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AS-LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE

POETRY SET TEXT
2016-2017

DIRECTIONS: For each poem in the packet, complete the following steps.
STEP 1: Read and annotate the poem using the #123SPLITT method.
STEP 2: Draw the poem.
STEP 3: Paraphrase the poem in 1-2 sentences.
STEP 4: Make connections to other poems in the packet by topic or theme.

ASSESSMENT/GRADING:
• Students with completed packets may use them as a resource on timed writing assessments.
• Timed writing assessments will be graded using the Cambridge AS-Level English Literature rubric.
• Listed below are possible essay questions that could appear on the timed writing assessment:
1. Compare ways in which two poems from your selection express grief.
2. Compare ways in which two poems express personal distress.
3. Comment closely on how the language and tone of the following poem present the speaker’s
experience.
4. By what means, and with what effects, does the following poem explore love?

 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Title Author Year
Number
To the Evening Star Blake, William 3
Last Lines Brontë, Emily 4
Sons, Departing Cassidy, John 5
Care-charmer Sleep Daniel, Samuel 6
These Are The Times We Live In Dharker, Imtiaz 7
This is my play’s last scene Donne, John 8
The Uncles Goodby, John 9
The Migrant Hendriks, Arthur Lemiere 10
from The Vanity of Human Wishes Johnson, Samuel 11
On My First Daughter Jonson, Ben 12
Ode on Melancholy Keats, John 13
Song Lewis, Alun 14
The White House McKay, Claude 15
Rooms Mew, Charlotte 16
Evening in Paradise Milton, John 17
Verses written on her Death-bed Monck, Mary 18
from An Essay on Criticism Pope, Alexander 19
I dream of you, to wake Rossetti, Christina 20
The Border Builder Rumens, Carol 21
Soldier, Rest! Scott, Walter 22
Death Scott, William Bell 23
To Sleep Sidney, Philip 24
Amoretti, Sonnet 86 Spenser, Edmund 25
Requiem Stevenson, Robert Louis 26
The Forsaken Wife Thomas, Elizabeth 27
I Find no Peace Wyatt, Thomas 28
Now let no charitable hope Wylie, Elinor 29

Model Poem A: Annotation & Analysis - “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale (1920) pg. 30
Model Poem B: Annotation & Analysis - “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop (1977) pg. 31

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William Blake Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
To the Evening Star
S

Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening,
Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light
P
Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown
Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!

Smile on our loves, and while thou drawest the L

Blue curtains of the sky, scatter thy silver dew

On every flower that shuts its sweet eyes
In timely sleep. Let thy west wind sleep on I

The lake; speak silence with thy glimmering eyes,

And wash the dusk with silver. Soon, full soon,
T
Dost thou withdraw; then the wolf rages wide,

And then the lion glares through the dun forest.
The fleeces of our flocks are covered with T
Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence.


Step Two: Draw the poem

Step Three: Paraphrase poem

Step Four: Connect to other poems by

topic/theme (include page numbers)

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Emily Brontë Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Last Lines
S
“The following are the last lines my sister Emily ever wrote.”
— Charlotte Brontë

O coward soul is mine, P
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:

I see Heaven's glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. L


O God within my breast,
Almighty, ever-present Deity! I
Life—that in me has rest,

As I—undying Life—have power in Thee!
T
Vain are the thousand creeds

That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds, T
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main,

To waken doubt in one Step Two: Draw the poem

Holding so fast by thine infinity;

So surely anchored on

The steadfast rock of immortality.

With wide-embracing love
Step Three: Paraphrase poem
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.


Though earth and man were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
Step Four: Connect to other poems by
And thou were left alone,
topic/theme (include page numbers)
Every existence would exist in thee.

There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou—thou art Being and Breath,
And what thou art may never be destroyed.

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John Cassidy Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Sons, Departing
S
They walked away between tall hedges,

their heads just clear and blond
with sunlight, the hedges’ dark sides P

sickly with drifts of flowers.

L
They were facing the sea and miles
of empty air; the sky had high

torn clouds, the sea its irregular I

runs and spatters of white.


They did not look back; the steadiness T

of their retreating footfalls lapsed

in a long diminuendo; their line
T
was straight as the clipped privets.


