The World
|Name: john baldauf |Date: 8/3/13 |
Graded Assignment – LACII Unit 4, Lesson 11
Unit Test Part 2
Answer each question, using complete sentences.
(12 points)
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1. Which poems in this unit focus on the beauty of the natural world? How are these poems similar? How are they different?
2. Answer:
“Beauty” and “Barter” address the importance of the beauty of the natural world. Both poems suggest that natural beauty is important. However, they say it in different ways. E-yeh-shure’ poem (beauty) shows how important beauty is by exploring the positive things of the natural beauty of humans, But focuses on human beauty along with nature. Sara Teasdale’s poem (barter) also focuses on the fact that nature brings beauty to our lives, but in the way we watch nature’s beauty.
(12 points)
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3. “A Poison Tree” and “All the World’s a Stage” both employ extended metaphors. Explain each poem’s metaphor and the ways in which William Blake and William Shakespeare use the metaphors to convey their messages to readers.
4. Answer:
In “A Poison Tree” William Blake shows his wrath as a tree. That instead of acting upon he fed and nourished until it grew a beautiful apple that made his foe jealous. Then one night his foe stole the apple to eat and in the morning was found dead beneath the tree. The story is not plausible to grow a poison tree and kill your foe. But if applied to life this poem makes since. We all have wrath and if we keep this and use it for motivation we cangrow and flourish something that our foes will never account to. In William Shakespeare’s “All the World’s a Stage” he uses a metaphor. He says the world is a stage and we are the
Graded Assignment – LACII Unit 4, Lesson 11
Unit Test Part 2
Answer each question, using complete sentences.
(12 points)
|Score |
| |
1. Which poems in this unit focus on the beauty of the natural world? How are these poems similar? How are they different?
2. Answer:
“Beauty” and “Barter” address the importance of the beauty of the natural world. Both poems suggest that natural beauty is important. However, they say it in different ways. E-yeh-shure’ poem (beauty) shows how important beauty is by exploring the positive things of the natural beauty of humans, But focuses on human beauty along with nature. Sara Teasdale’s poem (barter) also focuses on the fact that nature brings beauty to our lives, but in the way we watch nature’s beauty.
(12 points)
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3. “A Poison Tree” and “All the World’s a Stage” both employ extended metaphors. Explain each poem’s metaphor and the ways in which William Blake and William Shakespeare use the metaphors to convey their messages to readers.
4. Answer:
In “A Poison Tree” William Blake shows his wrath as a tree. That instead of acting upon he fed and nourished until it grew a beautiful apple that made his foe jealous. Then one night his foe stole the apple to eat and in the morning was found dead beneath the tree. The story is not plausible to grow a poison tree and kill your foe. But if applied to life this poem makes since. We all have wrath and if we keep this and use it for motivation we cangrow and flourish something that our foes will never account to. In William Shakespeare’s “All the World’s a Stage” he uses a metaphor. He says the world is a stage and we are the