Find a poem that mentions a specific season.
Then discuss how the poet uses the season in a meaningful, traditional, or unusual way. (Link a copy of the poem with your analysis.)
Think of a “baptism scene” from a significant literary work. How was the character different after the experience? Discuss.
Post By : Dalton Harmon
ReplyDeleteThe Poem Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare is about the season Fall since it talked about the several colors and the cooler air and what it has that spring does not. Like the animals scurrying around and the people as well doing what they need to do to prepare for the upcoming hardships of winter and also about the birds laying their eggs as well. In this season.
Post by: Sofia Ricra
ReplyDeletehttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178713
In The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, the poet uses the winter season in a traditional way.
The majority of the occasions occur in the month of December, which implies it is winter time, at least in most places. The poem depicts a scene that is loaded with darkness that is just intensified by the season, seeing as how the winter season is chilly, and can be somewhat grim and dim. The poem additionally has a component of unhappiness which winter can furthermore symbolize.
I agree, Poe's use of the season really helps intensify the mood of the poem.
DeleteI love this poem. Edgar Allan Poe is my favorite poet. I never realized that the setting took place during Winter time by analyzing the poem, but I agree that the chilly winter will intensify the eerie story.
DeleteEdgar Allan Poe is an amazing poet and uses the seasons to convey the mood of the poem. He has a true talent when it comes to creating a dark and terrifying poem.
DeleteEdgar Allan Poe is a great poet and I'm glad that you used this example.
DeleteGreat example as well as the description.
DeleteI love this poem! Good job describing the poem.
DeletePoe is definitely in my top five favorite poets. I love your connections.
DeleteI love Poe's work. Great example.
DeleteI love Poe's poem. The description was great.
DeleteBY JOHN KEATS
ReplyDeleteFour Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honied cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness—to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173737
Post by: Alanie O’Dell
“The Human Seasons” by John Keats is a poem that relates each of the four seasons to the nature of humans. Keats uses the different seasons in both a meaningful and an unusual way. It’s not often that a poet compares the seasons to the nature of humans, which in itself is meaningful and thoughtful. Keats uses the appropriate explanation of each season. He thoughtfully conducted the mood that each season brings into his poem. While reading “The Human Seasons,” readers feel delighted and peaceful at the beginning because the poem starts off with Summer and enters into Spring. Readers then begin to feel warm and content as the poem transcends into Autumn and finally, readers feel cold at the thought of Winter that the ending of the poem brings.
It's a deep poem and I like how you saw the characteristics as it went one instead of judging it only by reading it once.
DeleteI like how the poem focuses on all seasons, since most just focus on one or two.
Delete-Piper Colangelo
Poems like this have powerful meanings and in your analysis, you helped to capture that depth of the poem.
DeleteThe poem is very deep and relatable.
DeletePost by Parth
ReplyDeleteBy Robert Frost.
"Stopping by woods on a snowy evening."
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
The little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening-2/
In his poem Stopping by woods on a snowy evening Robert Frost uses traditional methods to show Winter. He does this when he mentions things such as " Between the woods and a frozen lake". The frozen lake is saying that it is very cold. There are also points when He says " The woods are lovely, dark, and deep." To me I think he is saying that even though winter has come and made things dark there is still beauty in things. An example is the woods he speaks of, even though that are dark and deep they still have beauty in them. Throughout his poem he mentions things like snow and frozen lakes to emphasise his point that winter has come.
You picked a good poem and did a great job analyzing it.
DeleteI like you pick a poem by Robert Frost. He is like my favorite poet of all time.
DeleteThis is one of my favorite poems. I like how Frost emphasizes the idea of winter being dark but beautiful. Traditionally, one pictures winter being dark because it brings death of vegetation.
DeleteYour analysis is very accurate and you also selected a great poem, I specifically liked the part where it spoke of the beauty of winter.
DeleteI love everything about this poem. It has so much meaning behind it.
DeleteGreat poem, I love robert frost
DeleteSummer Sun
ReplyDeleteRobert Louis Stevenson
Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.
Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.
The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.
Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.
Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.
