Assignment 07.05 Natural Discoveries Rohr Bais Chaya Academy ENG AP

Stella Israel Natural Discoveries Instructions: Complete all portions of the assignment. Answer in complete sentences and use evidence and commentary to support your analysis. Hunch by Jay Parini 1. What is the function of beginning every line with “I”? By beginning every line with “I”, Jay Parini creates a sense of anxiety about what is going to happen to him in every line. 2. Describe the speaker using details, diction, or syntax from the poem to support your interpretation. The speaker is determined and awake. He “refuse(s) to answer every bird” and even “leave(s) the track” that he is on in order to fulfill his goal. He also “taste(s) the wind” and “hear(s) the crackle of a thousand thorns”, giving off an awake and alert vibe. 3. What type of imagery does the poet employ? Explain its use, noting the significance of the details selected and the progression of images. The poet uses visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, and kinesthetic imagery. Visual imagery is employed when the poet “crouch(es) in shadows”, auditory imagery is employed when the author hears the “crackle” of thorns, olfactory imagery is employed when the poet smells the “smoke of fire” in the woods, tactile imagery is employed when the poet feels the “temperature rising”, gustatory imagery is employed when the poet says he can “taste the wind”, and kinesthetic imagery is employed when the poet “crumble(s)” into the wet black ground. The significance in the imagery and details are in the way the poet orders them to tell such a precise yet detailed story. Each line has a part in the progression of images, they all build up to the final question/thought that the narrator presents at the end of the poem. 4. What is the significance of the title? Use evidence from the poem to support your interpretation. The title of the poem, Hunch, is significant because it kind of replies to the thought that the poet has at the end of the poem. A hunch is a guess about something based on intuition, and here the poet is guessing where the snail is going to go today. He does not know for sure, but by guessing he can come up with a place. The hunch can also be referring to the poet’s day. The snail and everything that the poet encounters are all really events in his day and the hunch is how the poet thinks his day will play out. The whole poem has a lot of curious and wondering diction that also connect the title to the meaning. 5. What is the function of the “snail of thought” in line 1? The “snail of thought” functions to convey that the snail and imagery in the poem are really the poet’s thoughts about his life and the journey is really in his thoughts, not actually on the ground. The Summer Day by Mary Oliver 1. What is the function of “I mean” and the subsequent six lines in which the speaker describes the grasshopper? “I mean” functions to tell the reader that the grasshopper that she is about to go into depth about in the next six lines, is in her opinion the most exotic and different. It gives a personal effect and helps the poet express her own thoughts about the matter. 2. There is a shift at line 11. Describe the shift and explain its function. The shift from line ten to eleven is quite weird. The poet goes from going into great depth about the grasshopper, to talking about prayers. I think the shift is a transition from analyzing the grasshopper to analyzing the poet’s life and what she is good at or is not good at. It functions to compare the poet’s life to nature and the grasshopper, showing the greatness of nature and it’s creatures. 3. There is another shif