AP Success - AP English Literature Poetry Analysis: "Storm Warnings"
Question 1
In Adrienne Rich's poem "Storm Warnings," the speaker reflects on the approach of a storm and its broader implications.
Write an essay in which you explain how the organization of the poem and the use of concrete details reveal both its literal and its metaphorical meanings. In your discussion, show how both of these meanings relate to the title.
In your response you should do the following: • Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation. • Select and use evidence from both poems to support your line of reasoning. • Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning. • Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument
Storm Warnings by Adrienne Rich
The glass has been falling all the afternoon, And knowing better than the instrument What winds are walking overhead, what zone Of gray unrest is moving across the land, I leave the book on a pillowed chair And walk from window to closed window, watching Boughs strain against the sky
And think again, as often when the air ‘Moves inward toward a silent core of waiting, How with a single purpose time has traveled By secret currents of the undiscerned ‘Into this polar realm. Weather abroad And weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
Between foreseeing and averting change Lies all the mastery of elements Which clocks and weatherglasses cannot alter. Time in the hand is not control of time, Nor shattered fragments of an instrument A proof against the wind; the wind will rise, We can only close the shutters.
I draw the curtains as the sky goes black And set a match to candles sheathed in glass Against the keyhole draught, the insistent whine Of weather through the unsealed aperture. This is our sole defense against the season; These are the things that we have learned to do Who live in troubled regions.
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