Our sun is a highly prominent symbol for summer and in this poem Robert Louis Stevenson captures that idea. Emphasizing the idea of the sun’s pervasiveness he uses phrases that compare the sun’s rays through his using the word “showers” as shown in the first stanza. Further emphasis is added with the personification of the sun, so as to seem as if he can search out new ways into the buildings and structures. Through his use of both emphasis and imagery of the sun, Robert Louis Stevenson uses this poem to capture a piece of summer.
-Jared W. Godwin
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/73.html
ReplyDeleteShakespeare describes this poem in an unusual way with a pinch of darkness for effect and talks about how winter begins. It is close to winter due to him describing only a few leaves hanging which means fall is over. He describes how the day goes but connects it to his age in which is an unusual way of describing age with season. He uses the ashes to reflect on how his youth use to be and he tries explaining other seasons but he says winter comes so fast thus leading from it. He keeps describing his life and how it is coming to an end and that he will never see the young man again probably signifying his love for the youth.
We get a good perception of Shakespeare from this; great job deciphering the details.
DeleteGreat job interpreting his work.
DeleteI just have to say you did a very good job for all of these Iv'e read some of your other work and I just thought the way you interpreted everything was very good.
DeletePost By: Kayla Shannon
ReplyDeletePoem By: Thomas Nashe
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king,
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing:
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
The palm and may make country houses gay,
Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,
And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay:
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,
In every street these tunes our ears do greet:
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo!
http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blnashespring.htm
In this poem, the poet uses Spring in a meaningful and unusual way. He uses it in a meaningful way by talking about all the positive things of spring such as young lovers meeting, things blooming, and music playing in the street. Spring, to me, is a time of renewal. During the winter, everything is so cold and bitter and it dies, but in the spring, it starts to warm up and you see flowers about to bloom and trees with bright green leaves. The only way I found it just a bit unusual was when the poet put in the noises of the birds. I have never seen a poet put that in a poem, but I must say that it adds character to the poem by letting readers know what the birds in his spring sound like.
I agree, this poet uses Spring strategically to brighten the mood of the poem. Spring is like a fresh boost of positivity from the dull, cold winter, and the poet used that to his advantage.
DeleteNashe completely uses these descriptions of Spring to bring life to the poem. I loved the way Nashe brought in the sound of birds, it makes it easier for the reader to imagine the scene going on before them.
DeleteI like the poem and how you analyze the poem. Nice job.
DeleteWhat a cute poem!
DeleteYou did a great job defining the poem.
DeleteI really like this poem!
Delete"October" by Robert Frost
ReplyDeletehttp://poetry.about.com/od/poemsbytitleo/l/blfrostoctober.htm
Here we have a typical poem talking about the basics of fall in a traditional manner. The poem seems to follow the a somewhat slow pace from the words to the meaning. The poem starts off with the basics of a sonnet but throws aside the format half way through to rhyme as it pleases. Heavy emphasis is put on the leaves falling. The slow rate the leaves fall seems to mean that the transition to winter is starting. This fact is further explained by the dying grapes at the end signalling the end of harvest and start of winter. The falling leaves also show the environment's lack of energy it possesses going into winter. The poem seems to be said at a slow pace in attempts to mimic how tired a farmer would be after his annual big harvest. In closing, this example poem seems to adeptly summarize the basic feelings of wall when it ends.
Very good explanation. I also had a poem that stopped rhyming about half way through.
DeleteAwesome explanation, tied it on well with topic of the season.
DeletePosted by: Aleigha Letterman
ReplyDeleteSpring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/spring-new-hampshire
In this poem the author is speaking of all of the wonderful things that spring has to offer. The author tells that the spring is too beautiful to be wasted, that someone should not waste their spring indoors. The poem was specific, and personifies the winds and streams.
The author did a good job at having an effect on the reader, it made me want the winter to leave, and the spring to be here already, so in away the author made an emotional connection between the reader and the spring time.
I really liked this poem, then it made me sad because I don't get to go outside much because I am always either doing school work, or I am at work with my mama. I really liked that the author compared the clouded skies to a "silver-speckled sky".
That was a very nice poem about what Spring is like for Claude. It does convey what happens during Spring and I think it is a good example.
DeleteI totally get you when you say you don't get to go outside much. It seems like I'm always doing something. The poem was beautiful, great example.
