Eight Oclock

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Eight Oclock

• E. Housman
• By Alex, Ryan, and Katie, Catelin

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Poem

• He stood, and heard the steeple
• Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town.
• One, two, three, four, to market-place and people
• It tossed them down.
• Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour,
• He stood and counted them and cursed his luck
• And then the clock collected in the tower
• Its strength, and struck.

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Synopsis

• The unknown narrator is witnessing the mans
  death. And he describes it as
• A man stands listening to the church bell ring
  every 15mins. And the people are gathering to
  watch the man. While the clock keeps tossing
  down the time.
• The man starts counting his minutes life left and
  then cursed his luck. Then the clock collects its
  strength and the clock struck. Which means its
  time for the man to die.

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Analysis

• The speaker is an unknown narrator. And speaking
  about a man who is about to die.
• Setting In England somewhere, in the morning. It
  is in a town.
• The clock collecting its strength is a
  personification.
• Imagery paints the picture from the point of
  view as if you were watching the event.

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Vocab

• Steeple- church tower.
• Nighing- near/ nearing

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Themes

• Sprinkle the quarter on the morning town.- that
  the steeple is ringing every 15 mins. (quarter
  hour) And the condemned man is hearing his time
  run out.
• collected in the tower its strength and
  struck- A metaphor for the man collects his
  strength and when the clock strikes he is hung.
• Theme Death comes to us all its just a matter
  of time.

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Enjambed Rhyme

• Uses first sound of next line to make a rhyming
  unit.
• Ex. Steeple/ people, town/down, Hour/tower, and
  luck/struck.

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A.E Housman

• Alfred was born in 1859-1936
• Attended Bromsgrove School.
• He only 2 friends in college his roomates.
• Best known for A Shropshire Lad.

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QUIZZ!!!

• How many friends did A.E Houseman have?
• 2
• Where is the setting?
• England somewhere
• What does Nighing mean?
• Nearing
• What type of Rhyme is the poem?
• Enjambed Rhyme
• When does the church bell ring?
• 15 mins
• What is personified in the poem?
• The clock

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THE END