They looked at four sliding gulls Step Two: Draw the poem
a long way up, scattering down frail

complaints; the fickle wind filled in

with sounds of town and distance.

They became sunlit points; in a broad Step Three: Paraphrase poem
Haphazard world the certain focus.

Against the random patterns of the sea
their walk was one-dimensional, and final.

Step Four: Connect to other poems by

topic/theme (include page numbers)

Samuel Daniel Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Delia 45: Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night
S


Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
P
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,
Relieve my languish, and restore the light,
With dark forgetting of my cares, return. L
And let the day be time enough to mourn

The shipwreck of my ill-adventur'd youth;
Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn, I

Without the torment of the night's untruth.

Cease, dreams, the images of our day-desires,
T
To model forth the passions of the morrow:
Never let rising sun approve you liars,

To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow. T

Still let me sleep, embracing clouds in vain,

And never wake to feel the day's disdain.
Step Two: Draw the poem

Step Three: Paraphrase poem

Step Four: Connect to other poems by

topic/theme (include page numbers)

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Imtiaz Dharker Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
These Are The Times We Live In
S
You hand over your passport. He
looks at your face and starts
reading you backwards from the last page.
P
You could be offended,
but in the end, you decide
it makes as much sense
as anything else, L
given the times we live in.

You shrink to the size
of the book in his hand. I
You can see his mind working:
Keep an eye on that name.
It contains a Z, and it just moved house.
The birthmark shifted recently T
to another arm or leg.

Nothing is quite the same
as it should be.
T
But what do you expect?
It’s a sign of the times we live in.


In front of you,
Step Two: Draw the poem
he flicks to the photograph,
and looks at you suspiciously.


That’s when you really have to laugh.
While you were flying,
up in the air
they changed your chin
and redid your hair. Step Three: Paraphrase poem
They scrubbed out your mouth
and rubbed out your eyes.
They made you over completely.

And all that’s left is his look of surprise,
because you don’t match your photograph.
Even that is coming apart.
Step Four: Connect to other poems by
The pieces are there
topic/theme (include page numbers)
But they missed out your heart.

Half your face splits away,
drifts on to the page of a newspaper
that’s dated today.

It rustles as it lands.

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John Donne Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Holy Sonnets: This is my play’s last scene
S

This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint

My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race P

Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace,

My span's last inch, my minute's latest point,
L
And gluttonous death, will instantly unjoint
My body, and soul, and I shall sleep a space,
But my'ever-waking part shall see that face,
I
Whose fear already shakes my every joint:

Then, as my soul, to heaven her first seat, takes flight,
And earth-born body, in the earth shall dwell, T
So, fall my sins, that all may have their right,
To where they are bred, and would press me, to hell.
T
Impute me righteous, thus purged of evil,
For thus I leave the world, the flesh, and devil.
Step Two: Draw the poem

Step Three: Paraphrase poem

Step Four: Connect to other poems by

topic/theme (include page numbers)

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John Goodby Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
The Uncles
S
Uncles, talking the camshaft or the gimbel connected

to a slowly oscillating crank. The Uncles Brickell,
Swarfega kings, enseamed with swarf and scobs, skin P

measled with gunmetal but glistening faintly, loud

in the smoke. Lithe and wiry above the lathe, milling out
L
a cylinder to a given bore. Uncles, pencil-stubs at their ears,
spurning ink, crossing sevens like émigré intellectuals,

measuring in thous and thirty-secondths (scrawled I

on torn fag-packets); feinting with slide rules, racing,

but mild not as mild steel. Pockets congested, always. Uncles
with dockets for jobs, corners transparent with grease, T

with a light machine oil. Time-served, my Uncles, branch-

ing out into doorhandles, grub-screws and the brass bits
T
that hold the front of the motor case to the rear flange

of the mounting panel. Release tab. Slightly hard of hearing
now, the Uncles, from the din of the shop, slowly nodding. Step Two: Draw the poem
Uncles in ‘Red Square’; uncles swapping tolerance gauges,

allan keys, telephone numbers, deals and rank commun-

ism. Forefingers describing arcs and cutting angles. White
and milky with coolants and lubricants, mess of order. Never
forgetting to ply a broom after. The missing half-finger, not Step Three: Paraphrase poem
really missed any longer, just a banjo-hand gone west. My

Uncles still making a go of mower blades, on the road
at their age; offering cigars at Christmas. Uncanny if

encountered in visors, overalls, confounding nephews

in dignity of their calling, their epoch-stewed tea. Stand
Step Four: Connect to other poems by
a spoon in all their chamfered years, cut short or long. Uncles
topic/theme (include page numbers)
immortal in the welding shed, under neon, lounge

as the vast doors slide to a cool blue desk. My Uncles.