DeletePost by: Tiffany Weresow
ReplyDeleteThe poem I have chosen is “I Have A Rendezvous with Death” by Alan Seeger.
Link: https://goo.gl/IAwH4P
Seeger uses his poem to convey the season of Spring, when flowers are blooming. He put this season in a quite unusual way due to the title of the poem, meaning that Seeger has a meeting with death. The meaning of the poem seemingly contradicts with the season that it is referring to. Although, once you break the poem down, it ties together. Seeger states, “And apple-blossoms fill the air,” as well as, “And the first meadow-flowers appear.” Although this poem seems eerie in the terms of talking about death, often a dreadful subject, it is actually quite the opposite.
Seeger uses this poem to explain that he will be happy when he dies. He establishes that death is not something he worries or fears about. If he was scared, he would not have contrasted the eerie idea of Death by mentioning all the subjects that deal with Spring. In the town, there are a lot of battles going on along a battered hill, in which Seeger claims he will die. But, he knows that one day the hill will be cleared and flowers will bloom there. Peace will be reinstated. This offers him closure. He believes that death will bring life.
I really like this poem, Tiffany! Especially the word Rendezvous. I like the analysis of it, great job.
DeleteWinter Iris
ReplyDelete© Cathleen J. Rowland
Winter snow is falling down
Covering the earth in a blanket clean
I dream of sunshine on my face
The beauty of the garden, so serene
Dawn's brilliant colors fill the sky
Dew drops glisten in its rays
Birds in song, the sweet smell of spring
The valley full of morning haze
Amidst the tulips and daffodils
And tiny white daisies tangling wild
My purple lovelies greet the day
With the innocence of a child
Standing tall with majesty
And colors of the deepest hue
Grace is added to the garden
Creating a perfect view
The winter snow is still gently falling
But I have warmth within my heart
For soon the buds will break the ground
And reveal a lovely work of art.
http://www.poetryinnature.com/nature/poetry.asp?poem=88
I believe that Cathleen uses traditional methods to show that winter has arrived. In the poem, she stated that “ winter snow is falling down, covering the earth in a blanket clean .” This allows me to infer that she is speaking of winter and that the snow is falling from the sky and landing on the ground around her. The next couple of lines, “I dream of sunshine on my face . The beauty of the garden, so serene” allows me to infer that she does not enjoy the winter season and cannot wait until spring when the garden begins to blossom and she can feel the warm sun on her face once more.
-Alex Salce
I really like this poem.
DeleteThis was a really good poem, it was different. I liked that it was about the winter, but the writer wanted to feel the warmth of a different season.
DeleteAleigha
Posted by: Caleb Costner
ReplyDeleteDaisy Time
BY MARJORIE PICKTHALL
See, the grass is full of stars,
Fallen in their brightness;
Hearts they have of shining gold,
Rays of shining whiteness.
Buttercups have honeyed hearts,
Bees they love the clover,
But I love the daisies' dance
All the meadow over.
Blow, O blow, you happy winds,
Singing summer's praises,
Up the field and down the field
A-dancing with the daisies.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174132
In this poem the poet is talking about how she loves to watch the daises. She is talking about how all the flowers in the meadow blow in the wind, and her favorite flower to watch is the daisies. This poem specializes on how flowers have a meaning to spring.
The poet gave the reader a great emotional connection with the poem because reading this you are able to realize how inviting and fun spring is.
I like this poem because I have a flower garden under my bedroom window and I rarely take good care of it. So reading this poem it allowed me to see that without beauty and fun in the spring, spring is more like winter.
This poem is nice, I like it, and I like that you connected it to a season even though the poem did not say what season it was about specifically.
DeleteAleigha
Posted By: Anna K-S
ReplyDeletePoem By: Marty Ford
" Hints of Spring"
First day of spring,not soon enough for me
Sweet scent of freshness,could make one's soul sing
The barren trees shine in many of bloom
As patches of green grass,begin to renew
Our small feathered friends,arrive with sweet song
Building nests for the wee ones,coming along
Bluish-gray skies,spread far and wide
As gentle winds whisper,of on-coming showers
A hint of sunshine,warmed the air
As lingering clouds about,filled the skies above
Spring is sometimes tricky,as most of us know
One day is warm,another one it's cold
Even some snow,can find a way in
But leaves in a hurry,as a warm-up sets in
Spring showers comes along,to many for some
But Mother Nature will change,this season in time
The farmers fields will come alive
And gardens and flowerbeds,will begin to color and thrive
New birth,new life
A welcoming change,these hints of spring.
