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Taylor Woolstenhulme English 175 11 November, 2017 A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky By Lewis Carroll The poem “A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky” is about a man who sits in a boat on a summers day and tells stories to three children. Some background on Lewis Carroll is that his actual name was Charles Ludwig Dodgeson who was born in 1832 and died in 1898. He is very widely known for writing the very popular novel “Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland” underneath the pen name Lewis Carroll. The situation of this story is that Carroll, who is the main character in this poem, is in a boat on a warm July evening. With him he has 3 children who Carroll is telling stories to, but summer leaves and the children leave with it. This brings a kind of melancholy because he has no one to tell his stories to. This is when he brings up Alice, which symbolises the stories that he tells to the children. In stanza 4 Carroll says, “Still she haunts me, phantomwise Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes” I, as the reader, see this as if the memory of telling these stories haunts him, that he thinks about it all the time, and “Never seen by waking eyes” means that he dreams about it. There is a switch in tone in stanza 3, because it goes from being so happy with being with the children to so sad having to have them leave when fall comes. But in stanza 5 he brings hope of how the children have left but did not forget him and still want to hear his stories. In the final stanza Carroll says “Life, what is it but a dream?” I believe that by this he is saying that what is life if you can't imagine things (tell stories). This poem has a very distinct rhyme scheme and poem structure. It

has seven stanzas of three lines that has four feet, for the most part, and is in Iambic Tetrimeter. The rhyme scheme for this poem goes AAA BBB AAA CCC BBB AAA DDD....