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    The poem describes the dawn awakening. It uses personification to describe the dawn as having a "torch of gold" that is "borne" or carried higher over the gray and forlorn sky, igniting the East with a "flash of smoldering flame and fire." It suggests the dawn brings with it a "dawn of a thousand dreams and thrills" and "music singing in the hills" as a "paean of eternal spring" voices the new awakening. The dawn awakens "whispers of pent-up harmonies" along with "the mingled fragrance of the trees" and "faint snatches of half-forgotten song." The light of the new

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    The poem describes the dawn awakening. It uses personification to describe the dawn as having a "torch of gold" that is "borne" or carried higher over the gray and forlorn sky, igniting the East with a "flash of smoldering flame and fire." It suggests the dawn brings with it a "dawn of a thousand dreams and thrills" and "music singing in the hills" as a "paean of eternal spring" voices the new awakening. The dawn awakens "whispers of pent-up harmonies" along with "the mingled fragrance of the trees" and "faint snatches of half-forgotten song." The light of the new

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    The poem describes the dawn awakening. It uses personification to describe the dawn as having a "torch of gold" that is "borne" or carried higher over the gray and forlorn sky, igniting the East with a "flash of smoldering flame and fire." It suggests the dawn brings with it a "dawn of a thousand dreams and thrills" and "music singing in the hills" as a "paean of eternal spring" voices the new awakening. The dawn awakens "whispers of pent-up harmonies" along with "the mingled fragrance of the trees" and "faint snatches of half-forgotten song." The light of the new

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    Figurative Language Poem 4


    The Dawns Awake
    By Otto Leland Bohanan

    The Dawn's awake!


    A flash of smoldering flame and fire
    Ignites the East. Then, higher, higher,
    O'er all the sky so gray, forlorn1,
    The torch of gold is borne.

    The Dawn's awake!


    The dawn of a thousand dreams and thrills.
    And music singing in the hills
    A paean2 of eternal spring
    Voices the new awakening.

    The Dawn's awake!


    Whispers of pent-up harmonies,
    With the mingled fragrance of the trees;
    Faint snatches of half-forgotten song--
    Fathers! torn and numb,--
    1. Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely:
    The boon of light we craved, awaited long, 2. A song of praise or triumph.
    Has come, has come!

    Review Questions
    Directions: Respond to these questions to the best of your ability. Answer the questions completely. If
    you need more space, use the back or a separate sheet.

    1. Identify two examples of personification: explain what is being personified & how in each example.

    2. Identify an example of hyperbole: explain how it is exaggerated.

    3. Identify an example of metaphor: explain which two things are being compared.

    4. Find three examples of imagery in the poem that access three different senses. Explain which senses
    are called on by the speaker for each example.

    5. Contrast the tone of this line Fathers! torn and numb,-- with the tone of the rest of the poem. How
    is this line different and why do you think that it is?

    6. This poem was written by an African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance. Knowing this,
    how might one interpret the Dawn beyond its literal meaning? What might the Dawn represent?

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