Poetry Project

1. With age, Wisdom
Poet: Archibald MacLeish
By: Andres Pylypchuk

2. At twenty stooping
round about,

3. I thought the world a miserable place,

4. Truth a trick, faith in doubt,

5. Little beauty less grace.

6. Now at sixty what I see,

7. Although the world is
worse by far,

8. Stops my heart in ecstasy.

9. God, the wonders that there are!

10. Poetic devices
 Rhyme scheme: abab
 Line 1: assonance
 Line 4: Oxymoron
 Octave: eight lines of poetry that have a rhyme scheme
 Tone: Sad in the beginning to being happy at the end
 Interpretation: life can change from feeling really down to being
happy.
 Shift: from being down on himself to being happy at the end.
 Narrator spoken

11. Definition/ dentation
 Stooping: to lower ones moral standards so far so you can do
something reprehensible
 Ecstasy: an overwhelming you get of joy and excitement

12. Background info on poet
 Archibald MacLeish
 Born: May 7th 1892 born in Glencoe, Illinois
 Died April 20th 1982 (age 89)
 Occupations: Poet, Playwright, Librarian of congress,
essayist
 Nationality: American
 Took part in World War ll
 Known for drama/poetry

13. Awards
 1933: Pulitzer Prize of poetry
 1953: Pulitzer Prize of poetry, 1953: National book
award for poetry, Bollingen Prize of poetry
 1959: Pulitzer Prize of Drama
 1977: Presidential Medal of Freedom

14. Interpretation
 It was a message to say that life can change from
being sad to happy at some point in life to the reader

15. The end