My Big English Presntation! Could Use Some Help!

[fcp4life]

So my big English presentation is due Monday March 9, and this is what i have to do, Already found some stuff on these forums. My biggest problems are the 4, and 5 parts of my presentation... but with some help i could do it.

Canis Major By Robert Frost.


The great Overdog A
That heavenly beast B
With a star in one eye C
Gives a leap in the east. B

He dances upright D
All the way to the west E
And never once drops F
On his forefeet to rest. E

I'm a poor underdog, A
But to-night I will bark G
With the great Overdog A
That romps through the dark. H
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3 Stanzas

Overdog -> heavenly beast = metaphor

overdog -> underdog approximate rhyme

Rhyme Scheme -> A B C B D E F E A G A H

Frost in stanza 2 describes the movement of the constellation of the "Canis Major" across the night sky

In Stanza 3 Frost describes himself as a mortal spending the night out with the stars, he too then wants to spend all night with the Overdog he too intends to romp, and dance all night without pausing to rest.

12 Lines 3 stanzas.

 

[fcp4life]

Update i got my Author Biography...

Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
Father a journalist, Mother from Scotish Descent.

Frost's father died of Tuberculosis when he was 11. Mother died of Cancer in 1920.

Although born in San Fransisco he spent most of his time in New England.

Frost married Elinor Wiriam.

They had 6 children Elliot, Lesley, Carol, Irma, Marjorie, and Elinor, Onl Lesley and Irma outlived their father, Frost's wife died of heart failure in 1938.

Frost like his mother suffered from depression.

Frost won 4 Pultizer Prizes

* 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes
* 1931 for Collected Poems
* 1937 for A Further Range
* 1943 for A Witness Tree

When frost was 86 he spoke and performed a reading of his poetey at the inauguration of J.F.K on January 20, 1961, 2 years latter on January 29 1963 Frost died in Boston

 

[fcp4life]

can someone help?

 

[GoCubsGo]

What the hell are you asking? For someone to discuss the poem's elements, literary structure, and figurative language with you? Or you need someone to take the poem and answer what appears to be the meat and potatoes of your entire assignment?

 

[yojitani]

I want to say this gently: you need to do your own homework. Asking people on an internet forum to help isn't going to help you much. The purpose of having YOU do these things is so that YOU learn something. If it's a struggle, why not go to the library and look up what this stuff means. This is THE book to use:
http://www.amazon.com/New-Princeton-Encyclopedia-Poetry-Poetics/dp/0691021236

But it might be a bit over your head. A lot of the Norton Anthologies have a section about poetry and poetics in the back. Heck, you could even check wikipedia!

 

[LowEnder]

Rhyme

dark and bark rhyme!!!!

 

[fcp4life]

all i need help with is the rhyme scheme sorry...

The great Overdog A
That heavenly beast B
With a star in one eye C
Gives a leap in the east. B

He dances upright D
All the way to the west E
And never once drops F
On his forefeet to rest. E

I'm a poor underdog, A
But to-night I will bark G
With the great Overdog A
That romps through the dark.G