Please help me, no bots The Dreams of the Dreamer
by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The dreams of the dreamer
Are life-drops that pass
The break in the heart
To the soul's hour-glass.
The songs of the singer
Are tones that repeat
The cry of the heart
'Till it ceases to beat.
what words and phrases stood out to you? what feelings did they evoke? what did you notice about Johnson's sentence structure? how did Johnson create a certain pace or rhythm in the text? how did Johnson word choice and syntax impact your understanding of the poem?how did her word choice and syntax convey her feelings? about dreams?

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief