Symbolism 2
The Chronicles of Narnia
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Seasons
Cross
Cane
Door
Fork in the road
Tree
Oak Tree
Ant
American Flag
Waterfall
Skull and cross bones
Cake
Dove
Red x
Hook
Fire
Red Flag
Snake
Owl
Sun
Moon
Handcuffs
Wolf
Red Hood
Little Girl
Swan
Chain
Lock
Key
River
Storm
Transition from day to night
Dawn
Light saber
Symbolism in Literature:
Lord of the Rings
Hatchet
The Outsiders - What objects/events in the
story might symbolize the following:
Strength or power
Upper class Socs
Wealth
Lower class Greasers
Coexistence
Safe haven
Innocence
End of innocence
Friendship
Death
Identify the symbols in this poem and explain
their meanings.
“Nature’s First Green is Gold” by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs 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.
Harry Potter
Turn over 
Twilight
See if you can match up the six symbolic items in the first box with what they represent in the second.
Sword
pound sign (£) Light bulb
Cunning
Night
Money
Owl
Moon
Idea
War
Wisdom
Fox
Read and analyze this poem. What does it mean? Chunk and annotate the meaning.
What old and new symbols can you find? What do they mean?
The Lighthouse Keeper and the Herring Gull
by Bill Scott
The lighthouse keeper sat on a rock and a sad, salt tear wept he.
‘I’m tired of biscuits and tins of beef, I want a fish for tea!
But I haven’t a hook and I haven’t a line to throw in the salty sea.’
He peered to the east where the breakers broke, he blinked his teary eye.
5 He looked behind where his tower rose like a steeple in the sky
And he saw a wise old herring gull perched on a rock close by.
Said the keeper, ‘A gull has an easy time when he wants a fish to swallow.
He rises up till he spies a shoal where the billows bellow hollow.
He dives down deep and he gulps a fish, with another one to follow.’
10 The keeper found a rusty nail and hammered it into a hook;
He ravelled a string both long and strong from his cozy sea-boot sock;
He baited the line and cast it in with a crafty, hungry look.
He caught a whiting and a bream, he almost caught a whale.
He hooked a crab by its big, round claws and a flathead by the tail,
15 And he tossed each fish behind him, where they fell in an old tin pail.
Then he snavelled a shark that broke his line. He didn’t really care.
He had fish enough to fry for tea, and for breakfast, and to spare,
And even enough for the herring gull that he thought deserved a share.
So he turned around to view his catch with shouts of joy and mirth,
20 But his roar of rage at what he saw was heard from Cairns to Perth1—
An empty pail, and the fullest, fattest herring gull on earth.
“The Lighthouse Keeper and the Herring Gull” by Bill Scott, © Dolphin Creative. Used by permission.
1Cairns and Perth: cities on opposite coasts of Australia
What does the empty pail symbolize?
Complete the Next Challenge:
Find 2 different stories that we have read this year that use one of the symbols from “Symbolism”
Worksheets 1 or 2. Explain how the symbol is used in each
Find a song lyric or poem that uses one of the symbols from “Symbolism” Worksheets 1 or 2. Explain
how the symbol is used in each.