<center>In class we read <i>An Irish Airman Foresees His Death</i> by W.B. Yeats and <i>Some People Like Poetry </i>by Wislawa Szymborska. You are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to analyze one of them. If you choose Yeats' poem, then you will be dicussing rhyme. In Szymborska's poem you will be analyzing the structure of the poem. I mean seriously, how awesome is this? If you ever make a sentence that you don't like, you can use the back button within the game to go back and change your answer. Do not click back on your browser.
You can view [[Yeats]]' poem here and [[Szymborska]]'s here.
Choose Poem
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<<button "Some Like Poetry" "Poetry">><<set $element to "poetic structure">><</button>></center>You went with Yeats. Bold choice. Now, you need to make a claim about how his use of $element affects the reader. I'm sure this is what you were planning to do anyway, and now you get a chance to earn points. Yes, points! Complete the sentence by stating how you believe $element in the poem affects the reader.
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I guess you are one of the people that like poetry since you chose Wislawa Szymborska's poem. I know, you thought you could just jump on Insta and relax, but you get to count the number of lines, measure the rhythm and discuss the rhyme scheme. You need to complete the sentence below to make a claim about how Szymborska structured the poem and its affects the reader.
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You thought you were done, didn't you? A good argument always has at least to examples to back it up, and you only have one. Find a second example and enter it here.
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<<elseif $element is "poetic structure">>In <i>Some People Like Poetry</i> by Wislawa Szymborska the use of $element affects the poem by $claim. For example, $example1. <</if>>Additionally, <<textbox "$example2" "" [[Example2]]>>You are a top notch analyst. Finally, you are finished. Nah, not quite. Some of us who can't read minds need a little more explanation to clarify and tie this all together. You are almost finished. Please enter an explanation and summary here. Make sure that you show how your examples supports your brilliant claim. Pretend like you are talking to someone that has never read these poems.
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<<elseif $element is "poetic structure">><i>In Some People Like Poetry</i> by Wislawa Szymborska the use of $element affects the poem by $claim. For example $example1. Another example is $example2.<</if>><<textbox "$summary" "" [[Summary]]>> This is an excellent point(Honestly, you are a better judge of that than I since I am just text written on the Interwebs.), but you need to give some examples to back up what you are saying because who is going to believe you? Here you will enter your first example. Make sure to be specific, and you should probably use a quote.
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<<elseif $element is "poetic structure">><i>In Some People Like Poetry</i> by Wislawa Szymborska the use of $element affects the poem by $claim <</if>> For example <<textbox "$example1" "" [[Example1]]>>.The task is complete. You must be exhausted. Pat yourself on the back. You wrote a whole paragraph. Copy and paste it to wherever your teacher wants this turned in. You should probs put it into a Google doc and check for squiggly lines, and if I were you (which I am not) then I would read it a couple of times, maybe even once out loud, to see if it makes sense.
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Some Like Poetry
Wislawa Szymborska
Some -
thus not all. Not even the majority of all but the minority.
Not counting schools, where one has to,
and the poets themselves,
there might be two people per thousand.
Like -
but one also likes chicken soup with noodles,
one likes compliments and the color blue,
one likes an old scarf,
one likes having the upper hand,
one likes stroking a dog.
Poetry -
but what is poetry.
Many shaky answers
have been given to this question.
But I don't know and don't know and hold on to it
like to a sustaining railing.
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An Irish Airman foresees his Death
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.