“Barbara Frietchie”
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Setting
–Set
during
The Civil
War
–18611865
Host
• Army
Confederate Troops
–Led by Robert
E. Lee and
Stonewall
Jackson
–Rebel/
–Confederate
troops march
into
Fredericktown,
Border State- Maryland
Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Rebel/ Confederate Flag
Southern Flag.
Union Flag (crimson bars)
The Civil War 1861-1865
End Slavery
Overseer/ patrolmen
Allusion- indirect reference
Town of Frederick
Couplet
• Two consecutive lines of poetry that
rhyme.
• Ex:
• Up from the meadows rich with corn,
• Clear in the cool September morn
–Up from the meadows
– rich with corn,
–Clear in the cool
–September morn.
– Roses are red (A)
– Violets are blue (B)
– Sugar is sweet (C)
And so are you (B)
Barbara Frietchie
–Fourscore and ten
–How old was she?
Staff- pole
Tread- step
Rent- (verb) tore
Stirred (V) woke up
Host- army
Paraphrase vs. Summary
• The church spires of Frederick
rise up from the cornfields,
clear in the September
morning. The spires are
surrounded by the green hills
of Maryland.