Happy feast day Santa Rita de Casia!

Hello everyone, feeling good?

Well let me begin by telling you that
since we are asynchronous today
due to some unavoidable circumstance
I would like you to read the given poems
and answer accordingly

Remember there are no wrong answers;

only poor answers if you don’t explain
your ideas well;
All answers must be in printed and soft copy in gdrive
And should be submitted tomorrow
at the CTE office by your respective Mayors.

I hope you do your very best

You may commence now,
Have a cool time and good luck!

Poem 1

Chartless
Emily Dickinson

I never saw the moor,

 I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.

I never spoke with God,

Nor visited in heaven
Yet certain am I of the spot.
As if the chart were given.

2. Guide questions for Chartless

1. What do the following words mean?

Moor
Heather
2. Does the poet express unbelief in God? Does she doubt that God
exists?
3. What does she refer to as spot?
4. Why do you think is the poem entitled Chartless?
5. Why is a chart used here? What does it suggest? What comparison
does the author imply?
6. For what does a chart here stand as a symbol?

2. Guidelines for Landscape

LANDSCAPE
Carlos Angeles

Sun in the knifed horizon bleeds the sky,

Spilling the peacock stains upon the sand,
Across some murdered rocks refuse to die
It is your absence that touches my sad hands,
Blinded like flags in the wrecked of air.
 And catacombs of cloud enshroud the cool
And calm involvement of the darkened plains,
The stunted mourners here and there a full
And universal tenderness that drains
The sucked and golden breath of sky comes bare.
Now, while the dark basins the void of space
Some sudden crickets ambushing me near.
Discovered vowels of your whispered face
And subtly cry, I touch your absence here
Remembering the speeches of your hair.

1. What figure of speech is suggested by the following?

a. knifed horizon
b. bleeds the sky
c. murdered rocks refused to die
d. your absences touch my sad hands
e. speeches of your hair
2. What rhetorical devices are used in the following lines/phrases:
a. catacomb of cloud enshrouds the cool and calm
b. cloud enshroud
c. spilling the peacock stains upon the sands
3. Is there rhyme in the poem? If there is, what is the rhyme scheme?
4. What do you think was the speaker's feeling in the poem's opening
lines?
5. Was there a change in the mood or feeling of the persona? If there is,
what caused this change?
6. What is the significance of the lines “ It is your absence that touches my
sad hands,//” and I touch your absence here.”
7. What is the speaker, a man or a woman? What is your clue?
8. How does the person regard the feeling of missing a loved one? What
words suggest this feeling?
 To Celia
Ben Jonson

Drink to me only with thine eyes,

And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in a cup
And I’ll not look for wine.

The thirst that from the soul doth rise

Doth ask a drink divine
But might I of Jove’s nectar sop
I would not change for thine.

I sent thee late a rosy wreath, ~

Not so much honoring thee
As giving it a hope that there
it could not wither’d be.

But thou thereon did only breath,

And sent’st it back to me;
Since when it grows, and smells I swear
Not of itself but thee.

3.Guide questions for “To Celia”

1. What do you think the line “Drink to me only with thine eyes” mean?
2. To what is the kiss compared as expressed by the first stanza? What
quality does the wine and the compared idea share or is in common?
3. Reference to Jove or any mythical, historical, or biblical character/object
or idea is called allusion. Who is Jove and what is a nectar?
4. Does the speaker envy Jove?
5. To whom does the speaker send a wreath of roses? What is the
speaker’s purpose of sending it?
6. What did the receiver do with the rose?
7. What did the speaker do with the rose?
8. What strange thing did the speaker find about the rose?