Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but

A dagger of the mind, a false creation,

Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?

I see thee yet, in form as palpable

As this which now I draw.

Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going,

And such an instrument I was to use.

Mine eyes are made the fools o' th' other senses,

Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still,

And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,

Which was not so before. There’s no such thing.

It is the bloody business which informs

Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half-world

Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse

The curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates

Pale Hecate’s offerings, and withered murder,

Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf,

Whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,

With Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design

Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,

Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear

Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,

And take the present horror from the time,

Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives.

Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.

(A bell rings)

I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.

Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell

That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

Is this a dagger I see in front of me, with its handle pointing toward my hand? (to the dagger) Come, let me hold you. (he grabs at the air in front of him without touching anything) I don’t have you but I can still see you. Fateful apparition, isn’t it possible to touch you as well as see you? Or are you nothing more than a dagger created by the mind, a hallucination from my fevered brain? I can still see you, and you look as real as this other dagger that I’m pulling out now. (he draws a dagger) You’re leading me toward the place I was going already, and I was planning to use a weapon just like you. My eyesight must either be the one sense that’s not working, or else it’s the only one that’s working right. I can still see you, and I see blood splotches on your blade and handle that weren’t there before. (to himself)There’s no dagger here. It’s the murder I’m about to do that’s making me think I see one. Now half the world is asleep and being deceived by evil nightmares. Witches are offering sacrifices to their goddess Hecate. Old man murder, having been roused by the howls of his wolf, walks silently to his destination, moving like  TARQUIN Tarquin was a Roman prince who sneaked into a Roman wife’s bedroom in the middle of the night and raped her. Tarquin, as quiet as a ghost. (speaking to the ground) Hard ground, don’t listen to the direction of my steps. I don’t want you to echo back where I am and break the terrible stillness of this moment, a silence that is so appropriate for what I’m about to do. While I stay here talking, Duncan lives. The more I talk, the more my courage cools. (A bell rings) I’m going now. The murder is as good as done. The bell is telling me to do it. Don’t listen to the bell, Duncan, because it summons you either to heaven or to hell.

Macbeth: Tragedy          It's a poem

Symbolic: -Blood & Gore

                -Supernatural             Symbolic for the theme       =MOTIF

                -Nature Imagery 

The theme: Power and Corruption: -Mood

                                                       -Voice=Tone

Macbeth paragraphs

Nature imagery:

"Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer’s cloud, Without our special wonder?"

Nature imagery is using the powers of nature to describe something to the audience and Shakespeare uses a lot of it in one of his most famous plays called "Macbeth". He does this in order to make the play a lot more interesting then just saying something explicitly. In Act 3 Scene 4, when the first murderer comes and disturbs the dinner to say that he had killed Banquo but Fleance escaped, Macbeth says... "I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock, As broad and general as the casing air..." This is in contrast to what actually happened using nature imagery to represent what he actually wanted in Juxtaposition. "...But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears."

The nature imagery 

Blood and Gore:

"With twenty trenchèd gashes on his head, The least a death to nature."

In the play "Macbeth", Shakespeare uses 3 main ideas throughout the play, nature imagery, superstition or supernatural and especially blood and gore. Blood and gore is used mostly in the play to create darkness and it is entertainment for the audience. In Act 3 Scene 4, the first murderer uses this blood and gore to convince Macbeth that Banquo is dead by saying "Ay, my good lord. Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenchèd gashes on his head." When Shakespeare wrote this, people didn't have cameras to take photos to prove something or in this case prove that they killed someone.  Instead, they made it as gorey and bloody as possible to make the person believe you did it. Now Macbeth is convinced that the adult snake lies in the ditch.

Superstition/ supernatural:

"Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal;"

When Macbeth talks to Lady Macbeth about the ghost, Lady Macbeth does not believe him and convinces the guests that he is crazy and tells him to behave. She didn't believe him because she thought what he was saying was nonsense and it was supernatural. On page 5, Act 3 Scene 4, we can see what Macbeth said to her. "The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns And push us from our stools." He is saying that when a man dies he can never come back to life again but now that he sees the ghost of Banquo, he is loosing his mind. "This is more strange Than such a murder is."

