Saturday, March 14, 2009

Poetry to ponder.

In Memoriam

Calm is the morn without a sound,
Calm as to suit a calmer grief,
And only through the faded leaf
The chestnut pattering to the ground:

Calm and deep peace on this high wold,
And on these dews that drench the furze,
And all the silvery gossamers
That twinkle into green and gold:

Calm and still light on yon great plain
That sweeps with all its autumn bowers,
And crowded farms and lessening towers,
To mingle with the bounding main:

Calm and deep peace in this wide air,
These leaves that redden to the fall;
And in my heart, if calm at all,
If any calm, a calm despair:

Calm on the seas, and silver sleep,
And waves that sway themselves in rest,
And dead calm in that noble breast
Which heaves but with the heaving deep.

-Alfred Lord Tennyson

Well I got nothing else to blog on or to brag on.
So I reckon I should share this poem which is one of my assignment right now. (apart from other many assignmentsss)
I have to analyze this poem, not in terms of the meaning, but in terms of its phonological, semantic, lexical and syntactical structure.
Which is such a bore.
I rather interpret the meaning than the above mentioned.

What more, I have to present this in front of the class. (malu malu malu!)
Kena baca dengan penuh drama ni. uhu.

Help?

4 comments:

alia said...

boleh bawak daun2. baling2 dlm kelas.
bwk silvery gossamer that twinkle into green and gold. baling stardust! (kita br pas tgk stardust. kita asyik bayangkan robert je yg jadi hero)

how ah to act like a dead child?

iwa xaqi said...

kekekke...
lepas klas awk tolong sapu sume k..
probably just gonna read it real slow..
just to show how calm i am..

dun la act like dead child..
just imagine someone in the audience as a dead child..
just keep pointing at that person..
(here's a clue-the name starts with j or f!!!)

alia said...

j or f? hahaha. sure can. but this dead child was a girl la. how?

iwa xaqi said...

then just imagine him as a girl laa..
hehehe...

tak pun awk buat gila bwk dolly n imagine that doll the dead child..
gile scary...

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