Posts Tagged ‘poetry’

Baby says I can’t come with him And I had read all of this in his eyes Long before he even said so Why go, I asked You know and I know why And it’ll be just as quiet when I leave As it was when I first got here I don’t expect anything I [...]

This was supposed to be S15′s lesson today but some things came up and Mr. Shafie conducted a rather interesting lesson on puns, dontcha think? There are some hyperlinks in the slides. Do click on them to watch some videos that would explain the concepts of poetic devices better. Here is the list of videos [...]

The operation was massive; designed to give new life to the old lady. We have cleaned out her arteries, removed detritus and slit, created a by-pass for the old blood. Now you can hardly tell her history. We have become so health-conscious the heart can sometimes be troublesome Why is the title of the poem [...]

yes we can

This is a music video inspired by Barack Obama’s earlier speeches. You wanna talk about repetition? Think about how repetition is used here and its effect. Is it persuasive? Some examples of poetic devices are in bold. Can you identify which devices they are? It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared [...]

Persimmon in Blue Bowl, originally uploaded by espion. In sixth grade Mrs. Walker slapped the back of my head and made me stand in the corner for not knowing the difference between persimmon and precision. How to choose persimmons. This is precision. Ripe ones are soft and brown-spotted. Sniff the bottoms. The sweet one will [...]





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