Item 1: Poem
She Walks in Beauty
By George Gordon, lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
Rhetorical devices:
- Simile: line 1-2: comparing the beauty of the woman with the beauty of “cloudless climes” and “starry skies”, and in line 5: “the tender light” – the author speaks of her beauty like a tender light.
- Metonymy: line 6’s “heaven” points to the beauty of heavenly God which is less brilliant compared to the woman’s beauty.
- Metaphor: line 11-12, line 17-18: “thoughts”, “their dwelling-place”, “a mind at peace with all below”, “A heart whose love is innocent”: through speaking of the woman’s thoughts, mind and heart, the author wants to describe her inner beauty in addition to her graceful appearance.
- Rhymes: night – skies, eyes – light – denies, less – tress, grace – face, glow – below
- Assonance: serenely sweet; so soft, so calm
In this poem, Lord Byron had depicted the woman’s heavenly appearance through a contrast meet of dark and light, in addition to her inner beauty, her personality that is expressed in her thoughts, her heart and mind so kind, virtuous and pure.
Item 2: Fable
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
A Wolf found great difficulty in getting at the sheep owing to the vigilance of the shepherd and his dogs. But one day it found the skin of a sheep that had been flayed and thrown aside, so it put it on over its own pelt and strolled down among the sheep. The Lamb that belonged to the sheep, whose skin the Wolf was wearing, began to follow the Wolf in the Sheep's clothing; so, leading the Lamb a little apart, he soon made a meal off her, and for some time he succeeded in deceiving the sheep, and enjoying
hearty meals.
Metaphor: the wolf stands - the evil beings who have malicious thoughts, the lamb - naïve, trustful and unwary people who are easily be impressed by the appearance. The sheep’s clothing is the metaphor of the false good face that some people often use to cover their true harmful intentions.
Message:
Appearance is sometimes deceiving, unreal and misleading, so that we should not judge something or someone only through its appearance.
Item 3: Cartoon
Rhetorical devices:
Metaphor: the dogs’ intention to false their identities on the Internet is like a lot of people who are not honest about who they are on the Internet.
Message:
Some people lie about their identities on the Internet. Getting to know people on the Internet is not safe. The message conveyed in this cartoon advice us not to trust people whom we know through the Internet.
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Sources:
On the 3rd item, your analysis seems right to me but when I saw this cartoon, I got a feeling that the Internet is an imaginary world where some people can be the ones they are not in the real life and have better attitude towards themselves (the dog's looking up with something like respect)
Trả lờiXóaItem 3:
Trả lờiXóaI think the massage here, positively, is sometimes, you can be whoever you want thank for the power of technology improvement.
I think this cartoon expresses the positive and negative of the internet: internet connects many people, creates many relationships. But there is nothing to sure that this relationships are all good. because the information about each other we receive throught internet are not sure.
Trả lờiXóaItem 3
Trả lờiXóayour message is fine, but i think that it needs to be broaden more and understood deeply, not only "their identities" or "getting to know people on the Internet". According to me, the lesson is that we cannot trust and evaluate anything, anyone just basing on Internet. Every thing we know through Internet can be fake, and it is the real life that's important.
Thank you !
Hi Hoai Anh,
Trả lờiXóaI only have one more tiny details to add to your item 3.
The picture may include criticism, I suppose, because it implies that Internet is the place in which anybody can wear a mask to hide themselves and not all things presented on the Internet are truthful.