Week Nine

Reading Two: "The Beautiful Changes"

One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides   

The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies

On water; it glides

So from the walker, it turns

Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you   

Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.

The beautiful changes as a forest is changed   

By a chameleon’s tuning his skin to it;   

As a mantis, arranged

On a green leaf, grows

Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves   

Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.

Your hands hold roses always in a way that says   

They are not only yours; the beautiful changes   

In such kind ways,   

Wishing ever to sunder

Things and things’ selves for a second finding, to lose   

For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.

Explore the meaning and effect of its use of figurative language.

1. Does the poem make use of an extended or controlling metaphor or of multiple metaphors or of personification? 

There are multiple metaphors and personification thorough the whole poem.

"The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies

On water; it glides"

2. How do the uses of figurative language relate to and build on each other? 

In poetry, the comparison between something unable to describe with an object or image that is describable.

"Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you   

Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes."

3. How does the use of the figures of speech contribute to the emotional effect of the poem and its theme(s)?

The description of the objects being described can have many different tones such as anger or romance.

"Your hands hold roses always in a way that says   

They are not only yours; the beautiful changes"

For instance roses are resembled to romance and beauty.