Thoughts on Peace

Picture 1: Responsibility and serious behavior of the students when listening to the teacher giving the task.

Picture 2: Looking at the teacher with respect and love when lining up.

Picture 3: Student and teacher emanate with love and body language the word “peace”

Teacher: Reneta Viktorova Valkova

Students: Dessy Kirilova Nikolova - class 6d, 12 years old;

Viktorya Oleg Vukadinova – class 4c, 10 years old;

Kristyan Ludmil Emilov – class 4c, 10 years old

Author: Dessy Kirilova Nikolova. She is 12 years old. She likes reading fiction books like “’The Vampire Diaries”. Her favourite days are in nature and with animals. Dessy spends a lot of time with her dog Abby.

Information about the poem:

Metric and style - broken verse, neighboring rhyme.

Linguistic effects – the asonans of the vowels “и, е, а”; the anaphor (repetition at the beginning) in the first verse as well as the rhetorical question there; the metaphor – “a sparklet of love”, the alliteration of the consonants “р,ж”.

Relation to the subject of study: The first verse of the poem describes times when heroes in war were injured and punished without guilt and our compassion to them. It is followed by the second verse of the poem, which is an appeal for peaceful days, friendly behavior and kindness to those in need and all the others.

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