PPT-Stanza 1 

Half a league half a league  Half a league onward  All in the valley of Death  Rode the six hundred  Forward the Light Brigade  Charge for the guns he said  Into the valley of Death . Word Play. Advanced Composition. Consider. . . . A Shetland Pony walked into a McDonalds and waited in line to place his order. When his turn finally came, he said (in a soft, raspy voice), "I'll have a Hamburger Happy Meal with a Coke, please." The woman behind the counter frowned and replied, "Sir, you'll have to speak up. I can't hear you." The pony looked at her and repeated (in the same soft, raspy voice), "I'll have a Hamburger Happy Meal with a Coke, please." The woman frowned again and looked rather aggravated. She said sharply, "Sir, I still can't hear you. There are lots of people waiting in line. You'll have to speak up or leave the restaurant." The pony smiled understandingly and replied (in the same soft, raspy voice), "I'm sorry. You've got to excuse me. I'm just a little hoarse.". Triple Rhyme. Three syllables in the word rhyme. Examples:. . icicles & bicycles. . mathem. atical. & problem. atical. Rhyming Couplets. Two lines of . poetry . which . have an end-rhyme. (What good is there to say?). Charlotte Mews. First response. Read the poem on you own.. Write down your first responses to it:. How does it make you feel?. What do you think it is about?. Charlotte Mew (1869 - 1927). Carol Ann Duffy. A surreal tale about a woman’s battle with anorexia. The tone is fantastical and becomes bizarre as she shrinks into a “germ” size. . The surreal fantasy alludes to the deluded state of mind of an anorexic. The fantastical elements reflect the detachment from reality which anorexia sufferers endure. . Title means - “how and sweet and proper”. Quoted from Horace a Roman philosopher. Quote passed through generations and was taught to children during Owen’s time.. The poem has nothing sweet and proper in it so it. Speaker. – person delivering the poem’s message, not always the same as the poet. Stanza. . – Poetry paragraph. Juxtaposition. – two items or idea placed in close proximity to each other in order to highlight their differences. ’ Analysis.. This was written from . Owen’s. period at the war hospital in . Craiglockhart. , Edinburgh. The poem is well known due to . its . angry and bitter violence. . Owen was anxious to . Rhymes. A pair of rhyming lines is called a . couplet. . Couplets are frequently run together, not separated as stanzas. . “. While the plowman near at hand, . Whistles o’er the furrowed land”. Half a league onward, . All in the valley of Death . Rode the six hundred. . "Forward, the Light Brigade! . Charge for the guns!" he said. . Into the valley of Death . Rode the six hundred.. About the Author. Born . – 6 August 1809, England. Died . – 6 October 1892, England.. He . was known as . the poet . laureate of . Great . Britain and Ireland and was one of the most popular . poets . Fifteen Stanza 1 South of the Bridge on Seventeenth I found back of the willows one summer day a motorcycle with engine running as it lay on its side, ticking over slowly in the high grass. I was fifteen Break, Break, Break. Break, break, break,. On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!. And I would that my tongue could utter. The thoughts that arise in me.. O, well for the fisherman's boy,. Stanza 1. from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The poem is about a sailor who shoots an albatross, (a bird which flies over ocean) and this brings a curse upon the ship . These lines follow the incident of the shooting: .