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Poems of class eight

The document contains excerpts from various poems, highlighting metaphors used by different poets. It includes Langston Hughes' 'Dreams,' Ralph Hodgson's 'Time, You Old Gypsy Man,' John Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn,' Lord Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty,' and Emily Dickinson's 'Hope is the thing with feathers.' Each section prompts the reader to identify and analyze the metaphors within these works.

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Poems of class eight

The document contains excerpts from various poems, highlighting metaphors used by different poets. It includes Langston Hughes' 'Dreams,' Ralph Hodgson's 'Time, You Old Gypsy Man,' John Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn,' Lord Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty,' and Emily Dickinson's 'Hope is the thing with feathers.' Each section prompts the reader to identify and analyze the metaphors within these works.

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Question: Read it and identify the metaphors used in the poem.

Use the Dreams


following table to complete the activity. Langston Hughes

Time, You Old Gypsy Man Hold fast to dreams


Ralph Hodgson
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
Time, You Old Gypsy Man That cannot fly.
Will you not stay, Hold fast to dreams
Put up your caravan For when dreams go
Just for one day? Life is a barren field
All things I'll give you Frozen with snow.
Will you be my guest,
Bells for your jennet Line of the Comparing Metaphor Reason to use
Of silver the best, poem Person/thing (Compared to) the metaphors
Goldsmiths shall beat you
A great golden ring,
Peacocks shall bow to you,
Little boys sing.
Oh, and sweet girls will
Festoon you with may,
Time, you old gypsy,
Why hasten away? Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats

Line of the Comparing Metaphor Reason to use O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
poem Person/thing (Compared to) the metaphors Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Line of the Comparing Metaphor Reason to use


poem Person/thing (Compared to) the metaphors
She Walks in Beauty “Hope” is the thing with feathers
Lord Byron Emily Dickinson

She walks in beauty, like the night “Hope” is the thing with feathers -
Of cloudless climes and starry skies; That perches in the soul -
And all that’s best of dark and bright And sings the tune without the words -
Meet in her aspect and her eyes; And never stops - at all -
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies. And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
One shade the more, one ray the less, That could abash the little Bird
Had half impaired the nameless grace That kept so many warm -
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face; I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
Where thoughts serenely sweet express, And on the strangest Sea -
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow, Line of the Comparing Metaphor Reason to use
But tell of days in goodness spent, poem Person/thing (Compared to) the metaphors
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

Line of the Comparing Metaphor Reason to use


poem Person/thing (Compared to) the metaphors

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