The poem “Hints of Spring” was wrote by the poet Marty Ford. Ford uses the season of Spring in a traditional way. The use of the season Spring is used traditionally because Ford describes the traditional aspects of Spring such as blooming flowers, the birth of animals or animals coming out of hibernation, and the warmth Spring brings. The poet also tells of the weather stating there may be rain, snow, it might be cold or hot. Ford includes the words “new birth [and] new life” describing the animals as well as the plants. In the first six lines the poet has a good AABBAA pattern then all the sudden it’s gone, it’s like he decided he wanted his poem to be a freeverse halfway through.
http://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/3042/357.html
This is a nice poem.
DeleteBy: Hannah Berckman
ReplyDeleteDesert Places by Robert Frost is about winter. Winter is commonly associated with sadness, bitterness, death and lifelessness. The poem describes how everything is covered in snow and how he feels lonely. Frost talks about how he doesn't have the spirit to put effort into counting the certain things and how he seems alone. He describes the landscape as covered in snow and how he only sees snow surrounding him. He says that he feels that he is the only one in a deserted place. I think this poem is well written and I like how he utilized a season to express his emotions.
https://www.internal.org/Robert_Frost/Desert_Places
DeleteReading this, when It got to the lonely part, I felt sorry for the author, and whet it meant to him to write this poem. ~ Caleb C.
DeleteLoved how you mentioned the moods and themes that went with winter to help us better understand it. Great explanation!
DeleteI love this poem! Frost is truly a magnificent poet. Good connection.
DeletePost By: Karmen Scruggs
ReplyDeleteWhose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
The poem above is called “Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and is written by Robert Frost.
Seasons are used in poetry in many different ways. They can be used as a foundation for the building of the poetry's mood or for the building of the setting and characters actions.
The winter feel is evident in the poem when speaking of "the darkest night of the year" and the snow. Frost obviously uses the seasons to his advantage when creating the mood and the entire building of the scene. You're not sure who he's talking about, but you know that they are lonely and tired and probably mysterious all because of how he used the seasons.
Robert Frost is definitely one of my favorite poets!
Delete-Piper Colangelo
Robert Frost writes many beautiful poems and this is a good example of the season.
DeletePost by: Hannah Cribby
ReplyDeleteWhat Spring Will Bring by Candy Barstow
http://www.poetryinnature.com/nature/poetry.asp?poem=3541
I chose this poem because it is a good example of what Spring is like for me. In this poem it captures what happens in Spring and how it impacts most people. This poet uses the season in an unusual way to express what he seems to hate about it. Based on the poem the author must have some serious pollen allergies. A lot people can relate to this poem just like I do because I know when Spring comes that I won't be able to stop sneezing. This poem is very true to the season and it was well written and hilarious.
I don't believe in god
ReplyDeleteBut her lips tasted like Heaven
and her eyes were the colour
of branches laid bare in winter
of dirt and the roots weaving
in and out of my ribcage
she bite her nails
and the skin at my collarbone
exhales great shuddering breaths
like she is a supernova
and I am her explosion
I don't believe in God
but I do believe in poetry
and she is the only thing
worth writing about
(vd)
The author of this poem uses the season in a meaningful but unusual way. It is meaningful because he says how her eyes remind him of the color of branches in the winter, when you think of winter you think about how everything is cold and wet and branches when cold and wet are usually a dark brown to black color. He choose a deep meaninful but unusal way to describe someone's eye color.
