HARTLAND

BY: JOE BLADES

By Clayton & Darren

THEMATIC STATEMENT

eagle circling abovelongest covered bridgeyellow tour bus

          Yankees crossing on foot          through clapboard darkness          overrun tourist bureau

                    parents and I                    wait on eastern shore                    cameras in hand

                              union jack  Canadian                              new Brunswick flags limp                              windless hot air

                                        honor in the grass                                        wing feather from raptor                                        circling overhead

This poem is about a family trip to Hartland, Newfoundland to go see the largest covered bridge in the world . with several stops in between to see a battle site and to take photos of the Canadian flag

eagle circling abovelongest covered bridgeyellow tour bus

          Yankees crossing on foot          through clapboard darkness          overrun tourist bureau

                    parents and I                    wait on eastern shore                    cameras in hand

                              union jack  Canadian                              new Brunswick flags limp                              windless hot air

                                        honor in the grass                                        wing feather from raptor                                        circling overhead

He’s describing the town of Hartland

He's Describing what all the American tourists are doing

Him and the rest of his family are trying to take a good picture of the bridge

Looking at the Canadian flag as it waves in the air

He's looking at the all the graves from the soldiers that fought there ears ago while birds fly over head

Line by line translation

POETIC DEVISES

eagle circling abovelongest covered bridgeyellow tour bus

          Yankees crossing on foot          through clapboard darkness          overrun tourist bureau

                    parents and I                    wait on eastern shore                    cameras in hand

                              union jack  Canadian                              new Brunswick flags limp                              windless hot air

                                        honor in the grass                                        wing feather from raptor                                        circling overhead

This is imagery because the poet is creating an concrete image

This is a metaphor because its comparing honor and grass which are two unlike thing s

This is a metaphor describing the soldier moving form light into darkness

The poet is using personification to describe how lifeless the new Brunswick flag is

The poet is using an oxymoron to describe the tension before the battle

THE END