#40 Ethan

The Unlucky Apple


'Twas the apple that in Eden
Caused our father's primal fall;
And the Trojan War, remember
-- 'Twas an apple caused it all.
So for weeks I've hesitated,
You can guess the reason why,
For I want to tell my darling
She's the apple of my eye.
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Poetry Analysis Sheet
1. What phrases are repeated?
twas, apple

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
Trojan war, Eden

3. Explain metaphors.

Eden,Trojan War
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?

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5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
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Sympathy

I know what the caged bird feels,
alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals
-- I know what the caged bird feels!
I know why the caged bird beats his wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting--
I know why he beats his wing!
I know why the caged bird sings,
ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,
-- When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings
-- I know why the caged bird sings!
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Poetry Analysis Sheet

1. What phrases are repeated?
the caged bird

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
a caged bird beating his wing, a caged bird singing

3. Explain metaphors.a caged bird as someone who wants to be free

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
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5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.

I think he’s put himself in the bird in the cage place and is trying to be free to bee free with no limitations that’s what I think it means

Dreams

Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes

Poetry Analysis Sheet
1. What phrases are repeated?
dreams
2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
a broken wing bird
3. Explain metaphors.
life being compared to a broken wing bird

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning? The rhythm is like a heart beat

5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
If u have a dream hang on to it for as long as u can


Cross

My old man's a white old manAnd my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If ever I cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now I wish her well
My old man died in a fine big house.
My ma died in a shack.
I wonder were I'm going to die,
Being neither white nor black?
Langston Hughes

Poetry Analysis Sheet

1. What phrases are repeated?cursed, curses

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
my old mans white, and my old mothers black

3. Explain metaphors.
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4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?the

rhyming scheme is like Shakespeare

5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
The theme is don’t have regrets before u die

Walkers with the Dawn


Being walkers with the dawn and morning,
Walkers with the sun and morning,
We are not afraid of night,
Nor days of gloom,
Nor darkness
Being walkers with the sun and morning.
Langston Hughes

Poetry Analysis Sheet
1. What phrases are repeated?
walkers

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
walkers with the dawn

3. Explain metaphors.
you just have to move along

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
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5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
Move forward and never look back

My People

The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
Langston Hughes

Poetry Analysis Sheet

1. What phrases are repeated?beautiful, my people

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
the night is beautiful, the stars are beautiful, beautiful also the sun

3. Explain metaphors.
the souls of all people are beautiful

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
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5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
Everything is beautiful no matter which way u look at it


To Artina

I will take you heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
I will not be satisfied
With the touch of your hand
Nor the sweet of your lips alone.
I will take your heart for mine.
I will take your soul.I will be God when it comes to you.
Langston Hughes

Poetry Analysis Sheet
1. What phrases are repeated?
I will, god

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
With the touch of your hand, Nor the sweet of your lips alone.I will take your heart for mine.

3. Explain metaphors.
when u go I will be waiting

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
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5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
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