The name of the poem.
b. The symbols
c. What you think the symbol represents
d. Evidence from the poem that supports your
interpretation of each symbol.
Sailing to Byzantium:
1.In Sailing to Byzantium I thought that the symbol Holy fire would represent heaven, because the fact that it’s saying that giving his soul to others.
From the poem it says
“O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal”
2.I think that hammered gold would be a good example might mean that they make things that are fit for an emperor.
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake
The Second Coming:
1. In “The Second coming” I thought the falcon was a good symbol because it explains that the falcon cannot hear the falconer. Which to me I think that the falcon represents you and me and the falconer represents god.
From the poem it says
“The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
2. The ceremony of innocence is drowned”
I think that rocking cradle means Jesus manger that he was in as a baby
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
When you are old
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
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And paced upon the mountains overhead,
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
b. The symbols
c. What you think the symbol represents
d. Evidence from the poem that supports your
interpretation of each symbol.
Sailing to Byzantium:
1.In Sailing to Byzantium I thought that the symbol Holy fire would represent heaven, because the fact that it’s saying that giving his soul to others.
From the poem it says
“O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal”
2.I think that hammered gold would be a good example might mean that they make things that are fit for an emperor.
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake
The Second Coming:
1. In “The Second coming” I thought the falcon was a good symbol because it explains that the falcon cannot hear the falconer. Which to me I think that the falcon represents you and me and the falconer represents god.
From the poem it says
“The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
2. The ceremony of innocence is drowned”
I think that rocking cradle means Jesus manger that he was in as a baby
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
When you are old
- In the poem it WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep I thought it means when you are old that you look back at your life.
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep
- I think that “face amid a crowd of stars means that he is just looking up at all the stars.
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
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And paced upon the mountains overhead,
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.