THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE

1.      The poem is about the shepherd proposal a woman . He is trying to convince his love to come and stay with him by promising her many things in return.

2.      The shepherd promise to give his beloved a natural and romantic life. Besides that, he also promises to give her many beautiful and precious gifts. These show that he so deeply in love with her.

3.      According to the shepherd, he and his love would have a romantic and beautiful life in the peaceful countryside. In my opinion, this is an unrealistic possibility because the shepherds’ life is very difficult and poor. His says are not true. It’s only imagery in his mind.

4.      thee=you (object)
thy = your (possessive case)
thou = you (subject)

5.      Alliterations :

-        live – love
-        me – my
-        we – will
-        pleasure – prove

6.      Imagery
Sights : hills, valleys, dales, fields, wood or steepy mountain yield, sit upon the rocks, the shepherds feed their flocks, shallow rivers, whose falls, bed of roses, the shepherd swains shall dance and sing.
Sounds : melodious birds sing madrigals, sing
Taste : precious (meals)
Smell : fragrant poises
Touch/ feel : finest wool, pretty lambs, fair lined slippers, purest gold, silver dishes

7.      The tone of this poem is optimistic.

8.      We feel pleasure and happy.

9.      If these pleasure may move you; if these delights may move your mind

10.  No, the shepherd’s words do not persuasive. Because it’s hard to carry out his words in life.
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd

1.     In the first stanza the Nymph means the Shepherd’ tongue is not true. World and love can not last forever.

2.     The nymph characterizes all the treasures the shepherd offers is not truthful. They are no mean. He is telling lie.

She replies that she does not believe him; the world and love don’t ever lasting (stanza 1); everything can be change. Life is not always romantic (stanza 2). The nature will change. She means that the shepherd cannot keep his promise (stanza 3). She does not care about his gifts because she knows that they are not come true (stanza 4&5).

3.     She says “ if youth last and love still breed, had joys no date nor age no need,” . she gives impossible conditions. In my opinion she will ever do as the shepherd asks because she is rather realistic. She knows that the life is not pink any everything can not last longtime.

4.     In my opinion, the nymph’s reply to the shepherd’s invitation is rather perfectly. However, if I were the nymph I would tell him that the love needs romantic things but the life is not pink. My mind might move by his true love but not by his sweat promise.

SIGH NO MORE, LADIES

1.     Shakespeare’s message to women is women should not be sad when their men are unfaithful. Women should change their sad feelings into happiness because men’s natural character is easy change and they tend to find new things; They like finding strange feelings.

2.     “them” in the line “let them go” is “men”.

3.     “Converting all your sounds of woe into Hey nonny, nonny” means women in this case to change their sadness and complains into happy and cheerful laughs. Shakespeare advises women should be optimistic to come over the sorrows when failure in love.

4.     Rhyming words : deceiver, ever

5.     “This poem is an insult to men!”. I agree with this sentence because the speaker implies that deception in love is considered men’s character. It likes a rule of nature. ”Men were deceiver ever; one foot in sea and one on shore; to one thing constant never”, “the fraud of man was ever so, since summer first was leave ”.

WINTER

1. Words and images help to capture the sights and sounds and feel of winter :

a)      Sights: “icicles hang by the wall, Dick the shepherd blows his nail, Tom bears logs into the hall”, “ greasy John doth keel the pot”, “birds sit brooding in the snow”.

b)      Sounds: “nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note”, “all aloud the wind doth blow, coughing drowns the parson’s saw”, “roasted crabs hiss in the bowl”.

c)      Feel: “milk comes frozen home in pail, blood is nipp’d and ways be foul”, “Marion’s nose looks red and raw”.

1. “doth” means “does”
2. Dick blows on his finger to make his body warmer.
3. Tom brings logs into the hall because he wants to make a fire.
4. Joan’s job is cook. She often uses greasy in cooking so she is described as greasy.
5. New words: foul, doth, keel, brooding.

SONNET 18

1.     The speaker’s love unlike a summer’s day: “ Thou art more lovely and more temperate”,

2.     Negative characteristics of summer : “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, and often is his gold complexion dimmed;”

3.     Lines nine through fourteen offer a view of the lover’s many contrasts with nature. She is better than a summer’s day

“ But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owes;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:”

4.     Metaphors :“ Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,” means her beauty will never die.
Personification : “ the eye of the heaven shines” means the sun shines; “his gold”- the sun;

DAFFODILS :

1.     Personification : “fluttering and dancing in the breeze”, “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance”,” and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils”

Simile : “I wandered lonely as a cloud”, “Continuous as the stars that shine , and the twinkle on the Milky Way”

2.     Tone of the poem : optimistic . gay, in glee, pleasure, the bliss of solitude.

3.     The meaning of the following lines “ The waves beside them dance; but they outdid the sparkling waves in glee” is daffodils dance so cheerfully that waves also dance but daffodils do better

4.     Synonyms for “happy” or “happiness” : pleasure, bliss, gay, in glee.

5.     Daffodils bring him a happiness. Nature is a good friend of human. Especially, when we are sad or alone. Furthermore, nature can make people’s mental life become richer. We can find enjoy in nature.