The Theme Power and Corruption:

"Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,"

The big theme that Skakespeare uses throughout the whole play is "Power and Corruption". After the witches get in Macbeth's head, Macbeth wants to become very powerful but some things come in his way and slow him down. For example when Macbeth murders King Duncan and he lied to everyone, Banquo is very suspicious and he is afraid that Macbeth has cheated to become king as the witches promised. We see this in Act 3 Scene 1 "As the weird women promised, and I fear Thou played’st most foully for ’t." When Macbeth realises this, he immediately sends his murderer to kill Banquo and lied yet again. Now his one big concern is Banquo's son, Fleance.

Dramatic Irony:

"Here had we now our country’s honor roofed,"

Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters in the play don't. It is used a lot in the play "Macbeth" written by Shakespeare to create tension/suspense and also entertain the audience. When Macbeth is at the dinner with the lords and they ask him where Banquo is, he simply replies "Were the graced person of our Banquo present, Who may I rather challenge for unkindness Than pity for mischance." but the audience clearly knows that Macbeth has sent a murderer to kill him. We see this on Act 3 Scene 4 Page 3 .This is actually double dramatic irony because the audience can also see the ghost of Banquo before any of the characters on the stage can. "Lays blame upon his promise."

Macbeth Dinner Scene: https://youtu.be/uX0t3ZDr9B8

3 new prophecies 

1Be ware of Macduff

2You will not be defeated by anyone women-born

3You will only be concurred by the Birnam forest if it climbs up to the Dunsinane Castle.

4The seven apparitions are wearing a crown and they all look like Banquo but the eighth one 

Supernatural

When Macbeth talks to lady Macbeth about the ghost lady Macbeth dos net believe him and convinces the guests that he is crazy and tells him to behave but 

"The time has been that when the brains were out the man would die and there an end....   

Blood and gore

When the murderer says, to Macbeth about Banquo "Aye my good lord safe in a ditch he bides with twenty trenching gashes on his head." To convince Macbeth that Banquo is dead.

Nature imagery

Text in context:

When ... Says, ... (The most/the context)

Macbeth says I had else been perfect...

Nature imagery to represent what he wanted in juxta position to what acutally happened-

-Fleance mort

When the murderer says Fleance escaped, Macbeth says... "I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock, As broad and general as the casing air."

<-  This is in contrast to what actually happened using nature imagery to represent what he actually wanted in Juxta position.

Macbeth video

Nature Imagery:

Macbeth:

"Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,

As broad and general as the casing air."

Macbeth:

"There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled

Hath nature that in time will venom breed;

No teeth for th' present. Get thee gone. Tomorrow

We’ll hear ourselves again."

Lady Macbeth:

"Oh, these flaws and starts,

Impostors to true fear, would well become

A woman’s story at a winter’s fire,

Authorized by her grandam."

Macbeth:

"Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,

The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;

Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves

Shall never tremble. Or be alive again,

And dare me to the desert with thy sword."

Macbeth:

"Can such things be,

And overcome us like a summer’s cloud,

Without our special wonder? "

Blood and gore

'Tis better thee without than he within.   -macbeth  

Is he dispatched?

My lord, his throat is cut. That I did for him.     - first murdurer

Thou art the best o' th' cutthroats:

Yet he’s good that did the like for Fleance.     - macbeth

If thou didst it, thou art the nonpareil.

Ay, my good lord. Safe in a ditch he bides,   - first murderer

With twenty trenchèd gashes on his head,

The least a death to nature.

Supernatural

MACBETH

Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time,

Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal;

Ay, and since too, murders have been performed

Too terrible for the ear. The time has been

That, when the brains were out, the man would die,

And there an end. But now they rise again

With twenty mortal murders on their crowns

And push us from our stools. This is more strange

Than such a murder is.

LADY MACBETH

You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,

With most admired disorder.

Macbeth:

"Strange things I have in head, that will to hand,

Which must be acted ere they may be scanned."

