Thank you.
Rosemary& Cecelia& Luan
Tone:
Melancholy
Melancholy means a gloomy state of mind.
Can you tell us how we came to that conclusion?
Theme:
Society restricts women.
Society changes and has certain expectations for every woman which is why Marge Percy sets the poem as it is.
Symbols:
A work of Artifice
Bonsai Tree- Represents the Woman
Gardener- Represents men/society
Please point out the shifts.
There are a total of two shifts seen through out the poem.
By Marge Piercy
Figurative Language:
Imagery, Hyperbole, & Metaphors.
Do Now:
We will now watch a reading of the poem.
Please Identify where you may see an example of each of these.
Reading the poem:
The bonsai tree
in the attractive pot
could have grown eighty feet tall
on the side of a mountain
till split by lightning.
But a gardener
carefully pruned it.
It is nine inches high.
Every day as he
whittles back the branches
the gardener croons,
It is your nature
to be small and cozy,
domestic and weak;
how lucky, little tree,
to have a pot to grow in.
With living creatures
one must begin very early
to dwarf their growth:
the bound feet,
the crippled brain,
the hair in curlers,
the hands you
love to touch.