He also goes in depth about small things like her lips. he also states how she is the only thing that is worth writing about. He must really in love with her to write such meaningful but in an unsual way about her.
http://theinspiredwoman.tumblr.com/post/42373372410
DeleteInteresting kind of poem and it sounds like he loves poetry and it's his everything. I did not understand it when I went to stanza two but you clarified that for me. Good job
DeletePost by: Grace Deaton
DeleteIn winter,
ReplyDeleteWith the soft snow,
Flowing 'round,
Coating the trees,
Like lies,
That melts,
Into icy teardrops,
Crying out,
For the warmth,
Of love,
Of spring's,
First kiss,
And summer's romance,
Winter baits me,
With candied sugar,
Sprinkled liberally,
Over my life,
Tempting to taste,
The sweet green leaves,
Frozen beneath,
Hiding from,
The taste of longing,
Of love lost,
And life waiting.
http://www.poetryinnature.com/nature/poetry.asp?poem=4
The poet, Jessica A. Wiggins, used the season of winter in a very traditional way in this poem. She speaks of Winter as if it is a decieving, tempting thing. I feel that it is traditional because many poets use the idea that winter is cruel, but underneath, something wonderful is waiting.
The poem is also meaningful to me. The poet seems to have such a strong longing for winter to be over. I believe that winter could also mean a rough patch in life. The poet wants this rough patch to be over, so the promises of summer, or the good times, can arrive.
Posted by: James Lynn
ReplyDeletehttp://www.poetryinnature.com/nature/poetry.asp?poem=3541
What Spring Will Bring' Achoo
Bed sheets on the line flapping in the breeze,
Blooming flowers that make me sneeze,
Bees awakened gathering for honey,
Pollen makes my nose real runny,
Puffy white clouds and crisp blue skies,
Itchy watery red rimmed eyes,
Cutting hay with a baler,
As I reach for my inhaler,
Spring makes my allergies an issue,
Does anyone happen to have a tissue?
The poem I chose is "What Spring Will Bring," by Candy Barstow. I chose this poem because it talks about Spring in a way that most people can relate to. The poem talks about how Spring is one of the worst season for allergies. First, blooming flowers and bees all relate to pollen making people sneeze and having runny noses. Pollen can also cause your eyes to water and itch, and inhalers are used for people having problems breathing due to allergies. Finally, tissues are used to blow your nose, and I believe they are used most during Spring.
I like how the writer used accurate descriptions of spring.
DeleteYour poem was great and how the writer perfectly captures spring, although I don't have allergies!
DeletePosted by Maria McDonald:
ReplyDelete"Sonnet 18" by Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" mentions summer in the first line, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Shakespeare wrote this poem to a woman he loved and he compared her to a summer's day. Summer is typically very bright and sunny. There's beautiful flowers and the trees are green. There's new life and everything is beautiful, such as the woman in "Sonnet 18." The whole poem focuses on his beautiful lover and says that her beauty will never die like all other beautiful things. Towards the end of the poem, he says that she will live on forever in his poem because his poem will continue on with her in it. I think this a good example of using seasons in a meaningful way, because he is comparing his lover's beauty to a beautiful summer's day.
I really like this poem in the way that the writer compared his crush's beauty to a beautiful day in summer.
DeleteThis is one of my all time favorite poems. I love the way he compares her to summer and everything else.
Delete-Kalynne H.
I like how this poem compares a woman's beauty to the season of Summer because It is very romantic. By comparing the two, Shakespeare enhances the meaning of beauty.
DeleteDust of Snow by Robert Frost
ReplyDeleteThe way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/winter/page-1/29659/
Seasons can have an enormous affect on the mood or tone of poetry. Sometimes without even realizing it the reader subconsciously uses the season to detect the mood or tone of the poem.
One typically thinks of sadness, bitterness, and even death when thinking of winter. Robert Frost however, uses it in a way that shows happiness. When the crow shook the snow onto the narrator it opened his eyes in a way. It showed him that time goes on and saved him from his depressed mood and the day he regretted.
-Piper Colangelo
This is probably the first poem I have read like this.
Delete-Kalynne H.
Great example. I love Robert Frost.
