnalysis.docx**
Write a 2-page literary analysis of one of the poems assigned. You should use some literary elements to support your points. Read the elements of poetry attached where the poems are posted to help with your analysis. You may also start with a brief biography of the author of the poem you are analyzing. You should make your thesis clear in paragraph 1. If you use sources, it must not be more than 2 secondary sources. If you do not want to use sources, you should do an intertextual analysis. The grading of this paper will focus on content, structure, MLA documentation format, grammar and mechanics.
**Turnitin will be used for it to be graded.**
**## RuinsOfAGreatHousebyDerekWalcott.docx**
Top of Form
[Ruins Of A Great House](https://allpoetry.com/poem/14327963-Ruins-Of-A-Great-House-by-Derek-Walcott) by Derek Walcott
though our longest sun sets at right declensions and
makes but winter arches,
it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and
have our light in ashes. . .
Browne, Urn Burial
Stones only, the disjecta membra of this Great House,
Whose moth-like girls are mixed with candledust,
Remain to file the lizard's dragonish claws.
The mouths of those gate cherubs shriek with stain;
Axle and coach wheel silted under the muck
Of cattle droppings.
Three crows flap for the trees
And settle, creaking the eucalyptus boughs.
A smell of dead limes quickens in the nose
The leprosy of empire.
‘Farewell, green fields,
Farewell, ye happy groves!'
Marble like Greece, like Faulkner's South in stone,
Deciduous beauty prospered and is gone,
But where the lawn breaks in a rash of trees
A spade below dead leaves will ring the bone
Of some dead animal or human thing
Fallen from evil days, from evil times.
It seems that the original crops were limes
Grown in that silt that clogs the river's skirt;
The imperious rakes are gone, their bright girls gone,
The river flows, obliterating hurt.
I climbed a wall with the grille ironwork
Of exiled craftsmen protecting that great house
From guilt, perhaps, but not from the worm's rent
Nor from the padded calvary of the mouse.
And when a wind shook in the limes I heard
What Kipling heard, the death of a great empire, the
abuse
Of ignorance by Bible and by sword.
A green lawn, broken by low walls of stone,
Dipped to the rivulet, and pacing, I thought next
Of men like Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, Drake,
Ancestral murderers and poets, more perplex4ed
In memory now by every ulcerous crime.
The world's green age then was rotting lime
Whose stench became the charnel galleon's text.
The rot remains with us, the men are gone.
But, as dead ash is lifted in a wind
That fans the blackening ember of the mind,
My eyes burned from the ashen prose of Donne.
Ablaze with rage I thought,
Some slave is rotting in this manorial lake,
But still the coal of my compassion fought
That Albion too was once
A colony like ours, ‘part of the continent, piece of the
main',
Nook-shotten, rook o'erblown, deranged
By foaming channels and the vain expense
Of bitter faction.
All in compassion ends
So differently from what the heart arranged:
‘as well as if a manor of thy friend's. . . ‘
© by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes
**## ElementsofPoetry22.pptx**
Elements of Poetry
When analyzing poetry, there are some literary elements that can be used.
Tone
Tone refers to the mood and manner, in which the author uses to express him or herself. For example, anger, humor, sensitive, satirical.
The tone is always revealed through the author’s words
Sometimes through his actions.
Diction
Diction is the author’s choice of words to suit his purpose.
Example: formal language, —proper, elevated, and often polysyllabic language
Neutral or middle diction—-Correct language characterized by directness and simplicity
Informal or low —– Relaxed, conversational and familiar language
Denotation and Connotation
Denotation is the direct meaning of
For example, Mr. John is a man.
Connotation is the implied meaning of a word in addition to its literal meaning.
For example: Mr. Jones is childlike.
Imagery
Imagery is the use of words to create sensory impressions such as
touch, sight, smell, taste, sound
It creates emotional responses in the reader.
Figures of Speech
These are symbolic and emblematic meanings in relation to artistic representations of animate and inanimate objects.
Examples: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole.
Simile—direct comparison between two things using “like” or “as”
Metaphor—-One thing conceived as representing another. A comparison between two unlike things.
Personification—-attributing human qualities to an animal, idea or object
Hyperbole—This is where exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
Litotes —–is an understatement for effect
Rhymes and Rhythms
Rhymes— The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of line.
For example: Hue—-Blue
Rhythm—–The organization of sound patterns
For example—-She was hungry
She made him angry
Symbol
Symbol—- A person, place, or object that stands for something beyond itself.
For example: A dove stands for peace.
A dove is a symbol of peace