Before reading the poem, please consider the following literary terms which are at least partially evident within (the essay questions pertain thereto):

accent stress placed on syllables that notes word accent; rhetorical and metrical accents

Rosetta Stone Poem--47. Platonic Psalms

 from wayward LOCHES

 

 

 

 

 

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aesthetics from the Greek aesthetikos--sense perception, referring to explorations of the nature of art and its place in human dynamics (note its usage by Plato, Aristotle, Hume, and Kant)

Waning through thickets that gnaw paralyzed unseen sleep

Sheltered lee;

Cloying deceptively, claws so far away creep

Wakeful flee

Rosetta Airs, Seneca's staff that yearns

Impervious amaranth his justice rests;

Gold Arms that preyed to free exploiting turns,

The dust of labor harvests many wrests;

Excruciating passion, Petrarch's mule,

Fair steps that bear Seneca's mission wayward,

Platonic Psalms, Rosetta miles so cruel

Where thickets wrestle restless ventures homeward

Yet Chepstow Marks its Norman arms of yore

Expansive sheltered apse, basilica legends,

Subsiding woe, refraining throbs that pour

Imperiled tameness reptile pass upends

Fulfilling needs that bleed to cross their cries

In symbols wayward Abbey braced and shared

Rosetta Stone expands as labor vies

through turns so faraway that pass like night

Where owls presage their hoot, maroon dark trails, Wayward rising Byzantine, frontier--dome

Protective crimson--gold umbrella, welcome home;

Pacific bows the sense Atlantis shores

Celestial magnitudes that falcon soars

Dim Raven's passage unto frontier lairs

Such lofty monuments ascend sly snares;

Magnetic rays colossal Atlas stares

 

Resistant shore of reptile brazen clay

Eyes eerie Shield so tame of Pasteur's mourn,

Wayfaring howls about dark hope forlorn

Clang: Altar crimson, so golden umbrella, the Wilds freed

Granted needs to wayward shores' droning reed

Mission-Insignia, such delicate treasury

Worked thought feeds Ancient Rise, Mentor's Ray;

Pests so light pangs that need safest coast that foams

Warmest fleece Weighs celestial way

Preying for refuge, nomadic fields' Mission waits Need that domes

Exhausting labor vying Stable Peace, Rosetta-glyph-Gloria

To Refuge Able, thoughts Assisi Roams...Basilica--Dharma--Bay

 

Tablets: oar masts Cairo in comfort ponders

Distance guards faced mindful--paced public shelters

Plots Pythagoras to predict the measure

Harmony's leisure

Orbits flights span merging absorbs expeller

Symbolized thought weighs conscience in Beams that Anchor

Fear not, gaze vast through horizons Mighty,

Conscious zoned Boundary

NIKE just law ponders its stable entry

Movement line arcs sphere in precision quickly

Lighting speed rays particles infra--reds rise

Ionic change vies

Classical a word conveying so many meanings throughout different times that it is confined to no single meaning; it should be used with discretion
conflict the opposition of two characters or forces that are evident in fiction and drama
elegy lamentation effected by nostalgia, melancholy

epic (Homeric)

simile

an extended simile in which one or both objects are elaborately described
euphemisms words that delicately describe something unpleasant
irony expression of meaning that is contradictory to the overt or prevalent and incites covert meaning
kennings typical of Anglo-Saxon and Germanic verse, a standard phrase or metaphor such as "the leavings of hammers" for swords; "the whale road" for the sea; analogous to the Homeric epithet
metaphor a figure of speech in which two dissimilar objects are compared by identification or substitution of one for the other
onomatopoeia the use of words that sound expression or reinforcement; words that imitate sounds such as hiss, bowwow, hum, cling, clang
oxymoron a figure of speech including two apparently contradictory terms; a paradox

Platonism,

Neo-Platonism

Including Plato's Republic, Symposium, and references to an expansive divine archetype
rhyme scheme arrangement of rhymes within a verse commonly evident in the last syllable of each line
Sapphics

Derived from the Greek poet Sappho, a quatrain of

a Sapphic meter including eleven syllables in the first three verses( - u / - u / - u u / - u / - u ); five in the fourth ( - u u / - u ). Note Swinburne poem "Sapphics"

Simile a figure of speech comparing two unlike objects, usually through like or as 
Sonnet Notice the varying rhyme schemes of specific types: Miltonic, Petrarchan, Shakespearean, Spenserian
stream of consciousness the flow of inner experience; the flow of thoughts, feeling through no evident logical (Note William James' Principles of Psychology (1890))
syncopation simultaneous occurrence of two different accentual patterns within the same verse; one of meter
synecdoche a figure of speech noting a part that represents the entire object or concept (e.g., Pythagoras--a sound mind; Ancient Rise--Spiritual Revelation)
universality a quality of a literary work that notes no limit of a specific time and place
1.  What is the form ? (Identify the rhyme scheme)

2.  Are you able to determine the meter by the stressed and unstressed syllables?

3.  What personification is occurring in lines 1-2?

4.  Can you determine a specific time frame of Platonic Psalms?  What metaphorical and other figurative language offer a sense of universality?

5.  What dynamic influence does the Rosetta Stone convey to civilization and global harmony?  Include examples from the poem.

6.  What figures of speech identify earth?  the heavens?

7. What figure of speech indicates a tedious journey?

8. What line has a symbolic or metaphorical meaning?

Table of epiphany, illuminating discoveries

Illuminating Discoveries, Universal Harmony

The context in which the skills will be applied includes in-class and independent but corresponding initiated reading, research, analysis, and reference to literary works that are the foundation of educational literature; tools: books, articles, journals, theses, dissertations, presentations

Educational dramatic literature and educational creative/persuasive writing students will be recipients of instructional design that effects their recognition of figurative speech, literary terms, and rhetoric that evoke universal consciousness, community viability, and literacy as a tool

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Vedas;

Indian Epics:

Ramayana,

Mahabharata

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Five Classics

of Confucianism

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Arabic Averroës extinct works of Aristotle

Aristotle’s Rhetoric

Tragedy, Comedy,

Epic Verse; Sciences

Structuralism

 

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Theatre of Cruelty

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Socrates

Plato

Phaedrus*

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Goal: Appealing to Universal Consciousness, cause for Symposium-- compelling literacy, diplomacy

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Chain of Being

epiphany

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Nicomachean Ethics

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Understanding figurative and persuasive devices, language

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Shakespeare, Asimov

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Abu Nasr al-Farabi’s Arabic version of Aristotle’s Poetics

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Neo-Platonism

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Avant-Garde

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Psyche—Psychology; Collective Unconsciousness

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Melodramatic

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Mimesis (imitation); catharsis (cleansing)

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Analysis, synthesis, development, evaluation

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Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose;

Legend, figurative speech

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Runes; Rosetta Stone

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*Phaedrus, Socrates: Pursue probability through every possible element, function;

 truth itself may be an impossible goal

 as the prosecution and defense may attempt to suppress the facts:

 focus on probability

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