{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38616706","dateCreated":"1304622328","smartDate":"May 5, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"LindyWi7","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/LindyWi7","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/gfspoetry8.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38616706"},"dateDigested":1532388814,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Analisizing an Emily Bronte poem. ","description":"Here is a poem i analisized! Please comment!
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\n"In the dungeon crypts idly did I stray,
\nReckless of the lives wasting there away;
\n"Draw the ponderous bars; open, Warder stern!"
\nHe dare not say me nay\u2013the hinges harshly turn."
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\n She is in a dark place. She feels trapped. Line 4 refers to her captivity while she is in the dungeons, almost like she will never escape. (This is an AABB pattern throughout the poem.)
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\n"Our guests are darkly lodged," I whispered, gazing through
\nThe vault whose grated eye showed heaven more grey than blue.
\n(This was when glad spring laughed in awaking pride.)
\n"Aye, darkly lodged enough!" returned my sullen guide."
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\n Line 3 and 4 refer to a person\u2019s feelings when they are in a dark place. When their eyes are grated with hate and sadness, everything turns from pink to black, or in this case, from blue to gray. This could also refer to a storm, when the sky became clouded over. The storm could refer to when a person turns from happy to sad.
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\nWhen she describes spring as laughing, it is like she is jealous of happy spring. When she and her guide gaze up upon spring, they are \u2018darkly lodged enough\u2019, meaning that they are sad and angry and so are their guests compared to spring.
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\n"Then, God forgive my youth, forgive my careless tongue!
\nI scoffed, as the chill chains on the damp flagstones rung;
\n"Confined in triple walls, art thou so much to fear,
\nThat we must bind thee down and clench thy fetters here?"
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\nSentence one refers to her na\u00efve, young disposition. Her scoffing could resemble that she does not like where she is and that she is afraid but does not want to show it. The chains could be used as a metaphor for a realization that she is scared. Lines 3,4, and 5 refer to fear. When you fear, it takes over you and brings you down (\u2018we must bind thee down and clench they fetters\u2019).
\nThe captive raised her face; it was as soft and mild
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\n"As sculptured marble saint or slumbering, unweaned child;
\nIt was so soft and mild, it was so sweet and fair,
\nPain could not trace a line nor grief a shadow there"
\n Age is a factor in this verse. A small child who still views the world as sweet to her is mentioned here. There is no emotional pain when you are young (line 5).
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\n"The childs skin is soft and un-touched by the evils of life.
\nThe captive raised her hand and pressed it to her brow:
\n"I have been struck," she said, "and I am suffering now;
\nYet these are little worth, your bolts and irons strong;
\nAnd were they forged in steel they could not hold me long."
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\n The child has been struck. However, since the bolts were forged from metal, they do not hold the child down. She can still break free from the weight of the chains, but not the grief of sadness.
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\n"Hoarse laughed the jailor grim: "Shall I be won to hear;
\nDost think, fond dreaming wretch, that I shall grant thy prayer?
\nOr, better still, wilt melt my master's heart with groans?
\nAh, sooner might the sun thaw down these granite stones!"
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\n The person executing the girl doesn\u2019t want to give in to her strength. This person is washing away all of the child\u2019s dreams (line 2) and replacing them with sadness. Line 4 refers to the master. If the child fights the sadness, the \u2018master\u2019 will be groaning because the girl was not sacrificed to sadness. In line 5, the person sacrificing the girl would rather see the sun burn down the stones the girl is on. The sun is brightness and happiness.
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\n"My master's voice is low, his aspect bland and kind,
\nBut hard as hardest flint the soul that lurks behind;
\nAnd I am rough and rude, yet not more rough to see
\nThan is the hidden ghost which has its home in me!"
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\n The \u2018master\u2019 is more than meets the eye. But his soul is hard and cruel behind his will to do kindness. The person talking in rude, and the ghost\/soul that lurks inside him is no rougher. The ghost is a metaphor for anger.
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\n"About her lips there played a smile of almost scorn:
\n"My friend," she gently said, "you have not heard me mourn;
\nWhen you my parents' lives-my lost life, can restore,
\nThen may I weep and sue-but never, Friend, before!"
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\n The girl is telling the person that he hasn\u2019t seen the sadness inside of her. When her life is lost then she will weep but before this happens she will remain strong.
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\n"Yet, tell them, Julian, all, I am not doomed to wear
\nYear after year in gloom and desolate despair;
\nA messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
\nAnd offers, for short life, eternal liberty."
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\n The person is not doomed to be sad forever. Hope offers its wings out. There is always hope, even in the dark times, but it is the person who chooses weather to have hope or to remain in \u201cgloom and desolate despair.\u201d
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\n"He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs,
\nWith that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars;
\nWinds take a pensive tone, and stars a tender fire, And visions rise and change which kill me with desire\u2013"
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\n Hope offers its wings, and it shows how incredible hope is. The person speaking is taunted by the idea of hope but lusts for it.
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\n"Desire for nothing known in my maturer years
\nWhen joy grew mad with awe at counting future tears;
\nWhen, if my spirit's sky was full of flashes warm,
\nI knew not whence they came, from sun or thunderstorm;"
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\n Joy and happiness\/the person is sad in line two. This is because the person speaking spent a large amount of time thinking about if they got sad and did not take time to focus on how joyful they were at the time.
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\n"But first a hush of peace, a soundless calm descends;
\nThe struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends;
\nMute music soothes my breast-unuttered harmony
\nThat I could never dream till earth was lost to me."
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\nThe person is thinking about being in peace and what it will do to them. When one is at peace, all distress and impatience ends.
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\n"Then dawns the Invisible, the Unseen its truth reveals;
\nMy outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels
\nIts wings are almost free, its home, its harbour found;
\nMeasuring the gulf it stoops and dares the final bound!"