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A. L. Hendriks Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
The Migrant

S
She could not remember anything about the voyage,
Her country of origin, or if someone had paid for the passage:

Of such she had no recollection. P

She was sure only that she had travelled;
Without doubt had been made welcome. L

For a while she believed she was home,
I
Rooted and securely settled,
Until it was broken to her

That in fact she was merely in transit T

Bound for some other destination,

Committed to continue elsewhere.
T

This slow realization sharpened,
She formed plans to postpone her departure
Step Two: Draw the poem
Not observing her movement en route to the exit.


When she did, it was piteous how, saddened,
She went appreciably closer towards it.
Eventually facing the inescapable
Step Three: Paraphrase poem
She began reading travel brochures,
(Gaudy, competitive, plentiful)

Spent time considering the onward journey,

Studied a new language,

Stuffed her bosom with strange currency,
Nevertheless dreading the boarding announcements. Step Four: Connect to other poems by
topic/theme (include page numbers)

We watch her go through
The gate for ‘Embarking Passengers Only’,
Fearful and unutterably lonely,
Finger our own documents,
Shuffle forward in the queue.

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Samuel Johnson Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
from “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
S
The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated


Let observation with extensive view, P
Survey mankind, from China to Peru;

Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
L
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life;
Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate,
O’erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate,
I
Where wav’ring man, betray’d by vent’rous pride

To read the dreary paths without a guide,
As treach’rous phantoms in the mist delude, T
Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good.

How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice,
T
Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice,
How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress’d,
When vengeance listens to the fool’s request. Step Two: Draw the poem
Fate wings with ev’ry wish th’ afflictive dart,

Each gift of nature, and each grace of art,
With fatal heat impetuous courage glows,

With fatal sweetness elocution flows,

Impeachment stops the speaker’s pow’rful breath,
Step Three: Paraphrase poem
And restless fire precipitates on death.

But scarce observ’d the knowing and the bold,

Fall in the gen’ral massacre of gold;

Wide-wasting pest! That rages unconfin’d,
And crowds with crimes the records of mankind, Step Four: Connect to other poems by
topic/theme (include page numbers)
For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws,
For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws;

Wealth heap’d on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys,

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

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Ben Jonson Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
On My First Daughter
S

Here lies, to each her parents’ ruth,

Mary, the daughter of their youth;
P
Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due,

It makes the father less to rue.
At six months’ end she parted hence L
With safety of her innocence;
Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears,
I
In comfort of her mother’s tears,
Hath placed amongst her virgin-train:
Where, while that severed doth remain, T
This grave partakes the fleshly birth;

Which cover lightly, gentle earth!
T

Step Two: Draw the poem

Step Three: Paraphrase poem

Step Four: Connect to other poems by

topic/theme (include page numbers)

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John Keats Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Ode on Melancholy
S
I
No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist
Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; P
Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd
By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine;
Make not your rosary of yew-berries,
L
Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be
Your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl
A partner in your sorrow's mysteries;
I
For shade to shade will come too drowsily,
And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.

II T
But when the melancholy fit shall fall
Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, T
And hides the green hill in an April shroud;

Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,
Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave, Step Two: Draw the poem
Or on the wealth of globed peonies;

Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows,
Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave,
And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.

III
Step Three: Paraphrase poem
She dwells with Beauty—Beauty that must die;
And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,

Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips:
Ay, in the very temple of Delight
Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine,
Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Step Four: Connect to other poems by
topic/theme (include page numbers)
Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine;
His soul shalt taste the sadness of her might,
And be among her cloudy trophies hung.

