Month: June 2018

Poetry Assignment

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Once My Closest Friend

Be it because you care I doubt with force

Still after you have changed which is my own

My inner thoughts escaped now off of course

You turned my days of sun quick into rain

It crashes down on hair upon my head

I lose my mind and think in total pain

Untrusting trusted wishing I was dead

But still I’m pulled to play in your cruel game

To hope this time you may have grown and changed

Absurd belief in you that sparks a flame

Of hope that you are some how not deranged

Again I have been bit by your flawed way

As well the snake that never I can slay

 

The Poem “Once My Closest Friend” by Cam Foster is a Sonnet The appears to be written about a friend he had. This poem is about the betrayal of a friend. They were toxic and tried to make up for it but their habits kept up and they betrayed him again.

 

This poem is a closed poem. It is in sonnet form. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. It also has a rhythm of iambic pentameter all the way through which must have been a difficult task. Some figurative language in this poem is symbolism for their good days being sunny and their bad days being rainy. They use the snake to symbolise betrayal. An understatement is when they say “play in your cruel game” he isnt actually talking about a game. He is talking about trying to be your friend is like playing a game.

 

The tone of this poem is a very bitter one about being betrayed by someone who was once close. This has a couple different examples of symbolism. There is the snake which is a symbol of betrayal. There is also the sparking flame which is to symbolise hope that they have changed. The theme of the poem is that someone that he was close to betrayed him and it shows he was never the same when he says “My inner thoughts escaped now off of course” . This person has ruined their trust in people it shows this when it says “untrusting trusted” This is saying that he is questioning people he used to trust.

 

Canada Joining World War 2

1. Canada’s decision this world war was different than the first one because in the first one we were automatically at war as soon as Britain declared war. This time Canada is an autonomous country and made the decision by itself. Although we still felt connected to Britain it was parliaments decision and not Britain.

2.The BCATP is what king hoped to be Canada’s only contribution to the war. He wanted to avoid conscription so he wanted to send supplies and food. It is the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. This was to train pilots to go to the war. C.D. Howe’s total war economy is when Howe was given control to use whatever necessary to “gear up the economy”. He did this by telling factories what to produce, how to produce it.

3.Canada’s attitude going into the war is much less confident than the first war. They don’t believe they have enough troops to defend Canada. This was shown in some political cartoons. In political cartoons in world war one showed that Canada was very confident about the war. In world war two they are more hoping they can scare Hitler off. They aren’t as confident.