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19th Century poems
Emily Dickison
We outgrow love

1. What phrases are repeated?
The only thing that repeats is the word like
2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)?A drawer, antique fashion shows costumes.
3. Explain metaphors.
Love- Strong feelings that you have for someone you really care about.
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?

The rhythm is like a song it’s slow. It doesn’t affect the poem.
5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
The message of the poem is that after you don’t love someone you put those feeling you had for them away.
Outgrow love-when you don’t have those feeling you tend to throw them away.
We outgrow love like other things And put it in the drawer, <-- Text example
This is my letter
1. What phrases are repeated?
The word me
2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)?
Letter to the world, love of her sweet countrymen.
3. Explain metaphors.
Tender-to feel Love- Strong feelings that you have for someone you really care about.
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
1,1, 2,2, 3, 4 It doesn’t affect the meaning
5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
The message is that she’s letting people know how she feels.
This is my letter to the world <-- text example
Her message is committed <-- text example

The heart asks pleasures
1. What phrases are repeated?
nothing is repeated.
2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
heart and deaden suffering
3. Explain metaphors.
asks pleasure first- the heart wants someone to love them too
excuse from pain- When it wants love it gets pain too cause love ain't perfect
those little anodynes that deaden suffering- Well anodynes is a type of drug that takes pain away so when you are in pain and feel like dieing you take the drug and you don't suffer anymore.
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
The rhythm has a beat to it. The beat makes it flow.
5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
That love is in the heart and that the heart hurts and all it wants is to be loved, & cared for.
The heart asks pleasure first And then, excuse from pain- <- the text example
The liberty to die <-- text example
You left me
1. What phrases are repeated?
You left me
2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
A legacy of love ,Capacious as the sea,boundaries of pain
3. Explain metaphors.
left me, sweet, two legacies,- A legacy of love - When your lover left you he or she left you with his or hers love plus yours.
You left me boundaries of pain - That your lover left you with pain
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
It doesn't have a rhythm to it. It makes it flow easier
5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
The theme is love. The message is that when you love someone and that person leaves you. They leave you with pain and with two loves. Theirs and yours.
You left me, sweet, two legacies,- A legacy of love <-- Text example
Between eternity and time <-- Text example
Let me not mar that perfect dream
1. What phrases are repeated?
Nothing is repeated
2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
perfect dream , auroral stain, daily night
3. Explain metaphors.
perfect dream- You dream of what ever you think is perfect
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
It doesn't have a rhythm to it. you just read it and it sounds plain
5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
Its saying don't let me interrupt your perfect dream.
Let me not mar that perfect dream By an auroral stain<-- text example
20th Century
Nikki Giovanni
Love is
1. What phrases are repeated?
Love
2.What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)?
Tucking you in and kissing you "Good night”, laughing,
3. Explain metaphors.
Tucking you in and kissing you "Good night"- someone you really care about is doing this. Because they love you which would be your parents. You might love someone but the love for your parents will never come close
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
It has no rhythm to it. It just flows.
5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
The theme of this poem is that so many people have different opinions about the definition of the word love.
Some people forget that love is tucking you in and kissing you <-- Text example
listening and laughing and asking questions <-- Text example
love is commitment, responsibility <-- Text example
Love is You and me <-- text example

A Poem of Friendship
1. What phrases are repeated?
We are not
2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
laughs we spend, tears we save, thoughts we share, words we never have to speak
3. Explain metaphors.
laughs we spend - times that they laugh with each other
words we never have to speak - They know each other very well and the other one always knows what the other one is thinking or is going to say.
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
It dosen't have a rhythm to it. The poem just flows.
5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
The poem is about that they will never miss each other because they have such a good friendship that they don't have to miss each other.
1.We are not lovers because of the love we make <-- Text example
2.We are not friends because of the laughs we spend <-- Text example
3.the thoughts we share <-- Text example
4.I will never miss you because of what we do but what we are together <-- Text example
When i die
1. What phrases are repeated?
Nothing
2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
who ever hurt me cries, cry i hope their eyes fall out, million maggots,devour the flesh ,
3. Explain metaphors.
I don't see any
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
it dosen't have a rhythm to it.
5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
well she's saying that when she dies the people that hurt her don't cry for her because when she was alive they treated her badly and now that shes dead they care.

when i die i hope no one who ever hurt me cries
and if they cry i hope their eyes fall out
and a million maggots that had made up their brains
crawl from the empty holes and devour the flesh
that covered the evil that passed itself off as a person
that i probably tried
to love <-- Text example The whole poem is the example
I'm not lonely
1. What phrases are repeated?
I don't
2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
sleeping all alone , i'm a big girl, big bed,lots of space , bad dreams , leaving me , i'm not lonely , sleeping all alone
3. Explain metaphors.
i don't think there are any
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
It dosen't have a rhythm to it.
5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
She can sleep good now because of him. She dosen't have any nightmares any more thanks to him.
I'm not lonely sleeping all alone <-- Text example
and i don't dream bad dreams like i used to have <-- text example
Now that you're gone
i don't dream
and no matter
what you think
i'm not lonely
sleeping
all alone <-- text example
You came, too
1. What phrases are repeated?
I came to, I went from
2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
seeking friends, weep, laugh, dried my tears
3. Explain metaphors.
I went from the crowd forever - basically the crowd is the world and she went into it and he followed her and she tried to escape and he went with her.
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
I don't know. it makes it flow
5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
That you come to the world looking for alot of things and one of them is love. When you find love. That love follows you.
I went from the crowd forever
You came, too <-- text example