The hand that signed the paper felled a city

The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death. The mighty hand leads to a sloping shoulder, The finger joints are cramped with chalk; A goose's quill has put an end to murder That put an end to talk. The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, And famine grew, and locusts came; Great is the hand the holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name. The five kings count the dead but do not soften The crusted wound nor pat the brow; A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven; Hands have no tears to flow. ~Dylan Thomas This poem has many examples of Metonymy. Metonymy is a word or phrase that is used to describe part of a whole.  For example, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”In that excerpt from Shakespeare's, Julies Caesar, Mark Anthony doesn't want their ears, but he wants them to listen to him.        In the first stanza it talks about a person who murdered another king.  In the second stanza it talks about the murderer and describes how he looks and how he made good laws.  In the third and fourth stanzas it says how he has no pity.  He counted the people who died from the famine but didn't care about them at all.  In this poem it talks about a hand doing things, but behind the hand there is a person.

Metaphors and Similes

A long braid of hair - The braid was a rope of happiness. Metaphor

An old woman's hand - The woman's hands were a scarred and wrinkled story of her life. Metaphor

The smell of a coming rainstorm - The air smelled like a party waiting to happen with all of creation holding it's breath. Simile

A Corvette - The smooth and shining sides sparkled like the sun. Simile

A cat's tongue - The rough, pink tongue of a cat is like a built in comb. Simile

The sound of a chainsaw - The chainsaw was a lion purring. Metaphor

Fish eyes - Wells to nothingness. Metaphor

Fire - The red, orange and yellow looked like a forest at sunset undulating rapidly. Simile

Morning mist - The mist was a white blanket. Metaphor

Umbrellas in a crowd opening all at once - The umbrellas looked like sunflowers searching for the sun. Simile

Gloopily Gross

Bedraggaly horses,

snoozeling slowly around.

Shniky soups of goo

flopping gloopily.

Great greenish glips

glide glackily in.

Fleemish flies

flipping flakily.

The silid air

melackularily molid.

Moldy makish pies

stay stakish.

Giant Sequoia

The 

300 foot giant looms 

black against the night sky.  

4,000 years old, its needle 

like scales 1/6 of an inch long 

wave in the night breeze.  The trunk,

  grey-green at the base, deep green 

above, blend with the other branches.  

The little pink and yellow flowers 

like stars make way for the cones to 

come.  The mini football like cones

with diamond  scales cling tightly to the 

branches.  Soft, thick, red bark, 20 inches thick 

in the oldest trees 

climbs to 

the very top.

Flower Pics

Wrapping Up

  Grant could now walk around on his feet and he was very proud of the fact even after one of the nurses reminded him that a baby could do what he was doing.  Later that day Brent came in looking all dejected.  "What's the matter?" asked Grant.  The problem was moaned Brent that the fact that Richard didn't really murder his nephews was a fact known by EVERYONE!  Slowly with a sinking feeling Grant realized that the great discovery they had made wasn't really a great discovery after all.  "But," he asked, "why is it still stated as a fact that he killed his nephews?"  Suddenly Brent cheered up, "I will be the ambassador for Richard and everybody will have listen to me!" 

  

  At Last the face of Richard could be identified as the face of a king who wasn't a villain.  Really there was no way he could have committed the murder because he wasn't benefited by the murder and the boys death benefited Henry in every way.       

Clotho Spider

  The Clotho spider lives under rocks in a little dome it makes for itself.  This nest is made of silk which the spider forms into a dome to which it adds more and more layers over time.  It also covers its nest in empty shells of bugs that it head devoured as you can see in the picture.                                                                                               This spider is of the kind that stays alive after the birth of its brood.  Before the eggs are hatched she sits on them like a mother hen and keeps them warm.  When they are hatched she helps them leave the nest and when they are gone she makes another nest in which to live.  This nest she will use for her next brood because her last nest was taken up by the egg cases so there wouldn't be enough room for her and more eggs.