Poetry Interpretation

What is the following stanza setting up for the reader?

A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky by Lewis Carrol

Stanza 1:

A boat, beneath a sunny sky

Lingering onward dreamily

In an evening of July--

• The setting

• The conflict

• The rising action

• The resolution

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Whenever we read we always look for who and what, poetry is no different. In A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky, by Lewis Carrol, Stanza 2 who are our whos and what do they want? (choose 2)

Children three that nestle near,

Eager eye and willing ear

Please a smile tale to hear

• Children

• Adults

• Sleep

• To be told a story

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Where is there a shift in tone in A Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky by Lewis Carrol?

• Long has paled that sunny sky:

• Echoes fade and memories die:

• Autumn frosts have slain July

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CCSS.RL.8.1

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In A Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky by Lewis Carrol, What is the author's tone towards Alice in Stanza 4?

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,

Alice moving under skies

Never seen by waking eyes.

• haunted

• moving

• somber

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CCSS.L.8.5C

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What is the Allusion that can be found in Stanza 6 of A Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky by Lewis Carrol?

In a Wonderland they lie,

Dreaming as the days go by,

Dreaming as the summers die.

• Alice in Wonderland

• Dreaming Days

• Summer's Dying

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CCSS.L.8.5A

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In the Poem, Matilda Jane by Lewis Carroll, What is stanza 1 setting up for the reader? (Choose all that apply)

Matilda Jane, you never look

At any toy or picture-book;

I show you pretty things in vain--

You must be blind, Matilda Jane!

• Introducing the main character to the reader

• Introducing the conflict

• Introducing the rising action

• Introducing the resolution

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CCSS.RL.8.1

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In the Poem, Matilda Jane by Lewis Carroll, What is stanza 2 setting up for the reader? (Choose all that apply)

I ask you riddles, tell you tales,

But all our conversation fails:

You never answer me again--

I fear you’re dumb, Matilda Jane!

• The Setting

• The conflict

• The rising action

• The resolution

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CCSS.RL.8.1

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In the Poem, Matilda Jane by Lewis Carroll, what is the the repetition throughout the poem and what does it tell the reader?

Matilda, darling when I call,

You never seem to hear at all:

I shout with all my might and main--

But you’re so deaf, Matilda Jane!

• Matilda, which shows the narrator's frustration with her.

• "you never seem to hear at all," which shows the narrator's frustration with her.

• "I shout with all my might and main," which shows the narrator's anger towards his subject.

• "But you're so deaf, Mitilda Jane!" which shows why Matilda doesn't respond to the reader.

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IN Young Sea, By Carl Sandburg, what figurative language is being used in Stanza 1?

The sea is never still.

It pounds on the shore

Restless as a young heart,

Hunting.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Repetition

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CCSS.L.8.5A

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In Young Sea, By Carl Sandburg, what is the conflict of the poem in stanza 2?

The sea speaks

And only the stormy hearts

Know what it says:

It is the face

Of a rough mother speaking.

• The sea speaks, but no one hears.

• The sea is only for angry hearts.

• The sea is harsh and only for those who are brave, "have stormy hearts."

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