Poetry Project
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Paraphrase
Fairy tales are impractical; take hair from a man-eating goat; go across a lake in a boat with a hole; choose a man from a group of identical men
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Sneak up on a sleeping dragon; take its bone, count particles of dust, speck by speck; memorize the phone directory; whatever someone asks impossible
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You need to fight magic with magic, and believe; that you have something to help you win; like speaking to snakes or an invisible robe; an army of ants or a deadly joke; the ability to accomplish anything; marry a monster or give up your first son
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Connotation
Parallelism- verb, noun, preposition ex. lines 2, 3, 4
Alliteration- "An army of ants..." and "The will to do whatever..."
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Attitude
Some lines in the poem are serious, but most lines take more of a light hearted mood. It says how they are impossible tasks, which is serious, but then gives examples of the extravagant tasks that are most likely silly. All the tasks are a form of imagery because you end up picturing all of them.
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Shifts
The shifts in this poem are at lines 1, 8, and 13. These lines are serious whilst the others are crazy fairytale-like tasks.
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Title
When faced with an impossible task, fairytale characters don't really think of the fact that it's impossible, they know it has to get done so they act on it. Unlike our society, where the is doubt and insecurity.
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