Animal Farm Homework 1
Task: Turn a part of your novel or Animal Farm into a comic/script/poem.
This poem is from chapter 1 of Animal Farm, where old Major is giving a speech about rebelling against the humans.
Poem: Rebellion against Humans!
‘Fellow comrades we must come together
Unless you want the human race to rule forever
Is our purpose just to work and eat a small amount of food?
And yet that puts us in a bad mood’
‘Why should we let these pity beings use us as slaves
And they eat and eat for the rest of their days
When we become tired and old
They will either slaughter us or we will be sold’
‘We are, we are, we are the animals of Animal Farm
Let us rebel without alarm
We are, we are, we are the animals of Animal Farm
And we will rule the humans and the entire farm!’
September 7th, 2013 at 8:18 pm
Gabriel,
I’m impressed that you did your work so swiftly, but I’m even more impressed with the quality of your work. It is clear that you have understood the content of the chapter. I firmly believe that repetition is poetry glue – this has been done very effectively in your last stanza.
Target: next time, set yourself the challenge of not using rhyming couplets; this will really test your ability to create rhythm.
September 9th, 2013 at 6:53 pm
Thank you sir and I will try not to rhyme too much!