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Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.Chapter 12Star StuffCopyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.PoetryPoetry is difficult to read. And it should be. The words express more than just their meaning.Often they give you a feeling of something larger behind the idea. Or the words arevague and you must fill in the meaning with your own experience. The words maychallenge your experience too - poetry can be revolutionary.Most people have no time for poetry because it is convoluted. But I love poetry, trying tofigure out the meanings. I often have to recite the poems outloud to read them. They arelike reading a mystery book. There is something hidden in the words. Can you find it?Finally, I always read poetry with a dictionary at my side. There are often words that areobscure or used in a different sense.I have chosen these poems to reflect the poet’s idea of the night sky, through the observationof the stars. To me, there is one single idea linking all these poems. Maybe you willagree with me.Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.Stars by Robert FrostHow countlessly they congregateO'er our tumultuous snow,Which flows in shapes as tall as treesWhen wintry winds do blow!--As if with keenness for our fate,Our faltering few steps onTo white rest, and a place of restInvisible at dawn,--And yet with neither love nor hate,Those stars like some snow-whiteMinerva's snow-white marble eyesWithout the gift of sight.Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.Choose Something Like a Star -- Robert FrostO Star (the fairest one in sight),We grant your loftiness the rightTo some obscurity of cloud --It will not do to say of night,Since dark is what brings out your light.Some mystery becomes the proud.But to be wholly taciturnIn your reserve is not allowed.Say something to us we can learnBy heart and when alone repeat.Say something! And it says "I burn."But say with what degree of heat.Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.Use language we can comprehend.Tell us what elements you blend.It gives us strangely little aid,But does tell something in the end.And steadfast as Keats' Eremite,Not even stooping from its sphere,It asks a little of us here.It asks of us a certain height,So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may choose something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid.Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.To the Evening Star by William BlakeThou fair-haired angel of the evening,Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, lightThy bright torch of love; thy radiant crownPut on, and smile upon our evening bed!Smile on our loves, and while thou drawest theBlue curtains of the sky, scatter thy silver dewOn every flower that shuts its sweet eyesIn timely sleep. Let thy west wing sleep onThe lake; speak silence with thy glimmering eyes,And wash the dusk with silver. Soon, full soon,Dost thou withdraw; then the wolf rages wide,And the lion glares through the dun forest.The fleeces of our flocks are covered withThy sacred dew; protect with them with thine influence.Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck byWilliam ShakespeareNot from the stars do I my judgement pluck,And yet methinks I have astronomy—But not to tell of good or evil luck,Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,'Pointing to each his thunder, rain, and wind,Or say with princes if it shall go wellBy oft predict that I in heaven find.But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,And, constant stars, in them I read such artAs truth and beauty shall together thriveIf from thy self to store thou wouldst convert;Or else of thee this I prognosticate:Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.His Heart was darker than the starless night byEmily DickinsonHis Heart was darker than the starless nightFor that there is a mornBut in this black ReceptacleCan be no Bode of DawnCopyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.Undue Significance a starving man attaches byEmily DickinsonUndue Significance a starving man attachesTo Food --Far off -- He sighs -- and therefore -- Hopeless --And therefore -- Good --Partaken -- it relieves -- indeed --But proves usThat Spices flyIn the Receipt -- It was the Distance --Was Savory --Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.I Can Write the Saddest Poem Tonight - PabloNerudaI can write the saddest poem tonight I can say, the night is full of stars And the stars areblinking far away, in the darkness Wind of the night is swinging in the sky with songs. Ican write the saddest poem tonight There was a time I loved her, and she loved me too. Iembraced her for countless nights like this one How many times did I kiss her under theendless sky There was a time she loved me, and I loved her too But how could I not lovethose big still eyes I can write the saddest poem tonight Thinking of her absence, andburning out for losing her Feeling the night, even more boundless without her With apoem falling on my heart, like dew falling on the grassWhat can I do, if my love couldn't keep her. The night is full of stars, but she is not with meThat's all. Somebody is singing somewhere far away. My heart can't stand losing her soeasily My eyes look for her, wanting her closer My heart lo oks for her, but she is notwith me I don't love any more, but I used to love so much My voice looks for the wind,just to reach her She will be darling to others, like before I kissed her With that voice,that bright skin and those eternal looks I don't love any more, but I may love again Whydoes it take so long to forget, although love lasts so short Because I embraced her atnights like this My heart can't stand losing her so easily Maybe this is the last pain shewill ever give me Maybe this is the last poem I will ever write for herCopyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.Discussion - Star StuffAre there commonemotions and feelingsthat all humanityshares when we lookto the stars?Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.Life Track After Main Sequence• Observations of starclusters show that astar becomes larger,redder, and moreluminous after itstime on the mainsequence is over.Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.Broken Thermostat• As the core contracts,H begins fusing to Hein a shell around thecore.• Luminosity increasesbecause the corethermostat isbroken—the increasingfusion rate in the shelldoes not stop the corefrom contracting.Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education,


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