Link for the video:

https://youtu.be/ps70FKYwA6w

The thesis: Banquo is a perfect foil to Macbeth

A foil is a character that follows the same path as the protagonist but makes different decisions. In Macbeth, Shakespeare has made the protagonist Macbeth and Banquo his foil. In the scene where Banquo and Macbeth talk to the three witches which give Macbeth a lot of amazing and exciting prophecies for his future, they also give some to Banquo but instead of thinking a lot about this like Macbeth, he didn't really do much it. He also didn't quite trust the witches as much as Macbeth did, instead we decided to warn Macbeth that even though it sounded amazing what they we saying, it migth lead them to their doom. "...The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with their honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence...".

Macbeth 101

Dramatic irony: is when the audience knows something that the characters don't

Soliloquy: when the main character shares their feelings with the audience but they keep changing it and they finally end it with a heroic couplet.

The Fourth Wall: is when the main character talks to the audience like "Well, that was a funny..." Or "Wow I wasn't expecting that..." 

Heroic Couplet: at the end of a soliloquy, means a decision has been made or two lines in iambic pentameter that rhyme

"...Hear it not Duncan for its a knell 

That summons thee to heaven,

Or to hell..."

Shakespeare is the first author that has made us see what the character feels.

The Theme: "Power and Corruption" 

Me poem

think about tone.......


We make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone find us really out.

'Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
The understanding of a friend.

But so with all, from babes that play
At hide-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are. 

Stone Cold Written Work

1.
Link:

1)"I'm invisible" pg.1

2)"I started getting really depressed" pg.13

3)"I decided it was time to move on" pg.9

4)"thought of me as a dosser" pg.14

5)"I made loads of mistakes" pg.18

6)"I was thankful at the time" pg.20

7)"I started to feel nervous" pg.21

8)"I didn't care" pg.

9)" I was angry and a bit shaken" pg.31

10)"My anonymity was a comfort" pg.32
Character type: protagonist

Ginger:
1)"Six, Seven months" pg.41
2)"Well, when you are, smoking helps. Dulls the pain" pg.42
3)"Why?"... "We were in somebody's doorway. Wouldn't do for the owner or tenant or whatever to find us here when he came to open up, would it?"pg.44
4)"You don't have to feed me, y'know, just 'cause we shared a doorway. Folks like us, we've got to look after number one. And don't tell anybody else you've got nine quid or you won't have it long." pg.44

5)"Waste of time, mate. Foregone conclusion. They'll say you made yourself homeless 'cause you left your mum's place voluntarily." pg.45

6)"Not a sausage, mate, you can take it from me. I've seen it too many times." pg.45

7)"Nobody cares, see? Nobody gives a toss. That's the first thing you gotta learn. pg.45

8)"Yep. All day, every day. And sometimes I don't make a price for a sandwich." pg.45

9)"I wouldn't wait until it runs out, mate. Like i said, some days you'll make sod-all. I'd start today if I was you." pg.46

10)"Fair enough. Tell you what - you try outside of National Gallery." pg.52

Character type: mentor

Shelter:

1)"If they can only find shelter everything will be fine. Well- get fell in, my lucky lads. I'm reading fro you." pg.2

2)"You're a handsome devil but you're idle, lad." pg.7

3)"They're not going to stop me, though. Oh, no. They abolished National Service, and they've put me where I can't turn garbage into men anymore, but I can clean up the garbage, can't I? They can't stop me doing that, and I will. By golly, I will." pg.12

4)"A cat speaks of warmth, comfort, placid domesticity. A man who keeps a cat can't possibly mean anybody harm, can he?" pg.16

5) "Shelter and Sappho, otherwise known as The Invincibles. All is ready. Recruiting can now commence." pg.17

6) "I'd made up the whole thing up- name and everything. Part of my preparation." pg.23

7)"I slipped up behind him and put him out of his misery" pg.24

8)"Cruel? I don't think so. He's not cold nor hungry now."pg.24

9)"Nobody wanted him, so nobody will miss him, and there's one less dosser to clutter up the place. Who loses?" pg.24

10)"As a soldier, it was a chief function to kill, waste, do in- whatever you want to call it - those among my fellow humans whose activities happened to displease the powers that be in my country." pg.28

