Our group chose the theme: Friendship because we thought it friendship is some thing important in our life. Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between two or more people. We choose this theme as we want to learn the importance of friendship in the world so that we could treasure the friendship we have now more. Without friendship, we could not be having the happiness that we are having everyday . Therefore, we selected this theme because we wanted to know the true meaning of friendship.
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Saturday, 5 April 2014
Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte
Love and Friendship
Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree—
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?
The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who will call the wild-briar fair?
Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He still may leave thy garland green.
Emily Bronte
Analysis:
Love and friendship are both essential, as they affect human beings in every stage of life and also play with human emotion, while both concepts seem to be ignored at times. In the first stanza, she suggests that love and friendship often don’t agree with each other, and it seems as though one will conquer over the other at some point. The middle section of the poem continues using similes and metaphors connecting friendship with holly, and love with the rose. The final stanza concludes that friendship will win the battle, and be long lasting over love. This poem is divided into three stanzas, each a quatrain. Bronte deliberately mixes the meter from line to line for dramatic effect, in order to highlight certain words to reinforce the image she creates. Also, the number of syllables in each line varies, except for the last stanza, where all the lines have a count of 8. Bronte uses many literary terms throughout the poem. The whole poem, in fact, is an extended metaphor in which love is being depicted as a sweet rose-briar and friendship a holly branch. By illustrating the two concepts in this fashion, Bronte is able to effectively suggest to the reader her thoughts on their coherence. The metaphor allows the reader to paint a picture in their minds and apply it to the general motif of love and friendship. Bronte also uses two alliterations in the second stanza:" sweet in spring" and "summer blossoms scent" to make the picture clearer and more detailed, because the alliterations help with the flow of the words. Bronte also used a personification at the last stanza- December. December cannot leave a garland green, but in Bronte’s case, it can, because it was used to show the holly’s endurance and strength.
A Time to Talk by Robert Lee Frost Analysis
A Time to Talk:
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don't stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven't hoed,
And shout from where I am, 'What is it?'
No, not as there is a time talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
Robert Lee Frost
Analysis:
Robert Frost was one of the many great poets of his time, a man who struggled for such achievement and has suffered such loss in his family. He was born in San Francisco, California, on 26 March 1874.
The poem is talking about a field worker working when he was approached by a friend who wanted to talk to him. The worker then quickly decides that talking to his friend instead of working has more value to him. The poem says that “And slows his horse to a meaning walk” which is from the past as only in the olden days we use a horse to travel. Now in the modern world, we use vehicles to travel so this has influenced how I read the poem. The speaker values spending some time with a friend more highly than finishing his work, which, after all , will still be there after the opportunity to talk with his friend has passed.
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Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 30:
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoanèd moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end
William Shakespeare （26 April 1564– 23 April 1616）was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.Shakespeare constructed Sonnet 29 in honor of his friend and possibly his lover, the Earl of Southampton (Shakespeare’s savior). He continues this theme in Sonnet 30.
This poem is about Shakespeare when he sits alone in silence and remember the past, how he gets depressed about all the things he does not have that he once strived for, and he sorrowfully remembers all the valuable time he have wasted in his life. He expresses how he cries for his dear friends who are dead though he is not used to crying, and he weep of the loss of many things he will never see again. He grieve about grievances he had let go of and sadly recount each woe that he had already cried about in the past and feels the pain all over again, as though he had not suffered over those things. But if he think about his dear friend, all his losses are compensated for and his sorrow ends.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoanèd moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end
William Shakespeare （26 April 1564– 23 April 1616）was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.Shakespeare constructed Sonnet 29 in honor of his friend and possibly his lover, the Earl of Southampton (Shakespeare’s savior). He continues this theme in Sonnet 30.
This poem is about Shakespeare when he sits alone in silence and remember the past, how he gets depressed about all the things he does not have that he once strived for, and he sorrowfully remembers all the valuable time he have wasted in his life. He expresses how he cries for his dear friends who are dead though he is not used to crying, and he weep of the loss of many things he will never see again. He grieve about grievances he had let go of and sadly recount each woe that he had already cried about in the past and feels the pain all over again, as though he had not suffered over those things. But if he think about his dear friend, all his losses are compensated for and his sorrow ends.
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
William Wordsworth
Analysis:
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.” The four six-line stanzas of this poem follow a quatrain-couplet rhyme scheme: ABABCC. Each line is metered in iambic tetrameter.
Friendship's Golden Wings by Ruth Warren
Friendship's Golden Wings
Angels without wings,
I've heard friends sometimes called.
They walk the earth among us,
to catch us when we fall.
They simply seem most unaware
the importance of their presence,
or how the kindness that they share
gives them special luminescence.
The friends that come in and out of your life
are your own angels in times of defeat.
So when certain ones stand out from the rest,
be sure to treat them specially sweet.
When your weeks are long and troublesome,
and burdens seem more than you can handle,
angel friends help you see through a different light,
and your life can become more tranquil.
These wondrous friends carry a special light,
and though they won't always agree,
you know they're really angels in disguise;
you know because it's what you see.
Within the arms of true friendship;
the warmth of it feels so pure.
The loving span of its golden wings
Gently wraps to reassure
Ruth Warren
Poem Analysis:
This poem shows the importance of friendship, and how we are each other’s pillar of support. Your friend might not always agree with you but they are the ones that are always there especially in times when you need them. It tells people that they have to treasure good friends around them, and treat them nicely as you are important to them and they are important to you as well. True friends are like angels in disguise and always there for each other. Having friendship is an important part of our lives, without friends, we would not be able to have a change of character, whether it being from good to bad or vice versa.
The poem shows that friends would care for us no matter how hard the situation we are facing is. When we are down, friends are the ones staying by our sides cheering us up and helping us face the problem and solving it. When you feel like there is no hope, they bring hope into our life and always brighten up your day and allow you to think about the brighter side of life. Friends are always there when we need them, hence and therefore we should always treasure that we have them around our lives now, because it’s always easier to break a friendship then to have a close one.
Angels without wings,
I've heard friends sometimes called.
They walk the earth among us,
to catch us when we fall.
They simply seem most unaware
the importance of their presence,
or how the kindness that they share
gives them special luminescence.
The friends that come in and out of your life
are your own angels in times of defeat.
So when certain ones stand out from the rest,
be sure to treat them specially sweet.
When your weeks are long and troublesome,
and burdens seem more than you can handle,
angel friends help you see through a different light,
and your life can become more tranquil.
These wondrous friends carry a special light,
and though they won't always agree,
you know they're really angels in disguise;
you know because it's what you see.
Within the arms of true friendship;
the warmth of it feels so pure.
The loving span of its golden wings
Gently wraps to reassure
Ruth Warren
Poem Analysis:
This poem shows the importance of friendship, and how we are each other’s pillar of support. Your friend might not always agree with you but they are the ones that are always there especially in times when you need them. It tells people that they have to treasure good friends around them, and treat them nicely as you are important to them and they are important to you as well. True friends are like angels in disguise and always there for each other. Having friendship is an important part of our lives, without friends, we would not be able to have a change of character, whether it being from good to bad or vice versa.
The poem shows that friends would care for us no matter how hard the situation we are facing is. When we are down, friends are the ones staying by our sides cheering us up and helping us face the problem and solving it. When you feel like there is no hope, they bring hope into our life and always brighten up your day and allow you to think about the brighter side of life. Friends are always there when we need them, hence and therefore we should always treasure that we have them around our lives now, because it’s always easier to break a friendship then to have a close one.
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