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    Poetry Book

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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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    Poetry Slam

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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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    Introduction to Poetry

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    Zachary Linder Ms. Lichius AP Literature January 15‚ 2013 Introduction to Poetry In “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins‚ the major theme portrayed is that‚ poetry is something to be experienced. Very often‚ readers will just go through the poem once and will then assume to figure out the underlying meaning. However‚ this is not true in Collins’ eyes. Collins believes that you need to be patient with poetry and he tells you this through a series of metaphors. Throughout the poem‚ there

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    The Importance of Poetry

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    Honours 11th January 11th‚ 2012 The Importance of Poetry To each person‚ poetry has a varied significance and importance in their life. Some people may value poetry highly while others may consider it as something of lesser importance. The importance of poetry in today’s literary society is substantially important because it has an ability to express the thoughts and emotions of a writer through flowing words. Throughout history‚ poetry has been important because it gives us a historical representation

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    The Art of Keeping Cool

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    The Art of keeping cool This story took place in 1942 during World War II; the war in Europe was threatening to come over to the United States. There were rumors flying about German submarines being spotted just off the coast and traitors being discovered only a few towns away. Therefore‚ if you were friends with a German‚ it would be a problem. The main characters are Robert and his cousin Elliot‚ there’s Robert’s mom‚ and his little 5 year-old sister‚ they lived in a farm but then they all

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    peace with rape and murder raid;” Hello everyone‚ my name’s ----- and today I will be exploring the particular aspect of Australian belonging or rather‚ not belonging‚ found in aboriginal poetry. The two poems where this lack of belonging is evident are both by Oodgeroo Noonuccal are The Dispossessed and We are Going. The dispossessed by Oodgeroo Noonuccal gives a nihilistic representation of the past and current treatment of aboriginals and insight into the ever-present feeling of not belonging

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    Poetry Explication

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    own mind while I read this poem were intensely real and stuck with me long after I studied the poem. The tone of “University of Iowa Hospital‚ 1976” is dark and painful. Mayes wants the readers to not only feel the way the speaker felt when entering the hospital‚ but also how the patients in the hospital suffered. He uses literary tropes to make reader’s emotions react to the tone of the poem. A metaphor is a literary trope often used in poetry to make a comparison between two objects to give

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    A Consequence of Being Cool In "We Real Cool"‚ Gwendolyn Brooks is describing the thoughts of seven high school dropouts that have gathered together at the Golden Shovel‚ a local pool hall. These teenagers boast about staying out late‚ dropping out of school‚ and committing sins. Each one of them is aware that death will ultimately be the outcome of their destructive lifestyles‚ but they are willing to accept their fate because they want to continue to be "cool." The language that is used

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    For many years scientists have doubted and tried proving if Atlantis was real or not‚ and Atlantis is real. Atlantis is real because of the evidence that cutting-edge technology has found such as satellite photographs and new discoveries‚ Plato’s writings‚ and the fact that Atlantis is a logical myth. Atlantis is real due to the new evidence just found. This evidence was found due to the advanced technology of today. Satellite photographs found by Richard Freund recently identified what looked to

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    Poetry

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    The Poison Tree I was angry with my friend I told my wrath‚ my wrath did end I was angry with my foe I told it not‚ my wrath did grow and I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles And it grew both day and night Till it bore an apple bright And my foe beheld it shine And he knew that it was mine And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole In the morning glad

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