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Prompt: Discuss the use of sound devices (alliteration, consonance, assonance, rhyming) in one of the poems in your sub-genre reader. How does the author use these elements to create meaning?  Please include the poem as part of your response. In the poem "A Poison Tree" from the Romanticism era, there is a lot of examples of rhyming.  The rhyme scheme was AABB stanza (4 times). The poem seemed very happy because of the rhyming. It seemed like a happy poem but it was actually the poem was quite dark.  I think that the author used the rhyming to make the poem seem happy but when you read it again you realize it is about a man being poisoned under a tree.  I also think the poem was written in a joyful way because during the poem the main character was resenting the man that was poisoned.  In the last line he/she says that his/her friend was glad to see the friend poisoned.  I was angry with my friend;  (A) I told my wrath, my wrath did end...

Choose one of the poems that we have studied in your reader, and analyze the title. How does the title relate to the rest of the poem, and how does it create meaning? Provide examples from the poem to support your claims. In "This Is Just To Say" the poem there are 3 stanzas with 4 lines in each one.  In the poem a person tells another person that he or she has eaten their plums. The person says that they have eaten the other persons plums, but seems to not be very sorry. I think that the title is a bit sarcastic. If the person who ate the plums didn't feel that bad about the plums, then I think that the title is saying, "sorry I ate your plums that were so delicious, I just wanted you to know I ate them." Also when the author says "forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold" it gives me the sense that the person isn't very sorry and is rubbing in the point that he or she ate the plums. 

Kusama Exhibit          The Kusama Exhibit was very amazing. I have seen so many pictures on Instagram and snapchat and the exhibit looked so big.  When I arrived I saw two small white boxes (ones that humans can actually fit in). I realized that that was the exhibit. When I entered the colerful box I felt very amused. In the box there were mirrors and blow up figures that looked like tentecals. They had polka dots on them which really made the room interesting. My mind was out of control and it was screaming with vibrant colors. It made me very happy and I felt like my life was never going to end.  When I exited the room all of the colors were dull and boring. The next room I went in was the light room. It had lights hanging from the top of the box. They gave me a warm feeling inside and all of energy from the previous room faded away. There was a fresh smell in that room due to the water surrounding the platform that we were in. I have never fel...

Emily Routbort Dr. Lee IHSS 9/14/16 Kunana     A Tribe called, Roucouyenne, created the Kunana. It is a shield that has turned into a ritual for another group called the, Wayana Apalai.  The shield is made out of woven straw and bird feathers.  The shield is shaped in the form of some type of mythical animal. In the middle of the shield there is an open patch of straw without feathers.  The Wayana Apalai gather bullet ants to put on the open patch.  First they smoke out the ants, making them not able to really move. Then they will attach the the ants to the open patch and when they “wake up” they will be quite angry. In the tribe the boys first live in the women's house.  To get out of it and move to the men’s house they have to go through the ritual.  The ritual is putting the shield on their body with the bullet ants on it.  They have to be able to stay still and not make a sound during this process. If they do make a sound of move ...

ELA Blog- Emily Routbort Q: What is the difference between the speaker of the poem and the poet, and why is it important to understand this distinction?     The difference between the speaker of the poem and the poet is that the speaker is just speaking the poem. The poet is the one who completely understands the poem. The speaker is the one who can interpret the poem the way they want to. It is important to understand this distinction because the speaker could be confused as the poet and the speaker wouldn’t be able to answer question that are completely right.  Rather than giving the correct information the speaker would just be giving there own opinion.  The poet is the person who has the most accurate answers to the poem that is written by him or herself.