Learning Activities

Activity 1 Unveil the Poem

Directions: For this activity, there mare three poems available on the following pages. Read the
poems and answer the following questions and write it inside the box provided.

Questions:
1. What particular phrase/sentence/stanza that uses figure of speech? Identify and
support it with explanation.
2. What symbols can be found in the poem? Support it with explanation.

Write your answers here!

A. A Red, Red Rose

1. In the line “O, my love is like a red, red rose”, the persona’s love is
compared to a red rose which obviously unlikely things which line also uses
the word ‘’like’’ that we can identify in figure of speech that is simile. Also in
the line “My love is like the melody” because of the word like that being use to
compare unlike things I can say it is simile.
In the line “Till all the seas go dry, my dear”, this is hyperbole for the
words “till all the seas” that is being exaggerate because of the word “dry”.
Same as in the line “the rose melt with the sun”. The description was too far
from the reality.
The line “while the sands of life shall run” where the word “sands of life”
consist of giving human attributes to non-human which is the word “run” and I
could say it is a metaphor.
2. Symbols that can be found in the poem are “Red Rose” and “Rock melt”, why I
choose this for I think the Red rose means to this poem of something
uncommon and is something worth to wait because of its beauty, while in the
“Rock melt” is something that though your heart was hard as rock but it can be
melted by the sun or something that means a thing that can make it possible
to make it because of a deep love. This symbols portraits love, deep love,
loyalty and a promise.
B. To this Coy Mistress

1. This phrase “I would love you ten years before the flood” is a hyperbole
because it was too far from reality. Imagine someone will love you ten years
before the flood, as in? Well, the phrase is exaggerated and unbelievable.
2. The symbols are “iron gates”, “morning”, “amorous birds”, and “Thine eyes”.
These explores the realm of human morality, approaching the seriousness of
finite reality with humor, logic, and ironic reflection.

C. Break, Break, Break

1. The phrase “haven under the hill” is an example of personification because a

human characteristics is attributed to an inanimate object.
2. Symbols are “break” and “cold gray stones”. The speaker emotionally
commands the sea to “break”. He wants the sea waves to break on the cliffs
but it also possible to interpret the lines as demanding to ‘break’ the cold gray
stones of the cliff. The ‘cold gray stones’ are symbolic of the hardened heart of
his inexpressible grief.