lit - poem themes / notes 

Allen-a-dale:

• Celebrating allen-a-dale for being a hero

• Theme: national hero, nobility

Futility:

• “Woke” & “once” = alliteration

• Theme: the sun cannot break death

The charge of the light brigade:

• Dactylic dimeter

• Theme: celebrates heroism

• “Honor the charge they made!

  Honor the Light Brigade,”

• True story

The destruction of sennacherib:

• Anapestic dimeter

• Theme: power of God

The eagle:

• Rhymed verse

• About a literal eagle

• cliff

Julius caesar:

• Blank verse

Splinter:

• Free verse

• Takes place in the winter

Bonnie george campbell:

• He died

• Theme: unfairness of death

Holy sonnet 10:

• Death [ig that could be considered as the theme]

Sonnet 29:

• Quatrain and couplet (??) [dont need to know that lol]

• Her love gives his life meaning

A haiku: [dont need to know this one at all :(]

• Author: matsuo basho

• [I LOVE HAIKUS SO MUCH]

November night:

• Cinquain

400-meter freestyle:

• Shaped poem about a pool

The alter:

• Shaped poem about an alter

[pls lmk if none of this makes any sense !!]