Activity 8.6, Sylvia Plath page 205

1) "I" is a pregnant woman.
2) Although it would be easier to understand who is "I" if it was told explicitly, the metaphors make us think on what are they referring to, so this keeps our attention on it and makes us think, and that also helps us wide our comprehension.

Activity 8.5 part 2

1)There is a black woman that walks through the fields pressing a flower to her cheek, the sun is warming her feet, then she is on the sea, and the tides wet her.

2) I would think it`s about loving yourself as you are, because being beautiful is about the inside, not the outside.

3) It flows like the sea, it is a peaceful rhythm, with the rhymes helping this peaceful flow. The poem does not have any "violent" words except fat and black, that are a little stronger on the pronunciation and king of interfere with the flow, but on the rest it flows calmly.

Alfred Lord Tennyson`s life

http://www.dipity.com/wayne77/Alfred-lord-Tennyson/

The Revenge- A ballad of the fleet

http://prezi.com/q4bfsle0uhms/the-revenge-a-ballad-of-the-fleet/

Activity 8.5 page page 204

Sight: Fat, hibiscus, sun,sea, black woman

Sound: sea, breeze, walking the field

Taste: sea

Touch: Fields, hibiscus, sea

Smell: sea, hibiscus

Page 203 activity

1) I liked the metaphors he uses because they are very deep and complicated, the sense of deepness in his words and the meaning, about love and the gentleman way of putting the clothes on the water so she doesn`t step on it.
2)I disliked the poor rhyme of the poem, because it isn`t attractive to read them, the repetition of words because of the same reasons of the rhyme and I had problems understanding the meanings and words
3)-What motivated you to write this?
   -Why did you chose this type of writing, metre, rhyme,etc?
   -Did you liked your poem? Do you find any weak points?

The Kraken by Alfred Tennyson

1. Below the thunders of the upper deep;
2. Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
3. His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
4. The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
5. About his shadowy sides: above him swell
6. Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
7. And far away into the sickly light,
8. From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
9. Unnumbered and enormous polypi
10. Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
11. There hath he lain for ages and will lie
12. Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,
13. Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
14. Then once by man and angels to be seen,
15. In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

T: The poem may symbolise monstrous characteristics, isolation, the fear of others, etc
P: It tells us and describes the characteristics and the way the kraken lived in the deep sea, the atmosphere of the deep sea were the sun barely reaches, the kraken way of being alone, his physical characteristics, and the way he lived, how he was there for thousands of years
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C:  Beyond literal we can think it may show the life of someone who is misunderstood and alone, someone wonderful but that is treated like an evil person/thing, But it seems that it really is direct and literal, is about a Kraken and his characteristics, his way to prevail in time, but also his way of being weak, when he is taken out of his comfort zone.
In literary devices we have metaphors, such as thunders of the upper sea (sunlight), personification as faintest sunlight, etc.
A: Mysterious, as it talks of an unknown creature from an isolated area.
S: It seems to be a little change in the tone when the kraken is described, as it comes to be more graphical and magnificent about describing the Kraken, instead of mysterious.
T: It seems that it`s really a direct title, it could be about the beyond literal interpretations, being alone or misunderstood, but it seems it is direct.
T: About the Kraken, it`s characteristics and his way of living.