MY HEART LEAPS UP

1.      ‘My heart leaps up’ means ‘I feel happy and excited’

2.      ‘Children is father of the man’ means ‘Adults can learn from children’

3.      When I see a rainbow in the sky, I feel happy and excited. The rainbow always keep its beauty from I was a child, and now I grew, and even until I will get old. The beauty of nature is known and welcomed by children who have pure heart. So a child can teach his father the beauty of rainbow. I wish that all my life always live closely and respect nature.

4.      He wish that all his life always live closely and respect nature.

SEA-FEVER

1.      _  Rhyme : sky- by, shaking, breaking, tide- denied, flying- crying, life- knife, rover-over.

-        Alliteration : sea-sky, star-steer, wheel-wind, sail-shaking, call-clear, with-white, spray-spume, way-whale, where-wind-whetted, sleep-sweet.

-        Simile : the wind’s like a whetted knife

-        Personification : lonely sea, star to steer, wind’s song, sea’s face, the call of the running tide, sea-gull crying, her (ship).

2.      Sea-Fever means desire sea.

3.      The poet’s requests : a tall ship, a star to steer her, the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song, the white sail’s shaking, a grey mist, a grey dawn, a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, a quiet sleep and sweet dream.

4.      ‘A long trick’ is a metaphor for the poet’s sea travel.

5.      Romantic tone : wind’s song, white sail, grey mist, grey dawn, running tide, windy day, white clouds, the flung spray and the blown spume, sea-gulls, a quiet sleep and a sweet dream.

6.      ‘for the call of the running tide is a wind call and a clear call that may not be denied’ means the sound of sea attracts him so he desires to go to the sea again.

7.      Sense of sight : tall ship, white sail, grey mist, grey dawn, white clouds; Sound : wild call, wind’s song, crying; Touch : whetted knife.

8.      He wants to listen a cheerful story from a laughing traveler and to have a peaceful sleep with a beautiful dream after his sea travel.

9.      This poem was written toward the end of the Romantic Period. It is very representative of the Romantic because the poem is about nature.

THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE

a. The moral of the story :
b.      Sequencing the events of a story :

1.      The student describes his unhappiness, and the nightingale listens.
2.      Various characters in the student’s garden give their opinion of the students unhappiness.
3.      The nightingale tries unsuccessfully to find a red rose.
4.      The nightingale hears how she can get a red rose.
5.      The nightingale decides to sacrifice herself.
6.      The nightingale tells the student her decision
7.      The nightingale sings a last song to the oak tree.
8.      The student comments on the nightingale’s singing.
9.      The nightingale makes the rose.
10.    The student finds the rose and take it to the girl.
11.    The girl rejects the student’s rose.
12.    The student gives a final comment on love.

c. Three :

Characterization :

1. Personal qualities:
Quality
Ingratitude
Idealism
Unselfishness
Superficiality
Materialism
Practicality
Compassion
Vanity
Sympathy
Romanticism
Generosity
Lack of imagination
Shallowness
Kindness
Adjective
Ungrateful
Ideal
Unselfish
Superficial
Material
Practical
compassionate
Vain
Sympathetic
Romantic
Generous
Real, unimaginative
Shallow
kind

2.Main characters:
The student
Shallowsuperficial

The nightingale
Sympathetic
Kind
Generous
Ideal
compassionate

The girl
Material
practical

3. Dynamic character : The students
Static character : The nightingale, the girl.

Literary terminology

1.      Setting : the student’s garden, the professor’s house. Night, morning.

2.      Theme : theme of love.

3.      Characters : The student, the nightingale, the professor’s girl, oak-tree, butterflies, Lizard, Daisy.

4.      Plot :

-  Exposition: The student describes his unhappiness, and the nightingale listens.

-  Rising action: The nightingale tries unsuccessfully to find a red rose. After she hears how she can get a red rose, she make decision to sacrifice herself.
The nightingale tells the student her decision
The nightingale sings a last song to the oak tree.
The student comments on the nightingale’s singing.
The nightingale makes the rose.
The student finds the rose and take it to the girl.

-  Climax: The girl rejects the student’s rose.

-  Falling action: The student gives a final comment on love

-  Resolution: The student returns to his room to read his books.