Term 2 Home Learning

Poem: A Birthday Poem by Ted Kooser
Just past dawn, the sun stands
with its heavy red head
in a black stanchion of trees,
waiting for someone to come
with his bucket
for the foamy white light,
and then a long day in the pasture.
I too spend my days grazing,
feasting on every green moment
till darkness calls,
and with the others
I walk away into the night,
swinging the little tin bell
of my name.


1. How is figurative language used in the poem? Give the specific word(s), explain what type of figurative language it is and why the poet chose to use this figurative language.

The words " stands, stanchion and light" are hyperboly because the sun can't really stand and the trees are not really stanchion because they are not used as something to support another and the light stands for the milk!

The author used figurative language in this poet so as to make the object more lively... By adding that the sun stands, it might mean that the sun is stand high up in the sky. By saying stanchion of trees, he is saying that the trees are straight and strong, all standing in a role. And the light, which is suppose to be bright is the milk. Because of thw sun's reflection, the milk seems to be as bright as light.

2. I like this poet because it expresses in a different way of saying that it is the author's birthday and it was a day in which she was not milked and wasd grazing on the grass the whole day, waiting for the farmer to come but to no avail, she can't see him and was wondering why and when sun sets, she walked of with the others to their barn to rest, swinging the bell with her name on it... It is very well done in which it expressed how the cow felt on its birthday.