DeletePosted By: Adison Costner
ReplyDeleteThe Seasons
The seasons come and go
They change when they please
Their colors collide
Making a beautiful transformation
Then collide once again as they depart
Winter sweeps the warm away
Turning everything white
The chill leaving no trace of heat
The mountain tops now fit in
Until it's time for winter to leave
You know Springs on its way
When white fades to green
Other colors, springing to life
Purples, yellows, and reds
Leaving behind their allergens
Allergies turn to sunburns
As summer blazes in
The beach and pool don't cover up
The fact that summer burns everything
Then leaves when it's burnt out
When the feel of fire
Turns to the look of fire,
Trees of yellow, red, and orange begin to fall
Fire falling, instead of heat rising
Is a sign that winter's coming back
By: Chris Shiflett
http://www.poetryinnature.com/nature/poetry.asp?poem=6312
Even though that poem talks about all four season, I think that this poem show the meanings of the season. The writer, Chris, made all of the season flow naturally together. He wanted to make sure that he captured each of the seasons meanings and made sure that they would all flow along, just like seasons do. It was interesting to read how he described each season.
I like how the writer used descriptive accusations about this poem. Good find. ~ Caleb C.
DeleteBy: Ling Zhang
ReplyDeleteSpring by William Shakespeare
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he,
Cuckoo;
Cuckoo, cuckoo: Oh word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!
When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,
And merry larks are plowmen’s clocks,
When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,
And maidens bleach their summer smocks,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he,
Cuckoo;
Cuckoo, cuckoo: Oh word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182368
The poem by William Shakespeare is written in a meaningful way. In the poem, it said that in the spring time the Cuckoo will sing which the married men dislike. The reason why is because the Cuckoo, represent spring, is free and can do any thing he likes,but the married men can't because they are tied down.
By: Kalynne Helms
ReplyDeleteSeasons in poems have a big meaning. They can symbolize the mood, theme, or many other things in a poem. I chose Spring by William Shakespeare. When I think of spring, I sometimes think of weddings and then that makes me think of marriage, which is kind of what this poem is about. What the poem is really centered on is married men. The beginning of the poem is talking about spring and the beauty but then there are birds. These birds start to mock the married men because cuckoo sounds like cuckold which means husband of an unfaithful wife. Then the second stanza starts off good with shepherds and maidens too but once again, the birds show up. Spring is supposed to be a season full of happiness and marriage but for the cuckold´s, not so much. Spring is a bad time for them.
Spring By: William Shakespeare
When daisies pied, and violets blue,
And lady-smocks all silver-white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men, for thus sings he:
“Cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo!” O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear.
When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,
And merry larks are ploughmen’s clocks,
When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,
And maidens bleach their summer smocks,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men, for thus sings he:
“Cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo!” O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear.
The Death of Autumn by Edna St. Vincent Millay
ReplyDeleteWhen reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes,
And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind
Like aged warriors westward, tragic, thinned
Of 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 crushes
My heart. I know that Beauty must ail and die,
And will be born again--but ah, to see
Beauty stiffened, staring up at the sky!
Oh, Autumn! Autumn!--What is the Spring to me?
In the poem The Death of Autumn, Millay uses Autumn in a traditional way. She describes autumn as a time of letting go. In the first two lines, she speaks of vegetation as it is starting to go away as it dies. She then compares and describes them as going away like aged warriors. By using the fall and middle age connection she is describing a time where things are slowly dying out.
The poem is ended with the comparison between Autumn and Spring. The two seasons are total opposites, Autumn being a time of letting go and Spring a time of rebirth. The speaker talks about how things must die in Autumn to become beautiful again in the Spring. This comparison accentuates the idea of season bring a cycle of death and rebirth.
I really liked your poem because autumn is my favorite season, and your connections were great.
DeleteI believe the poet put the season winter in the poem to stress how the father went out of his way to provide for the family in rough conditions. Had it been summer the father would not have been cold, or had to have go out in the cold to get wood. He would have simply got up but, because of those low temperatures it shows the father cared about his family enough to get the house warm before waking anyone, even though it meant he had to be the one to go out into the cold and do all the work. Even though no one thanked him and spoke indifferently to him, the father still cared enough to continue warming the house, polish his son shoes and so forth. THe season definitely strengthens the poem. If it had no season, the poem would simply say:
ReplyDeleteSundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake.
he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him,
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
I find the details about the cold winter made the poem more enjoyable and was a lot of the content.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/those-winter-sundays
http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/wonderful-winter-wonderland
ReplyDeleteThe poet of this poem is Evermore and they use the season of Winter in a traditional and meaningful way. They include in the poem the many traditional things families may do during Winter. They also include things that come along with Winter, like hot chocolate or the cold temperatures. They also include the things they love about the season.
