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After Reading Comprehension 1. Recall What is the main comparison developed in “Sonnet 18”? 2. Clarify In “Sonnet 18,” the speaker promises the subject of the poem that “thy eternal summer shall not fade.” What is the basis for this promise? 3. Recall What contrast opens “Sonnet XXX”? 4. Paraphrase Reread the second quatrain of “Sonnet XXX.” What is the speaker’s claim about love in these lines? Literary Analysis 5. Identify Metaphor In poetry, an extended metaphor is a comparison between two distinctive things that is continued across a number of lines. Consider the extended metaphor used in “Sonnet 18.” What qualities does this metaphor help communicate? 6. Interpret Imagery Consider the images that Millay presents in describing what love is not, or what it cannot do. These images are examples of what kinds of human needs? What is the point of contrasting love with these needs? Use a Love Is Not meat Love Cannot fill the lung with breath chart like the one shown to record the images from the poem. 7. Analyze Sonnet Structure Review the chart you developed as you read. How do the ideas expressed in the sonnet relate to its quatrains and couplets? Cite evidence from the poems to explain your answer. 8. Compare Form Although separated by more than 300 years, Millay and Shakespeare both wrote poetry using the sonnet form. Determine the rhyme scheme and meter for both sonnets. Then reread the top of page 729. Is Millay’s poem a Shakespearean sonnet? Explain your answer. Reading-Writing Connection writing prompt self-check Extended Response: Interpret Theme How would the speaker of each poem respond to the statement “Love lasts forever”? Use details from “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet XXX” to write a three- to fiveparagraph response. A successful response will . . . • describe each speaker’s concept of love • provide examples to support your opinion sonnet 18 / sonnet xxx 733
poetic form: ballad The earliest ballads were stories told in song, using the voice and language of everyday people. They were composed orally, and singers often added or changed details to make the songs meaningful for their audience. These early ballads, typical of the medieval period, are known as folk ballads. Like a work of fiction, a ballad has characters, setting, and dialogue. Like a song, it uses repetition and has regular rhyme and meter. A traditional ballad—such as “Lord Randall,” the written version of an older folk ballad—has these characteristics: • consists of four-line stanzas with a simple rhyme scheme • narrates a single tragic incident through dialogue A ballad’s rhyme scheme may be very loose or seem inconsistent. A loose rhyme scheme gave the singer more freedom to improvise lyrics. And, because pronunciations change over time, words that once rhymed may no longer sound alike. As you read “Ballad” and “Midwinter Blues,” consider how these poems expand the traditional ballad form. reading skill: understand dialect People who inhabit a particular region or who belong to a particular social or ethnic group may speak in a dialect, a variation of a language. Their speech may differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar from the standard form of the language. Dialect often provides clues about a poem’s setting, as in “Lord Randall,” which uses an 18th-century Scottish dialect. It can also reveal information about the speaker’s identity, such as ethnicity and social class, as in “Midwinter Blues.” As you read “Lord Randall,” record on a graphic organizer words and phrases written in dialect, and then rewrite them in standard English. Make a similar graphic organizer for “Midwinter Blues.” Title: “Lord Randall” Speaker’s English What gat ye to your dinner? Standard English What did you eat? Gabriela Mistral: Voice of the Poor Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral (mC-strälP) wrote about the lives of everyday people. She believed the poet had a duty to speak for his or her own people and age. “What the soul is to the body,” she once remarked, “so is the artist to his people.” Mistral’s themes include love and loss, faith, childbearing, and motherhood. Many of her finest poems grappled with the suicide of her fiancé Romelio Ureta, who had left Mistral prior to his death. In 1945, Mistral became the first Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. Langston Hughes: Man of the People Langston Hughes was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s celebrating African- American artistic expression. He was one of the first to champion the artistry of blues Gabriela Mistral 1899–1957 Langston Hughes 1902–1967 songs, which he called music from “black, beaten, but unbeatable throats.” Blues songs, and the “low-down folks” who sang them, were a lifelong inspiration to Hughes, who drew on their rhythms, motifs, and themes in his poems, short stories, essays, and novels. more about the author For more on these poets, visit the Literature Center at ClassZone.com. 735
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