Question

Choose one of the poems you read in this lesson. Write a paragraph explaining the meaning of the poem. Make sure to answer the following questions:


What is the tone of the poem?
What types of figurative language was used?

Part 2: Worth 50 Points

Choose one of the poems from this lesson, and re-write it using the language of today.


Poem #1
Along with Youth
A porcupine skin,
Stiff with bad tanning,
It must have ended somewhere.
Stuffed horned owl
Pompous
Yellow eyed;
Chuck‐wills‐widow on a biassed twig
Sooted with dust.
Piles of old magazines,
Drawers of boy'

Answer 1

Poem #1
Along with Youth
A porcupine skin,
Stiff with bad tanning,
It must have ended somewhere.
Stuffed horned owl
Pompous
Yellow eyed;
Chuck‐wills‐widow on a biassed twig
Sooted with dust.
Piles of old magazines,
Drawers of boy's letters
And the line of love
They must have ended somewhere.
Yesterday's Tribune is gone
Along with youth
And the canoe that went to pieces on the beach
The year of the big storm
When the hotel burned down
At Seney, Michigan.
‐Ernest Hemingway

Answer 2

Poem #2
Chapter Heading
For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devils' tunes,
Shivering home to pray;
To serve one master in the night,
Another in the day.
‐Ernest Hemingway