Breaking Through BREAKING THROUGH Myrna Pena Reyes Haltingly I undo the knots around your parcel that came this morning. A small box should require little labor‚ but you’ve always been thorough‚ tying things tight and well. the twine lengthens‚ curls beside the box. I see your fingers pull‚ snapping the knots into place (once your belt slapped sharply against my skin) You hoped the package would hold its shape across 10‚000 miles of ocean. It’s not a bride’s superstition that leaves
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Program #11 The Sacred Words: Elements of Poetry 1. Understand the importance of economy of language in poetry. It is important because it is the fewest words to fully get your idea across‚ not rambling on. Program #12: A Sense of Place 1. Show how clues and information in the poem about the setting affect a poem’s meaning for a reader It affects it changing the reader’s vision about what they are reading. 2. Discuss how a reader’s understanding of a poem is affected by
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This poem talks about the lack of spiritual rituals that didn’t take place during the deaths that occurred during World War I. The title refers to a song that condemns the deaths of innocent people during that war. The poem is a sonnet‚ so it is divided into two stanzas with eight verses the first one (two quatrains)‚ and the second one has six verses. The first quatrain has an abab rhyme‚ the second quatrain rhymes cdcd‚ and the six final verses have an eff rhyme. We can also find
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In today’s world‚ where one is expected to conform to the masses‚ maintaining individuality is often difficult. There are some people who simply follow the herd‚ and then there are those certain other people who strive to take the reins and become their own person. The former often succeed in their desire to fit in and become another faceless member of the crowd. The latter‚ however‚ commands society’s respect and ultimately has a better grasp of their identity. The subject of identity and individuality
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as it could be. In Baca’s “Cloudy day‚” readers find a speaker very attuned to the outer world while being incarcerated. Born in New Mexico of Indio-Mexican descent‚ Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother and later sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age 13‚ it was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison that he began to turn his life around: Jimmy learned to read and write and unearthed a voracious passion for poetry. During a fateful conflict with
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Children’s Poetry Poetry is meant to be interpreted in many different ways. This is what makes poetry so diverse when compare to other writings. The many interpretations of poetry is a good thing‚ but also a bad. Too much interpretation can destroy the true meaning of the poem. This can happen with all kinds of poetry‚ but it is more likely to happen with children’s poetry. Jack Prelutsky is a famous children’s poet. Prelutsky was named the first Children ’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation
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986827RR - POETRY‚ PART 1 When you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers‚ click Submit Exam. Answers will not be recorded until you hit Submit Exam. If you need to exit before completing the exam‚ click Cancel Exam. Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page break‚ so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer. 1. A definition of formal poetry is verse
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The imaginative response to experience reflecting a keen awareness of language. Types of Poetry • Ballad – Songlike poem; tells a story • Lyric - musical verse; expresses observations & feelings of a single speaker. • Haiku - 3-line verse form. First & 3rd lines have five syllables; 2nd has 7. Topic is always nature • Limerick – a rhymed nonsense poem of five lines. Types of Poetry • Sonnet - 14 line lyric poem (usually unrhymed iambic pentameter) – Petrarchan (Italian) octave & sestet; octave
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The poetry of Emily Dickinson is the embodiment of transcendentalism. It is both pondering and appreciative of human nature and the world in which human nature exists. In her poetry‚ Dickinson exhibits the questioning spirit characteristic to the spiritual hunger of the era during which she lived and expresses her curiosity concerning many of the cornerstones of the human experience. In one of her poems‚ Dickinson proclaimed that she “saw New Englandly.” She possessed a vision shaped by her “Puritan
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John Donne: Analyzing his Poetry The poet John Donne was an English poet‚ satirist‚ lawyer and priest. His poems are very sex and love driven. They are usually sonnets or songs and always contain great metaphors and impressive uses of irony. The three poems I have chosen to analyze are “Break of Day”‚ “The Flea”‚ and “The Indifferent”. All three of these poems share a common theme in love and are alike in many ways but all three poems also differ in many ways too. The theme that each poem has
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