Character type: antagonist

2.
Young Link has had so many downsides throughout his life so far in the book "Stone Cold", but despite all the negative parts of Link's life, he was still able to find a way to keep going. The beginning with his new stepfather, Vince, had not gone very well which lead to Link becoming homeless. This was a rough time for Link because he was completely new at homelessness, yet still he kept finding new doorways to sleep all over London. By doing this he eventually found a person he taught it was worth to hang on to for a while, Ginger. Unfortunately, a disaster had happened, Ginger has been murdered by the evil antagonist Shelter while trying to find Link. For months, Link has been searching for him only to find absolutely nothing until he meets a wonderful women called Gail who helps him with discovering more about Ginger's disappearance. These are all the reasons why Link is a growing character throughout the whole book even as his life is spiraling downwards.

Character types

Protagonist

Catalyst

Antagonist

Foil 

In the story/movie Divergent, the mentor is Tobias Eaten (Four)

Stone cold map

Genre: realistic fiction, crime, mystery, suspense 

Theme: taking care of others

Problems: His stepfather Vince, looking for spaces to sleep, he's homeless, Shelter, he's alone, he's freezing, doesn't have enough money, can't trust anyone, no place to go to the toilet, has no friends, people looked out on him, hygiene,  

Characters: Vince (catalyst, mean, anger, selfish, ), Link (, Shelter (trained to kill, crazy, callous, intelligent, highly organised, ironic name), Ginger (reinforces our theme, taking care of others, ), Gail (journalist, love interest, Gail is in the book as a romantic interest and also she further reinforces our theme, taking care of others) , Toya (Ginger's friend, the girl who's dad came looking for, at a restaurant talked to ginger and his friends but ignores Link)

10 conflicts:

1)Vince vs. Link (man vs. man) ORDINARY WORLD

2)Link vs. Carole (man vs. himself)

3)Link vs. Homelessness (man vs. himself)

4)Link vs. the streets of London (man vs. society) & (man vs. himself) RESOLUTION

5)Link vs. the office centre (man vs. society) absolute fail

6) Link vs. rat face (man vs. man)

7) Link's vs. Homeless man (steals his watch) (man vs. man) (man vs. society)

8)Ginger vs. Link (ginger teaches him how to be homeless)

9)Ginger vs. Shelter (man vs. man)

10)Link vs. Gail (man vs. man) Gail is the love interest

11)Shelter vs. Link (man vs. man)

Shelter is hunting Link and Link is hunting Shelter. As a result it's building up tension. The climax is in the apartment of Shelter

Link is the protagonist 

Shelter is the antagonist (the evil villain in the story) (the antagonist is the character who's in conflict with the protagonist)

Shelter is crazy for organisation | 

Ginger is the mentor (someone who shows you the way)

Foil (a character that goes through the same decisions) (mirrors the main character)

New resolution= new order

Denouement= the untying of the knot 

The Ecomomist paragraph

"The rise in rough sleeping"

Homelessness is a big issue in the world which we must try and stop as soon as possible. "The rise in rough sleeping" is one of the articles in the Economist which mostly focuses on  how the number of homeless people has increased. It  how there is a new survey by St Mungo's, a homeless charity, that puts facts and faces to a grim picture and how there are charities such as CHAIN that are trying to stop the number of people increasing. According to workers from the St Mungo's charity and other agencies around the country, rough sleeping has massively increased this year compared with last. The latest figures from CHAIN, the Combined Homeless and Information Network managed by the charity Broadway, show that 2,069 people were seen sleeping rough in London between July and September, 216 more than in the three previous months and 520 more than in the same quarter a year earlier. (East Europeans accounted for 30% of the total.) The amount of people dossing in stairways has doubled since last year and we must try to slow it down.

Sentences 101

Subject= who or what it's all about            I 

How

Verb= action verbs                                    Gave

          being verbs

How

Object=                                                     My dog

What, Where, When                                  A bone yesterday

Article notes

Compassionate= kind

Callous= mean, unfeeling (when you play the guitar and after a while your skin on your fingers will get hard)

Plight= an unfortunate or dangerous situation

Patronising= making someone feel below you

Unanimous= everyone agrees

Vociferous= absolutely not

Benign= not causing harm or damage

Accommodation= a place to live

Urban myth= 

Augmented= to make something better

Scour= to look all over

1st section Winter is the worst time to be homeless.

