Dương Minh Nguyên

Name: DƯƠNG MINH NGUYÊN

Class: QH  2010 - E20

ENTRY 1

Item 1: Poem

     THE FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER

by Dylan Thomas (1914- 1953).

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.

The force that drives the water through the rocks
Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams
Turns mine to wax.
And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins
How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks.

The hand that whirls the water in the pool
Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind
Hauls my shroud sail.
And I am dumb to tell the hanging man
How of my clay is made the hangman's lime.

The lips of time leech to the fountain head;
Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores.
And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind
How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.

And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm.

Rhetorical devices in the poem:

1. Metaphor:

force (power of care), green (youth), bent (becomes weaker), lips of time (periods of time)

2. Rhyme: Drives  - dries - mine
3. Repetition in the stanzas:

And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose

And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins

And I am dumb to tell the hanging man

And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind

And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb

Message: The rule of nature is the same with human life. People usually undergo many processes from childhood until adulthood then death

Item 2: Poem:  “Badlands,”  by Bruce Springsteen

Suffering produces endurance,
And endurance produces character,
And character produces hope,
And hope does not put us to shame,
– Romans 5:3-5

Poor man wanna be rich
Rich man wanna be king
And a king ain’t satisfied
Till he rules everything

Message: People should be patient in their life

Rhetorical devices:

Anadiplosis: Repeating the last word or phrase of one line at the beginning of the next one

Item 3: Cartoon

“The Next Rung” This Blanche Ames cartoon was published in the Women’s Journal in

1915. It illustrates the use of natural metaphors of light versus dark and beauty

versus ugliness.

Alice Sheppard, Cartooning for Suffrage, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,

1994), 173

http://mysonginthenight.com/2012/01/30/the-songwriters-glossary-of-poetic-rhetorical-devices/

http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.