Poetry+-+Alice+Walker

__ Summary __ : This poem is about a woman (Alice) taking her daughter to learn about her roots. She wants her daughter to know where she came, and as Alice goes to the grave site memories flood back of what she knew of a woman. __ Alliteration __ : came to canning, and vegetable gardens __ Assonance __ : The odor of smoke, oak __ Figurative __ __Language__/__Imagery__: Forgetful of geographic resolutions as birds far-flung young fly south to bury the old dead __ Metaphor __ : above the ducks made of soap, and the orange legged chicks Miss Reynold drew over my own small hand __ Setting __ : Southern land on an old burial site and church ground __ Simile __ : When burying day comes, as if does some years __ Symbol __ : Misspelled tombstone; the husband is losing love for her since he didn’t realize it  __ End __ -__stop__: Here the graves soon grow back into the land __ Idiom __ : Ducks made of soap __ Structure __ : In this story she starts off talking about taking her daughter to her roots to see where she is from. She then rewinds her life back to how she remembered her grandmother (great). __ Tone __ : The tone of this story is how the story is portrayed. The tone of this story is sad. She (Alice) doesn’t have the strength to hold it in. She goes to the grave to teach her daughter and becomes sad because the memories of a loved one are brought back. __ Style __ : This author starts at a present point, then rewinds and begins to reminisce. This poem is “Southern” because of the setting; where everything is set and the surroundings. For example unpaved roads, cattle, massive oak trees, smoke, oak leaves, and honeysuckle.

Shanice This poem is really about Alice Walker and her daughter walking through a grave yard and her memories of the loved ones she lost. Walking through the site gave her back memories of the past. Also the memory or vision of her grandmother that she describes "as a young woman" suggests some maturity. Alliteration: Blackberries.Bittersweet and sage

Assonance: the odor of smoke, oak

Figurative Language/Metaphor: Came to canning and vegetable gardens big as fields.

Imagery: A hard worker with rough moist hands.

Setting: In Georgia on an old burial site and church ground

Simile:When Burning off Day comes, as it does some year.

Symbol: The graveyard and the misspelled tombstone,they represented what brought her back to her old memories from the past.

End-Stop: Not for the dead, but for the gray in my old first-grade teacher's hair. Idiom: Ducks made of Soap Structure: The structure of this story was at first Alice stared off taking her daughter through the graveyard so she can relate back to her roots. As they were passing the grave sites she starts to go back in tome and start remembering about her past family members and her grandmother(great). Tone: The tone of the whole poem was sad and memorable because she went to the graveyard to teach her daughter of her roots. but as memories of the ones she lost pass by she becomes sad when she thinks about them. What makes the poem Southern is how Alice explains in the story about being a southerner and being on a Georgia church ground just so her vdaughter can relate back to their southern roots. So maybe she wanted her daughter to remember where she came from while at the same time showing her the aspects that went on in her life where she was born in the South. So she was teaching her daughter that she still knows where she came from and is not ashamed.

Stephanie:

The poem in one word is remenisce.

This poem is about a lady remembering the death of her family members. It's when she look at others, and the things they like to do, that she remember the good times. ALso, she tells how she take her child to the graveyard of her fathers grandmother. The lady tells about the features of the grave and how it resembles her family.

__SETTING:__ a graveyard at Wards Chapel A.M.E. Church __IMAGERY:__ the graves sinking to cover themselves without ivy __PERSONIFICATION:__ snakes hacked to death __SYMBOL:__ graves __TONE:__ serious __ENDSTOP:__ but seen from the angle of her death __ALLITERATION:__ the farflung young fly South to bury

The structure of the story is remembering the times she had with each deceased family member. Everytime she looks at something, she has flashbacks.

It's southern because the graveyards are not as good as it would be say somewhere in the city. Not only that, but she talks about cows, fields, canning vegetables, and gardens.