Semester 2 and Poetry - Lesson #1

[felavaz]

1. Identify the apostrophe.
There are a number of apostrophes all over the poem, like "THE time you won your town the race / We chaired you through the market-place" and "Now you will not swell the rout / Of lads that wore their honours out."

2. Denotation and Connotation: Select any one (significant/important) word from the poem and give its denotative meaning (its dictionary meaning) and give its connotative meaning(s), those meanings that go beyond the dictionary meaning.
The word I chose is rout. Its denotative meaning, according yo Dictionary.com, is "any overwhelming defeat." In the denotative context of the poem, the word is used to describe the defeat of runners in a race. However, its connotative meaning embraces much more than that. The author uses this term, along with "runner," to describe men and their mistakes or falls in the road of life.

3. Select one image from the poem and explain how it appeals to the senses.
"And silence sounds no worse than cheers...." is the third verse of the fourth stanza. It is obviously an auditory image, and it appeals to the sense of hearing since it is comparing two opposing sounds: silence versus a cacophany of cheers.

4. What would you identify as the tone of the poem? (Remember, the tone is the attitude that the writer/speaker has for her subject, audience, or herself).
I find the poem to have a very nostalgic tone, since it talks about the defeat--the death--of this young runner of life who was forgotten at an early age. The images, both visual (shady night) and auditory (echoes), cause that sensation of being forgotten, or reminiscing a long ago memory.

[MrBranchAPLit]

From Idamay:


Questions:
1. Identify the apostrophe.
To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
The apostrophe is obvious because the author of the poem is constantly referring to the athlete as "you," an invisible being because the athlete is dead. The apostrophe represents remembrance of the young athlete.

2. Denotation and Connotation: Select any one (significant/important) word from the poem and give its denotative meaning (its dictionary meaning) and give its connotative meaning(s), those meanings that go beyond the dictionary meaning.
Shoulder -
Denotation: part of the body.
Connotation: higher up in the scale, being the best, elevating the athlete, the best.

3. Select one image from the poem and explain how it appeals to the senses.
THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
Auditory.
I imagine this as a celebration in which everyone is happy, especially the author, who I infer might be the father, about the runner's achievement.

4. What would you identify as the tone of the poem? (Remember, the tone is the attitude that the writer/speaker has for her subject, audience, or herself).
Proud, but at the same time sad because the athlete died before his time. He was the best, and the best are always remembered fondly, especially being the best and being young. The athlete was a promise, but he died too early.

[mariaceleste]

1. Example of apostrophe

"So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup"

2. Word: Garland
? Connotative
? a wreath of flowers and leaves, worn on the head or hung as a decoration.
? a prize or distinction
?Denotative: the word garland, which is modified by the adjective ?briefer?, denotes the brevity of the athlete?s triumph.


3. ?And silence sounds no worse than cheers.?
The line, which represents a contradiction, appeals to the sense of ?feeling? a silence so overwhelming, that is feels loud.

4. I think that the tone of the poem is of disappointment towards the impermanence of all things.

[dainkelly]

1.Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

2.road
dennotation: a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.

connotation: the life people follow, the way people seem to travel through their lives, followind different "roads" and intersecting with others

3."Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears"

this short passage appeals to the auditory and visual senses, with words like night and silence. When I first read this it gave me a sense of the feeling of how things that might have seemed very significant at a time, may eventually become insignificant.

4. the tone of this immage is angry i think at how short lived fame is, and how although while people claimed to adore them when they were still famouse, the will eventually be forgotten.

[mrodriguez]

1. Identify the apostrophe.

"THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high. "

This is one example of many.

2. Denotation and Connotation: Select any one (significant/important) word from the poem and give its denotative meaning (its dictionary meaning) and give its connotative meaning(s), those meanings that go beyond the dictionary meaning.

chaired - means that they took him up in a chair, or installed him in a position of authority.
Its connotative meaning is that the townspeople revered him for his acomplishments for the town.

3. Select one image from the poem and explain how it appeals to the senses.

"THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place; "

You can hear the people cheering and a crowd carrying him up, after he has won the race for the town.

4. What would you identify as the tone of the poem? (Remember, the tone is the attitude that the writer/speaker has for her subject, audience, or herself).

The poem is melancholic as a poem of the death of such a talented person, at such a young age. I also think that he reveres him with this poem, in his rememberance. His lamentation is that such talent goes quicker. "And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose"

[RodrigoCC]

Questions:
1. Identify the apostrophe.
The poem constantly talks to an athlete.
"Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man."

2. Denotation and Connotation: Select any one (significant/important) word from the poem and give its denotative meaning (its dictionary meaning) and give its connotative meaning(s), those meanings that go beyond the dictionary meaning.

The poem makes reference to the shady night. The night means- the period of time that the earth's face does not face the sun. The shady night is really a reference to the end of his life, death.

3. Select one image from the poem and explain how it appeals to the senses.

"And silence sounds no worse than cheers" When I read this part I imagined an immense crowd cheering and suddenly stopping upon watching an athlete die. This brings out my sight and my audible senses.

4. What would you identify as the tone of the poem? (Remember, the tone is the attitude that the writer/speaker has for her subject, audience, or herself).

The speaker seems to be somewhat nostalgic towards the time of when the athlete lived. More than that it seems like the narrator is just telling the story of the great athlete. It has a "Ring around the rosie" type feel to it. It is sad but not in its tone.

[sofiastaburuaga]

Questions:
1. Identify the apostrophe.
?THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.?
2. Denotation and Connotation: Select any one (significant/important) word from the poem and give its denotative meaning (its dictionary meaning) and give its connotative meaning(s), those meanings that go beyond the dictionary meaning.
Denotation Townsman: 1 a: a native or resident of a town or city b: an urban or urbane person2: a fellow citizen of a town (Merriam Webster?s online dictionary)

Connotation Townsman: town?s pride, like the best representative.
3. Select one image from the poem and explain how it appeals to the senses.
THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
This is an example of visual imagery. One can almost see the athlete being carried on some tall man?s proud shoulders all over town and people starring, cheering and clapping in admiration.
4. What would you identify as the tone of the poem? (Remember, the tone is the attitude that the writer/speaker has for her subject, audience, or herself).
There is a tone of admiration in the poem. The author is proud of the young athlete. But the author also talks in past tense so there would also be a tone of longing to the poem to try and go back to the golden and happy days.