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Alun Lewis Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Song
S
(On seeing dead bodies floating off the Cape)

The first month of his absence
P
I was numb and sick
And where he'd left his promise
Life did not turn or kick.
The seed, the seed of love was sick. L


The second month my eyes were sunk
In the darkness of despair, I
And my bed was like a grave
And his ghost was lying there.
And my heart was sick with care.
T
The third month of his going

I thought I heard him say
"Our course deflected slightly T
On the thirty-second day—"
The tempest blew his words away.

Step Two: Draw the poem
And he was lost among the waves,
His ship rolled helpless in the sea,
The fourth month of his voyage
He shouted grievously
"Beloved, do not think of me."

The flying fish like kingfishers
Step Three: Paraphrase poem
Skim the sea's bewildered crests,
The whales blow steaming fountains,
The seagulls have no nests
Where my lover sways and rests.


We never thought to buy and sell
This life that blooms or withers in the leaf, Step Four: Connect to other poems by
And I'll not stir, so he sleeps well, topic/theme (include page numbers)
Though cell by cell the coral reef
Builds an eternity of grief.

But oh! the drag and dullness of my Self;
The turning seasons wither in my head;
All this slowness, all this hardness,
The nearness that is waiting in my bed,
The gradual self-effacement of the dead.
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Claude McKay Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
The White House
S

Your door is shut against my tightened face,

And I am sharp as steel with discontent; P

But I possess the courage and the grace

To bear my anger proudly and unbent.
L
The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet,
And passion rends my vitals as I pass,
A chafing savage, down the decent street;
I
Where boldly shines your shuttered door of glass.

Oh, I must search for wisdom every hour,
Deep in my wrathful bosom sore and raw, T
And find in it the superhuman power

To hold me to the letter of your law!
T
Oh, I must keep my heart inviolate
Against the potent poison of your hate.
Step Two: Draw the poem

Step Three: Paraphrase poem

Step Four: Connect to other poems by

topic/theme (include page numbers)

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Charlotte Mew Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Rooms
S

I remember rooms that have had their part

In the steady slowing down of the heart. P

The room in Paris, the room at Geneva,

The little damp room with the seaweed smell,
L
And that ceaseless maddening sound of the tide—
Rooms where for good or for ill—things died.
But there is the room where we (two) lie dead,
I
Though every morning we seem to wake and might just as well

seem to sleep again
As we shall somewhere in the other quieter, dustier bed T
Out there in the sun—in the rain.


T

Step Two: Draw the poem

Step Three: Paraphrase poem

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topic/theme (include page numbers)

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John Milton Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
from Paradise Lost (‘Evening in Paradise’)
S
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray

Had in her sober livery all things clad;
Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, P

They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,

Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
L
She all night long her amorous descant sung;
Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires; Hesperus that led
I
The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon
Rising in clouded majesty, at length

Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, T

And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw;

When Adam thus to Eve: “Fair consort, the hour
Of night, and all things now retired to rest, T
Mind us of like repose; since God hath set

Labour and rest, as day and night to men
Successive, and the timely dew of sleep Step Two: Draw the poem
Now falling with soft slumberous weight inclines
Our eyelids; other creatures all day long

Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest;
Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, which declares his dignity,
Step Three: Paraphrase poem
And the regard of Heaven on all his ways;
While other animals unactive range,
And of their doings God takes no account.
Tomorrow ere fresh morning streak the east
With first approach of light, we must be risen,

And at our pleasant labour, to reform Step Four: Connect to other poems by
Young flowery arbours, yonder alleys green, topic/theme (include page numbers)
Our walks at noon, with branches overgrown,

That mock our scant manuring and require
More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth.

Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums,

That lie bestrewn unsightly and unsmooth,
Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease…

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Mary Monck (‘Marinda’) Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Verses Written on Her Death-bed at Bath to Her Husband in
London S

Thou who dost all my worldly thoughts employ,

Thou pleasing source of all my earthly joy, P

Thou tenderest husband and thou dearest friend,

To thee this first, this last adieu I send.
At length the conqueror Death asserts his right, L

And will for ever veil me from thy sight;

He woos me to him with a cheerful grace,
I
And not one terror clouds his meagre face.

He promises a lasting rest from pain,
And shows that all life’s fleeting joys are vain. T
The eternal scenes of Heaven he sets in view,

And tells me that no other joys are true,
T
But love, fond love, would yet resist his power,
Would fain awhile defer the parting hour.
He brings thy mourning image to my eyes, Step Two: Draw the poem
And would obstruct my journey to the skies.

