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    The document contains two poetry paraphrasing exercises. The first summarizes Yeats' poem "All Things Can Tempt Me" as describing how the poet finds writing poetry difficult to focus on due to various distractions in his life, from women to the problems of his country. The second summarizes Dickinson's poem "The Secret Heart" as depicting a boy awakening at night and seeing his father checking on him with a lit match, representing a fond childhood memory the narrator can recall clearly across the years. The paraphrasing analyzes the poem in four parts, setting up tension in the first two lines and providing context, setting, and explanation for the scene in the following lines.

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    The document contains two poetry paraphrasing exercises. The first summarizes Yeats' poem "All Things Can Tempt Me" as describing how the poet finds writing poetry difficult to focus on due to various distractions in his life, from women to the problems of his country. The second summarizes Dickinson's poem "The Secret Heart" as depicting a boy awakening at night and seeing his father checking on him with a lit match, representing a fond childhood memory the narrator can recall clearly across the years. The paraphrasing analyzes the poem in four parts, setting up tension in the first two lines and providing context, setting, and explanation for the scene in the following lines.

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    The document contains two poetry paraphrasing exercises. The first summarizes Yeats' poem "All Things Can Tempt Me" as describing how the poet finds writing poetry difficult to focus on due to various distractions in his life, from women to the problems of his country. The second summarizes Dickinson's poem "The Secret Heart" as depicting a boy awakening at night and seeing his father checking on him with a lit match, representing a fond childhood memory the narrator can recall clearly across the years. The paraphrasing analyzes the poem in four parts, setting up tension in the first two lines and providing context, setting, and explanation for the scene in the following lines.

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    POETRY PARAPHRASING

    Febrian Maulana Santoso (222003516007)

    Muhammad Jibril Sya’bana (222003516008)

    Rafi Septiaji (222003516029)

    Exercise :

    “All Things Can Tempt Me” by W. B. Yeats

    All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:

    One time it was a woman’s face, or worse—

    The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;

    Now nothing but comes readier to the hand

    Than this accustomed toil…

    Paraphrasing

    Anything can distract me from writing poetry: One time I was distracted by a woman's face,
    but I was even more distracted by (or I found an even less worthy distraction in) the attempt
    to fulfill what I imagined to be the needs of a country governed by idiots. At this point in my
    life I find any task easier than the work I'm used to doing.

    “The Secret Heart” 

    “Across the years he could recall


    His father one way best of all.”

    “In the stillest hour of night


    The boy awakened to a light.”
    “Half in dreams, he saw his sire
    With his great hands full of fire.”

    “The man had struck a match to see


    If his son slept peacefully.”

    Paraphrasing

    Lines 1 and 2 of the Secret Heart set up tension and create interest in what will follow. The
    narrator is going to tell us about the way he remembers his father best—even after many
    years have gone by

    Lines 3 and 4 of the Secret Heart gives us the setting. It’s late at night. It’s dark and still. A
    boy awakens to see a light.

    Line 5 of the Secret Heart helps us understand the narrator’s situation. He’s not quite awake.
    He’s in a world between dreaming and reality. He’s half in the dream world. It’s easy to see
    things in a more symbolic way when one is only half awake. Note how he refers to his father
    here as his “sire”. That’s a very grand word.

    Lines 7 and 8 of the Secret Heart are basically narration to explain what’s happening. Line 7
    carries us nicely to line 8 as it’s not quite a complete thought.

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