TITLE: Hawk Roosting

AUTHOR: Ted Hughes

SUMMARY:

The poem shows us the pictures of dictators, the attitudes and minds. in the poem,

we hear the dictator say,\'it took the whole the of creation to produce my foot, my

each feather but now i hold creation in my foot\'. he continues to say he flies it up

and kills where he pleases. The above quotation, of course, shows the kind of

leaders we have today. After we have made them leaders, they tend to brutalize us

forgetting that we made them what they are. The dictator crowns his behaviour by

saying, \"my legs are locked upon the rough bark\" this creates a picture of a padlock

used to lock up a prison room. Hence, making us believe that there is nothing that

can remove him from power. The firmness of his grasp of the power can be seen in

the use of the word 'rough’. The word rough, scientifically, shows high friction.

THEME:

The “Hawk Roosting” revolves around one key idea, control. Control is evident

through various aspects of the poem and is a key factor of the theme.

MORAL VALUE

we should appreciate the nature

we should take responsibility towards the people

STRUCTURE:

first point of view (using letter “I”)

the poem has six stana

4 line each stanza

ANALYSIS OF POEM

RHYME:

stanza 1 (abc), stanza 2 (abcd), stanza 3 (abcd), stanza 4 (abac), stanza 5

(abcd), stanza 6 (abac)

TONE: hard and brutal

MOOD: about the nature, tearing off heads

LITERARY DEVICES:

Irony = Now I hold Creation in my foot

Personification = the earth's face upward for my inspection.

Symbolize = Now I hold Creation in my foot

LANGUAGE:

The language of the poem seems to come from a cultivated person, as if the

hawk had a great deal of wisdom and knowledge, as if it had always been

there.

The language used is high and difficult to understand.

ANALYSIS OF POEM

TITLE: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

AUTHOR: Maya Angelou

SUMMARY:

The author feels like a part of her is left behind a cage and hidden, and the other

half of her is free and shows. She wants to show her other things but her wings are

'clipped' and her 'feet are tied'. This poem shows that she wants all of what is inside

of her but she can’t seem to show all of her because she feels like part of her is

stuck behind a cage. There are two contrasts: one bird is free and can do whatever

he pleases, the other bird is surrounded by his 'bars of rage' in complete captivity.

'His wings are clipped and his feet are tied'. So the bird can only imagine what

freedom might be outside, and he's got only his song to express his dashed hopes

for freedom. The poem is an allegory for the enslavement of the black people who

clamour for freedom but remain under the yoke of the white people.

THEME:

The hardship of living oppression, refer to social discrimination in term of

poet’s life.

the separation between the colours of people’s skin in everyday life

MORAL VALUE:

We must appreciate peace and freedom that we have

We must tolerate others to live in harmony

We should avoid discrimination between others people

STRUCTURE:

Third person point of view

Have six stanza

For the first three stanzas, it has 7 line, the rest is 4 line and last stanza have

8 line.

RHYME SCHEME: irregular rhyme and free verse

TONE: jealous, angry, not satisfied with the situation

MOOD: sorry for the caged bird

LITERARY DEVICES:

Allegory = sun rays (comfort), sky (freedom)

Personification = giving human characteristics to an inanimate object

- ‘so he opens his throat to sing’= bird is chips not sing

- ‘free bird sings’ = human sings

- ‘through the sighing trees’ = trees does not sign

Alliteration = ‘can seldom see’ – repetition of consonant ‘S’

Hyperbole = ‘he names the sky his own’ – the sky can’t be owned

Symbolized =

- Caged = human who be oppress

- I free = white people

- In caged = black people

LANGUAGE:

The language had loading the moment with emotion so it is easier to

understand and determine the theme.

ANALYSIS OF POEM

TITLE: On a Tree Fallen Across the Road

AUTHOR: Robert Frost

SUMMARY:

This poem is about the human’s ability to overcome obstacles. Obviously there is

something other than the human’s ability to overcome obstacles implied in this piece.

