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The Bells

Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849

I.

Hear the sledges with the bells--

Silver bells!

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

In the icy air of night!

While the stars that oversprinkle

All the heavens, seem to twinkle

With a crystalline delight;

Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells--

From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

II.

Hear the mellow wedding bells

Golden bells!

What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!

Through the balmy air of night

How they ring out their delight!

From the molten-golden notes,

And all in tune,

What a liquid ditty floats

To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats

On the moon!

Oh, from out the sounding cells,

What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!

How it swells!

How it dwells

On the Future! how it tells

Of the rapture that impels

To the swinging and the ringing

Of the bells, bells, bells,

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells--

To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

III.

Hear the loud alarum bells--

Brazen bells!

What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!

In the startled ear of night

How they scream out their affright!

Too much horrified to speak,

They can only shriek, shriek,

Out of tune,

In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,

In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,

Leaping higher, higher, higher,

With a desperate desire,

And a resolute endeavor

Now--now to sit or never,

By the side of the pale-faced moon.

Oh, the bells, bells, bells!

What a tale their terror tells

Of Despair!

How they clang, and clash, and roar!

What a horror they outpour

On the bosom of the palpitating air!

Yet the ear, it fully knows,

By the twanging,

And the clanging,

How the danger ebbs and flows ;

Yet, the ear distinctly tells,

In the jangling,

And the wrangling,

How the danger sinks and swells,

By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells--

Of the bells--

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells--

In the clamour and the clangour of the bells!

IV.

Hear the tolling of the bells--

Iron bells!

What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!

In the silence of the night,

How we shiver with affright

At the melancholy meaning of their tone!

For every sound that floats

From the rust within their throats

Is a groan.

And the people--ah, the people--

They that dwell up in the steeple,

All alone,

And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,

In that muffled monotone,

Feel a glory in so rolling

On the human heart a stone--

They are neither man nor woman--

They are neither brute nor human--

They are Ghouls:--

And their king it is who tolls ;

And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls,

Rolls

A pæan from the bells!

And his merry bosom swells

With the pæan of the bells!

And he dances, and he yells ;

Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the pæan of the bells--

Of the bells :

Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the throbbing of the bells--

Of the bells, bells, bells--

To the sobbing of the bells ;

Keeping time, time, time,

As he knells, knells, knells,

In a happy Runic rhyme,

To the rolling of the bells--

Of the bells, bells, bells--

To the tolling of the bells,

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells--

Bells, bells, bells--

To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

Patient Name

What is onomatopoeia?

Onomatopoeia is defined as a word which imitates the natural sounds of things.

It creates a sound effect that mimics the sound described, making the description more effective and interesting.

Common Examples:

The buzzing bee flew away.

The sack fell into the river with a splash.

The books fell onto the table with a loud thump.

He looked at the roaring sky.

The rustling leaves kept me awake.

Onomatopoeia

on-o-mat-o-poe-ia [on-uh-mat-uh-pee-uh]

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Assonance short "i"

Wow! Game Time

Assonance long "o"

Assonance long and short "a"

What type of bells are ringing in the first stanza?

What type of bells are ringing in the second stanza?

What type of bells are ringing in the third stanza?

Who rings the bells in the fourth stanza?

What do the bells symbolize?

Assonance short "e"

Boom is an obvious onomatopoeia, but some of you may ask why is weep not one?

Matching

Well, if you think about it weep is a verb, and it doesn't imitate what weeping really sounds like.

How the danger ebbs and flows!

Birth

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

Death

PIANO

By D.H. Lawrence

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.

In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song

Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong

To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside

And hymns in the cozy parlor, the tinkling piano our guide.

So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour

With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour

Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast

Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.

In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright!

Maturity

Marriage

What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!

Tigger

Interjections

They're a part of speech where the speaker exhibits emotion.

DO NOT confuse onomatopoeia with interjections!!

Some examples of interjections are:

However, sometimes onomatopoeic

words are used as interjections:

Boom! That's how you do it.

  • Hooray!
  • Cheers!
  • Yay!

Pool Party by Natasha Niemi

Squeal!

Kids are running everywhere.

Running and Splash –

Falling in the pool.

The music plays –

Stomp! Stomp!

The children dance.

Finally, the food is off the grill-

Munch, munch, munch!

An onomatopoeia for

scream and shout could

have been Eeek! or Ahhh!

What does the fox say?

When The Lights Go Out by Alan Loren

The door went creak

In the still of the night

The floor went bump

Oh what a fright

All of a sudden, we heard a chime

The grandfather clock was keeping good time

We turned down a hallway and heard a loud crash

It seems that someone had dropped all the trash

So many sounds when the lights go out

It’s enough to make you scream and shout!

Poems

1

April

Meeting at Night by Robert Browning

Three fields to cross till a farm appears;

A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch

And blue spurt of a lighted match,

Fossils by Ogden Nash

At midnight in the museum hall

The fossils gathered for a ball

There were no drums or saxophones,

But just the clatter of their bones,

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