By: Haylee Franckewitz
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ReplyDeleteThe poet used each season in an emotional way. She connected each season and what happens in those seasons, to the human life. In Spring we are born, in summer we bloom, in fall we ebb, and finally in winter we die. It is not a happy poem at first look, but she ends it by hoping that, by the time winter has come, we will have experienced all the others to their fullest extent.
By: Aaron N
I like that the poet uses the season to represent aging.
DeleteThe morns are meeker than they were,
ReplyDeleteThe nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on!
Emily Dickinson uses Autumn in a traditional fashion. She discusses the dark morning and dying flowers that occur in fall. She also talks about one of the most common features of fall which are the changing of the leaves on trees. At the end she decides since the maples are colorful and the fallen leaves make the field appear scarlet she should wear a trinket so that she too matches the festive season. Usually fall is about death or going to sleep, but Emily Dickinson suggest it is a time for color and happiness.
Elizabeth Suarez.
ReplyDeleteNothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost is speaking of Autumn in this poem. When just reading the first line, you might think of Spring but when you see that he mentions gold, you go to Autumn/Fall. By adding the 'is gold' to that line, it brings us to the golden brown leaves that are on the trees during Autumn.
Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets. And I feel like it more so goes from spring to fall as the poem goes on, but I still really like the connection you made!
Deletemy father moved through dooms of love
ReplyDeletethrough sames of am through haves of give,
singing each morning out of each night
my father moved through depths of height
this motionless forgetful where
turned at his glance to shining here;
that if (so timid air is firm)
under his eyes would stir and squirm
newly as from unburied which
floats the first who, his april touch
drove sleeping selves to swarm their fates
woke dreamers to their ghostly roots
and should some why completely weep
my father’s fingers brought her sleep:
vainly no smallest voice might cry
for he could feel the mountains grow.
Lifting the valleys of the sea
my father moved through griefs of joy;
praising a forehead called the moon
singing desire into begin
joy was his song and joy so pure
a heart of star by him could steer
and pure so now and now so yes
the wrists of twilight would rejoice
keen as midsummer’s keen beyond
conceiving mind of sun will stand,
so strictly (over utmost him
so hugely) stood my father’s dream
his flesh was flesh his blood was blood:
no hungry man but wished him food;
no cripple wouldn’t creep one mile
uphill to only see him smile.
Scorning the Pomp of must and shall
my father moved through dooms of feel;
his anger was as right as rain
his pity was as green as grain
septembering arms of year extend
less humbly wealth to foe and friend
than he to foolish and to wise
offered immeasurable is
proudly and (by octobering flame
beckoned) as earth will downward climb,
so naked for immortal work
his shoulders marched against the dark
his sorrow was as true as bread:
no liar looked him in the head;
if every friend became his foe
he’d laugh and build a world with snow.
My father moved through theys of we,
singing each new leaf out of each tree
(and every child was sure that spring
danced when she heard my father sing)
then let men kill which cannot share,
let blood and flesh be mud and mire,
scheming imagine, passion willed,
freedom a drug that’s bought and sold
giving to steal and cruel kind,
a heart to fear, to doubt a mind,
to differ a disease of same,
conform the pinnacle of am
though dull were all we taste as bright,
bitter all utterly things sweet,
maggoty minus and dumb death
all we inherit, all bequeath
and nothing quite so least as truth
—i say though hate were why men breathe—
because my Father lived his soul
love is the whole and more than all
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/my-father-moved-through-dooms-love
The poem “my father moved through dooms of love” by E. E. Cummings was written about his father after he was killed by a train in 1926. E. E. Cummings uses seasons and seasonal words to make the poem more meaningful towards his father. You can tell his father was a man of different moods, which can be sensed from the change in tone and difference in seasonal words used through the poem.
- Olyvia Knight
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ReplyDelete"Bed in Summer"
By Robert Louis Stevenson
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
I enjoy this poem about Bed in Summer because it is viewed in an unusual way, in the eyes of a young child. In winter it gets dark early, the child might wake up from a nap or the child may wake up early in the morning. However, things are quite different in the summer where the days are long and the sun does not like to set. Many young children go to bed before 9:00 meaning that it will probably still be light out. The poem also talks about lots of playing which is normally a child thing.
