Poem for my Mother – Jennifer Davids Notes Outline It is an afternoon and the mom is washing clothes in a tub. The child has written a poem for her mother and gives it to her as she is washing. The mother scans the poem but rejects it as not being ‘all there is to life’. She feels that there is much more to life than reading or writing poetry. Despite her protest‚ the mother glances at the poem while she continues to wash clothes. Stanza 1 The mother obviously has given her life to hard
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Poetry Slam On my visit to Bar13 I was instructed to watch a poetry slam. I have never experience such a vivid art of performing poetry. The only way I had experienced poetry before was by reading it from books. This has change the way I see poetry now. The poetry slam is a very competitive event in which the poets perform their work. The poets are judged by people of the audience. The host‚ who was pregnant‚ selected the judges who were instructed to give a numerical score (the score being 0 –
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My Poetry Book By Hans Page 1– Table of Contents Page 2 – Thoughts on poetry Page 3 – Similes Page 4 – Metaphors Page 5 – Personification Page 6 – Apostrophe Page 7 – Hyperbole Page 8 – Onomatopoeia Page 9 – Internal rhyme Page 10 – Imagery Page 11 – Alliteration Page 12 – Autobiographical Poem Page 13 – Acrostic poem Page 14 – “This Is Just to Say” Poem Page 15 – My Favorite Poet(s) My thoughts on poetry My favorite poems are jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
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15 points about romantic poetry 1) Romantic poetry was written during the period of Romanticism‚ which was in the late 1700s in Western Europe. 2) Romanticism was a movement that strongly emphasized on emotion and was against the norms of the “Age of Enlightenment”. 3) Romantic poets are known for their vivid and colorful language‚ and for their highly elevated ideas and themes. 4) The “Big six” poets of Romantic poetry are: William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Coleridge
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The Poetry of Jose Rizal Jose Rizal is the Philippines’ national hero. He was an amazing polymath. One of the fields he excelled in is poetry. While other poets wrote out of sheer creativity‚ Rizal wrote mostly out of fervor for his motherland. Many other poets write or wrote for the fame or to please a patron. He always wrote under duress. He lived during the time of the corrupt colonial Spanish government. This is probably why there is such poignancy in his poetry. It is as though he longs for
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beneath my feet. I run to the ocean‚ disturbing the calm water as I dive in. The water surrounds me‚ engulfing me in its warmth. I am now at peace. For right now‚ at this moment‚ I am one with the water and the salt and the sand‚ and everything is okay. All my problems are washed away with the tide. It’s just me and the ocean. Just me and the beach. Just me and my favorite place in the world. I cannot describe how much the ocean means to me. The waves‚ the sand‚ the sun‚ the water‚ the world deep
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Upon killing King Duncan‚ Macbeth feels great remorse and guilt for the act that he just committed. He wish’s very much that he did not kill the King and this is shown through his excerpts in Act 2 scene 2. He describes his hands as being a ‘sorry sight’ for they are drenched in the King’s blood. The blood is has a very symbolic meaning for Macbeth as the blood does not just show that he has killed the King but also that he has shown shame towards the one closest to God‚ and that it has now been
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For the Love of Poetry As once said by prominent activist Helen Keller‚ “the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.” One of the few things that can’t be touched but experienced with the heart is poetry. Just as poetry is embraced on a more powerful level with the heart‚ so is the universal concept of love. And although love can come in a combination of ways whether it be between a child and a mother‚ an old withered couple
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individuality and the importance of the individual’s experience in the world and celebrated the importance of feelings and the imagination. The effects of the Revolution in later years led Romantic writers to write of the Emperor of France’s cruelty‚ escaping to nature to flee the real world and its problems. William Wordsworth became one of the most influential poets of the Romantic period displaying throughout his poetry his love of nature which he discovered at a young age. Wordsworth’s poems
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No person on this earth knows the future. Not a single person knows how this world will come to an end. Yet the current situation gives us no compelling proof of a bright future. With the majority of people stressing on environmental problems‚ they tend to forget many matters of immediate concern. One of the many threats to the earth is violence. It is ironical that humanity is the greatest hazard to itself. We use the new technology for the purpose of mass destruction. But we should remember
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