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This poem contains:

  • Extended Metaphors
  • Simile
  • Imagery
  • Symbolism

As the coin falls, time progresses

When the coin arrives at the slot

- Time expires (Night time for author)

Activity

Step 1: Look at the three words on the board.

Step 2: Look at your coin.

Step 3: Flip it.

DISCUSSION TIME BUDS:

How does flipping a coin relate to the Sun, Earth, and Moon?

Sunset

by Oswald Mtshali

Literary Devices

The End

Explanation

- The author is relating time to a coin toss.

- Author is relating sun to a coin.

The sun spun like

a tossed coin.

It whirled on the azure sky,

it clattered into the horizon,

-The sun is circling around the earth.

-> Symbolizes time is passing.

-The sun is about to set for the author.

-The sun is clattering towards the slot(horizon)

like a coin.

The sun spun like

a tossed coin.

It whirled on the azure sky,

it clattered into the horizon,

it clicked in the slot,

and neon-lights popped

and blinked "Time expired," as on a parking metre.

  • Extended Metaphor: An extended metaphor is a device that is used to compare objects throughout an almost entire reading. The poem sunset itself is an entire extended metaphor as it compares the sun to a coin toss.
  • Simile: A simile is used to compare ideas to make a description more emphatic(showing emphasis). An example of this in the poem sunset would be "The sun spun like a tossed coin.
  • Symbolism: Symbolism represents things by symbols, or shows things with a symbolic meaning or character. The phrase "Time expired" symbolizes the end of the sunset and the rise of the moon, and that the tossed coin is returned to its owner hand.
  • Imagery: Where a string of words draws an image in the reader's mind with ease. An example of this is "It clattered into the horizon," meaning that the coin(sun) is nearing its end and the moon is beginning to rise.

Clatter Definition

Fall or move with a continuous rattling sound.

-Sun has now set for the author.

-Coin has now clicked in slot (Parking meter resets now)

it clicked in the slot,

and neon-lights popped

and blinked "Time expired," as on a parking metre.

As coin falls

it make a noise between intervals

-> Author's time moves in intervals

-With the sun entering the slot, the moon comes out.

-Coin in slot represents that time has now expired for author.

-Coin in slot causes the parking metre to reset which allows another person's time to start.

CLATTER

CLANK

CLANK

Horizon

Symbolizes: Time expires (Night time) / Back to hand after toss.

Theme

The theme/message to this poem is

"As time expires for one person, it also begins for another."

  • Poem indicates time expires for one person , but can start for another.
  • People go to sleep, others start their day.
  • (Canada sleeps, Kazakhstan wakes up.)
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