Item 1: Poem
A Poison Tree
William Blake
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I was
angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine. And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning glad I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree. |
Rhetorical devices:
- Rhyme: friend-end, fears-tears, smiles-wiles, night-bright, shine-mine, stole-pole, see-tree
- Metaphor: foe-friend, wrath likes a tree (grow, bore an apple…), water (sadness) …..
Message: anger like a growing tree and can make bad things
Item 2: Fable
The Kingdom Of The Lion
THE BEASTS
of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful,
cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign
he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and
beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and
the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the
Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity. The Hare said, "Oh,
how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place
with impunity by the side of the strong." And after the Hare said this, he
ran for his life.
Rhetorical
devices:
*Metonymy:
Lion: power who wants to change the world to be more peace and amity.
Wolf-Lamb, Panther-Kid, Tiger-Stag, Dog-Hare: nature
with definitely different things
Message: nature
with different things can’t be changed by any power.
Item 3: Cartoon
Item 1: Poem
A Poison Tree
William Blake
|
|
I was
angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine. And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning glad I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree. |
Rhetorical devices:
- Rhyme: friend-end, fears-tears, smiles-wiles, night-bright, shine-mine, stole-pole, see-tree
- Metaphor: foe-friend, wrath likes a tree (grow, bore an apple…), water (sadness) …..
Message: anger like a growing tree and can make bad things
Item 2: Fable
The Kingdom Of The Lion
THE BEASTS
of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful,
cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign
he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and
beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and
the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the
Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity. The Hare said, "Oh,
how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place
with impunity by the side of the strong." And after the Hare said this, he
ran for his life.
Rhetorical
devices:
*Metonymy:
Lion: power who wants to change the world to be more peace and amity.
Wolf-Lamb, Panther-Kid, Tiger-Stag, Dog-Hare: nature
with definitely different things
Message: nature
with different things can’t be changed by any power.
Item 3: Cartoon
Rhetorical
devices:
* Irony:
_bikes-
one kind of transport that are cheap and move slower than cars- and cyclist
privilege; cars: move fast, quite expensive- and people who get stuck in the
traffic jam.
_The
disparity in the space for cars and bikes
Message: The increasing traffic jam and the
unsuitably divided lane have caused the
change in the habit of commuting from cars to bikes
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ReplyDeleten the first item, I supposed that the message is not just anger can grow and make bad things. From my point of view, this poem teaches us how anger could be. Anger can be dispelled by goodwill and friendship (I was angry with my friend,I told my wrath, my wrath did end). If not, it will become bad things.
ReplyDeleteItem 1: In my opinion, angry is a poison tree, we should control it. If not, it will leave the regrettable consequence.
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ReplyDeleteyour fable is exciting. From my view point, the message of the fable is that the inherent hostility among opposite factions in nature is hard to change and we should accept that natural rule as it always be.
Deletei'm interested in item 2. it's funny because after the Hare said,"he ran for his life".In my view, the rhetorical device in this story is also personalization; lion is used as the symbol of power.i agree with you that nature is unchanged by any power.we should respect the natural rules and let them happen naturally.
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