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Ode To Enchanted Light

Under the trees light

has dropped from the top of the sky,

light

like a green

latticework of branches,

shining

on every leaf,

drifting down like clean

white sand.

A cicada sends

its sawing song

high into the empty air.

The world is

a glass overflowing

with water.

Ode to Enchanted Light

By Pablo Neruda

About the Author:

July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973

  • Chile's most acclaimed poet
  • Wrote mostly about nature and meditation
  • The son of a railroad worker and a school teacher
  • Although just a poet, he became a larger-than-life figure and an inspiration to many!
  • Always wrote in green ink as it was the colour of hope
  • He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971

Vocabulary

Latticework

Consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces; used to help grow plants.

Sawing

To work something side to side like a saw.

Sound Devices!

1. Alliteration

  • Definition

The same constant sound throughout a small grouping of words, especially in a poem stanza.

  • Example from Poem

"A cicada sends its sawing song"

2. Rhyme

  • Definition

Words agreeing with each other in rythmic sound.

  • Example from Poem

"Has dropped from the top of the sky"

Figurative Language

1. Metaphor

  • Definition

A figure of speech

applied to something but is not literal

  • Example in poem

"The world is

a glass overflowing

with water."

2. Simile

  • Definition

two like things are compared usually

______ is like a _______

  • Example in Poem

"light

like a green

latticework of branches,"

3. Illusion

  • Definition

Making a veiled reference to something .

  • Example in poem

"The world is

a glass overflowing

with water."

Type: Biblical

How does it connect & what verse is it?

Psalms 23:5

"You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessings"

Structure

Ode: A poem honoring a person, object, or idea.

3 stanzas at various lengths

Has an uneven meter

Extremely Short for an Ode

Visual

This is a perfect photograph of what I think this poem is representing. Pictured above are a few rays of sunlight that have somehow snuck their way through the dense layers of the rainforest, and made it to the ground. Because of all the foliage it is hard for the light to reach this far so when it does it is special. The light is now "enchanted" as it is a rarity to reach such a clearing in the rainforest.

The End

By Alex Bader

Has dropped from the top of the sky.

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