~Christopher Johnson
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ReplyDeleteBy Noah Wollin
ReplyDelete"January" by John Updike
The days are short,
The sun a spark,
Hung thin between
The dark and dark.
Fat snowy footsteps
Track the floor.
Milk bottles burst
Outside the door.
The river is
A frozen place
Held still beneath
The trees of lace.
The sky is low.
The wind is gray.
The radiator
Purrs all day.
He uses Winter to create a dull, still environment for the poem. It describes a usual snowy day in the winter and describes it as a dark cold day. He uses the season of winter in a traditional way, illustrating how a winter day would feel, sound and look in the North on most winter nights. Most of my winter days when I lived in Illinois were like this. Spent inside in the dark after school with a radiator on. Although the weather is significantly different here, this poem reminds me very much of what winter used to feel like to me.
"I Am Offering this Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca
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I am offering this poem to you,
since I have nothing else to give.
Keep it like a warm coat
when winter comes to cover you,
or like a pair of thick socks
the cold cannot bite through,
I love you,
I have nothing else to give you,
so it is a pot full of yellow corn
to warm your belly in winter,
it is a scarf for your head, to wear
over your hair, to tie up around your face,
I love you,
Keep it, treasure this as you would
if you were lost, needing direction,
in the wilderness life becomes when mature;
and in the corner of your drawer,
tucked away like a cabin or hogan
in dense trees, come knocking,
and I will answer, give you directions,
and let you warm yourself by this fire,
rest by this fire, and make you feel safe
I love you,
It’s all I have to give,
and all anyone needs to live,
and to go on living inside,
when the world outside
no longer cares if you live or die;
remember,
I love you.
The season the author is using in this poem is winter and i feel that the way he uses it is anything but traditional. He's using winter throughout to obviously describe the season occurring, but he also uses it to aid the movement of his poem and how he wants his love to think of it. He tells her to use it as a coat, socks, corn to fill her belly, and a scarf for her head (not literally). He wants to offer her this poem, but he wanted her to think of this poem as so much more than just a poem. He wants it to comfort her when he can't be there and he wants her to keep it forever. And in the end, he states, "It’s all I have to give,
and all anyone needs to live,
and to go on living inside,
when the world outside
no longer cares if you live or die;
remember,
I love you."
Meaning that this poem is so sentimental that no matter how old it gets or if people decided to stop caring about you, there will always be one person who loves her and this poem is acting as a reminder.
-Laurie Ricardo
ReplyDeleteThis poem about winter addresses the season in a very unconventional way. Instead of it being a deep insight of the meaning of winter and how it plays a part in life, You read this seemingly complex narrative that is actually the story of a man who didn’t put his contacts in before going outside and slipped on the ice. I fully understand the plight of this author, having to wear glasses myself. It is difficult to operate without good vision, but in some cases retrieving the device you use to see can be inconvenient or even difficult. The author is compared to a flightless bird when they slip and for a split second their legs are in the air above their head. is seems meaningful, but is actually a funny anecdote about life.Though it may have been intentionally meaningful on the writer’s part and only disguised as an everyday situation.
- Sarah Macon
ReplyDeleteThis poem uses the season autumn or fall reason being it uses a lot of words that relate with fall like “yellow woods”.
This poem is one of the most meaningful poems because it implies a metaphor by using the roads basically saying the in life there are two roads the one everybody goes through and the one no one goes through and could be your own. The poem gives off a really nice message to be yourself and not follow the crown it uses fall and I think that just adds to the emotion because in all the other season colors are usually the same but in fall all the colors are different there can be green, red, yellow, orange but they all work together once again implying that being different could be good and look just as beautiful.-Stephanie Martinez
Post by: Kayla Williamson
ReplyDeleteDust of Snow: Robert Frost
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Robert Frost uses a lot of imagery in this poem. The main idea of the poem is that the little things in life can make huge changes in the future. Noticing the little things in life will make you happier. He used the season in a meaningful way by talking about the “dust of snow” and focusing on the small things. It’s the simple things we do that can make all of the difference. This poem shows that we can take the hard things in life and make them better. I really love the simplicity and the message that this poem carries.