But say, thou dearest, thou unwearied friend,
Say, shouldst thou grieve to see my sorrows end?
Thou knowest a painful pilgrimage I’ve passed,
And shouldst thou grieve that rest is come at last?
Step Three: Paraphrase poem
Rather rejoice to see me shake off life,
And die, as I have lived, thy faithful wife.

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topic/theme (include page numbers)

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Alexander Pope Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
from “An Essay on Criticism”
S

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: P
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,

And drinking largely sobers us again.
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, L

In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts;

While from the bounded level of our mind
I
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind,
But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise

New distant scenes of endless science rise! T

So pleased at first the towering Alps we try,

Mount o’er the vales, and seem to tread the sky;
The eternal snows appear already past, T

And the first clouds and mountains seem the last:

But those attained, we tremble to survey
Step Two: Draw the poem
The growing labours of the lengthened way;

The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes,
Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

Step Three: Paraphrase poem

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topic/theme (include page numbers)

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Christina Rossetti Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
I Dream of You
S


I dream of you, to wake: would that I might
Dream of you and not wake but slumber on; P

Nor find with dreams the dear companion gone,

As, Summer ended, Summer birds take flight.
L
In happy dreams I hold you full in sight.
I blush again who waking look so wan;

Brighter than sunniest day that ever shone, I

In happy dreams your smile makes day of night.

Thus only in a dream we are at one,
Thus only in a dream we give and take T

The faith that maketh rich who take or give;

If thus to sleep is sweeter than to wake,
T
To die were surely sweeter than to live,

Though there be nothing new beneath the sun.
Step Two: Draw the poem

Step Three: Paraphrase poem

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topic/theme (include page numbers)

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Carol Rumens Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
The Border Builder
S

No sooner had one come down

Than he began building again. P

My bricks, O my genuine bricks

Made of my genuine blood!
L
What would we be without borders?
So which one are you? he said
And stuck out his hand to me.
I
Birth certificate? Passport?

Which side are you on, which side?
Merrily he unrolled T
Starry dendrons of wire

To give his wall ears and eyes.
T
Qualifications? he said.
Residence permit? Tattoo?
Which colour are you, which colour? Step Two: Draw the poem
No colour, he said, no good.

He took my only passport,
He slammed it down on the wire.

My hand, O my genuine hand!

This is a border, he said.
Step Three: Paraphrase poem
A border likes blood. Which side’s
Your bloody hand on, which side?

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topic/theme (include page numbers)

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Walter Scott Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Soldier, Rest!
S
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;
Dream of battled fields no more,
P
Days of danger, nights of waking.
In our isle’s enchanted hall,
Hands unseen thy couch are strewing,
Fairy strains of music fall, L
Every sense in slumber dewing.

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er,
Dream of fighting fields no more; I
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.

No rude sound shall reach thine ear, T
Armour’s clang, or war-steed champing,

Trump nor pibroch summon here
Mustering clan or squadron tramping. T
Yet the lark’s shrill fife may come
At the day-break from the fallow,
And the bittern sound his drum,
Step Two: Draw the poem
Booming from the sedgy shallow.
Ruder sounds shall none be near,
Guards nor warders challenge here,
Here’s no war-steed’s neigh and champing,
Shouting clans, or squadrons stamping.

Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done;
Step Three: Paraphrase poem
While our slumberous spells assail ye,
Dream not, with the rising sun,
Bugles here shall sound reveillé.
Sleep! the deer is in his den;
Sleep! thy hounds are by thee lying;

Sleep! nor dream in yonder glen
How thy gallant steed lay dying. Step Four: Connect to other poems by
Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done;
topic/theme (include page numbers)
Think not of the rising sun,
For at dawning to assail ye
Here no bugles sound reveillé.

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William Bell Scott Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Death
S
I am the one whose thought

Is as the deed; I have no brother, and
No father; years P
Have never seen my power begin. A chain
Doth bind all things to me. In my hand, man,—
Infinite thinker,—vanishes as doth
L
The worm that he creates, as doth the moth
That it creates, as doth the limb minute
That stirs upon that moth. My being is
I
Inborn with all things, and
With all things doth expand.

