Lottery style poker. Poker requires plan. Lottery. No plan. Just scratch. No strategy only rhythm: Scratch card, have hope, lose, lose hope, curse odds, repeat, survive.…
Naked bodies provoke the curiosity in everybody, especially, in teenagers. After staring at such pictures, one could not stop thinking about them. The same feelings appear in the girl from the poem. She starts to imagine that it could be her in the picture. She thinks how exciting it would be to be naked and dance…The girl wants to have the same hair that will pile around her shoulders. She wishes her body were also perfect.…
The poem that I will analyze is from Sharon Olds, The Girl. This poem is quite graphic but it describes a life lesson that two girls had to endure. This poem describes a graphic preplanned rape event. The girls were 12 years old, it seems that they were at the wrong place and living a wild life, and getting involved with the erroneous people. They partied with their supposed best friend, this is what I am getting from the poem, they were being chased and after being caught they were raped. During trial they were asked to state what had happened to them. They exclaimed who their rapist were. After they went through that, the author goes along in explaining how one of the girls’ lives had changed. The fact that she no longer went to parties that smoked and did wild things. The girl was considered a good girl, a girl that thanked God, and a girl that had cheerleading in her life.…
Many writers on their venture to becoming great, are faced with roadblocks. I too feel those stresses. When sitting down to begin a story, novel, or poem we all strive to be different. But as Baldwin explains, "there is no original thought, because we all humans think and feel has been thought and felt so many times before, by so many generations." This in itself makes starting writing a very daunting task. Not to mention the sea of fellow authors you are competing with for limited shelf space. A trip to a jam packed bookstore reiterates this feeling instantaneously. Really, what sets the writer apart is the original perspective and finding out what shape to give it to really hold the readers attention. This can all be achieved through the power in…
Both swallowed in their job, the janitor in “Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits” by Martin Espada and the secretary in “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy feel unappreciated and lost as employees. Jorge is “outside…of [Americans] understanding” and The Secretary is lost in her work and compares herself to objects such as her “hips are a desk.” The employees from these poems have become hidden behind their duties and are slowly sinking into the unknown.…
A tattoo is like poetry, because there is always more to the story than what meets the eye! The sonnet “First Poem for You” by Kim Addonizio is a riveting piece of poetry that uses symbolization to help guide the readers to understand the emotions and feelings the woman has towards her partner. Visual and tactile imagery used within this poem helps readers interpret the meaning of the poem. The theme is longevity and the true meaning of a relationship. In Addonizio “First Poem for You,” Addonizio utilizes literary elements to develop the story and detail a fictional character that is in love with a man that has permanent tattoos. Upon analyzing the symbols, visual imagery and theme throughout this poem the readers will better comprehend the poem to its entirety; these elements symbolize permanence, which is the meaning of the entire poem.…
The theme of this poem by Krista Wheeler is it is never too late to change and turn your life around. The poem is about a student that is currently making poor choices when it comes to his academic success. The speaker is explaining to the child that what they are doing is wrong and that there is still time to change and make things better. Firstly, the poem states “work, work so that you will one day become glad”, this passage shows that if the child does not give up and continues to work hard he will be very appreciative of this decision in the future.…
There is a lot to gain from this poem. It teaches people that they can have a great life even though it is rough during their childhood. If he can survive dealing with his parents going through a divorce and then his mom passing away at a young age, then anyone can. It is tough for the boy. But at the end of the poem, he expresses that he is happily riding his bicycle with no worries in life.…
I appreciate the kind words and the feedback. Do whatever you like with the tracks, but me updated. I find time to work on music everyday, so I am always creating when I am free from writing papers and such. I do not mind the comparisons to the legends, anyhow, we need to figure out the arrangement to the "It Rains On Our Love" so you can be satisfied . What elements need to be taken out or what section need to be cut or added? I have zero problems changing anything. What sound you really looking for because I never asked you that to begin with. haha. You could actually send me like some piano chords and have me do the drums or whatever you prefer.. Just some ideas. haha. I will be sending you more RANDOM tracks later this week.…
Her poetry is scattered with an array of similes, metaphors and personification. Nowhere is this more evident then in the poem Hands. When Kay personifies hands she conveys how they can be used for peace or war, but that they were not meant to be symbols of evil and were instead created for love; the main theme of her poem. Kay portrays the theme of love through symbolically holding her own hands, "Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh" (Hands) or "a zipper of prayer" (Hands). In the poem Forest Fires, Kay uses various examples of personification and metaphors to compare her grandmother’s illness to the flames, as they are both uncontrollable. This is apparent in the quotes "My grandmother's tiny body is a sinking ship on white sheets" (Forest Fires) and "...the flames will paint the Evening News a different shade of orange" (Forest Fires). She uses figurative language relay the themes in her poems in a more effective manner. Kay's poetry style is unique because she uses general examples to describe her feelings and experiences. For example she uses a toothbrush and a bicycle tire to depict a relationship between a man and a woman. The toothbrush symbolizes a loyal woman that is committed to a man who is always on the move, "So maybe one day you’ll grow tired of the road, and roll on back to me" (The Toothbrush to the Bicycle Tire). The use of inanimate…
American writer and artist, Flavia Weedn, once wrote in her poem, “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same”. One of my teachers told me something during my junior year that stood out to me and touched me dearly. She said, “Lift your problems up to Him, and He will take care of the rest”.…
In Emily Dickinson’s poem “I am afraid to own a Body” the speaker primarily uses sound to posit the overall theme of the poem. More specifically, she uses incoherent and disjointed repetition (notably alliteration and assonance) and slant rhymes that scatter the poem but do not fall into any pattern to suggest her own inability to conform to expected or desired patterns of being a human. The background imagery of inheritance to which the poem alludes complements these expected patterns.…
The works we studied within Creative Writing were all helpful in creating my own works to submit to the class. Throughout all of the reading, many of the works inspired me in different ways, whether it was short story plot ideas or word usage in the poems. While crafting my work for the final portfolio, I reviewed many of the poems from our poetry packet in an effort to find inspiration and to create new interesting images. I took the most inspiration for my formal poem, which I found most difficult to write. One of the poems that was most useful to me was Jilly Dybka’s “Memphis, 1976.” Dybka’s poem follows the sestina form; I also wrote my last poem in this form, so it helped to follow the form by looking at her poem as an example. Dybka’s…
The first craft choice I think is working well in this collection is the tone. As I was reading, the words Perez used made a visual image in my mind. Although the topics talked about (war, government, military, etc…) were very serious, the author managed to shift the tone using lighter lines with humor. I think the authors tone was intentional. I think Perez wants the readers to feel informed, affected, then empowered.…
“A Story” by Li-Young Lee is a melancholy poem expressing a relationship between father and son, focusing primarily on the father’s thoughts. Their relationship gets complicated when the dad can not come up with a story for his pleading son because he is too wrapped up in worrying about a possible future in which he fails to come up with a tale causing the son to leave, essentially ruining their relationship before it even has a chance to develop. Lee accomplishes delivery of this relationship by utilizing deep, meaningful dialogue, and an impactful conclusion statement.…