similarities and differences in the way the characters view being alone. First‚ in the poem‚ “The Sidewalk Racer‚” by Lillian Morrison‚ the author addresses the meaning of being alone by being the one and only single engine human automobile. She compares herself as being the driver and the wheel. The author is telling us that being alone is fun. This poem also describes her as being a skateboard. When the poem says‚ ‘I swerve‚ I curve‚ I sway‚” I imagine the author is telling me that she speeds through
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produce poems of your liking. She writes with great understanding of the world around her and also writes about her own experiences with life. You can tell that she puts in lots of time and effort into her work by all of the details she has added in each and every poem that she has ever written.The first poem was a small conclusion about her childhood and all that hard work her family had to go through in order to keep the family safe and healthy.The second poem was more of a motivational poem to show
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prison” ln 25-30). In Lovelace’s poem‚ ’To Lucasta‚ Going to the Wars‚’ Lovelace leaves the safe refuge of his lover to go into the dangers of war. He does so fearlessly with the belief in carpe diem. ’Tell me not‚ Sweet‚ I am unkind‚ that from the nunnery of thy chaste breasts‚ and quiet mind‚ to war and arms I fly(“ to lucasta on going to the wars” ln 1-4). Challenges such as prison‚ or war‚ inspire Lovelace to live more for the moment. The seconded poem I picked is “The Bait” by John Donne
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FELIK’S SKRZYNECKI The poem FELIKS SKRZYNECKI‚ by Peter Skrzynecki effectively portrays his childhood reminiscence as an adult. In the first stanza‚ he demonstrated his admiration for his father as a child and described him with respect‚ knowing that Felik’s Skrzynecki was his adopted father. Immediately‚ we can gain Peter Skrzynecki’s strong respect he has towards his father‚ fiercely emphasized by re-telling what Felik’s Skrzynecki had done for his family. “ Alert‚ brisk and silent
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acknowledgement of the transient quality of human existence. As suggested by the notable Harwood scholar Alison Hoddinott‚ ‘the poet is aware of the hunger of the self for a permanence that will defy mortality and the limitations of the self’. The poem may thus be regarded as a commentary on the eternal pull between that which is physical‚ instinctive and corporeal‚ as encapsulated by the ‘heart’‚ and that which is metaphysical‚ spiritual and celestial‚ as proposed by the ‘soul’. Depictive of a fleeting
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The performances of the poems from fellow classmates were very good they all did very well. Saw seven people perform their Poetry Out Loud poems even though they were just videos. The people that perform their Poetry Out Loud and the poems that they read out was Juan Salinas “Fire And Ice” By: Robert Frost‚ Haley Williams “Let It Be Forgotten” By: Sara Teasdale‚ Alex Turner “Ebb” By: Edna St Vincent Millay‚Mason Swearingen “Fire And Ice” By: Robert Frost‚ McKenzie Bucher “ Let Evening Come” By: Jane
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T: This poem might be about the daughter had an argument with her parents‚ so she decided to leave home and live alone. P: This poem is about when her daughter was eight‚ she tried to learn how to ride a bike. When the daughter first ridden a bike‚ she kept falling and the author always help her to get up. When the daughter starts to get good at biking‚ the daughter starts to bike farther and farther from the author. By looking at the daughter’s back the author thinks they are saying goodbye. C:
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The poem that I reviewed this week is called‚ “The Death Spread” by Tyler Brewington and I found it on versedaily.org on 5/09/16. In summary‚ this poem is about death and the uncomfortable yet beautiful images it can invoke. While reading this poem I had to reread several lines over and over again simply because I liked them so much. A few lines that stood out to me were‚ “The skeleton of a calf’s been wrapped around a pipe”‚ “A yolk slides down the drain”‚ and “You drive into the Wyoming part
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The account of the poem is about an elderly widower is missing his wife‚ and “can’t bear” to run the vacuum due to the painful memories attached to it. The poem makes it evident that the widower is struggling with his grief and his newly appointed duty of caring for the house. The fractured and slant rhyme scheme of the poem creates a feeling of disarray and incompleteness. Some of the slanted rhymes are “dirt/heart”‚ “enough/dust”‚ “mouth/youth”. These rhymes make the poem sound unsatisfied‚ which
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Here is an anti bullying poem written by Jon Evans: Identity–The Bully They all try to look the same all try to give themselves a name pick on the boy who is all alone just because his identity is his own what has this world come to? all this wrong that people do just for the image they want to show down the evil path they seem to go The next person you go to hurt or try to make feel like dirt instead of trying to look cool feel for the guy you make look a fool A cool identity isn’t a need let
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