The Princess extract

'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;   ->ROSES
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;         -> CALMNESS                \
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:        -> FISHES ARE STOPPED  / NOTHING MOVES
The fire-fly wakens: wake thou with me.             -> He is remembering her

Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, -> Peacock are full of colors, and this one is white: contradiction
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.             ->   White ghost, white light

Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,           ->Danaë was someone killed in a lake
And all thy heart lies open unto me.                    -> Remembering her

Now lies the silent meteor on, and leaves      -> The thought goes away
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.         -> He wants to die when he thinks on her

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,       -> She was alive on top, and then...
And slips into the bosom of the lake:          ->...she falls to the bottom (metaphor)
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip   -> He is telling her to die...
Into my bosom and be lost in me.'              -> ... to "Die in me" stong metaphor

T: Maybe reffering to a royal woman

P: There is death of a woman.

C: Feelings from a living person towards a dying bride.

A: Sorrowful

S: Not present. Mantains sad expressions.

T: Now, the title is about HER princess, not an actual royal woman. 

T: How her death is being realized by white colors.

Actividad 8/11/13

DISCUSSION PAGE 203
1. Name three qualities that you liked about this poem.
The mehtaphor in between the 6th and 8th verse is realy interesting, as well as the theme. And the fact that the lighs are described all along the poem makes it really descriptive and full.

2. " "  " "  didn't like about this poem
The rhyme scheme and the words used to rhyme are pretty lame. This is a contradiction, as he is trying to express complex feelings about love throug the use of a simple and poor rhyme.

3. Think of three questions you would ask to the poet.
Which is the idea of repeating the words in such a way?
What made you compare the amount of love through the cost of the clothes?
Did you get conclussions from this poem?

TABLE PAGE 204
Sight: fat, black, woman, fields, hibscubs, lights up, waves, shape
Sound: fields, oblivion, sea
Taste: waves (maybe salt?)
Touch: hibscubs to her cheek, feet, waves
Smell: hibscubs, sea

DISCUSSION PAGE 204
1. Describe what is literally happening in each line.
The guy wants to put his most expensive clothes on the ground so that she could walk on top of them and watch her feet from taking dirt or water maybe. The fact is that he is poor, so the only thing he can throw on top of the mud are his dreams.

2. What do you say to the claim that this is a poem about love?
He is being a gentleman for her to like him, and that's pretty obvious. Though, is funny to think that if he wants her, his dreams will come true if he is with her, so, as he sais he wants to spread his dreams under her feet, he is saying that he want to throw her to the ground. That obviously isn't the idea of the text but it can be understood that way hehe.

3. Comment the rhyming scheme of the poem. How is it like the sea?
 The rhyming scheme could be simmilar to the sea in the sense that it repeats the same thing over a time, the same way the poem repeats the same words. Like for example, the top of the wave is feet and the bottom is dreams, so the waves would go feet dreams feet dreams and that is the way that waves move into the coast.