Requirements
- Write Five Poems, Maximum of 2 Accrostic poem. From 5 subjects: Protagonist, Antagonist, Setting, Theme, and Conflict.
- TPDASTT, Then an analysis of the poem with the following requirements, Biographical Info Of Your Poet, Analysis of the Attitude 2-3 sentances and its affect on the poem, Shift Analysis, Theme Analysis with evidence, and Device Analysis of 2 different devices.
Poem 1, Acrostic, Protagonist – Death
Death often takes time
Ending a life once filled with promise
And yet gives purpose
Time fleets and one learns to value
Heading into the dark with a smile and a fulfilled purpose
Poem 2, Acrostic, Antagonist, ASL
Death etching closer
Etching of ones will
Parties gone
Energy lost, will scarce
No ability to fight back
Destroying slowly,
Energising the decline
Traping one in ones body no longer in control.
Poem 3, Mimic, Dust If you must, Theme, Dust if You Must Poem Here
Waste away, but wouldn’t it be better to explore and discover? Conquer and teach, question one’s choices?
Waste away, but there’s soo little time to sing, and dance, Love to show and skills to use, Family to cherish, and reunions to attend
Waste away, but today will not come again, the wind will not return, the sun will not shine the same, the rain will not always falter,
Waste away, But time will disappear, and so will you, Love will leave you by and no forgiveness will be given. And when you are called to leave and you will be called, you will become waste.
Original Poem For Dust If you must:
Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better
To paint a picture, or write a letter, Bake a cake, or plant a seed;
Ponder the difference between want and need?
Dust if you must, but there's not much time,
With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;
Music to hear, and books to read;Friends to cherish, and life to lead.
Dust if you must, but the world's out there
With the sun in your eyes, and the wind in your hair;
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,
This day will not come around again.
Dust if you must, but bear in mind,Old age will come and it's not kind.
And when you go (and go you must)You, yourself, will make more dust.
Poem 4, Diamante, Setting,
Humble, wise
Inspiring, eating, teaching
man in a warm home
filling, warming, comforting
knowledgable, hospitable
home filled by and for a wise man
Poem 5, Diamante, Conflict
Death Sentence
Limiting, Debilitating
Decaying, Fading, exposing
man’s vulnerability making dependence
enriching, valuing, exposing
Comfy, content
New Sense Of Value
Part 2, Poem Analysis
The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes
TPDASTT
TITLE: The highwayman title likely means that the setting will be on a highway and there will be a man
PARAPHRASE: NOTE> Parts of the poem that are already literal have not be paraphrased,
PARAPHRASE SUMMARY: The poem is about two lovers, The woman dies trying to tell the boyfriend to flee but when the boyfriend find out of the way she dies he is filled with revenge and goes out and is killed on a highway. They reunite on cold winter days on that hallway.
NOTE: All paraphrased the text are in Bold and Underlined
The wind was fast moving in darkness wooshing past the gusty trees.
The Moon above the clouds
The highwayman came riding stopping at the door.
He’d a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,
A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin.
They fitted without wrinkle. His boots were up to the thigh.
And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,
His pistol butts a-twinkle,
His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.
In the inn-yard the man rusteled around
He whistled a tune and out came a woman, the landlords daughter
And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked
Where Tim the ostler listened. His face was white and peaked.
His soul filled with madness, his hair like mouldy hay,
But he loved also the landlord’s daughter,
The landlord’s red-lipped daughter.
Dumb as a dog he listened, his interest pecked, and he heard the robber say—
“One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I’m after a prize to-night,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.”
Filled with envy he called for some people
He did not come at dawn or at noon and during the sun’s yellow sunset came troops marching. King George’s men came marching to the inn’s door.
The troops did not talk to the landlord but instead drank his ale. They tied the landlord’s daughter. Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets at their side!
There was death at every window;
And hell at one dark window;
For Bess could see, through her casement, the road that he would ride.
They had tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest.
They had bound a musket beside her, with the muzzle beneath her breast! “Now, keep good watch!” and they kissed her. She heard the doomed man say—
Look for me by moonlight;
Watch for me by moonlight;
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way!
She twisted her hands behind her; but the knots remained firm!
She twisted her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
She streched and strained the knots in the dark, and the hours passed by like years
Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
The tip of one finger touched it. She did not stop for rest.
Up, she stood up to attention, with the muzzle beneath her breast.
She would not risk them hearing; she would not move again;
For the road lay bare in the moonlight;
Blank and bare in the moonlight;
And the blood of her veins, in the moonlight, throbbed to her love’s refrain. Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horsehoofs ringing clear;
Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear?
Down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of the hill,
The highwayman came riding—
Riding—riding—
The army men looked away! She stood up, straight and still.
Tlot-tlot, in the frosty silence! Tlot-tlot, her movements echoing!
Nearer he came and nearer. Her face was like a beacon, attracting him like a lighthouse guiding a ship to the shore
Her eyes grew wide for a moment; she drew one last deep breath,
Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him—with her death.
