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Task 9. Tipping the Scale
Copy the Venn Diagram below and use it to compare and contrast the views
presented about death in the two selections that you have read earlier.
Task 10. Conversing in Verse
Pay attention to your teacher as he/she shares information about the elements of
poetry.
Read the poem below and analyze its poetic elements. Accomplish the activity
that follows.
DRAFT
Death, be not proud
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
April
From rest and sleep, which
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but thy pictures be,
2014
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
By John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Source: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173363
1. Determine the rhyme scheme of the poem. Copy the graphic organizer in your
notebook. Write the last word of each line in the table. Then mark a star next to the
words that rhyme.
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4