1. Jeannie Jerome Ismanuella Denis Brian Ramos
Welcome, Students!
Jeannie Jerome
Ismanuella Denis
Brian Ramos

2. Classroom Schedule Part I Title prediction/meaning Part II
Read poem together
Part III
Paraphrasing
Part IV
Terms to know
Part V
Color key
Part VI
Go through different motifs
Part VII
Go through different shifts in the poem
Part VIII
Discuss the overall theme of the poem
Part IX
Ask students if their prediction is still the same after going through the whole poem
Part X
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Classroom Schedule
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3. Every Day You Play
You change your feelings/emotions every day but you saw beyond my flaws and still continued to love me no matter what.

4. Stanza 1
Original Lines
Paraphrasing
Line1:Everyday you play with the with the light of the universe Line2:Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water. Line3:You are more than this white head that I hold tightly as a cluster of fruit, every day, between my hands.
Line1:You’re so powerful to the point that you are my universe.
Line2:You come and go and is apart of everything.
Line 3:You are more than a physical being that I hold tightly and cherish .

5. Stanza 2
Original lines
Paraphrasing
Line 4:You are like nobody since I love you. Line 5:Let me spread you out among yellow garlands. Line 6:Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Line 7:Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed
Line 4:My love for you is like no other love Line 5: Line 6: My love for you is beyond that I want to write your name in the sky.( shows how powerful his love is for her) Line 7:

6. Stanza 3 Original Lines Paraphrasing
Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window. The sky is a net crammed with shadow fish. Here all the winds let go sooner or later, all of them. The rain takes off her clothes.
As the storm approaches (storm equal fight or the hardships between speaker and his lover)The storm is so powerful that the rain beat hard on her clothing .

7. Stanza 4
Original Lines
Paraphrasing
The birds go by, fleeing. The wind. The wind. I can contend only against the power of men. The storm whirls dark leaves And turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky.
Even the winds can’t fight the power of the wind. I am only able to fight against the power of men. The storm is as strong a mam, who damages everything around them.

8. Stanza 5
Original Lines
Paraphrasing
Line 17: You are here. Oh, you do not run away. Line 18: You will answer me to the last cry. Line 19: Cling to me as though you were frightened. Line 20: Even so, at one time a strange shadow ran through your eyes.
Line 17: Through everything; you never left Line 18: You remained that rider die till the last hour or the end. Line 19:You stick to me even through fearful times. Line 20 : Even through ,One time you had the thought of leaving or giving up. You remain with me till the end .

9. Stanza 6
Original Lines
Paraphrasing
Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle, And even your breasts smell of it. While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your youth.
While the storm is destroying/killing everything around us, my love for you only continues to grow and my happiness bites your lips (kiss).

10. Stanza 7
Original Lines
Paraphrasing
Line 25: It must have been difficult to get used to me. Line 26: My ways and name would send all the women running and not giving me chances . Line 27-28: We spend time together to the point where we see the sun come out .
Line 25: How must you have suffered getting accustomed to me, Line 26: My savage, solitary soul, my name that send them all running. Line 27: So many times we have been the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, Line 28: And over our heads the grey light unwind in turning fans.

11. Stanza 8 Original Lines Paraphrasing
Line 29: My words rained over you, stroking you. Line 30: A long time I have loved the sunned mother- of-pearl of your body. Line 31:I go so far as to think that you own the universe. Line 32: I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, Line 33:Dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. Line 34:I want to do with you. Line 35: What spring does with the cherry trees.
Line 29: My love for you is so powerful that it touches you . Line 30:I admire your body Line 31: The Love I have for you is beyond and you are universe. Line 32-34: Line 35: I want to make you blossom and can me “I want to have sex with you “

12. Terms to know
Subtle: (of a mixture or effect) delicately complex and understated
Yellow Garlands: a wreath of festoon, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
-symbolizes the eternity of God, immorality of the soul, and the everlasting life found in Christ.
Honeysuckle: arching shrubs or twining bines in the family of Caprifoliaceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
-symbolizes love that clings without harming anyone, generous love, passion, and foretells a wedding within one year.
Accustomed: customary or usual
Bluebells: a widely cultivated European woodland plant of the lily family that produces clusters of bell-shaped blue flowers in spring
-symbolizes humility, gratitude, and everlasting love.

