Item 1: Poem
What "Mother" Means
"Mother" is such a simple word,
But to me there’s meaning seldom heard.
For everything I am today,
My mother’s love showed me the way.
I’ll love my mother all my days,
For enriching my life in so many ways.
She set me straight and then set me free,
And that’s what the word "mother" means to me.
Thanks for being a wonderful mother, Mom!
By Karl Fuchs
Rhetorical devices:
* Rhyme: word - heard, today - way, days - ways, free - me.
* Metaphor : word "mother"
* Repetition: mother
Message:
The poems expresses what mother means to her offspring. The poem shows love's children to their mother with respect and thanks.
Item 2: Story
Mothers day
A man stopped at a flower shop to order some
flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing.
He asked her what was wrong and she replied, "I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother.
But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars."
The man smiled and said, "Come on in with me. I'll buy you a rose."
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers.
As they were leaving he offered the girl a ride home.
She said, "Yes, please! You can take me to my mother."
She directed him to a cemetery, where she placed the rose on a freshly dug grave.
The man returned to the flower shop, canceled the wire order, picked up a bouquet and drove the two hundred miles to his mother's house.
Rhetorical devices:
* Symbol: a rose - many gifts
* Climax: mean of details
Message:
Your own hands donated gift will be meaningful though it is
very small gift. You want to do for your mother, please do from now. If the
human beings do not dare to go over the immediate challenges, they will lose
the most precious thing in life.
Item 3: Picture
* Irony: an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
* Repetition: I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
Message:
The ignorance of the faculty of human beings can be easy to see. We should not hide it and should improve it.
Sources:
http://www.poemsource.com/mother-poems.html
http://ktemoc.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-irony-of-malaysian-lupa-ness.html
dear my friend;
Trả lờiXóai have some comments;
About item 2
-rhetorical devices:
+Symbol: rose(love and respect for mother);cemetery( the lost and misery)
- message: we should appreciate things we have,behave to our mother kindly
personlly, i think that it is not clear for you to express " The poems expresses what mother means to her offspring. The poem shows love's children to their mother with respect and thanks". The main character in this story is the child who personally show the meaning of "mother" and indirect express his/her love to his/her mother
Trả lờiXóaI think you should show detailly about the climax of the 2nd item
My friend,
Trả lờiXóaI have two comments for you too.
-About item 2.
I think the message is that: word"mother" is simple but meaning "
- About item 3:
I would like to add rhetorical devices is overstatement because in the picture,the boy writes so many sentences ' i will not expose .....' on the blackbroad.
I have just come up with some ideas after reading your first entry.
Trả lờiXóa1. "mother" in this poem is not metaphor.
2. two messages which you show from two first items are not really accurate about wording, expression and content. you need finding the way to express more concisely. I think :
+message ( Item 1) : Children are so grateful to mother for her upbringings.
+message (Item 2 ) : your evidence of symbols rhetorical device is not enough. Rose- love and gratefulness. One the other hand, "If the human beings do not dare to go over the immediate challenges, they will lose the most precious thing in life", this sentence is your lesson which you learn from story but not a message referred from this story.
Therefore, message in my opinion is that people should express their love and gratefulness to their mother as they can do so as not to regret.