“Barbara Frietchie”

By John Greenleaf Whittier

Setting

–Set during The Civil War

–1861-1865

Host

• Army

Confederate Troops

–Led by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson

–Rebel/

–Confederate troops march into Fredericktown, Maryland

Border State- Maryland

Stonewall Jackson

Robert E. Lee

Rebel/ Confederate FlagSouthern Flag.

Union Flag (crimson bars)

The Civil War 1861-1865

End Slavery

Overseer/ patrolmen

Allusion- indirect reference

Town of Frederick

Couplet

• Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

• Ex:

• Up from the meadows rich with corn,

• Clear in the cool September morn

–Up from the meadows

– rich with corn,

–Clear in the cool

–September morn.

– Roses are red (A)– Violets are blue (B)– Sugar is sweet (C)

And so are you (B)

Barbara Frietchie

–Fourscore and ten

–How old was she?

Staff- pole

Tread- step

Rent- (verb) tore

Stirred (V) woke up

Host- army

Paraphrase vs. Summary

• The church spires of Frederick rise up from the cornfields, clear in the September morning. The spires are surrounded by the green hills of Maryland.