Saturday, May 22, 2010

Can you read this short poem and answer two questions for me Please?

By June our brook's run out of song and speed.


Sought for much after that, it will be found


Either to have gone groping underground


(And taken with it all the Hyla breed


That shouted in the mist a month ago,


Like ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow)—


Or flourished and come up in jewel-weed,


Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent


Even against the way its waters went.


Its bed is left a faded paper sheet


Of dead leaves stuck together by the heat—


A brook to none but who remember long.


This as it will be seen is other far


Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song.


We love the things we love for what they are.





4. What does the author mean when he says:


We love the things we love for what they are.


In life, most things are not what they appear to be.


If you truly love something, you must accept everything that thing has to offer.


Love is the most powerful emotion on earth.


Love should not be unconditional.





5. Using details from "Hyla Brook," compare and contrast the observations of the speaker in May and in June.

Can you read this short poem and answer two questions for me Please?
4. The author means that love like the brook has its flourishing seasons and its dry ones, and it is important to love both seasons just the same as you love the flaws of someone and their good qualities. The author means to say that in love and in the world you should take in the pages of the book not just it's cover.


5. In contrast of May the author lets the reader infer that the brook was filled with water because


(And taken with it all the Hyla breed


That shouted in the mist a month ago,


Like ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow) refers to the water carrying away the Hyla breed (maybe a flower or something?) and that the mist is from the water going fast and lifting the water in the air or the heat creating a mist from the water. Unlike May, June is said to have run out of "song" the waves you hear when it is running and "speed" the normal flow of the water decreased. As well it is said that the bed is a faded paper sheet and dead leaves stick together by the heat meaning that the riverbed is dried out and that the dried leaves line the bottom of it. In comparison May and June are both loved by the author because at the end he says "we love things for what they are" which means that to him during May and June the brook is beautiful no matter the differences the season create upon it.


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