Literatura

Instituto Columbia S.C Adrian Davila
Mr. Víctor SalazarNovember 12 2012
Literature9ª #2
Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
Have your ideas about mushrooms change since reading the poem “Mushrooms”? Yes since jow I know that mushrooms have a special life,particularly in the night performing their crucial activities
What is the thematic focus of this selection? Scientific fact
What are the mushrooms doing at night? They gather together in the nightto acquire air and preventing humans to harm them.
How do the mushrooms overcome the obstacles in their way? They heave the needles in the loam aside.
Why does no one notice what the mushrooms aredoing? They are quiet preventing humans to seem them.
What seems to be the goal or purpose of the Mushroom? To inherit the earth by the morning.
What demands, if any, do the mushrooms make on theirsurroundings? Water and shadows.
What qualities of the mushrooms will enable them to “inherit the earth”?The capacity to multiply.
“Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth is a wellknown quotation. How does it apply to mushrooms? Because mushrooms are described as a big family, multiplying to inherit the earth.
The literary term for this selection is “tone”, what does thismean? Serious based on facts.
Southern Mansion by Arna Bontemps and The Bat by Theodore Roethke
What is the literary and thematic focus for these two poem? Historical Era.
In “Southern Mansion”, whoare the people mentioned in the poem? They are the owners of the plantations and of the enslaved workers.
What two sounds are mentioned in this two selections? The sounds are the music and the...