In 1881 A nursery ryhme called Ring Around The Rosie was published in Kate Greenway's Mother Goose. 33 years later Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated. Ring around the rosie has a very erie and mysterious relation to his death. This is the entire nursery rhyme: "Ring around the rosie, pocketful of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down.".The term ring around the rosie represnts a ring of people gathering around a rose on a grave. Pocketfuls of posies were layed on his grave for posies are usually put on graves.Since Archduke Ferdinand's assasination was arguably one of the main causes of World War I, the ashes represent ashes from bombs and smoke from fallen airplanes. And as for the phrase "we all fall down" that shows not only the death of soilders but the exhaustion of the citizens,countries, and governments.
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Shaun: I liked how you chose a very important topic, because that pretty much triggered the whole war.
ReplyDeleteKimie: I liked how you chose ring around the rosie for a poem instead of going on google and getting random poems.
Patric: I liked that you did the format really great and chose a great poem to describe something as great as Arch Duke Ferdinands deaths.