Month: December 2012

Romeo:From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here’s to my love!

Romeo says that god has lost his way and that this the end for him and his love. He also seems to be saying that like disgusting tastes.
The way I see he uses words to do with taste to show gods lost his way is by this quotation.
“Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide!”
For Romeo to be describing god as lost and saying this is to my love he’s saying that god has chosen a very sad
fate for Juliet.

Your task is to identify the metaphor present in the following excerpt and then write a paragraph that explains the metaphor and its effect on the meaning of the passage it is embedded in.

From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here’s to my love!

Feel free to re-watch the presentation explaining how to identify and explain metaphor:

To follow are the official results of the EBA Awards for December 2012. Invented by Gabriel, these awards are designed to celebrate excellence, creativity and innovation in Year 8 Blogging.

Voted for by the students themselves, everyone gets one watchmark for every vote they receive, and the winners of each category get 5 watchmarks. The top 4 blogs also get promotion on their peer’s blogs, and get profiled for 14 days on the Edutronic front page.
 
The winners are:

BEST CONTENT:

1. Gabriel’s English Blog
2. Henry’s English Blog

BEST APPEARANCE:

1. Gabriel’s English Blog
2. Meshach’s English Blog

Conratulations to everyone involved!

Mr Waugh

1. Film a scene from Romeo + Juliet  
2. Design and build a prop for a scene
3. Run a class activity