Emily D: After pain, Fly buzz
After pain: "The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,'" (3) has an example of what poetic device?
personification
Who is the 'He' of the second line?
death
At the start, the conflict of the poem is that…
unknown forces are causing the speaker’s stone wall to fall apart (person vs nature)
Out: The title comes from a monologue from
Macbeth
Nothing: Why do you think Robert Frost references the Garden of Eden in this poem?
to compare the changes in nature to a loss of innocence in paradise
After pain: What is the "formal feeling" described by the poem?
Emotional numbness
What is the 'House' referred to in the fifth stanza?
grave
How does the speaker interact with his neighbor?
He works calmly with his neighbor to rebuild the wall.
Out: The feelings of the family after the boy’s death reveal
They must continue to live without him
Nothing: What best identifies a theme of the text?
The most beautiful moments of youth are brief
After pain: "The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – " has an example of what?
Personification and Simile
Which words could be used to describe Death in this poem?
Civil, polite, gentlemanly
The speaker and the neighbor…
disagree over whether the wall is really needed.
Which best describes the tone of the poem?
indifference
Haiku has to have this syllable pattern:
5, 7, 5
Fly: In the final stanza, what adjectives does the speaker use to describe the buzzing of the fly? - What is Dickinson saying about dying?
The speaker describes the fly as having a Blue , uncertain stumbling Buzz - she is saying death is an everyday, common experience; even though we are unclear about what happens.
'And I had put away / My labor and my leisure too' - What is meant by these lines?
The narrator will never again work or participate in any other activity
What does the word “spell” most closely mean as it is used in line 18?
command
Stopping: The speaker of the poem..
stops to observe the snowfall in the woods
Haiku cannot include (3 figurative language devices):
simile, metaphor, personification
Fly: Which letter represents the assonance in the following line: "With Blue - uncertain stumbling Buzz-"
U
With which lines are the lines in the last question contrasted?
'We passed the School, where Children strove / At Recess--in the Ring--'
How does the speaker respond to his neighbor’s saying?
He questions the logic of the wall and meaning behind it.
Stopping: The woods could best be described as…
quiet and peaceful
Haiku attempts to:
Capture a moment in time where we think about nature