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Poem ELA Project
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Before Quiet
By Hazel Hall
Presented By: Madison Lee
Before Quiet
My
Poem &
Why I
Chose It
I will think of water-lilies
Growing in a darkened pool
And my breath shall move like water
And my hands be limp and cool
It shall be as though I waited
In a wooded place alone
I will learn the peace of lilies
And take it for my own
If a twinge of thought, if yearning
Come like wind to this place
I will bear it like the shadow
Of a leaf across my face
Why I Chose It
Why I chose It
I chose this poem because it was
- Simple
- Easy(ish) to do
- I liked the catagory it was under
Rainydaypoems.com
https://rainydaypoems.com/poems-for-kids/nature-poems/before-quiet-by-hazel-hall/
Figurative Language
Two figurative language examples from the poem contain a Simile and Personification.
Figurative Language
Simile
Line 3 in stanza one stated,
"And my breath shall move like water"
This stanza shows how the author is feeling. People breath more quickly when stressed or tired, while they breath more slowly and fluidly when calmer. Comparing the author's breathing shows how stressed the author is feeling.
Personification
I found that the line 3 of the second stanza has personification as a second source of figurative language.
"I will learn the peace of lilies."
Because lilies are inanimate objects, they can not have peace. But the author may be trying to compare how the lilies are moving. If they were to supposedly have peace, they would move with a gentle breeze or keep absolutely still, not blown too violently, This example of figurative language could show the weather.
Emotions
Emotion
The primary emotion in this poem would be calm as shown in stanza 1-2.
- My breath shall move like water
- My hands be limp and cool
- I will learn the peace of lilies.
But in the third stanza, the emotion becomes a little more towards melancholy. The word "yearning" feels more negative to me. There aren't any words that are similar to calm, so "yearning" is really the only descriptive word for emotion in the stanza.
Imagery
After reading this poem several times, I pictured a scene with
- A pond, from the first & second line in stanza 1. The water lilies obviously grow in water and in a "pool," stated in line 2.
- A ring of trees, from lines 2, stanza 2, and line 4, stanza 3. "In a wooded place alone, and "Of a leaf across my face."
- It is during the night. Stanza 1, line 2, says, "Growing in a darkened pool." This line shows that the pond is not always dark, it just is now. It grew darker because it is not reflecting the light of the sun anymore
This is kind of what I think it would look like
Sound & Structure
In the poem, there is Rhyme scheme and Meter.
My poem also has 3 stanzas, each with four lines. But I couldn't find anything about what kind of poem it was on the internet.
Sound &
Structure
Structure
Poem
(Again)
I will think of water-lilies
Growing in a darkened pool
My breath shall move like water
My hands be limp and cool
It shall be as though I waited
In a wooded place alone
I will learn the peace of lilies
And take it for my own
If a twinge of thought, if yearning
Come like wind to this place
I will bear it like the shadow
Of a leaf across my face
Rhyme Scheme
I will think of water-lilies A
Growing in a darkened pool B
My breath shall move like water C
My hands be limp and cool B
The Rhyme Scheme in the poem is ABCB all throughout the poem.
The Rhyme scheme affects the poem's meaning rather than the reader, because inm order to have this rhyme scheme, you would need to make the words rhyme. This affects what words go into the poem, and the meaning of the poem.
Meter
The poet uses the punctuation, such as the periods, commas, and semicolon for the reader to pause at such places. This pausing gives the poem its meter (Beat), so the meter affects the reader.
Meter
My Opinion
My
Opinion
I liked the poem "Before Quiet" that I did my presentation on. But it didn't end up what I thought it would mean. There isn't an internet analysis on my poem, that I could find, so this is all based off of what my opinion on this poem is. I didn't really know what the poem would be about just by looking at the title, and I read it soon after.
:)