"Ouch, it hurts!" Poetry Assignment
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Read the following poems about people dealing with heartache and listen to Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. In the first poem, Dickinson deals with this by separating her intellect from her heart and speaking to both as an outsider, asking them to hurry up and forget the warmth (heart) and the (light) intellect/wit, lest she remembers him and suffers longer. In the second one, Spenser mourns that his lover turned ice cold on him and that his intense heat (fire) for her is not melting her or having an effect at all and that her “ice” only intensifies his “fire.” He concludes that love defies the laws of nature. In the song, Roger Waters laments his lost love and tries to console himself with the idea that both lovers are now suffering and living their lives aimlessly. Feel how the music adds to the heartache. Heart, we will forget him! By Emily Dickinson Heart, we will forget him! You an I, tonight! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you're lagging. I may remember him! Sonnet 30 by Edmund Spenser My love is like to ice, and I to fire: how comes it then that this her cold so great is not dissolv'd through my so hot desire, but harder grows, the more I her entreat? Or how comes it that my exceeding heat is not delayed by her heart frozen cold, but that I burn much more in boiling sweat, and feel my flames augmented manifold? What more miraculous thing may be told that fire, which all thing melts, should harden ice: and ice which is congealed with senseless cold, should kindle fire by wonderful device? Such is the pow'r of love in gentle mind that it can alter all the course of kind. Wish You Were Here (Roger Waters -- Pink Floyd) So, so you think you can tell Heaven from hell Blue skies from pain Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade Your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl Year after year Running over the same old ground And how we found The same old fears Wish you were here Write a two to three-paragraph letter to someone who has suffered heartache. What would you write to console him/her? Would you urge him/her to get over the heartache? Use examples and make reference to the three poems. Offer clear, practical advice. MLA, double space. Directory: ourpages -> auto -> 2016 2016 -> Typhoon (the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline) 2016 -> A kq2a: What is the pattern of air movement in the troposphere? Variations in global insolation 2016 -> District 26 family night at citi field september 20, 2016 New York Mets vs. Atlanta Braves 2016 -> C/Linux Programming Syllabus – Fall 2016 Instructor: Carol Yarbrough, asfa computer Science Email 2016 -> Mid-term exam schedule january 2017 Mon., Jan. 23 – 8: 30am 2016 -> Science Skills Center High School Dr. Dahlia McGregor, Principal ap computer Science A 2016 -> Short Essay Response to Emily Dickinson's Poetry (1 page minimum, 1 ½ page maximum) Due Date: Tuesday, March 8th 2016 -> Program: University of Illinois Chicago Chance & stem academy University Name 2016 -> Fourth Grade ela/ss winter Packet Thursday, December 22 2016 -> Chapter Questions Download 10.13 Kb. Share with your friends:
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