English 1 Poetry Unit 7 2013
"The wind ever sweet and the path full of peace."
"And these eyes of mine, wretched, saw him pass by!" Gabriela Mistral
"Yet many a man is making friends with death"
"Even as I speak, for lack of love alone."
"He left when the coal was low."
"If a man lvoes a woman That ain't no time to go."
"Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath"
"Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone/"
"Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink..."
"Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;"
Pablo Neruda
"Tonight I Can Write..."
temperate
(of weather or climate) free from extremes
variations
(variations form) FORM that presents an uninterrupted series of variants (each called a VARIATION) on a THEME; the theme may be a MELODY, a BASS line, a HARMONIC plan, or other musical subject.
He was moved to create a more positive legacy
Alfred Nobel
Lord Randall
Anonymous Ballad
Gabriela Mistral
Ballad
Piano is a poem of memory and longing.
DH Lawrence
Sonnet XXX of Fatal Interview
Edna St. Vincent Millay
He finds the owner, just coming to, in the grass.
He had flipped over the rail, had blood on his hand, was pale...
The boy in "Fifteen" finds a motorcycle on its side with the engine running.
He realizes he and the motorcycle could ride away.
"merchant of death."
How Nobel was described in his obituary.
"I helped him walk to his machine. He ran his hand over it, called me good man, roared away."
I stood there, fifteen.
"In the middle of the winter Snow all over the ground. In the middle of the winter Snow all over the ground-- 'Twas the night befo' Christmas My good man turned me down."
Langston Hughes
A man is poisoned by his lover
Lord Randall
Langston Hughes
Midwinter Blues
physics, chemistry, medicien, economics, ;eace, literature
Nobel Prizes given in these fields.
dynamite
Nobel's most famous invention.
The work must provide "the greatest benefit to mankind."
Nobel's will requires this for the prize.
Won the Nobel Prize for literature
Pablo Neruda
"Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Pablo Neruda.
"softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me, taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
Piano, by DH Lawrence
Randolph
Sixth Earl of Chester, poisoned by his wife in 1232, is possibly Lord Randall.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
The first line of Sonnet 18.
Tonight I can write...
The speaker still loves the woman because he is still thinking about her, missing her.
rose bud
What she was going to plant at her back door in "Midwinter Blues."
A gold medal, diploma, money; in 2000, $1,000,000.
What the Nobel Prize consists of.
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
Fifteen
William Stafford
spar
a pole used to support a ship's sails.
The prize in literature must also
be "in an ideal direction."
Mother questions son
discovered he has been opoisoned by his true love.
Lord Randall
found in many variations in the British Isles and North America.
Lord Randall
one of the oldest and best-known ballads in teh English language.
Alfred Nobel
read his own obituary.
untrimmed
stripped of beauty
The first four stanzas begin with
the mother questioning her son.
She sees her love pass by
with another
