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GREAT GATSBY
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Analyze three famous poems and see if you can make any connections to The Great Gatsby.
You might identify connections related to theme, setting, point of view, mood, craft, speaker,
tone, imagery, word choice, structure, symbol, or anything else.
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Can we identify the speaker of this poem?
Explain the reference “So Eden sank to grief.”
What is the theme (message) of this poem?
Can you make any connections to the novel?
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“Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood
Who is the speaker of this poem? Who were the sirens?
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What is the speaker’s message and tone?
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Whom does the speaker address?
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What parallel does Atwood want us to see between the mythical sirens and our society?
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What connections can you find between “Siren Song” and The Great Gatsby?
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“Eden, Then and Now” by Ruth Stone
What was the Jazz Age like for the speaker’s family?
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If “The Crash” has just occurred, why does the author say,
“It was time to lay an elegant table, / as it is now; corporate paradise”?
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Explain the metaphor of the apple. (Hint: It helps if you know the story of Adam and Eve.)
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What connections can you make to The Great Gatsby?
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