Monday, May 3, 2010

The Secret Heart

The Secret Heart by, Robert Coffin uses symbols to show feelings and reactions. Many of our bloggers have talked about poems they enjoyed and symbols that helped us communicate messages. The Ode poem was one poem in which we used symbols to represent our topic.

What symbols do you see being used in The Secret Heart and what do they show the readers?

What symbols can we find in our world today to help us communciate?


http://www.literacyrules.com/Weekly_Poem/thesecretheart.htm

27 comments:

  1. In the poem you can find symbols of love and careness because the father checks on his son and cares that he is resting. That shows he cares and loves him.

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  2. Recently the peace sign has become a growing fad but it really symbolizes unity

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  3. they use the symbol of the heart...I think...who agrees??

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  4. there are many symbols such as
    "A heart that gave out such a glow"
    The glow might have ment the love the father gave to the son.

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  5. One symbol that was used was the matchstick's fire in the shape of a heart to symbolize the love the father has towards the son

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  6. The strong glow he is recieveing from his father and the safety he provides himself by actually being there.

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  7. One symbol i see is the flame that the man is holding in the shape of a heart to look at his son. It symbolizes the the man's love for his son

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  8. the symbolism in the secret heart poem are quite strong and interesting he uses fir ein his hands to symbolize his love for his son if you read this poem you would see that the poem shows strong insight with him and his son's relationship.

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  9. one symbol that i see is when he said the heart gave out such a glow he meant stronge love

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  10. finally someone who agrees with me

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  11. Overall, the poem was excellent and I really enjoyed reading it. To me, the ending seemed depressing.
    A symbol in the poem is the heart itself, in which it symbolizes the father's love.
    In today's world, love is important to help us live on and so is friendship. Money is not everything as people can still live an unjoyful life even with it. Loce helps us live on.

    -Ahmed Khan aka ak
    LOL ;)

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  12. In daily life , we use many symbols in order to represent something or react to something.As an example, we make a heart by curving our hands, in order to show love for something.Even waving is a sign of symbolism, because a wave of the hand either means saying goodbye or hello.

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  13. One symbol I see is "He wore, it seemed to his small son,
    A bare heart on his hidden one,"

    They symbolize the mans love for the son .

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  14. I notice that the author uses a simile when he says " With his great hands full of fire " , I believe it shows that the author is expressing love and care for his son. :D
    In todays word we can communicate through poetry, writing, art, singing, ect. to express our feelings towards one another.

    -MEJA;* ♥

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  15. the strong glow that the match makes represents the fathers love for his son, which means that boys father loves him alot.

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  16. Basically,, this poem symbolizes the love the father has for his son. They use alot of 'show not tell' to describe what is happening in the store. Doing so,, they made the whole poem a whole lot more vivid and intresting. For example;
    "One instant, it lit all about,
    And then the secret heart went out.

    But it shone long enough for one
    To know that hands held up the sun."

    I believe this symbolizes that even though his father had pasted away; His father's love was so deep and strong that it bond to last a life time for that young little boy. But of course,, People have different opinions and perspective on these specific lines. What do YOU think it meant??. =].

    ..VivC♥..

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  17. i aqree with Melii riqht now, peace siqns are a fad, and it does symbolize unity=] i also aqree with Bobby!!.

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  18. The candle light symbolizes the fathers love for his son.
    Meli-> I <3 your symbolism connection!!!
    Co-Co-> Awsome postt hunn!
    *Patti*

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  19. The symbol being used in The Secret Heart is love through your heart, which is what the father tried showing through this story. It also showed readers how the father truly felt about his son, that he cared for him. Symbols we can find today can be seen in signs like ☮ or ♥ which stand for peace and love.

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  20. -He used symbols like how "the boy awakened to a light". This showed that the boy that night saw the love his father had for him and "a heart that gave out such a glow" this means that he saw how much his father loved which was the glow.

    - Today we see things like air pollution, water pollution. These are things symbolizing the future, it means that we should take care of our planet and take good care of i.

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  22. well i see alot of symbolism and i could undestand whyy beacause a fqather might use symbols to express his love for his son.!!!!

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  23. we ususally are able to find the peace sign and a heart which symbolizes peace and love to me.

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  24. I think the herat symbol is being used because in the story it shows the luv the father has for his son and i think when people think of love they think of hearts and stars so when i read the story hearts snd stars are the first symbols that come to my mind.

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  25. Daredevil Superhero symbol because it about good pice to make them good it well save use to the next day

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