E-Learning Homework

Literature
Poem: Last Lesson of the Afternoon
1b.
The tone of anger is illustrated in this poem through the use of poetic devices and diction.
Rhyme, example," What do I care for all they do amiss! ... It all goes down the same abyss."
This rhyme has a very forceful tone, highlighting the anger of the persona, this rhyme also connects the two sentences and all the other sentecnes in between:

What do I care for all they do amiss!
What is the point of this teaching of mine, and of this leaning of this
Learning of theirs? It all goes down the same abyss.

The rhyme links both sentences together and makes the stanza much easier and smoother to read. It also captures the reader's attention to the sentences and the words. This rhyme is especially forceful, due to the persona raving and ranting about the attitude of his students, thus, the furiousness of the persona is evident here. Another rhyme would be:

What does it matter to me, if they can write
A description of the dog, or they can't?
What is the point?To us both, it is my aunt!
And yet I'm suppose to care, with all my might.

This rhyme is also very forceful, and also links the sentences together. The meaning of this sentences is also emphasized due to the rhyme, the persona's feelings and his rage is ilustrated here by the "...if they can't write... with all my might" the meaning is quite literal, and the rage is evident in. To such an extent is the persona's rage, that he renounces he students and says he does not care for them even though he is a teacher and loves his students.
For metaphor an example would be ," Why should we beat our heads agaginst the wall of each other?" the metaphor here is wall, which the poet uses to describe both persona and his students. The meatphor wall highlights that the students are very stubborn and refuse to learn, and that the persona is equally stubborn and enraged at his students and both of them cannot move the other. This brings out the rage in the poet by comparing him to a wall, a wall of anger and stubborness that is trying to coax his students to work.
For diction an example would be ," It all goes down the same abyss." the poet uses it all goes down the abyss instead of any other words partially because he wanted it to rhyme with amiss and also because he wanted to emphasize the fact that everything he taught the students would just be thrown away, into a deep dark hole and never to be used again. Thus, we can sense the persona's frustration at this, his frustration that all hsi hard work, all his effot has gone to waste by using diction.

E-Learning Home Work

Literature
Poem: Last Lesson of the Afternoon
1 a.
In the first three stanzas of the poem, the persona's feelings can be described as tired and frustrated. The poet brings out these feelings using a combination of poetic devices such as metaphors, aliteration and puns.
For metaphor, some examples are: "My pack of unruly hounds! I cannot start" this metaphor shows that the students are very badly behaved and very restless, thus described as "unruly hounds". This example brings out the feelings of both frustration and weariness that the persona was experiancing through "My pack of unruly hounds!" for anger, due to the forceful tone of the words and the choice of words, "unruly hounds" shows that the persona was so frustrated that he compared his students to dogs. For tiredness, the words "I cannot start" highlights the tiredness of the persona, due to the passive tone, this is due to