Anaphora Exercise
In his poem, “I Am Waiting,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti uses anaphora to make the poem memorable and to emphasize the changes he would like to see in the world. In Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon, uses it to create a vivid picture of her roots. Please read the following definition for anaphora… Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines.
Now, it’s your turn. Using the Ferlinghetti’s or the Lyon’s poem as a guide, write your own poem, story or essay that uses anaphora. Your poem can either be about changes you’d like to see in your community or the world, or it could just be something personal about who you are or where you come from.
Now, it’s your turn. Using the Ferlinghetti’s or the Lyon’s poem as a guide, write your own poem, story or essay that uses anaphora. Your poem can either be about changes you’d like to see in your community or the world, or it could just be something personal about who you are or where you come from.
Mentor Text
I Am Waiting
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for someone to really discover America and wail and I am waiting for the discovery of a new symbolic western frontier and I am waiting for the American Eagle to really spread its wings and straighten up and fly right and I am waiting for the Age of Anxiety to drop dead and I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy and I am waiting for the final withering away of all governments and I am perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder I am waiting for the Second Coming and I am waiting for a religious revival to sweep thru the state of Arizona and I am waiting for the Grapes of Wrath to be stored and I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American and I am waiting to see God on television piped onto church altars if only they can find the right channel to tune in on and I am waiting for the Last Supper to be served again with a strange new appetizer and I am perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder I am waiting for my number to be called and I am waiting for the Salvation Army to take over and I am waiting for the meek to be blessed and inherit the earth without taxes and I am waiting for forests and animals to reclaim the earth as theirs and I am waiting for a way to be devised to destroy all nationalisms without killing anybody and I am waiting for linnets and planets to fall like rain and I am waiting for lovers and weepers to lie down together again in a new rebirth of wonder I am waiting for the Great Divide to be crossed and I am anxiously waiting for the secret of eternal life to be discovered by an obscure general practitioner and I am waiting for the storms of life to be over and I am waiting to set sail for happiness and I am waiting for a reconstructed Mayflower to reach America with its picture story and tv rights sold in advance to the natives and I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in the Lost Continent in a new rebirth of wonder I am waiting for the day that maketh all things clear and I am awaiting retribution for what America did to Tom Sawyer and I am waiting for Alice in Wonderland to retransmit to me her total dream of innocence and I am waiting for Childe Roland to come to the final darkest tower and I am waiting for Aphrodite to grow live arms at a final disarmament conference in a new rebirth of wonder I am waiting to get some intimations of immortality by recollecting my early childhood and I am waiting for the green mornings to come again youth’s dumb green fields come back again and I am waiting for some strains of unpremeditated art to shake my typewriter and I am waiting to write the great indelible poem and I am waiting for the last long careless rapture and I am perpetually waiting for the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn to catch each other up at last and embrace and I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder | Student Work
New Age
By Dale Murrow I will create a new age an age of coming. I will create a new future a future that is full of new ideas a new way to dream. I will create a dream. A Dream so perfect you will Just want to look and to read it all the way through. I will create a new lifestyle. A lifestyle unlike any other that has been seen or heard. I will create a new beginning. A beginning that people will be drawn to on their own free will not forced on or encouraged. I will create a new way to understand that will make people know more of what they hear and see than pre-experiences of their lives. |