Finding similarities
Fahrenheit 451: Clarisse enlightens Montag by asking him, “are you happy?” She shows him what it means to be alive, to taste the rain, to feel. Equilibrium: Errol Partridge enlightens Preston when he reads Yeats’ poetry aloud and asks him, “You do dream, don’t you?”
Clarisse: she knows Montag is a fireman, yet she is willing to risk being honest with him. Errol Partridge: as Preston’s partner, he knows the penalty for feeling, yet he is willing to risk everything to show Preston what it means to feel.
F451: When Montag is dispatched to burn books at a home, he steals some of the books. Equilibrium: When Partridge…
F451: Montag remembers that as a child, he and his mother sat by the light of a candle, “hoping that the power might not come on again too soon…” (7). Equilibrium: Preston remembers…
Montag starts to read the books he has been hiding, tries to convince Mildred to share his change of heart (she doesn’t), and then seeks out Faber to help him. Preston stops….(what does he stop doing?) and then…. (what happens?)
He chooses to stop taking his daily interval He takes the book of poetry instead of turning it in to the authorities He begins to read the poems of William Butler Yeats He reads one of them aloud to Preston Let’s look at this one together:
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
DIDLS (pronounced “diddles”) handout REAL Annotating vs. highlighting Read the poem straight through one time. Read it again, marking anything you notice. Read it again, paying special attention to diction, imagery, details, language, meter and rhyme (use your DIDLS handout) Answer the questions to the right of the poem. Answer the response questions below the poem.