- What were your impressions of the last poem? (feelings, mood, like or dislike, difficult, easy, boring, interesting)
- Choose one quote from the poem that stood out to you and explain why
- Make one connection to something you have seen, heard, read or thought about.
- Come up with one question or idea from the poem.
- Choose one poetic device and cite examples and it explain why the author used that device in particular, what does it do for the poem?
Monday, 31 March 2014
Journal #4 (Elizabethan)
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I felt that this poem alluded to the fact that many people were suffering from disease and epidemic, in the way that they either had the disease or had people whom they loved pass away because of it. The quote that stood out the most to me was "all things to end are made", because it illustrates the desperation, hopelessness and depression felt by either the author or the narrator in this time of struggle and pestilence. It frankly states that things are made to die, a very cynical and hopeless outlook on even the most beautiful and happy things in life. This poem reminds me of the black death for some reason, I remember my dad telling me about a man that wrote a hymn about his daughter and his wife that died during the epidemic. Even though he went through this terrible loss, he wrote a hymn about being thankful about what he had still, including God, and that he was happy that he got to spend time with his wife and daughter before they passed away. The one question I have for this poem is what situation the author was in when he wrote this poem. Was he suffering with the disease or did he lose the people that he loved? Or maybe he was just writing about a past disease that he wasn't alive for and was fortunate enough to live past or through? I think the device that Thomas Nashe uses the most throughout the poem is cacophony. "Worms feed on Hector brave;/Swords may not fight with fate;" these two lines show that Nashe creates harsh sounding words with letters like H, F, D, B, V and S. This helps create a cynical and pessimistic feeling to the poem, and thus relating to the theme.
ReplyDelete-Janelle Roberts, April 22, 2014
English 12 (Poem: In Time of Pestilence - Thomas Nashe)