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Q1. Who is the speaker in the poem? Is it the poet or a created persona?
1. "Martial art " by Adam Aitken is a created persona because he talking about " a shoe - string journalist asking the ex - marine " and the shoe - string journalist is someone other than himself.
Q2. What do you think is the theme, or broad idea, of the poem? Why?
2. Martial art is about a man thats troubled or has been to the war and he is finaly finding peace with himself and coming to sence with the problems he has faced and feel free of all the calamity of life.
Q3. Does the poem have a setting? If it does, what is it? Quote a line or words from the poem that shows us the setting.
3. In " martial art " there are more than one sign of a setting, many places are mentioned in this poem such as; helicopter, room 9, guesthouse's and the chao phraya river.
Q4. Does the poem feature a character? If it does, who is it? Quote a line or words from the poem that shows us the character.
4. There are quite a few characters in " matrial art " such as; a shoe - string journalist, an ex - marine, a man, flesh - eating beatles and bloated dogs.
Q5. Make a list of three lines from the poem that feature verbs. Explain what is happening in each of these lines
5. In " martial art " almost every line in this poem has atleast one verb in every line such as; " what fire fell from the saffron sky, what smashed his nose to leave a pug ", " a stricken helicopter about to kiss the ground ", " to kickbox in guesthouses doesnt fit the image ".
Q6. Describe some of the images shown in the poem.
6. When i was asked to think of what i see in my mind i didn't see anything, then i read it over and over agan and the images in my mind were, a big fat pug, people kickboxing in a guesthouse and people swiming in the chao phraya river.
Q7. What do you think the poem is about? What do you think the poet's attitude towards the topic is? Why?
7. obioustly judging by the title of the poem it is about expressing different moves in martial arts, but i think it might be more personal than just martial arts poses.
1. "Martial art " by Adam Aitken is a created persona because he talking about " a shoe - string journalist asking the ex - marine " and the shoe - string journalist is someone other than himself.
Q2. What do you think is the theme, or broad idea, of the poem? Why?
2. Martial art is about a man thats troubled or has been to the war and he is finaly finding peace with himself and coming to sence with the problems he has faced and feel free of all the calamity of life.
Q3. Does the poem have a setting? If it does, what is it? Quote a line or words from the poem that shows us the setting.
3. In " martial art " there are more than one sign of a setting, many places are mentioned in this poem such as; helicopter, room 9, guesthouse's and the chao phraya river.
Q4. Does the poem feature a character? If it does, who is it? Quote a line or words from the poem that shows us the character.
4. There are quite a few characters in " matrial art " such as; a shoe - string journalist, an ex - marine, a man, flesh - eating beatles and bloated dogs.
Q5. Make a list of three lines from the poem that feature verbs. Explain what is happening in each of these lines
5. In " martial art " almost every line in this poem has atleast one verb in every line such as; " what fire fell from the saffron sky, what smashed his nose to leave a pug ", " a stricken helicopter about to kiss the ground ", " to kickbox in guesthouses doesnt fit the image ".
Q6. Describe some of the images shown in the poem.
6. When i was asked to think of what i see in my mind i didn't see anything, then i read it over and over agan and the images in my mind were, a big fat pug, people kickboxing in a guesthouse and people swiming in the chao phraya river.
Q7. What do you think the poem is about? What do you think the poet's attitude towards the topic is? Why?
7. obioustly judging by the title of the poem it is about expressing different moves in martial arts, but i think it might be more personal than just martial arts poses.
Q1. Find and write the definitions for five words from the sonnet that you don't know.
A1. The words I find hard and hard to say are: thou, lease, hath, eternal, and thee. The definition for these words are:
thou - archaic or dialect form of you, as the singular subject of a verb, lease - grant (property), hath - archaic third person singular present of have, eternal - lasting or existing forever; without end, thee - archaic or dialect form of you, as the singular object of a verb or preposition
Q2. What does Shakespeare mean when he says, "Thou art more lovely and more temperate.."? ...than what?
A2. Well I think what Shakespeare is trying to say is that he might think of a lady as hot, depending on the temperature at that time and I'm not sure weather art means a piece of art or another word for are, but I think what he is trying to get through is that he quite fancies a lady. he is suggesting the rough winds, that might mean that there is a hard time going through heir budding relationship, weather it be a friendship or a loving relationship.
Q3. He uses a metaphor when he writes, "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines...". What does he mean with these words?
A3. I think that he is again saying that he thinks a certain women is attractive and that he really fancies her and he thinks that she is an angel
Q4. In the last two lines (called a couplet) he writes;
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee."
He is comparing the lives of two things, saying that the life of one of these things ('this') gives 'life to thee'. What two things is he comparing the lives of?
A4. I believe that he is trying to say that something might have resurrected after death their soul to an animal, or life and the after, saying life will go on after death.
A1. The words I find hard and hard to say are: thou, lease, hath, eternal, and thee. The definition for these words are:
thou - archaic or dialect form of you, as the singular subject of a verb, lease - grant (property), hath - archaic third person singular present of have, eternal - lasting or existing forever; without end, thee - archaic or dialect form of you, as the singular object of a verb or preposition
Q2. What does Shakespeare mean when he says, "Thou art more lovely and more temperate.."? ...than what?
A2. Well I think what Shakespeare is trying to say is that he might think of a lady as hot, depending on the temperature at that time and I'm not sure weather art means a piece of art or another word for are, but I think what he is trying to get through is that he quite fancies a lady. he is suggesting the rough winds, that might mean that there is a hard time going through heir budding relationship, weather it be a friendship or a loving relationship.
Q3. He uses a metaphor when he writes, "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines...". What does he mean with these words?
A3. I think that he is again saying that he thinks a certain women is attractive and that he really fancies her and he thinks that she is an angel
Q4. In the last two lines (called a couplet) he writes;
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee."
He is comparing the lives of two things, saying that the life of one of these things ('this') gives 'life to thee'. What two things is he comparing the lives of?
A4. I believe that he is trying to say that something might have resurrected after death their soul to an animal, or life and the after, saying life will go on after death.