Possibly Frost has acknowledged peoples tendency to stray from their goals and

aspirations. After years of striving and searching and "aimlessly circling in one place"

we as human beings find a new object of desire and simply "steer straight off after

something into space." Frost may have may be implying that we, as humans, will

never give up and that we have it in ourselves to overcome this "fallen tree", this test

or obstacle placed in front of us.

THEME: the main theme is about effort to overcome obstacles of daily life which is

life, nature, and love, can stop us in our tracks and make us feel powerless.

MORAL VALUE:

We have to has a high spirit to face the problem

We need to be brave enough to faced the obstacle

Some obstacles aren’t easy to over come but it can be done.

STRUCTURE: first point of view, it have 4 stanzas, 4 line each stanza

RHYME: the rhyme maintain which is (abab) except for the last stanza (aa)

TONE: enthusiasm (high level of spirit

MOOD: spiritual and amazing

LITERARY DEVICES:

Symbolize

- Crash of wood = to show the nature and the obstacle

- Foot of snow = challenges for the poet

- Seize the earth = impossible for poet to control nature or environment

- The tree = to show the poet is a leader to control environment

- Space = to show the effort of the poet is no solution or infinity

Oxymoron = ‘hidden in us to attain’ ( refer to his wife suffer breast cancer)

Hyperbole = ‘seize earth by the pole’ (quite impossible to own the earth)

Metaphor = ‘tree the tempest with a crash of wood’

LANGUAGE:

The language is simple but meaningful. The meaning is very deep which is

quite hard to understand.

TITLE: Sadie and Maud

AUTHOR: Gwendolyn Brooks

SUMMARY:

“Sadie and Maud” by Gwendolyn Brooks, is a didactic poem about life, choices, and

happiness. The poem follows the lives of two women, Sadie and Maud. Sadie makes

what society may consider poor choices, but lives a happy life. Maud, the college

graduate, the one with a seemingly propitious future, ends up with a bleak and lonely

life. What the poem reveals through the life of Sadie hints at the true source of

happiness, and whether or not the choices made are the sole contributors to that

end. The poem ends on a bitter and sad note. However, it is the bitter and sad, and

the less than sanguine, that often grabs attention. Sadie is an iconoclast. She dispels

the spurious notions that society has on what it takes to be successful. She proves

that ultimately, success is not solely based on going to college; it is not solely based

on doing what is expected, but instead, it is more basic than that. Success is simply

being happy.

THEME:

the main theme is about the protest against the limited opportunities available

to African American woman in the society presented

Life, choices and happiness. It is about choosing a simple domestic life and

having a career.

MORAL VALUE:

Although we may be staying home, it doesn't mean you won't have a fulfilling

life

We should made a right choices in our life because it will change our future

ANALYSIS OF POEM

STRUCTURE:

3rd persona point of view (Sadie and Maud), contain 4 quatrain stanzas and

one sestet stanza, 20 lines that form the poem, 15 deal with Sadie and only 5

deal with Maud.

RHYME SCHEMA:

stanza 1 (aaab), stanza 2 (abcb), stanza 3 (abab), stanza 4(abba), stanza 5

(aaaa)

TONE: the poet doesn’t make serious depress.

MOOD: happy and sad.

LITERARY DEVICES:

Imagery

- Sight = ‘thin’, ‘brown’

- Sound = ‘Sadie said her last so-long’

- Touch = ‘scraped life’ and ‘with a fine toothed comb’

Metaphor = ‘is a thin brown mouse’

Hyperbole = ‘nearly died of shame’

LANGUAGE:

The language is simple and very easy to understand. It just like telling a story

but contain meaningful moral value.

TITLE: The Rain

AUTHOR: Muhammad Haji Salleh

SUMMARY:

From the poem, the poet presents the readers on how the nature-the rain, affect the

animals and people. Poet describes that scenery with the description of the reaction

of the plants and animals and the human react towards the rain that comes

suddenly. The power of nature can be seen by the way it affect the reaction of the

animals and human. This can be seen by the men need the rain to continue their

planting of paddy to sustain the life and living of the men. This can also be

concluding that it is the power of nature that helps men to survive.