2nd section Do not give money 

"How do I... help rough sleepers?"+ Difference with Link paragraph

"Should I give money?"

 The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as a replacement for the radical local paper Manchester Observer, and was known as The Manchester Guardian until 1959. The article, "How do I ... help rough sleepers?" talks mostly about how winter is the worst time to be homeless and to not give money to homeless people. Winter is the worst time to be homeless because the snow will melt and since more than 2,700 people (in the UK) are sleeping covered by only a sleeping bag, blankets or cardboard and newspapers they will get wet and will not be suitable for sleeping. Giving money to homeless people is not a very good idea because they will use it to buy drugs and alcoholic beverages instead of food supplies or even clothing. It is always better to give them food or clothes than just money.

"How do  I... help rough sleepers?"

"How do I... help rough sleepers?" talks about how most homeless live in winter in England and what to and not to give them. In "Stone Cold", the author describes what happens to Link, a boy who had a terrible life with his family so he decided to leave and become homeless. They are both very similar but they still have some differences. One reason is that most homeless people are homeless because they might not have enough money to get an accommodation while Link just decided to leave his family because he couldn't handle them anymore, also before he left they gave him some money unlike most homeless people. Another reason is that a great amount of homeless people beg for money to buy drugs and drink alcohol to take their minds of the situation that they're in while Link does it to get food and try to survive. The difference between Link and other homeless people is that he decided to leave his home and he didn't waste his money on drugs but on only equipment to survive.

  

Link wasn't forced to move out.

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market

"Only you lived through the sea's truth"

"Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market" is a poem, written by the famous poet ,Pablo Neruda. The style that he uses in this poem is from the classical times about 2,000 or 3,000 years ago. The 2nd verse paragraph is very significant in the ode. Throughout the 2nd verse paragraph, Pablo Neruda likes to use metaphors, imagery and listing to describe the fish and the ocean.

Paragraph 1

Only you

The poet uses only you to describe the fish and how its experiences in the sea are different to his.

 

Throughout the poem, the poet likes to use the term,"only you", to describe the fish and how its experiences are different to his. One place where you can find this is in the 2nd verse paragraph which says "only you lived through the sea's truth, survived the unknown...". You can clearly see that in this example the only you stands for the fish because it talks about how it used to live in the great, deep sea. Just a few lines under this last example, you can see the following "only you: varnished black-pitched...". The poet again uses the "only you" to describe the fish but to make it even more powerful he uses a metaphor, "varnished", and imagery, "black-pitched". 

Paragraph 2

Only you: varnished, black-pitched, 

The poet uses imagery and metaphor to describe the ocean and the fish.

Paragraph 3

Witness of the deepest night 

 The poet combines two metaphors to strengthen the effect of it.

Paragraph 4

Surrounded by the earth's green froth

-these lettuces, bunches of carrots-

The poet uses metaphors to describe the surroundings of the fish.

"Surrounded by the earth's green froth" takes place in the beginning of the 2nd verse to describe the surroundings that are around the tuna fish in the Market. It implicitly refers to the vegetables which also means that it is a metaphor because "Surrounded by the earth's green froth" is transferring the quality of the green froth to the vegetables. The line that comes afterwards "-these lettuces, bunches of carrots-" is very explicitly listing some vegetables in the market. To make the poem a bit more interesting the poet likes to use metaphors to describe the objects around the fish.

Paragraph 5

Only you lived through the seas truth, survived the unknown, the unfathomable darkness

The poet uses listing to describe the ocean.

To make a poem more interesting for the reader, you can use listing with different words that have a similar meaning to give it more strength than just writing it explicitly. This is exactly what the poet does in the following few lines. Pablo uses listing to describe the amazing ocean that was once the fish's home. In the fifth line he starts of by saying "only you", by this he means the fish, and continues but saying the following "lived through the seas truth, survived the unknown, the unfathomable darkness...". This line is describing the ocean by using the same technique that I said earlier on, listing with different words that have a similar meaning, and to put it in an explicit way, he talked about the deep, dark and mysterious ocean.

