IMMORTALITY TPCASTT Carolina Henriquez IMMORTALITY BY LISEL MUELLER

IMMORTALITY (TPCASTT) Carolina Henriquez

IMMORTALITY BY: LISEL MUELLER In Sleeping Beauty's castle fulfills its abiding mission the clock strikes one hundred years and dives into the sweet, red glaze. and the girl in the tower returns to the As a child I had a book world. with a picture of that scene. So do the servants in the kitchen, I was too young to notice who don't even rub their eyes. how fear persists, and how The cook's right hand, lifted the anger that causes fear persists, an exact century ago, that its trajectory can't be changed completes its downward arc or broken, only interrupted. to the kitchen boy's left ear; My attention was on the fly; the boy's tensed vocal cords that this slight body finally let go with its transparent wings the trapped, enduring whimper, and lifespan of one human day and the fly, arrested mid-plunge still craved its particular share above the strawberry pie, of sweetness, a century later.

TITLE The title of this poem is Immortality. I think this poem is going to be about somebody or something being an immortal.

PARAPHRASE This poem is about the strawberry pie. author speaking of an image she saw as a child in a Sleeping Beauty book. It mentions the characters in the picture resuming their tasks as if a century hadn’t passed. The attention of the author sort of centers in a fly that even after a century it still expresses the same hunger for the

CONNOTATION Hyperbole- “ the clock strikes 100 years “ Hyperbole- “the girl in the tower returns to the world” Onomatopoeia- “the boy’s vocal cords finally let go”

ATTITUDE The attitude in this poem is reflecting. The author kind of reflects on how she saw the picture as a child and what she sees in it now as an adult.

SHIFTS There are some shifts in the story , like the shift in the timely manner & the speakers age. . There's a shift in between a century ago & the moment time unfreezes. There's a shift in how the speaker at the beginning of the story is remembering how she saw the picture as a child & how she sees the picture now as an adult.

TITLE ( AGAIN ) I was kind of wrong about the title but in a way I was right. I think the immortality lies in the wanting which is something. . Just like the fly wanted that pie a century ago , then time froze. A century later his wanting for the pie remained the same. So basically his wanting never died even with the time frozen.

THEME I basically think that theme that the poet is trying to get across, is about things persisting, even though they are stopped, interrupted, and paused, once it all starts again, things continue.

COLLAGE “ the girl in the tower returns to the world” “the servants in the kitchen” “The cook's right hand, lifted an exact century ago, completes its downward arc” “I was too young to “ the clock strikes 100 years “. “ in sleeping beauty’s castle” “ as a child I had a book with a picture of that scene “ “the fly, arrested mid-plunge above the strawberry pie” “tensed vocal cords finally let go” “My attention was on the fly; that this slight body with its transparent wings”