THEME:

Power of nature

Dependence of men on nature for survival

MORAL VALUE:

We should appreciate the nature because its give many benefits for us

We should happy with all the benefits that we get from the Power of the

nature.

STRUCTURE:

Second persona point of view

The poem have five stanza

1stanza (5 lines), 2nd stanza (8 lines), 3rd stanza (3lines), 4th stanza (5lines), 5th

stanza (3lines)

ANALYSIS OF POEM

RHYME SCHEMA:

abcde-1st stanza, abcdefgh-2nd stanza, abc-3rd stanza, abcde-4th stanza, abc-

5th stanza

TONE:

Impressed-by the power of nature

Excited-because finally it’s raining

MOOD: Happy-because the rain saves them from drought

LITERARY DEVICES:

Personification = ‘Suddenly they came, the mid-year padi rains’. From here,

we can indicate that the poet assume that the rains is alive that they can

move around.

Assonance = ‘Water has come. He looked out into the sheet of rain’. From

this sentence from the poem, it contain five vowel “o” which is the traits of

assonance that with the repetition of the same vowel in the same sentence

Alliteration = ‘The rain fell and wetted their praying throats’. From this

sentence we can see the traits of alliteration which is the repetition of 6 times

of the consonant “t” in one sentence

Intonation = Full of hope and grateful

LANGUAGE:

Easy to understand and the words are simple. The meaning is not

complicated and poet use nature so that we could understand directly towards

the meaning.

TITLE: I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

AUTHOR: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

SUMMARY:

The speaker says that, wandering like a cloud floating above hills and valleys, he

encountered a field of daffodils beside a lake. The dancing, fluttering flowers

stretched endlessly along the shore, and though the waves of the lake danced

beside the flowers, the daffodils outdid the water in glee. The speaker says that a

poet could not help but be happy in such a joyful company of flowers. He says that

he stared and stared, but did not realize what wealth the scene would bring him. For

now, whenever he feels “vacant” or “pensive,” the memory flashes upon “that inward

eye / That is the bliss of solitude,” and his heart fills with pleasure, “and dances with

the daffodils.”

THEME:

Nature’s beauty uplifts the human spirit

MORAL VALUE:

Living a life as rich in experience and sensation as would make a life worth

living

we should appreciate the nature

STRUCTURE:

First point of view

Contains four stanzas

Six lines each

ANALYSIS OF POEM

RHYME SCHEME: ababcc for all the stanzas

TONE: The poem may begin on a somewhat sad note when the speaker claims that

he "wandered lonely as a cloud," but the tone of the poem quickly becomes joyful.

MOOD: Light-hearted dance, the joy and happiness of living an adoring and fulfilling

life, embracing it for every drop of nectar it could so bring.

LITERARY DEVICES:

Simile: Comparison (using as) of the speaker's solitariness to that of a cloud

(line 1).

Personification: Comparison of the cloud to a lonely human. (line 1)

Alliteration: high o'er vales and Hills (line 2).

Alliteration: When all at once (line 3). (Note that the w and o have the same

consonant sound.)

Personification/Metaphor: Comparison of daffodils to a crowd of people (lines

3-4).

Alliteration: golden Daffodils (line 4).

Alliteration: Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,

Personification/Metaphor: Comparison of daffodils to dancing humans (lines

4, 6).

LANGUAGE: Incredibly rich in language and resonates on so many levels through a

subject of remembering

TITLE: MID TERM BREAK

AUTHOR: SEAMUS HEANEY

SYNOPSIS:

The speaker is a boy away at school when the news comes that his four year old

brother has been killed in an accident. Arriving home, "I met my father crying . . . "

The boy is "embarrassed / By old men standing up to shake my hand / And tell me

they were ‘sorry for my trouble.’" The next morning the boy goes upstairs to see his

brother lying "in the four foot box as in his cot."

THEME:

Unexpected death

MORAL VALUES:

We should accept the death in calm

We should calm in whatever situation

We should love our family

STRUCTURE:

First point of view

Eight stanza,

Three lines per stanza

Last stanza, just a line.

