After you have posted the poem you brought in, you will choose someone else's poem and write a response to it. Comment to this post when writing your response. Include the name of the poem and poet to which you are responding.
Your written response should be between 100-200 words. It should contain a discussion of at least one poetic device, such as simile, metaphor, personification, analogy, symbolism, allusion, paradox, oxymoron, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, free verse, repetition, refrain, diction, or tone.
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ReplyDelete@Starlee Edmunds
ReplyDeleteThat Poem Is One Of My All Time Favorites. I Love The Way The Poet Throws Thoughts Out In Poem Format. It Is An "abcb" Rhyme. The Poem To Me Shows The Struggle Of The Black Women Living In Down Stage Apartments. Nothings Right In The Apartment So Why Should I Pay. As I Read I Hear Her Tone In Voice And Its Not Very Nice. She Is Upset With The Way She's Living. But From The Rent Mans Point Of View He Can't Do Much About It. She Should Take Matters Into Her Own Hands And Go To His Boss.!!!!!
~Brianna M.
genovia.........this poem is very romantic and sweet. When the poem said because of you my world is whole in my mind I picture a heart broken an in pain but now because of that special person the heart is stronger than ever before. This poem to me expresses true love. Also when it said my love is pure to me it means maybe his/her first real love so it’s pure. Last thing is when the poem says because of you i have laughter in my eyes to me meaning this special person can make him or her happy at any time because before the person came into his or her life she or he might not have been happy.
ReplyDeleteThis comment is in response to “Because Of You” by Amy S. Bedford (posted by Genovia)
ReplyDeleteThis poem is about how real love is and should be. It makes you wish that you could have that same feeling that this person writing it and it also makes me believe that God really created someone for everyone, soul mates. On top of the message, I love the repetition of "because of you". It keeps reminding the reader that all of these feelings are simply because of this one person. Awwwww, isn’t love is such a strong, powerful thing ? :)
-Tiana Jones
timara......this poem is very pretty and shows how much the author feels towards love. And how emotional he or she is. when i read this poem it make me think of true love btw people today. Even though there are very few true love realationships it still gives me a sense how true love might be............................The rhyme scheme in the poem makes it more interesting to read also so does the vivid and descriptive words. overall i think you picked a very good poem that really catches the readers full attention and touches them emotionally. Sincerely , genovia avon milbourne
ReplyDelete@ Timara::
ReplyDeleteI like this poem because I can relate to it. It’s a nice feeling waking up next to someone who you love and loves you right back. No worries, no pain, no problems, no sadness, just happiness. I love this poem because it gives me some imagery like when it says “to the sound of your breath on my neck” it kind of gave me the chills lol. Even though it’s short, it has a lot of meaning. I guess the author is really in love and wishes to feel what she wishes in the poem in one single person.
-Cynthia Espana-
TO: Langston Hughes "Dreams"
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the first real poems I really cared for.it spoke to my heart ss a teen and it becomes my wisdom. As a teen growing older it reminds me to keep dreams alive. The poem is short, wonderful and inspiring enough to make me remeber it in future references. He compares dreams to life because if you dont dream then you will never try to set goals. For this poem I really say that i would hang this in my room and keep this poem "Dreams" in mind because in a short pump poem, it shows how dreams are really important. This is one of Langston Hughes top poems in my opinion because it is very inspirational !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
- Starlee Edmunds
Michael, 'Dreams' was an excellent poem. I like the metaphor "Life is a broke-winged bird, that cannot fly", to describe that if you don't follow your dreams and decide to give up, you will regret it hard. Everybody has a dream they wish to achieve and they can if they have the will to know that they can. If they cannot think like that, then they will live in depression, wishing to go back and change something. People should realize that they only live life once and it's now or never. Therefore they should dream on, vision it into reality, and live it to watch great rewards come to them for their hard work.
ReplyDelete-Carlos Norwood
Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” is a very good poem and every time I read it, it is like the first time that I had ever read it. There are some good rhyme schemes going on and metaphors also. I think Robert Frost is trying to use the paths to symbolize the decisions that we have to make and that after we make them you cannot go back, even thought can make amends for them. I seem that he made a chose that few people took, but some of those paths were similar and it would not make much a different.
ReplyDelete-Richard Li
I absolutely love reading poety because of the metaphors and similies that are in them. The emotions conveyed in so many selections is mind-boggling. I wonder how people feel when they are writing. Do they actually feel the way the characters in their selections feel, or are they just stringing words together in order to make them sound good? If so, they are doing an astounding job at it. When I read a poem, I can literally feel the emotion and tone from every word, whether it is a feeling of sadness, love, or happiness and comedy. Poems are like magic, they can entrance and bring their audience to a different world altogether.
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ReplyDeleteDarnell..
The road not taken-Robert Frost
He is comparing life to the two roads using a metaphor. He is saying that if something looks like its the right choice, it doesnt mean it is. Sometimes its better not take the easy road. You should venture on your own path and not anothers. When he says "and I,I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference",he's basically saying it's not good to go along with everyone thinks is ok but rather what you think is best.
Mahoghany, the poem "P.O.W." was very interstine. What i have gather from it is the auother is a prisnor by holding her words back. By her holding her words back she was unable to speak how she felt. She was unable express her pain with words. I like how the auother comparied herself as a solider. By her doing that it shows her strenght. Also, i like the metaphor about the bars of steel srounding her mind. I believe many peolpe can relate to that. The tone for this poem is not sad but honest and pissed off. This is a wonderful poem and good choice! sorry for all the missed spelled words didnt have time to check it!!!! ~Cynthia Roberts~
ReplyDelete@Cynthia Espana
ReplyDeleteA Guilty End
by Kimani wa Mbogo
This poem is more like a romantic tragedy because the guy speaking in the poem obviously lost his loved one. I'm getting the feeling that they still want to be together but they can't, probably because of something that happened to their relationship before. When he said "As the tears rolled down her beautiful cheek, every moment she tried to blink," she's crying for him as if she can't have him, but she wants him. They have a difficult relationship, but I can follow and I understand the way that each of them are feeling about the other. It seems that the only thing they have left of each other is painful memories.
~Mahoghany C.~
Carlys Taylors, "Messy Room" by: Shel Silverstein
ReplyDeleteYour poem is a free verse. It repeats to say "whosever room this is should be ashamed". Your poem keeps a pattern with different things coming in order of how messy the room is. It does have a structure rhyme. You express how the room is messy and describe the things that are lying around. You have a Whimsical tone in your poem. It seems as if the speaker is surprised by the appearance of the room. She seems strange and freaked out. Towards the end of the poem the speaker realizes that it was her room, which makes the poem kind of funny, and dramatic.
- Shane' Gunn
Shane Gunn- Mad Girl's Love Song By Sylvia Plath
ReplyDeleteIn the poem, Mad Girl’s Love Song, it uses the poetic device refrain. The poet repeats the lines “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead” and “(I think I made you up inside my head)”. This poem also has a tone; the tone of this poem is dark and misunderstood because she constantly repeats “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead”. This poem is in the structure of a villanelle, it has 19 lines with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.