Lyric Poetry

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Lyric Poetry

• Poetry that expresses personal thoughts and
  feelings of author

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• A Red, Red Rose
• Robert Burns
• Considered National poet of Scotland
• Born into poor farming family, known as
  ploughmans poet
• Wrote Auld Lang Syne (sung on what holiday?)

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• 1st stanza
• love compared to
• 1. A new rose
• 2. A sweet melody
• By love does he mean his loved one? Or his
  feelings of love?

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• 2nd stanza
• So in love he will stay until SEAS RUN DRY

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• 3rd stanza
• He will stay till rocks melt from suns power
• Till sand cover all life
• Meaning what time? Till end of what?

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• 4th stanza
• Has to leave
• A far distance
• Promises to return
• A parting has prompted declaration of love, made
  it more emotional

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Techniques

• Uses imagery of vast and powerful forces of
  nature to declare strength of his love
• Uses simile and hyperbole (exaggeration used for
  emphasis or humor)
• Uses scottish dialect (gang dry fare thee
  weel bonny lass

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• I Am Offering This Poem
• By Jimmy Santiago Baca
• Learned to read and write in prison
• Adandoned by parents, runaway, prison at 18
• Of Chicano and Apache descent

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• Similes/Metaphors Used
• Poem is
• Coat
• Socks
• Corn
• Scarf
• What do items have in common?

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• Items that are warm and warming
• In cold world, he says his love will warm her

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• Love as Compass
• His love will direct her to safe haven from
  wilderness of an uncaring world filled with
  obstacles

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• Love as Sanctuary
• safe place danger cant go
• The poem is cabin or hogan in which there is a
  fire
• Fire a symbol of what?

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• Firehis love that burns to shelter and warm her
  inside

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• Declares that knowing someone loves you is all
  you need to live
• Love is fundamental and all else flows from love.