Poem Analyzed in Class

Silver

Walter De La Mare

 

Slowly, silently, now the moon

Walks the night in her silver shoon;

This way, and that, she peers, and sees

Silver fruit uopn silver trees;

One by one the casements catch

Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;

Couched in his kennel, like a log,

With paws of silver sleeps the dog;

From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep

Of doves in silver-feathered sleep;

A harvest mouse goes scampering by,

With silver claws, and silver eye;

And moveless fish in the water gleam,

By silver reeds in a silver stream.

 

 

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*  Can you see in your mind the scene the poet describes?

 

*  Try and imagine the same scene by the light of the sun.

Rewrite the poem, beginning;

 

Slowly, silently, now the sun

Walks the day as his work gets done;

This way, and that, he peers and sees.....

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(Remember that you are referring to the sun this time.  Remember also that the sun was referred to as a HE, unlike the moon described as a SHE.  What does the sun do?  Look at the pattern, style and literary devises used in the poem and decide what to do with your new creation.  Goodluck!)