Sunday, January 31, 2016


Read the following, then answer the questions that follow:



1. What "call" is the speaker answering in "Sea Fever"?
2. What is the "long trick" in the last line of "Sea Fever"?
3. What does the village blacksmith think about when he hears his daughter's voice?
4. What simile describes the wind in line 10 of "Sea Fever"?
5. What similes in "The Village Blacksmith" describe the smith and his work?
6. Note which words and phrasea are repeated in each stanza of "Sea Fever." In each case, why do you think that the poet chose to analyze those words?
7. Write down four lines from each poem and mark the stressed and unstressed syllables. Now, read the lines aloud. What effect does the rhythm have on each line?
8. In addition to creating a pattern fo sound, rhyme helps emphasize important lines or words in a poem. Write down the rhyming words in "Sea Fever." Why might the poet have chosen to emphasize these lines or words about sailing?
9. How does the speaker in "The Village Blacksmith" feel about the blacksmith?
10. Write down all of the words that describe the blacksmith in "The Village Blacksmith." Do you think that the poet's words give a positive or negativee connotation?
11. What is your ideal job? Research a career that you are interested in. Write a 5-paragraph essay about this career.
12. What jobs would mean more to you than just a paycheck? What does the way that we feel about work reveal about our values?






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