But fear me not; I am T

The hoary dust, the shut ear, the profound,

The deep of night,
When Nature’s universal heart does cease T
To beat; communicating nothing; dark

And tongueless, negative of all things. Yet
Fear me not, man; I am the blood that flows Step Two: Draw the poem
Within thee,—I am change; and it is I

Creates a joy within thee, when thou feel’st
Manhood and new untried superior powers
Rising before thee: I it is can make
Old things give place
To thy free race. Step Three: Paraphrase poem

All things are born for me.
His father and his mother,—yet man hates

Me foolishly.
An easy spirit and a free lives on,
But he who fears the ice doth stumble. Walk
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Straight onward peacefully,—I am a friend
topic/theme (include page numbers)
Will pass thee graciously: but grudge and weep
And cark,—I’ll be a cold chain round thy neck
Into the grave, each day a link drawn in,
Until thy face shall be upon the turf,
And the hair from thy crown
Be blown like thistle-down.

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Philip Sidney Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
To Sleep
S

Come, Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,

The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, P

The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,

The indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out the press L

Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw:

O make in me those civil wars to cease;
I
I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.

Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,
A chamber deaf to noise and blind of light, T
A rosy garland and a weary head;

And if these things, as being thine by right,
T
Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,
Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
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Edmund Spenser Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Amoretti, Sonnet 86
S

Since I did leave the presence of my love,
Many long weary days I have outworn,
P
And many nights, that slowly seem’d to move
Their sad protract from evening until morn.

For, when as day the heaven doth adorn, L

I wish that night the noyous day would end:

And, whenas night hath us of light forlorn,
I wish that day would shortly reascend. I

Thus I the time with expectation spend,

And feign my grief with changes to beguile,
T
That further seems his term still to extend,
And maketh every minute seem a mile.

So sorrow still doth seem too long to last; T

But joyous hours do fly away too fast.


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Robert Louis Stevenson Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Requiem
S

Under the wide and starry sky

Dig the grave and let me lie: P

Glad did I live and gladly die,

And I laid me down with a will.
L

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
I
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,

And the hunter home from the hill.
T

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Elizabeth Thomas (‘Corinna’) Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
The Forsaken Wife
S


Methinks ’tis strange you can’t afford
One pitying look, one parting word. P

Humanity claims this as due,

But what’s humanity to you?
L

Cruel man! I am not blind;

Your infidelity I find. I

Your want of love my ruin shows,

My broken heart, your broken vows.
Yet maugre all your rigid hate T

I will be true in spite of fate,

And one preeminence I’ll claim,
T
To be forever still the same.


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That dares to suffer what I do,

That can forever sigh unheard,

And ever love without regard,
I then will own your prior claim
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But till that time, my dear, adieu,

I yet superior am to you.

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Thomas Wyatt Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
I Find No Peace
S

I find no peace, and all my war is done.
P
I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice
I fly above the wind, yet can I not arise;
And nought I have, and all the world I season. L
That loseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison

And holdeth me not—yet can I scape no wise—
Nor letteth me live nor die at my device, I

And yet of death it giveth me occasion.

Without eyes I see, and without tongue I plain.
T
I desire to perish, and yet I ask health.
I love another, and thus I hate myself.

I feed me in sorrow and laugh in all my pain; T

Likewise displeaseth me both life and death,

And my delight is causer of this strife.
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Elinor Morton Wylie Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
Now Let No Charitable Hope
S

Now let no charitable hope
P
Confuse my mind with images
Of eagle and of antelope:

I am in nature none of these. L

I was, being human, born alone;
I am, being woman, hard beset; I

I live by squeezing from a stone

The little nourishment I get.
T


In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file; T
But none has merited my fear,

And none has quite escaped my smile.
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MODEL POEM A: ANALYSIS & ANNOTATION

Sara Teasdale (1920) Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT
There Will Come Soft Rains
S
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,

And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
P

And frogs in the pools singing at night,

And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
L
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

I
And not one will know of the war, not one

Will care at last when it is done.
T

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
T


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MODEL POEM B: ANALYSIS & ANNOTATION

Elizabeth Bishop (1977)

One Art Step One: Annotate using #123SPLITT

S
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
P


Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. L
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant

to travel. None of these will bring disaster. T

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went. T

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

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I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.

I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
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I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

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