Summary Of The Poem Ancient Egypt

Alison Llewellyn‘s poem “Ancient Egypt” is an informative poem about Egypt and how Egyptians lived in the past. The poem provides much information about Egypt that was unknown. It was a source of information in the past. Along time ago people weren 't familiar on the ways Egyptians lived in the past. In many ways the ancient Egypt poem explain how the lives of Egyptians were in the past. Their lives and all there rituals and beliefs were unknown until the poem was created to inform us of the ways the ancient Egyptians lived their past. Llewellyn’s poem also tells us about ancient Egypt and its civilization, the Nile River, the fertile soil, crops, and its triggered pharaonic. Also tells us about the rich pharaohs and their ability to …show more content…
He says, “The ancient Egyptians lived along the Nile/ and when the waters flooded it made them smile/ the soil became ferrite and so the crops grew/ A healthy crop was Oh, such a lovely view” (lines 1-4). The Nile considered the most important source of growth for Egypt and the fertility of its soil and continuation of living and improves the land and agricultural crops. Whereas it is said from the Nile River to Egypt, gift of the Nile, so this saying expresses the truth because the Nile was vital to the Ancient Egyptians, just as it is to Egyptians today. For most of the length the Nile village is just a narrow strip of land a few kilometers wide. Only in the north does the land open out into the fan shapes of the Nile Delta. This provides extra land for farming as it is fertile farmland. So the Nile allowed farmers in Ancient Egypt to grow crops. This happened in Ancient Egypt and it still happened in Egypt today and some of the crops much of this traditional life can still be seen in Egypt today. Every year the Nile flooded during this time farmers would mend tools or make new ones people would go fishing for food this also helped other …show more content…
She says “they believed in an afterlife/and so when they died /the rich Egyptians were mummified” (lines7-8). Whereas the age of the pharaohs and mummification. Mummification is the process in which the ancient Egyptians excelled and was the secret of their private secrets and in the process they were able to save the body of the deceased is good to be replaced by the spirit and live again after the death forever. Llewellyn’s also explain how the ancient Egyptians were embalming their death and how he the Nile River helped them to do that. Llewelyn’s says “organs removed were put in canopic jars/but the brain was through useless and thrown afar/the body was cleaned, natron was applied/to dry out the body, once the person had died/the heart was warped and put back in the chest/the rest of the body with sarcophagus was dressed /pyramids were built to hold your treasures/the most famous to be found of these large tombs/was that of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun” lines (7-20). It was the process of the mummification by extracting the brain from the head and then embalmed remove everything from the abdomen except heart on the grounds that he will play a key role during the dead court then put the natron and embalmed body was rolling completely and the rest members of the organs covered by linen and then placed the mask on the face. The ancient Egyptian was built the pyramids to save their