Monday, March 14, 2011

Images

Read the following and answer the questions:

A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,
They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun---hark to the muscial clank,
Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,
Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,
Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford---while,
Scarlet and blue and snowy white,
The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind.

Cavalry Crossing a Ford, Walt Whitman

1. Which words appeal to the sense of sight?
2. Which words appeal to the sense of sound?
3. Where does Whitman place the reader to view the scene?
4. What are the effects of the rhythm and sound of the lines?

4 comments:

  1. Jose Espada 1-in a long array, betwixt green island.
    2-splashing horse
    3-maybe like a fiction fairy tail world.
    4-for me i dont find any kind of rhythm because i really don't understand the poem or the story.

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  2. Lionel Aneudy Escobales Filippetti

    1) long array, green island, arms flash, silvery river, brown-faced men, scarlet and blue and snowy white flags.
    2) musical clank, splashing horses, flags flutter gayly.
    3) within the calvary itself
    4) Each line express like an emotion for itself. An emotion that helps you vivid the moment in the story.

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  3. Anigiselle Regis

    1. long array way; green islands; serpentine course; arms flash in the sun; silvery river; horses loitering; brown faced men; scarlet and blue and snowy white guidon flags.

    2. musical clank; splashing horses; flags flutter gayly

    3. like people going to a battle feild maybe, or having a patriotic march.

    4. I don't really understand the question but... I think it goes like a zig zag because it changes the rhym every time.

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  4. Sony Antron

    1. Which words appeal to the sense of sight?
    green islands,serpentine course, flash in the sun, silvery river, brown-faced men, Scarlet and blue and snowy white.

    2. Which words appeal to the sense of sound?
    muscial clank, splashing

    3. Where does Whitman place the reader to view the scene?
    Off in the distance.

    4. What are the effects of the rhythm and sound of the lines?
    Well for me it causes confusion but it makes it sound more fluid

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