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  • Assonance
  • End-Stopped lines
  • Enjambment lines
  • Ryhme
  • Metaphor

The Harvest Moon

The flame-red moon, the harvest moon,

Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,

A vast balloon,

Till it takes off, and sinks upward

To lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon.

The harvest moon has come,

Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon.

And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum.

So people can't sleep,

So they go out where elms and oak trees keep

A kneeling vigil, in a religious hush.

The harvest moon has come!

And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep

Stare up at her petrified, while she swells

Filling heaven, as if red hot, and sailing

Closer and closer like the end of the world.

Till the gold fields of stiff wheat

Cry `We are ripe, reap us!' and the rivers

Sweat from the melting hills.

"So people can't sleep,

So they go out where elms and oak trees keep

A kneeling vigil, in a religious hush.

The harvest moon has come!"

Harvest moon:

Full moon during the autumnal equinox.

What deserves attention?

What is a harvest moon?

"And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep

Stare up at her petrified, while she swells

Filling heaven, as if red hot, and sailing

Closer and closer like the end of the world."

"Till the gold fields of stiff wheat

Cry `We are ripe, reap us!' and the rivers

Sweat from the melting hills."

Edward James Hughes

  • Born August 17,1930
  • Married 3 times- Sylvia Plath, Assia Wevill and Carol Orchard
  • Died October 28th, 1998

Poectic Devices

Work Cited

Groen, Aaron J. Road to Nowhere. Digital image. Rern. N.p n.d. Web. 25 Feb. 2016

Carter, Ronald. "Metaphor and Creative Risks." Investigating English Discourse: Language, Literacy, Literature. London: Routledge, 1997. 150. Print.

What do you think?What does it mean?

The Harvest Moon- Ted Hughes

By: Alyssa Morinville

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