ACTIVITY LITERARY DEVICES * SIMILE * METAPHOR * PERSONIFICATION * ALLITERATION * REPETITION * REFRAIN * SYMBOLISM * ONOMATOPOEIA

THE BROOK-

Alfred Tennyson

THEME

The brook reads like an autobiography of a brook. It describes the journey of its life from haunts of coot and hern to the brimming river.

MESSAGE

Human beings must learn to take joys and sorrows in their stride and keep moving ever onwards.

LITERARY DEVICES

* PERSONIFICATION - The brook * ALLITERATION * ONOMATOPOEIA * REPETITION * REFRAIN * IMAGERY

THE SOLITARY REAPER- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH It deals with an incident in the poet’s

life when he sees a simple peasant girl working in perfect harmony with nature. Her song resounds in the valley . Though unable to understand her song , he bore that music in his heart.

MESSAGE

Even the most ordinary situations and individuals have a beauty about themselves which can have a lasting effect on a sensitive heart .

Literary Devices

* Alliteration * Imagery

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN - ROBERT FROST It deals with the dilemmas that man

faces in life. Man being an individual cannot take up all choices. If the choice made by us happens to be erroneous, we have to face the consequenses as steps once taken cannot be retraced.

MESSAGE

Life is a continuous journey. The important thing is to move on without looking back whether the choice of paths taken was right or wrong.

LITERARY DEVICES

* ALLITERATION * SYMBOLISM * METAPHOR * IMAGERY

LORD ULLIN’S DAUGHTER -THOMAS CAMPBELL It is a love poem written in in the

form of a ballad. It is an account of the tragic end of the two lovers who choose to be together in death than to be forced by the world into living lives separately. It depicts a repentant father’s tragedy who saw the depth of the love between the two when it was too late and he saw his daughter drowning.

Message

* The poem conveys the message that rash decisions can lead to disastrous results.

* Lack of vision and foresight can spell tragedies.

LITERARY DEVICES

* Personification * Alliteration * Metaphor * Transferred Epithet * Rhyme Scheme

The Seven Ages - William ShakespeareShakespeare elaborates the view by

comparing the world to a stage on which human beings play the drama of life. There are seven cuts or parts in this play corresponding to the seven ages in a person’s life.

Message

We should live our different parts of life as well as we can in order to live a successful life. We should also accept death as the ultimate reality in life.

Literary Devices

* Simile• Metaphor• * Alliteration• * Repetitions• * Rhyme Scheme

OH,I WISH I’D LOOKED AFTER ME TEETH - Pam Ayer It expresses the poet’s regret in

adulthood regarding the damage caused to her teeth due to her carelessness.

Message

That time once lost cannot be regained.

It is important to make hay while the sun shines. Good food habits and a good sense of dental hygiene needs to be inculcated amongst the children.

Literary Devices

• *Alliteration• * Repetition• * Rhyme Scheme

SONG OF THE RAIN -KAHLIL GIBRAN Kahlil was a Lebanese American

poet, painter, writer and philosopher. This autobiographical poem not only brings out the story of the birth and death of rain but also highlights its characteristics.

MESSAGE

The occurrence of rain is a marvel of nature and a boon to the earth and mankind. It deserves to be admired and appreciated as something divine.

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* PERSONICATION * METAPHOR * SIMILE * ALLITERATION * ONOMATOPOEIA * RHYME SCHEME

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