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need help 2 analize "arithmetic" by carl sandburg
Posted by: tamto (---.adsl-line.rad.net.id)
Date: November 07, 2021 10:45PM
could you please help me with this poem... please!!!
I could find this poem anywhere, so that i could analize it... if you can find the poem and analize it for me I will be grateful... thanks
I could find this poem anywhere, so that i could analize it... if you can find the poem and analize it for me I will be grateful... thanks
Re: need help 2 analize "arithmetic" by carl sandburg
Posted by: lg (---.ca.charter.com)
Date: November 07, 2021 10:54PM
Arithmetic
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your
head.
Arithmetic tell you how many you lose or win if you know how
many you had before you lost or won.
Arithmetic is seven eleven all good children go to heaven -- or five
six bundle of sticks.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand
to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and
you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the
answer is wrong and you have to start all over and try again
and see how it comes out this time.
If you take a number and double it and double it again and then
double it a few more times, the number gets bigger and bigger
and goes higher and higher and only arithmetic can tell you
what the number is when you decide to quit doubling.
Arithmetic is where you have to multiply -- and you carry the
multiplication table in your head and hope you won't lose it.
If you have two animal crackers, one good and one bad, and you
eat one and a striped zebra with streaks all over him eats the
other, how many animal crackers will you have if somebody
offers you five six seven and you say No no no and you say
Nay nay nay and you say Nix nix nix?
If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she
gives you two fried eggs and you eat both of them, who is
better in arithmetic, you or your mother?
Carl Sandburg
Analyze it: It's a poem for children, have fun with it.
Les
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your
head.
Arithmetic tell you how many you lose or win if you know how
many you had before you lost or won.
Arithmetic is seven eleven all good children go to heaven -- or five
six bundle of sticks.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand
to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and
you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the
answer is wrong and you have to start all over and try again
and see how it comes out this time.
If you take a number and double it and double it again and then
double it a few more times, the number gets bigger and bigger
and goes higher and higher and only arithmetic can tell you
what the number is when you decide to quit doubling.
Arithmetic is where you have to multiply -- and you carry the
multiplication table in your head and hope you won't lose it.
If you have two animal crackers, one good and one bad, and you
eat one and a striped zebra with streaks all over him eats the
other, how many animal crackers will you have if somebody
offers you five six seven and you say No no no and you say
Nay nay nay and you say Nix nix nix?
If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she
gives you two fried eggs and you eat both of them, who is
better in arithmetic, you or your mother?
Carl Sandburg
Analyze it: It's a poem for children, have fun with it.
Les
Re: need help 2 analize "arithmetic" by carl sandburg
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.denver-01rh15-16rt.co.dial-access.att.net)
Date: November 08, 2021 11:53AM
Yeah, not much to analyze in it. Something like a nursery rhyme, but without either the rhyme or the meter. Couple of metaphors, I guess - pigeons that fly in and out of your head, for example. Other examples of typical 'how many do you have left' math questions, and mnemonic 'one, two, buckle your shoe' aids. Is the last line a serious question, or simply more nonsense to go with the ones above?
Re: need help 2 analize "arithmetic" by carl sandburg
Posted by: sherri (---.glst3401.nj.comcast.net)
Date: November 21, 2021 09:24PM
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