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21st Literature

The document contains several sections including an "About Me" section that lists personal traits and beliefs of the author, responses to questions about a poem analyzing themes of death and the afterlife, an original poem by the author about seizing life, and assessments testing knowledge. It explores themes of love, death, life philosophy, and personal reflection through poems, questions, and a biography.

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21st Literature

The document contains several sections including an "About Me" section that lists personal traits and beliefs of the author, responses to questions about a poem analyzing themes of death and the afterlife, an original poem by the author about seizing life, and assessments testing knowledge. It explores themes of love, death, life philosophy, and personal reflection through poems, questions, and a biography.

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First set

About Me

I am good at singing / I’m not good at arguing


I used to be happy / But now I’m lonely
I am supportive / I am not snob
If you respect me Then I’ll gladly do so
I like drumming But I don’t like public speaking
I know a lot about my country I know nothing about doing crime
I admire smart people I don’t respect criminals
I believe in second chances I don’t believe in liars

What’s more

1. What do you think the word “drive” symbolize and why do you think it is repeated in
the third and fourth stanzas?
- In the poem, drive symbolizes about the verge of death. I think the way it is
repeated in the third and fourth stanzas is to show her memories before its
death, on how she started her childhood to adulthood until her grave.
2. What have you observed in the final stanza? Do you think the language and
description changed from concrete to abstract?
It turns out about the afterlife which the author has moved into death. Yes, in
the final stanza I notice that the language and description changed from
concrete to abstract.
3. In line 2, stanza 6, the verb feels is in the present tense. Why do you think it is in the
present tense as compared to the other verbs in the poem? What does it show
about the poet’s perception of death?
- I think that the reason why line 2, stanza 6 is present tense in view of the fact
that she defined what she felt that day when she was visited by death. She
wanted to point out that death is not the end of the world, which means that
there is an afterlife, an eternity where we live in our next journey.

What I have learned

1. How was death described in the poem? Identify the words used by the author to
describe death.
- Death described in the poem in a way were you realized that no matter how
long you live death is around us, it was already here, within our being, it had
always been here. Furthermore, she used the word immortality to describe
death.
2. What is the role of immortality in the poem?
- The role of immortality denotes that there is life after death or what we called
eternity, means infinite time that never ends. The continuance of a person's
existence eternally.
3. How is death personified in the poem?
- Death stopped for me, it appear how death became a gentle suitor to her, to let
her understand what could demised looks like.

What I can do

Own poem: ( sharing your life’s philosophy to others)

Ocean Pages

Ocean pages, the wide life mortals,

I am awake with forge of privileges,

The uncanny feeling should be erased,

Waving my worth in the ocean

Full of merriment.

I broke chimera, the illusion wandering in my brain

Gratifying life, without questioning raison d'être,

And then verity slaps me,

That life can end with a blink of an eye.

I opened my eyes,

Then I realized
Seize every scanty time of life,

Until ocean pages burned into ashes.

(Post assessment)

1. B (d sure)
2. B
3. B
4. C (d sure)
5. A
6. A
7. C
8. B
9. D
10. A

Set 2

(what I know) choices

1. B
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. C
6. A
7. D
8. B
9. C
10. A

(what’s in) true or false

1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. T
6. T
7. F
8. T
9. T
10. T

1. Who is the persona talking to in the poem?

- The persona is describing a guy who is expressing his affection for someone else.

2. What do rose of salt, topaz, and carnation symbolize?

- Rose of salt, topaz, and carnation symbolize beauty which embraces about love and affection.
Indicate that he holds his love close to his heart and soul.

3. What do you think is the meaning of the 3rd stanza?

- The significance of the 3rd stanza in the poem is about how passionate his love to that person,
he doesn’t bother of what she had, he genuinely love someone because he truly feels it without
any reason.

4. To what sense does the second stanza appeal to?

- sense of sight were he sees the beauty of her loved one, that she only brings light to
his heart. He is smitten by something about this individual that goes beyond the surface.

5. What is the central idea of the poem?

- Love doesn’t require exquisite beauty, doesn’t define based of what a person looks like. It is
about how someone felt it without uncertainty, you let love rule over, not on physical
appearances, you accept someone because you love them genuinely.

What’s new

RUNAWAY

A soft place to fall, I’ve been listening to this music way back when it hits on the internet and I
somewhat felt the story behind it. I wanted to run away, to find peace of what my mind
clouded with emotions. Wanting to go home, were tranquility surrounds me. Home with my
loved ones, were I felt alive way back when we were complete ones. I must return to the place
where I feel most safe. I dedicated this song not just for myself, also to my family for the reason
that they are my place, my soft place to fall. Thus, conclusively wherever it may be that is your
refuge, your place of peace if you will, that would be your “home” or “soft place to fall”.

1. What is the most striking part of Sonnet XVII? Why?

- The most striking part of Sonnet XVII is about love, how it gives us satisfaction to ourselves,
how alluring it is. A relation within beauty and darkness, love rule over it.

2. Which line appeals to you? Why

- I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where

I love you directly without problems or pride:

I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love.

This appeals to me for the reason that love is the greatest force in the universe. Love has no
choices, either, your beautiful or has many flaws when it hits you, you’ll do everything for that
person to be loved. It is the power that brings healing and life, connects souls, and assures us
that everything will be well.

Post Assessment

1. B
2. A
3. C
4. D
5. D
6. A
7. D
8. D
9. D
10. C

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