Paragraph 6

The depths of the sea, the great abyss, le grande abîmé

This is similar to the last example because the poet uses listing again.

"Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market" paragraph

   "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market" is a poem, by Pablo Neruda, written in the classical times about 2,000 or 3,000 years ago. It is about celebrating something, in this case a tuna fish, and how is was once fast, beautiful and powerful but now it's lost all of this because it's lying dead at a Market. Poetry is all about the language and in this poem, the poet really expresses this. For example, in the beginning of the second verse it says "Surrounded by the earth's green froth". The earth's green froth is implicitly referring to the vegetables in the market which also means that this is a metaphor because its transferring a quality from one thing to another. Underneath the first few lines in the second verse it says "...only you lived through the sea's truth, survived the unknown, the unfathomable darkness, the depths of the sea, the great abyss, le grand abîmé...""...to that deepest night...". In this example there are words with similar meanings repeated eight times to describe the dark, deep and mysterious sea that the fish once lived in. One more example that I found showed a lot of poetical language in just a few words was under this last line which says "...only you: varnished black-pitched witness..." This uses a metaphor, "varnished", imagery, "black-pitched", and metaphorical imagery "witness". In conclusion, this poem uses a lot of different poetical language to describe how once there was a beautiful fish that is now dead and surrounded by vegetables in an ordinary market.

The 2nd verse paragraph

"Laundrette" paragraph

"Laundrette", written by Liz Lochhead, is a narrative poem about people living in a poor part of the city and the one thing that they have in common together is that in order to wash their clothes they all have to go to a laundrette. This poem is all about mood and atmosphere. Each stanza describes someone or something. For example in stanza 6, the poet is using a lot of symbolic and metaphorical language to describe one of the women's lives while she's waiting for her laundry to finish washing. One excellent example of this is on the second line of the stanza which says "Let them stew in their juice, to a final fankle, twisted, wrung out into a rope, hard to unravel". This has imagery and metaphor because it describes the clothes in the washing machine and it has two meanings, one is about the clothes and the second it could be about her relationship with her family. An example that supports the second meaning is in the line under it which it says"...to a final fankle, twisted, wrung out into rope, hard to unravel..." Fankle is slang for knot or a big mess and the fact that there are words with a similar meaning repeated four times means that she has probably made a big mistake in her family which is not easy to fix. Another example is at the beginning of the stanza in which it says "This women is deadpan..." Deadpan means when someone doesn't show any emotion which means she was very upset and depressed about something which in this case is probably her family. One more example that uses symbolism and metaphor is in the last line of the stanza which says "She sees a kaleidoscope" A Kaleidoscope is a toy shaped like a tube that contains small mirrors and colours inside which appears to to change if you twist the tube. It is a metaphor because it is transferring the quality of the colours in the kaleidoscope to the clothes in a washing machine. The poet is also using figurative language in this example.

My Haiku

In the Forest 

by: Ena Gavranovic 

"A small lake in the forest

Ducks floating on the surface

The sun is shining"

This poem, also known as a haiku, is about a nice spring day in the forest and what goes on in it. This haiku also represents/symbolises happiness and joy. In the Forest uses symbolism because it symbolises a lovely spring day because in the spring time, newborns are brought to the planet and in the animal world their parents usually teach them their ways. For example mother ducks take their ducklings to a lake or pond and teach them how to swim. In the Forest mostly uses sight imagery to help the reader clearly see that the writer wanted them to see. 

Characters

Character:
-man vs man
-man vs himself
-man vs nature
-man vs technology
-man vs society

2 kinds of characters:
-Flat =caricature    1 over-the-top characteristics
           archetype    2-3 characteristics
-Round

In the book The Land Lady, Billy finds the lady to be a caricature because she's crazy old lady but we the readers find her to be a archetype because at the end we find out that she is a cold-hearted killer that stuffs her costumers.

Billy is POLITE/HONEST, TRUSTING, CURIOUS, NAIVE.

Gelable: when someone tries to sell something silly to a person and they buy it

Land Lady: PICKY, FAKE, SECRETIVE, SWEET, MANIPULATIVE.