13. Color Coding Light and dark Imagery Storm Imagery Everything else
Nature/Floral Imagery
Light and dark Imagery
Storm Imagery
Everything else

14. Nature/Floral Imagery
Lines 2-3
Explanation
Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water You are more than this white head that I hold tightly as a cluster of fruit, every day, between my hands.
Extended metaphor: compares his lover to the universe to show that she can appear in any shape or form, which is what makes her so unique in his eyes. Symbolism: the flower represents a symbol of their love and their happiness when they are around each other. Imagery: picture the reader holding a white head flower in his head to compare the lover and show that she is more than just a flower

15. Nature/Floral Imagery
Line 5
Explanation
Let me spread you out among yellow garlands.
Imagery: the reader can picture the narrator laying his lover among flowers which shows how happy he is when his with her (a gallant seduction)

16. Nature/Floral Imagery
Lines 8-11
Explanation
Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window. The sky is set crammed with shadowy fish. Here all the winds let go sooner or later, all of them. The rain takes off her clothes.
Personification: giving the wind human characteristics by saying that it howls and bangs at his door compare to what a mad man or woman would do. Personification: the rain doesn’t literally take her clothes off, she wets everything around her and that the narrator is able to see through her as if she was naked.

17. Nature/Floral Imagery
Lines 12-16
Explanation
The birds go by, fleeing. The wind. The wind. I can contend only against the power of men. The storm whirls dark leaves And turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky.
Imagery: the wind is so strong that even the birds are not able to balance themselves, which shows that the problems they were having in their relationship were pretty rough. Symbolism: the wind symbolizes trouble in their relationship

18. Nature/Floral Imagery
Lines 32-35
Explanation
I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, Dark hazels, and rustic basket of kisses. I want to do with you What spring does with cherry trees.
Symbolism: the speakers wants to bring flowers to the lover has a token of his love for her and their happiness. Metaphor: he compares what he wants to do with the lover to what spring does with cherry trees (he wants to conceive a child with her)

19. Light and Dark imagery Line 1 Explanation
Every day you play with the light of the universe
Her love is a light to be reckoning with. Hyperbole: exaggerates how she is able to play with the light of the universe ,when he's just trying to show us how powerful she is.

20. Light and dark imagery Line 20 Explanation
Even so, at one time a strange shadow ran through your eyes.
Darkness = the thought of her leaving him. Personification: stating that a shadow runs through her eyes, when in reality shadows don’t actually have legs to run.

21. Light and Dark imagery Line 27-28 Explanation
So many time we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes. And over our heads the grey light unwind in turning fans.
Hyperbole: Exaggerate the how they would spend time together. Personification: giving the Sun human qualities to where it kisses them in their eyes and the grey light unwinding .

22. Storm Imagery Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window.
Line 8
Explanation
Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window.
Personification/metaphor: Comparing how the wind is starting to form, because it’s “howling and banging” in her closed windows.

23. Storm Imagery Lines 13-15 Explanation The birds go by, fleeing.
The wind. The wind.
I can contend only against the power of men.
The storm whirls dark leaves
And turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky.
Symbolism: Storm = relationship is falling apart The relationship between him, and his lover are taking a rough course of problems. Like how the storm has caused destruction around it.

24. Shifts The Best part of love, shifting to the troubles of two lovers.
Stanza 2-4
Explanation
Stanza 2 Line 4::You are like nobody since I love you. Line 5:Let me spread you out among yellow garlands. Line 6: Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Line 7:Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed Stanza 3 Line: 8 Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window. Line 11 The rain takes off her clothes. Stanza 4 Line 14: I can contend only against the power of men. Line 15: The storm whirls dark leaves
The Best part of love, shifting to the troubles of two lovers.

25. Theme
Although love may come with trouble, one love for one another will only continue to grow.

26. Let’s Have a Great Year!