BELL RINGER
 Write a 5 line poem where every line begins with the
first letter of your first name.
Rules
1. Can’t use your name
2. Try to write from someone else's perspective or
persona
“THE RIVER MERCHANTS WIFE”
-LI PO
IMAGERY
 Using figurative language to represent objects,
actions, and ideas in a way that appeals to our
physical senses
EXAMPLE OF IMAGERY
The snow fluttered down from the clouds
like down feathers from a pillow fight lightly,
gently layering a mystical frosted path and
giving my nose a frosty, chilled sensation.
TASK
 Read pages 232-233 and take notes on the “Before Reading” on
your study guides
 We will DISCUSS when complete!
While my hair was still cut straight across my
forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue
plums.
And we went on living in the village of Chokan:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.
At sixteen you departed,
You went into far Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling
eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.
You dragged your feet when you went out.
By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different
mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
At fourteen I married My Lord you.
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
I never laughed, being bashful.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Over the grass in the West garden;
Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back. They hurt me. I grow older.
If you are coming down through the narrows of the
At fifteen I stopped scowling,
river Kiang,
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Please let me know beforehand,
Forever and forever and forever.
And I will come out to meet you
Why should I climb the look out?
As far as Cho-fu-Sa.
HOME WORK
1. Read, “The Tiger” by S. Rajaratnam (Pages 178-184)
2. Be Ready to DISCUSS it tomorrow 