Incident in a Rose Garden

Responding to Reading

First Impressions of "Incident in a Rose Garden"


1- The poem of "Annabel lee" was talking about the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. The narrator was in love with her and he retains his love for her even after her death. Actually, the poem of "Incident in a Rose garden" has another feeling and impressions for me. This poem is talking about the death that it is unaccepted. It let me think about other ideas and to know that life is like the stage; with one entire and one exit. We have to live happy without any thing makes us sad, because you don’t know when death is coming.


Second Thoughts on "Incident in a Rose Garden"

2- The misunderstanding in the poem was when the boss was thinking that death will came to the old man. The gardener also thought that death will come to him, because he was old and it was strange to come for the young boss. The young boss didn’t even think 1% that death is coming for him, while he was talking with him.

I think that the author put this misunderstanding to let the reader think about it. To get shocked and surprised when they know that death came for the young master.

3- The Gardner was sure that the death will come to him after he saw him in the garden. He didn’t know that he could ask him, because he was afraid from death.

The master didn’t think about death and he was sure that it will come to the old man. The young master has other aims in his mind and he couldn’t think about death.

4- These techniques made the poem more interesting for me. I imagined the poem was really happened. The end was so nice, because the reader also didn't know that the death came to the master at the end.

Comparing the Poems

5- The death image in "Annabel lee" was the dead woman and how the narrator cares about her. The death image in the other poem was the scary man with scythe and skull head.

6- I liked the Rose garden poem, because the death ideas were so interesting more than that poem. The idea that death is unaccepted was so nice especially hoe the author wrote it in the poem.

Broader Connections
7- Some people got shocked and they may stop talking or moving for ever and some of them cry so much and they wear black clothes. Some people don’t care so much and they look for the happy life. These reactions are different from person to person, because it stands for the person him or her self. Also it stands for the dead person if he or she is a wife, husband, mother, father and so on. Death is coming for all people, children, young and old people. Some people die, because of their sick body or they are bad people. Sure there are more reasons for death.
Literary concepts: Rhyme and Rhythm- Personification

The first stanza
It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of ANNABEL LEE;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

The last stanza
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyesOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the sideOf my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,In the sepulchre there by the sea,In her tomb by the sounding sea.

I think that the poem has the rhyme with same sound and also it has a musical rhythm. The six stanzas have also the rhyme and the regular musical rhythm.