Level 1: Poet ArtisanReward: 2500XP Players: 1Directions:1. Represent the theme and the way it is developed through an image of a tree. Example:
Poem Used: Uncle Edward's Affliction Uncle Edward was colour-blind; We grew accustomed to the fact. When he asked someone to hand him The green book from the window-seat And we observed its bright red cover Either apathy or tact Stifled comment. We passed it over. Much later, I began to wonder What a curious world he wandered in, Down streets where pea-green pillar boxes Grinned at a fire-engine as green; How Uncle Edward's sky at dawn And sunset flooded marshy green. Did he ken John Peel with his coat so green And Robin Hood in Lincoln red? On country walks avoid being stung By nettles hot as a witch's tongue? What meals he savoured with his eyes: Green strawberries and fresh red peas, Green beef and greener burgundy. All unscientific, so it seems: His world was not at all like that, So those who claim to know have said. Yet, I believe, in war-smashed France He must have crawled from neutral mud To lie in pastures dark and red And seen, appalled, on every bladeThe rain of innocent green blood.Vernon Scannell |
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