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\n The dawns, or evil, is invisible, and the truth reveals. The persons wings are almost free and the person has found their way into the world. The person dares to dream.
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\n"Oh, dreadful is the check-intense the agony
\nWhen the ear begins to hear and the eye begins to see;
\nWhen the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again,
\nThe soul to feel the flesh and the flesh to feel the chain"
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\n It is painful when you realize that peace and happiness will go away again (\u2018the eye begins to see\u2019). This could refer to a younger person, when they have a sweet disposition as a child but one day their eyes are opened up to a world of sadness and they understand grief. The person is nervous and their pulse begins to throb and feel the chains take over and hold them down, like sadness brings you down. When you are sad, you cannot escape it, and it holds you down like chains.
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\n"Yet I would lose no sting, would wish no torture less; go
\nThe more that anguish racks the earlier it will bless;
\nAnd robed in fires of Hell, or bright with heavenly shine,
\nIf it but herald Death, the vision is divine."
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\n The vision is divine if it death does not show. The person would not loose sting or have less torture, but the more anguish it takes in the earlier it will protect you from happiness\/shield you from happiness.
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\n"She ceased to speak, and we, unanswering turned to go\u2013
\nWe had no further power to work the captive woe;
\nHer cheek, he gleaming eye, declared that man had given
\nA sentence unapproved, and overruled by Heaven."
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\n They do not have power to toil with the persons anguish so they leave. And the man acted like he had given himself over to distress and grief but he really longed for joy. The last line refers to how Heaven is joyful and how Heaven and happiness over rule sadness.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"37515462","dateCreated":"1302581882","smartDate":"Apr 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"rherlein1","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/rherlein1","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/gfspoetry8.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37515462"},"dateDigested":1532388815,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Poet Passion","description":"Read at least 5 different Poet pages that your classmates wrote. Out of the five poets, whose poetry did you enjoy most? Why? Choose a line from one poem and explain its significance to you.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38377722","body":"My favorite poet is Shel Silverstein because he brings such life to all his poems. I especially like the poem "sick" and my favorite line was at the end when the little kid says "what you say today is Saturday, never mind I am going out to play"","dateCreated":"1304275121","smartDate":"May 1, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"carolineb242","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/carolineb242","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38386986","body":"Even though Shel Silverstein was my poet, I agree with Caroline. Almost every single of of his poems make me laugh. My favorite is Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too. I always imagined the characters as tiny little trolls that climb is your shoes and fly around your house when your not home.","dateCreated":"1304294891","smartDate":"May 1, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"sarahsme","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sarahsme","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38427728","body":"Shel Silverstein is one of my favorite poets as well as Theodore Geisl. I love Shel Silverstein's Ickle Me Pickle Me and Theodore Geisl's One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. How and why did Theodore Geisl change his name to Dr. Seuss?","dateCreated":"1304359682","smartDate":"May 2, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jessicare4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jessicare4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38502682","body":"I enjoyed shel silverstien's poems the best. I think that he is very creative, and makes poetry very fun. I love the line Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too
\nWent for a ride in a flying shoe. in his poem ickle me pickle me. I would always read his books when i was younger, my favorite book was where the sidewalk ends.","dateCreated":"1304462759","smartDate":"May 3, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"amandac123456789","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/amandac123456789","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38530934","body":"I agree with Amanda, I enjoyed Shel Silverstein's poems the best because they make reading poetry fun and more interesting. I also like his poems the best because my favorite type of poetry is rhyming and fun poetry.","dateCreated":"1304515635","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"AliyahSmi","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/AliyahSmi","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38570052","body":"Like Aliyah, I really like Shel Silverstein's poems because they're fun and exciting, and deliver a new aspect to reading poetry.","dateCreated":"1304554738","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"najumasi4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/najumasi4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38628028","body":"I agree, i also remember reading Shel Silverstein poems when i was younger. I really enjoy his poems because they are fun and creative. Also, any age group can enjoy them! i really like the poem "if my head was not screwed on" It reminds me of how forgetful i can be!","dateCreated":"1304636258","smartDate":"May 5, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"lexiA2","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lexiA2","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38628610","body":"I really enjoy Thedore Geisl otherwise known as Dr.Seuss! I remember making my parents read me "Dr. Seuss A,B,C's" everynight! It was my favorite book ever! My favorite line was "Big Z, little z. What begins with Z? A Zizzer Zazzer does as you can plainly see." I find his poems and books very comical and fun to read.","dateCreated":"1304637058","smartDate":"May 5, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"ashleybacke","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ashleybacke","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38636388","body":"I really liked Shel Silversteins poems because they are funny and anybody can enjoy readng his poems!","dateCreated":"1304646627","smartDate":"May 5, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"bellamarshall","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bellamarshall","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38637584","body":"Like alot of other students, i also liked Shel Silversteins poems because they are funny and easy to comprehend. I enjoy reading them because it is interesting to see how he has been inspired by small things and made them into a poem that anyone can smile over.","dateCreated":"1304647956","smartDate":"May 5, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"sophiebroooo","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sophiebroooo","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38725388","body":"I liked the line from William Yeast's poem "The Second Coming". The line was: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" I think that his poem was very mysterious and honest. I also liked Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards's poems because they were funny and rhymed. They didn't seem to have very deep meaning, which made them easy to read.","dateCreated":"1304893865","smartDate":"May 8, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"alliedipietro","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/alliedipietro","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38725398","body":"I liked the line from William Yeast's poem "The Second Coming". The line was: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" I think that his poem was very mysterious and honest. I also liked Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards's poems because they were funny and rhymed. They didn't seem to have very deep meaning, which made them easy to read.","dateCreated":"1304893872","smartDate":"May 8, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"alliedipietro","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/alliedipietro","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":8}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}