Analogy: The land lady is to Billy as a spider is to fly.

Both of these characters are ROUND characters.

When a character changes = A GROWING CHARACTER

The change comes as a result of CONFLICT

Symbolic poem by: Kim van Breda

CAGES trapped in apparent spaces power extinguished bird in a forgotten tree building cages safety nests apparent circumstances placing bets on novel lives sunken and clean stuck in barb wire snares itch itch itch the language is obscene headbound in freakish Atlantic sea

This poet uses a lot of:

-symbolism

-onomatopoeia

In her poem.

Imagist Poem

The Woods that Bring the Sunset Near

The wind from out of the west is blowing
The homeward-wandering cows are lowing,
Dark grow the pine woods, dark and drear, --
The woods that bring the sunset near.

When o'er wide seas the sun declines,
Far off its fading glory shines,
Far off, sublime, and full of fear --
The pine woods bring the sunset near.

This house that looks to east, to west,
This dear one, is our home, our rest;
Yonder the stormy sea, and here
The woods that bring the sunset near.


This poet uses a lot of:
-metaphorical

-imagery

-alliteration

-rhymes
-personification

The Road Not Taken by: Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 

And sorry I could not travel both 

And be one traveler, long I stood 

And looked down one as far as I could 

To where it bent in the undergrowth; 

Then took the other, as just as fair, 

And having perhaps the better claim, 

Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 

Though as for that the passing there 

Had worn them really about the same, 

And both that morning equally lay 

In leaves no step had trodden black. 

Oh, I kept the first for another day! 

Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 

I doubted if I should ever come back. 

I shall be telling this with a sigh 

Somewhere ages and ages hence: 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— 

I took the one less traveled by, 

And that has made all the difference.

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Plot 101 The Movie

R's Story: realising she's a Jeti

Ordinary World: Scavenger on a dessert planet
Setting:

Disruption: BB8

Conflict(s):
Man vs Himself  The half a credit that the guy gives Ray symbolises that she gets very little.
Man vs Man  Running Away
Man vs Tech.  Ray pressing the wrong buttons in the spaceship
Man vs Himself  Ray picks up the lightsaver
                                                        Lightsaver is a symbol
Man vs Man  Fighting to protect BB8
Man vs Himself  Using her Jeti powers to escape

Denouement:

BB8 is to the force awakens as R2D2 is to Star Wars
Star Wars refers to an E-ticket ride
Ray is to the force awakens as Luke Skywalker is to Star Wars

Symbol

The painting is called "The Boating Party" by: Mary Cassatt

The women is the child's mother.
It is windy.
The man on the boat with them is the women's Husband
They are sailing on a row boat
They are going somewhere
They are in a hurry
The boat is floating on the lake
They own the boat
They are going to land
They're on a lake
It's sunny
The paint implies water
The way that it's painted implies to wind

Symbol:
The mother and the child is symbolic of/represent care
The family on the boat sailing on a bad day is symbolic of/represent escape
The man rowing the boat is symbolic of/represents strength



Inference: what is implied
Implicit/implied
Explicit

Similes and Metaphors

    : person/child, nature (rocks, rivers,mountains, glaciers...), sunny, dangerous, peaceful, fresh air, cold temperature, landscape, sandy, snowy, swish, wind, steep, exploring/discovering.

Similes:
-The child felt as free as a bird.
-The steep hills were like a pile of sand in an hourglass slowly falling into the other section of it.
-The girls coat was as green as grass.

Metaphors:
-The girl was an eagle exploring the world beneath her.
-The mountains were waves on the ocean falling into a whirlpool.
-The rivers on the mountains were tear drops falling down from a persons face.

METAPHOR(S)

The snowboarder was like a bullet.
The snowboarder was a bird,wild and free.
(The snow is freshly sprinkled powder.) : visual imagery

SIMILIE(S)

The sky was as blue as the ocean.
The trees were frosted with snow like a giant wedding cake.
The trees were covered with a white blanket as if at any moment they would fall into a never ending slumber.
The wind was as cold as ice.

Hyperbok: another way of saying sarcasm.

The sky was as red as a firetruck.
The clouds were like waves riding on the red ocean.