I looked upon the rotting sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I looked upon the rotting deck,
And there the dead men lay
Question 1: Why did the poet repeat this phrase?
I think the poet repeated the phrase to focus on his feelings as he looks at the sea the same way as his dead crew members.
I would keep it in 3rd person as dead people can’t write stories. But if I wrote it in first person I would have it in the perspective of the soldier because you could see if anyone else had tried to cross the river/lake.
‘First day on the job’, I think, ‘Why am I worrying?’ I see a rifle being taken off of the gun rack. ‘Oh yeah, because my job involves shooting people.’ They hand the gun to me and a box full of ammunition. I nod to my officer and walk to my post at the bridge. Hope I don’t have to shoot anyone on my first day.
I defined some of the unusual words in the text.
Wist – past tense of wit
Unslaked – To not desire
Agape – wide open
Gramercy – thanks
Weal – well-being
Keel – structure made out of steel or timber along the base of the ship to support it
Betwixt – between
Water–sprite – a supernatural legendary creature, commonly deceived as a ghostly elf-like or fairy-like creatures that’s small and inhabits water
Activity one: Underline 5 quotations that describe what’s happening in the poem and what’s happening to the setting, characters & events.
There was a weary time – this shows that the crew is tired
Gramercy! they for joy did grin – the crew is happy
The western wave was all aflame – I think this means that the rays of the sun are reflecting off of the sea.
Without a breeze, without a tide – I think this means that their isn’t any wind and that the wind is calm.
We could laugh nor wail – they were so thirsty that they couldn’t laugh away the feeling or wail and cry with a dry throat.
The book I am reading is Timmy Failure: Now Look What You’ve Done
Who were the main characters? Did you like or
dislike them? Why?
The main characters are Timmy Failure & his polar bear pet and business partner Total. I like them both because Total is smarter than Timmy, even though he is a polar bear as Timmy thinks he is the best detective ever but he isn’t that clever.
How did the characters respond to events and
each other in each text?
Timmy overlooks things and says things like ‘all on the path to greatness’ while Total doesn’t really care & Timmy sometimes dislikes Total as he’s very lazy and.
What was similar or different in key aspects of the
plot, setting and language of the text, compared
to other texts?
The way that story is written stays the same as it’s written by Timmy himself as a sort of diary. At the beginning of the book, Timmy takes a head off a statue and breaks his leg and when he goes back to where he broke his leg and the statue still has no head.
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