Children Poetry Presentation

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Children Poetry Presentation

• 00121326 Carina Tsai
• 00121343 Frannie Shih

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EVERYONE SANGSIEGFRIED SASSOON

• Everyone suddenly burst out singing
• And I was filled with such delight
• As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
• Winging wildly across the white
• Orchards and dark-green fields on---on---and out
  
• of sight.
• Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted
• And beauty came like the setting sun
• My heart was shaken with tears and horror
• Drifted away ... O, but Everyone
• Was a bird and the song was wordless the
  singing
• will never be done.

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• It was written in April of 1919, and marked the
  end of WWI
• "Everyone Sang" is how the writer imagined the
  soldier's celebrated when they heard the news
  that the war was finally over.
• The narrator I of this poem appears to be a
  soldier.
• The soldiers are happy that the war has ended,
  but they are sad that not all of them made it to
  the end alive.

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THINK ABOUT THEM

• 1. Who is 'Everyone'?
• 2. Where are they?
• 3. Why are they 'suddenly' singing?
• 4. What has happened?
• 5. Why will the singing 'never be done'?
• 6.What is the 'beauty' referred to?
• 7.What might the 'horror' be?

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The Answer to the Questions

• "Everyone" refers to all of the soldiers on the
  battle field (friend and foe) ,and they are
  singing and celebrating the end of the war.
  (Q1,2,3,4)
• The singing will never be done, because they
  made it through the war alive, and they are
  singing the song of life and peace. (Q5)
• The 'setting sun' refers to death. And the beauty
  describes a sublime death. (Q6)
• The horror refers to the danger of losing their
  lives on the battle field. (Q7)

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Why We like this poem

• When we first read the poem, we did not know the
  true meaning of it, but we could feel the joy and
  imagined that we were singing birds in the sky.
• Reading the poem, we feel happy as the narrator,
  and many beautiful scenes suddenly exists in our
  mind.
• We feel like the caged birds soon freed to fly
  in the sky, and we could oversee the wild fields.
• We could imagine this joyful scene --- every
  soldier even if they are friends and foes, they
  are all singing and celebrating the end of war.
• We could also feel a little sad, because not
  everyone could be alive after the war--- the
  narrator's heart was shaken with tears.

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WORKS CITED

• One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children
• Lesson on 'Everyone Sang' by Siegfried Sassoon -
  Sue Dymoke - Poetry Archive
• http//www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singleP
  lan.do?planId7747
• Analysis of Siegfried Sassoon's Poem Everyone
  Sang - Yahoo! Voices
• http//voices.yahoo.com/analysis-siegfried-sassoon
  s-poem-everyone-sang-11741246.html