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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.

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