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A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky

By Lewis Carroll

A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,

Lingering onward dreamily

In an evening of July —

Children three that nestle near,

Eager eye and willing ear,

Pleased a simple tale to hear —

Long has paled that sunny sky:

Echoes fade and memories die:

Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,

Alice moving under skies

Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,

Eager eye and willing ear,

Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,

Dreaming as the days go by,

Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream —

Lingering in the golden gleam —

Life, what is it but a dream?

"A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky" By Lewis Carroll

Saira Shahid, Kamaria Thomas, Andrew Johnson

Works Cited

Read and React Pt. 1

  • ""A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky" by Lewis Carroll (read by Tom O'Bedlam)." YouTube. YouTube, 29 July 2011. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.
  • "Lewis Carroll." Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2014. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.
  • "Poem of the Week." Shenandoah. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.
  • "The Weekend Poem: 'A Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky' By Lewis Carroll." The Huffington Post UK. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.

This poem makes us feel...dreamy and at peace

We think this poem is about childhood and innocence

We think the speaker sounds happy, then sad

Read and React Pt. 2

This poem makes us feel calm and pensive.

This poem is about how childhood and innocence go away like the seasons.

The speaker's tone is dreamlike throughout the poem. It starts as calm and happy, shifts to melancholic, then shifts back.

A boat beneath a sunny sky,

Lingering onward dreamily

In an evening of July-

Long has paled that sunny sky:

Echoes fade and memories die:

August's frosts have slain July.

Children three that nestle near,

Eager eye and willing ear,

Pleased a simple tale to hear-

Literary Elements

Still she haunts me , phantomwise,

Alice moving under skies

Never seen by waking eyes.

  • Alliteration: calls attention to specific phrases, audibly represents action

  • Imagery: sets the scene, gives poem dreamlike quality

  • Motifs (sun, summer, July, dreams, children): sets the scene, conveys central theme of innocence and imagination

  • Allusions to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Alice is the inspiration for this poem as well as his book

  • Acrostic Format

RIPP

Repetition: sun, summer, July, dream, children

Isolation: "Still she haunts me, phantomwise / Alice moving under skies" (middle stanza)

Position: happy > sad > happy, ends with a question

Proportion: most of poem mentions dreams and summer. shift in the middle.

Children yet, the tale to hear,

Eager eye and willing ear,

Lovingly shall nestle near.

In the Wonderland they lie,

Dreaming as the days go by,

Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream-

Lingering in the golden gleam-

Life, what is but a dream?

Facts

  • Lewis Carroll suffered from a bad stammer.
  • Lewis Carroll was also the author of the stories Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking- Glass
  • Aside from writing, he enjoyed photography.
  • Alice Pleasance Liddell, his inspiration for the poem, was not only a friend of Carroll's, but also a young girl.
  • Carroll was a lecturer in mathematics.
  • There are also claims against him saying that he took nude photographs of children.

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