RHYME SCHEME: In this poem there is no specific rhythm or rhyme pattern

TONE: In telling a story, calm tone

MOOD: Sweet feeling of love, sad of the death

ANALYSIS OF POEM

LITERARY DEVICES:

Imagery: Counting bells knelling classes to a close

Simile: He lay in a four foot box, as in his cot

LANGUAGE:

Seamus Heaney’s choice of words in this poem is what made the poem so special.

He adds aloofness to the first section of the poem until after “Next morning” after

which the author uses “him” to show that the speaker has finally come to realization.

Also the word “soothed” brings a certain warm feeling to the poem. However this

word is by words that are associated with mourning, death or illness such as

“bedside”, “candles” and “Snowdrops”.

TITLE: THE WAY THINGS ARE

AUTHOR: ROGER MCGOUGH

SYNOPSIS:

This poem is about the advices given by a father to his son. It is true that children

should be taught reality. Children should be taught this lesson so that they do not

thoughtlessly indulge in disastrous pleasure. Next is children should know certain

deeds that may appear to have been done with kind intentions may have been done

accidentally or selfishly. We cannot subsist on dreams. Dreams being abstract,

unrealistic and unattainable are represented as “Moonbeams” which have similar

attributes. We should not be preoccupied with dreams or illusions; the jar

symbolizing life or our mind. It advises us to face reality and not be too over-

possessive. Do not cling on to the unachievable. Children should be taught to accept

defeat, and that they cannot always have everything that they desire.

We cannot expect fortune to descend to us, and wait meaninglessly. Instead,

children should strive to achieve their goals through dedicated efforts.

THEME:

Relationship between father and son

Reality versus illusion

MORAL VALUES:

1) Be a good son

2) Be a good parents

3) Be a good listeners

4) Sharing our experiences

5) We should face the reality

6) Life must go on in whatever way

ANALYSIS OF POEM

STRUCTURE:

First point of view

7 stanza,

Five to six line for each stanza

RHYME SCHEME: stanza 1 (abcdd), stanza 2 (abcadd), stanza 3 (abccc), stanza 4

(abcdee), stanza 5 (abcddd), stanza 6 (abcdee), stanza 7 (abcbdb)

TONE: caring and wisdom (real parents)

Mood: hardship of father (touching)

Literary devices:

Personification: the candles is not crying, when the sky is looking

Simile: an excuse is as good a reason as any

Metaphor: today’s craft hair is tomorrows boot sale

Repetition: I am your father and that is the way things are

Language: The poet uses the simple language which made the comparison between

some things to the real life. It is to make the children easily to understand.

TITLE: DEMOCRACY

AUTHOR: LANGSTON HUGHES

SYNOPSIS:

Langston Hughes expresses a need for African American People to be impatient and

not wait for society to work its course. Hughes believed that the Whites wished for

the African - American's to be suppressed and to not have the same rights, when in

actuality whites had denied themselves of the same rights they created. He believes

his rights should parallel those of white people, without compromising his dignity in

any way. He declares he is an American and should have the rights to stand on his

two feet and own his land, supported by lines 7 through 9. He doesn't want to wait for

freedom; he wants to fight for freedom and make a change. Moreover, he is not too

fond of passive individuals who say the following, "Let things take their course /

Tomorrow is another day," because that kind of attitude signifies submission. He

indicates that everybody should have the right to exercise their freedom because

that's a birthright, for whites, blacks, and whomever.

THEME: Democracy and Freedom

MORAL VALUES:

We shall respect one another as children of god and let the prisoners of their

country free.

We all have a right to choose but can we without being oppressed by the laws

governed by your state.

STRUCTURE:

First point of view

ANALYSIS OF POEM

Five stanza

Three to five line for each stanza

RHYME SCHEME: stanza 1 (abab), stanza 2 (abcac), stanza 3 (abacc), stanza 4

(abcb), stanza 5 (aba)

TONE: Express about the democracy

MOOD: Sad, not satisfied

LITERARY DEVICES:

Symbolize: Freedom is a strong seed

Repetition of “I”

LANGUAGE: The poet uses the simple word into this poem. It is simple and easy to

understand. The language that he uses is referring to him.