Hunger moon by, Jane Cooper and Life in a love by, Robert browning Krystal colon

Life in a love Escape me? Never- Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, Me the loving and you the loth, While the one eludes, must the other pursue. My life is a fault at last, I fear: It seems too much like a fate, indeed! Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed. But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, To dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, And, baffled, get up and begin again,- So the chase takes up one’s life, that’s all. While, look but once form your farthest bound At me so deep in the dust and dark, No sooner the old hope goes to the ground Thana new one, straight to the self-same mark, I shape me- Ever Removed!

Hunger Moon I am alone in a vast room where a vain woman once slept. The moon, in pale buckskins, crouches on guard beside her bed. Slowly the light wanes, the snow will melt and all the fence thrum in the spring breeze but not until that sleeper, trapped in my body, turns and turns. The last full moon of February stalks the fields; barbed wire casts a shadow. Rising slowly, a beam moved toward the west stealthily changing position until now, in the small hours, across the snow it advances on my pillow to wake me, not rudely like the sun But with the cocked gun of silence.

jane cooper Born on Oct 9, 1924. She held the post of New York State Poet from 1995 to 1997. She was a teacher and a poet in residence. She earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin.

Organization/ structure/ form Four Stanzas 16 lines Free verse Ballad The last full moon of February stalks the fields; barbed wire casts a shadow. Rising slowly, a beam moved toward the west stealthily changing position until now, in the small hours, across the snow it advances on my pillow to wake me, not rudely like the sun But with the cocked gun of silence. I am alone in a vast room where a vain woman once slept. The moon, in pale buckskins, crouches on guard beside her bed. Slowly the light wanes, the snow will melt and all the fence thrum in the spring breeze but not until that sleeper, trapped in my body, turns and turns.

Speaker The speaker is a woman who feels alone.

imagery The last full moon of February stalks the fields; barbed wire casts a shadow. Rising slowly, a beam moved toward the west stealthily changing position

imagery I am alone in a vast room where a vain woman once slept. The moon, in pale buckskins, crouches on guard beside her bed. Slowly the light wanes, the snow will melt and all the fence thrum in the spring breeze but not until that sleeper, trapped in my body, turns and turns

Poetic and literary terms Simile- “not rudely like the sun” Repetition- “trapped in my body, turns and turns.” Rhyme- “snow” “pillow” Personification- “The moon, in pale buckskins, crouches on guard beside her bed.”

Literal meaning It’s light reflects onto the fields on the ground. It moves slowly and quietly in the sky. The light moves into the house Shows the moon is kind and gentle. The last full moon of February stalks the fields; barbed wire casts a shadow. Rising slowly, a beam moved toward the west stealthily changing position until now, in the small hours, across the snow it advances on my pillow to wake me, not rudely like the sun But with the cocked gun of silence.

Figurative meaning When the woman “wakes” her inner self up, everything would be warm and bright. But she is trapped and alone until she awakens. I am alone in a vast room where a vain woman once slept. The moon, in pale buckskins, crouches on guard beside her bed. Slowly the light wanes, the snow will melt and all the fence thrum in the spring breeze but not until that sleeper, trapped in my body, turns and turns

Author’s purpose The author’s purpose is to show that others might feel trapped. She shows this by making the woman in her poem in a cold environment and asleep. The woman wanting to wake up to see brightness and the warm land.

theme The theme of this poem is: Wake up your inner self and know that you are never alone.

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