we both really enjoyed this poem and found it very entertaining.
In the third stanza it says “Nor is 5; there one today” which makes me think that this event had happened in the past and that the house remains alone and empty to our current day. I think this poem is about a lonely house that remains on a hill, forgotten and deserted. A house that could have once been a home.
The author is the one who is speaking in the poem and possibly one of his past homes. The author is speaking to the readers to inform them about the lonely sunken and forgotten house. The setting is the house on top of the hill.
In this poem there are 6 stanzas containing 3 verses in each except the last one containing 4 verses. The poem is closed and contains lots of repetition in each stanza and at certain times has an ABA rhyme scheme.
there was lots of tone and attitude throughout the poem “the house on the hill”. bleak and shrill, sunken, ruin and decay were some descriptive words the author used to make us experience and feel as if we were looking at the house on the hill. throughout the poem the tone is gloomy and depressing. I think that the meaning of the poem and words is to have respect for things even If they are broken or scary looking because they have a back story. the poem makes readers a little frightened and spooked about the house on the hill.
Bleak: Denotation is of an area of land. Connotation, lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements.
Shrill: Denotation is of a value of sound. Connotation, high-pitched and piercing.
This poem is serious, sad and deep. The poem doesn’t really change throughout the poem, the poem sounds deep and serious the whole time.
we liked the overall assignment and found that it helped our understanding in poetry.
By: Greta and Kennedy
Very well written and the description of the poem is fantastic
Very well written and the presentation was entertaining.