He turned. he quickly turned to the west; he did not know who stood
Bowed, with the musket aimed toward the head, drenched with blood!
He had not heard the news, and his soul grew distressed as he heard
How Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
The landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Had waited for him, her love but died there.
He turned sporadically, like a madman, yelling curses at the sky,
With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high.
Blood red were his spurs in the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat;
When they shot him to death
Down like a dog on the highway,
And he lay drenched in his blood on the highway, with a bunch of lace at his throat.
And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon flying across the cloudy sky,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding—
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard.
He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred.
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
DEVICES:
- Anomonpea, “Tlot. Tlot, Tlot” Helps the reader understand what is being used like horses moving causing the tlot tlot
- Personification, “The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.” The personification helps give an extra level of life into the poem, for example: if the poet had used The moon was above the clouds, the reader would simply imagine a moon above the clouds but by using personification the reader can imagine the moon not just above the clouds but also the moon moving across the clouds as if chasing the character.
- Imagery, “Over the cobbles, he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard. He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred. He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there” Imagery helped set the tone for the poem due to its description of lighting, architecture, and attire for its characters and scenes. Without such description a reader may imagine a warm tropical climate that can heavily break the way the poem is imagined and perceived by the reader. Not to mention that it makes it easier for the reader to understand where the poem is located and what they can expect in future parts.
ATTITUDE: The overall attitude is grim but with shining beacons of hope sprinkled throughout, especially at the end. The attitude affected how the setting was derived by me, I pictured the setting as a dark, cold, damp time of year. Examples of the grim attitude are
He turned. he quickly turned to the west; he did not know who stoodBowed, with the musket aimed toward the head, drenched with blood!He had not heard the news, and his soul grew distressed as he heardHow Bess, the landlord’s daughter,The landlord’s black-eyed daughter,Had waited for him, her love but died there.He turned sporadically, like a madman, yelling curses at the sky,With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high.Blood red were his spurs in the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat;When they shot him to deathDown like a dog on the highway,And he lay drenched in his blood on the highway,
But examples of hope and light are also found like in the ending and beginning
And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,When the moon flying across the cloudy sky,When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,A highwayman comes riding—Riding—riding—A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard.He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred.He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting thereBut the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,Bess, the landlord’s daughter,Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
and for the beginning
“One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I’m after a prize to-night,But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,Then look for me by moonlight,Watch for me by moonlight,I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.”
the first example shows the grim and dark parts of the poem and how it does not scare from going into very dark territory but the second and third show sprinkles of joy and happiness, a change from the envy, hatred, and grim feeling of the majority of the text.
SHIFT: There was no real shift throughout the poem but the closes it came to a shift was near the end when the Boyfriend was shot down, It was sadder and filled with revenge, and when the couple reunites, it gives a warm but still dark and cold feeling that resembles one of a cold wintery Christmas night.
TITLE REVISITED: My prediction was correct but missing parts and characters that could not be derived from the title.
THEME: Love is very influential. Love created the conflict and drove the characters to keep all hope despite the circumstances and lead to revenge and in the end, it reunited the dead couple.
POEM WRITTEN ANALYSIS.
The famous poet Alfred Noyes was born September 16, 1880, in the United Kingdom. Alfred Noyes died June 25, 1958, at the ripe old age of 77, but in that time, he established himself as one of the most commercially successful poets of his era. He was also academically successful attending oxford and developed his first literary work at 21 at great praise by successful poets. However, one poem stands out, known as the Highwayman. The Highwayman is a poem about two lovers who, after unfortunate circumstances, die. The poem’s theme is how influential love can be as both characters base their decisions heavily on love. An example of love’s sway is when the boyfriend returns to the highway filled with a vengeance after his lover dies. This decision heavily contributes to the poem’s narrative as the choice culminated in his demise on that highway. Another example is at the end of the poem when it’s implied that the lovers reunite on cold winter days on the highway. Had love not been so heavily influential, at least one of the characters may have survived. The poem’s attitude also heavily influenced both the setting and the shift towards the end. The setting was affected as the attitude helped create a dark atmosphere with sprinkles of warmth. This contributed to a setting that resembles that of the end of stranger things season 2, cold, moist, wintery atmosphere but with lights and joy all around. The shift also continued with the environment, but instead of sprinkles of warmth, there was only one, the two lovers. The shift the poem presents at the end of the poem is a well welcomed ribbon to pack things up nicely as it helped bring closure to the reader by detailing their path after death. The reason the ending is considered a shift is because it changed the somber and tragic feeling of the poem to one of hope and a semblance of peace. Lines that reflect this are “The Landlords blackeyed daughter, Had watched her for her love in the moonlight, and died in darkness there” and “and still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding—
Both these sentences contrast each other, the first one is horrifying and action packed whilst the other is more hopeful with closure. However, what ties everything together is the literary devices used by the poet to create a vivid picture of what occurred, from the onomatopoeias like Tlot and whoosh as well as the imagery like The wind was fast among the darkness wooshing past the gusty trees. Both help establish the way the setting is imagined by the reader and therefor how the setting looks later on.
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