2006B Poem “To Paint a Water Lily” (Ted Hughes)

      There is tremendous patience and skill when it comes to painting. It often reflects the authors tone and that reflects the speaker's attitude.
     The speaker sees nature as a constant battle for life. " Under the trees. There are battle-shouts
And death-cries everywhere hereabout." This direct characterization shows that the speakers attitude is survival of the fittest. This is because the dragonfly must protect itself everyday against a new opponent.
      Ted Hughes has a complex tasks because there is a lot of activity going on in this poem. His tasks is to capture every detail for the painting. He uses the speaker to show this because the speaker's tone is hard. He must try to paint something with a lot of activity around the piece.
     The tone of this poem is complex because Ted must have his speaker show that it is hard to paint a picture.

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TPCASTT                               Char Bronte Life

Title
Paraphrase
Connotation
Attitude
Shifts
Title Revisit
Theme

T- What life is and what life is about.
P-Life is not a dream and it is hard sometimes. Life will end eventually.
C-
A- Melancholy
S- A shift from the 1st to 2nd stanza. The first refers to death which is sad and the second contains a more exciting and happy words.
T- That life is happy but yet sad at the same time. It also explains that life will not last forever.
T- The theme of this poem is that life is a cycle with its ups and downs.

Seventh Reading

Char Bronte -Life

• 1st Enjoy life while it happens.
• 7th Life can be over before you no it.

Emily Dickenson -Hope

• 1st It is what drives us / makes us want to do something.
• 7th Hope can be ruined

John Keats -Bright Star

 

Jackie Robinson Day

Today is Jackie Robinson Day!!! For those of you who don't know, Jackie Robinson is the first African American Pro Baseball Player. His number was 42 and it is now retired from baseball and only worn once a day to represent him.

Macbeth Act V

Lady Macbeth

• Can't change what already happened.

10,000 soldiers arrive.
Macbeth is ready to fight.

• Macduff/Malcom lead the march.

Lady Macbeth is killed
The battle takes place.

• Macduff is king of Scotland and brings Macbeth's head for all to see. 

The Crossroads Between Should and Must

      Being stuck in a crossroad requires you to be strong mentally and physically. Should and must are crossroads that will be with you for the rest of your life. I feel that I am stuck at the crossroads because I do both in my life.
      School will continue to be a big part of my life and I see this as a must. this is because I feel that school is important and I should make the time to make sure that I do good. I do not need other people to tell me what I have to do because I know what I must do to be successful in school.
      Everywhere you go people will have there own beliefs and thoughts. They will try and tell you to do something because that is what they want to do. This is qualified as 'should' and I have done things because other people wanted me to.
      Should and Must go hand and hand with each other and I see myself doing both. However I see myself leaning more towards must because it is the better one of the two.

Macbeth Act IV

The 3 witches are making a potion.

• Hecate joins them then leaves.

Lennox tells Macbeth that Macduff has fled to England.
Lady Macbeth tells her son that his father is a traitor.
Murderers

• Kill Lady Macduff and Son

Macduff is cousins with Ross.

• Discovers that her son and wife are dead.