People and Places

Assignment #2

People and Places (10 marks)

Create a new blog post called  People and Places

Copy and paste the poem information and the six questions below into your blog.  Then, answer the questions in complete sentences on your blog:

“Warren Pryor” –Alden Nowlan  

When every pencil meant a sacrifice his parents boarded him at school in town, slaving to free him from the stony fields,

the meagre acreage that bore them down.

They blushed with pride when, at his graduation,

they watched him picking up the slender scroll, his passport from the years of brutal toil  and lonely patience in a barren hole. When he went in the Bank their cups ran over. 

They marvelled how he wore a milk­white shirt  work days and jeans on Sundays. 

He was saved  from their thistle­strewn farm and its red dirt.

And he said nothing. 

Hard and serious like a young bear inside his teller’s cage, his axe­hewn hands upon the paper bills aching with empty strength and throttled rage.

Read:  Warren Pryor – A. Nowlan (Theme & Image Book 1. Page 13)

Answer in complete sentences:

1. What work is done by Warren’s family? (1 mark)

Warren's family are farmers.

2. How did Warren represent their hopes and dreams? (1 mark)

Warren represented their hopes and dreams because they want him to succeed and not have to be trapped on the farm forever like them. He has potential to be what they wished they could have been.

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3. Explain the allusion used in the third stanza (see p. 215). What is the poem’s setting? (2 marks)

4. Identify the metaphor in the second stanza and the simile in the fourth stanza. (2 marks)

5. Explain the situational irony of “Warren Pryor. “ (2 marks)