Brave flowers, 1.that I could 5.gallant it like you, and be as little vain; You come abroad and make a 6.harmless show, And to your beds of earth again; You are not proud, you know your birth, For your embroidered garments are from earth. You do obey your months and times, but I would have it ever spring; My fate would know no winter, never die, nor think of such a thing; Oh that I could 2.my bed of earth but view, 1.and smile and look as c heerfully as you. Oh teach me to see death and not to fear, But rather to take truce; 3.How often have I seen you at a 6.bier, And there look fresh and spruce; You fragrant flowers then 7.teach me that my breath like yours may sweeten and perfume my death. 'A Contemplation Upon Flowers' in A World of Prose. Edited by Mark McWatt and Hazel Simmonds McDonald. St dupont serial number search. Pearson Education Ltd, 2005. The top of a casket. De ath is a sad affair, yet the flowers are at their best wh en ushering people back to the earth. PERSONIFICATION The persona is speaking directly to the flowers and giving them human qualities, therefore, the whole poem is an example of the use of personification at its best. Developing Language Skills - An English Course for Caribbean Secondary Schools - Book 1 by Clifford Narinesingh. Good News Bible. A Comprehensive English Course - CXC English A(New Revised Edition) by Uriel Narinsesingh. A comprehensive English course: CXC English A. [Clifford Narinesingh. Notes: Originally published in 1984, revised 1989 and new edition published in 1994. ![]() He even goes as far as to ask the flowers to teach him things that will allow him to acquire their qualities. IMPORTANT WORDS/ PHRASES 5. 'galant' This word literally means brave or heroic. The word, however, also brings to mind adjectives such as charming and attentive, like a knight would be in olden days. So the plants are not simply brave in their acceptance of death, but they are also gracious. 'harmless show' The word harmless sticks out in this phrase because it implies that the flowers are demure and quiet in their beauty. 'bier' This is a movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before a burial or cremation, or on which they are carried to the grave. 'teach me that my breath like yours may sweeten and perfume my death' This implies that if death is not feared, then the person will go into death's arms joyfully, without any sorrow, remorse or bitterness. TONE The of the poem is admiration, because the persona literally admires the flowers for its accepting attitude towards death. MOOD/ ATMOSPHERE The or atmosphere of the poem is a pensive one. The persona is thinking about death, how he relates to it versus how others relate to it. CONTRAST A contrast in this poem is the persona's fear of death, versus the flowers' acceptance of it. ![]() THEMATIC CATEGORY Death, nature. You think I like this 5.stupidness! - 6.gallivanting all night without skin, 1.burning myself out like cane-fire 2.to frighten the foolish? 2.And for what? Pgadmin3 installations. -U postgres creates the superuser as postgres, -W will prompt you for the password of the superuser, -E UTF8 will create the database with UTF-8 encoding and -A md5 enables the password authentication. A few drops of baby blood? 2.You think I wouldn't rather take my blood seasoned in fat black-pudding, like everyone else? And don't even talk 'bout the pain of salt and having to bend these old bones down to count a thousand grains of rice! If only babies didn't smell so nice! And if I could only stop hearing 3.the soft, soft call of that 7.pure blood running in new veins, 4.singing the sweet song of life tempting an old, dry-up woman who been 8.holding her final note for years and years, afraid of the dying hum.
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