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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ReplyDeleteLife-Marilyn Monroe/ Queen Mukiibi
ReplyDeleteI believe Marilyn Monroe poem Life is about life and different emotions you feel every day. How hard life can get sometimes. How sometimes you want to do something but life is telling you, that you have to do something else. Everyday life is a pain but we live for the joy of it all. It can cheat you out of many things or take away for things you would love to do. Being down or holding your head down is all apart of it. Life is a painting you make it how you want it.
Shaquia Anderson
Only for You
ReplyDeleteI believe this poem is describing how someone particularly saying that when that person was in bad situations the lover always cheered them up made everything better in their life. So the poem is dedicated to the lover of the writer. The writing has a deep feeling for this person it everything that they feel s coming from their heart. By the writer being in love they saw themselves with that person for a long time. Also when no one understood the lover was the only one who always understood. The poet shows sincerity by thanking the person for all that he/ she have done.
Queen mukiibi
In the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, I believe that Frost tries elaborating on deciding a path to take in life. Depending on what ‘road’ you take in life, each has their own outcome, whether it can be a good thing or a bad thing and you can learn from it. Some people choose to take a road in which can lead to their demise, and those that choose to take the road that has not been walked down all that often, they can choose to make an impact on the world, making a difference with each passing day.
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ReplyDeleteThe Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
I think this poem is about a decision. There's two "roads" or choices and the author is contemplating which road or choice he should take. He chooses to travel down the road that's grassy and hasn't been traveled on instead of taking the road that everyone else took. He thinks that the other people who passed the grassy road avoided it because it seemed more difficult to walk through and unlike the other road, you couldn’t see the ending. In the end he says that taking this road made a huge difference for him because it was more difficult. The moral of the poem shows that if you go the extra mile, it’ll pay off in the long run. =)
Life,
ReplyDeleteI like the poem a lot, it uses simile (Existing more with the cold frost
Strong as a cobweb in the wind), strong use of imagery (signed by the leaping hot fires).I think that it’s about how the things that we go throughout life are either good or bad. How it can bring us down or make us happy. Whether to do the right things or not, we are always facing obstacle in our life. However, when it’s bad we should never let it destroy us, instead learned from it and became a stronger and better person. Yet, sometimes we keep makings the same mistakes over and over again.
Veronica Mendoza
Here is another example of a poet in describing the hardships of slaves. The internet crashed so I cannot remember the title of the poem. But I do remember the person who selected it. His name is Anthony. The poem talks about a slave child knowing who his parents are. His father is a white man and his mom is a black woman. He compares and contrast his parents through the whole poem even up till the death of them. This poem tells me that you do not need to always have a text book to know about slavery you can simply just look up a poem
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in the poem touched by an angel Maya Angelo uses simile to compare love to the ultimate salvation
ReplyDeleteTouched by an angel talks about how love comes and saves us and liberates us.
When we are in doubt, and in pain, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
When we are weaned from our timidity, love is there to set us free and saves us.
Love in the poem is used as a remedy for when we are in doubt or fear, and it’s there to saves us every time
This is Abel Baptista and I approve this response
The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is an example of a rhythmic poem. The setting in this poem takes place on top of a mountain as an eagle patiently sits and watches the world beneath him. I believe he's analyzing the scene below for possible prey. The way the author describes the eagle's quickness "like a thunderbolt" is an example of simile. The first line of the poem shows alliteration with the words clasps, crag, and crooked because they all begin with the same consonant. The words used to describe the eagle & his actions like clasps, crooked, lonely and ringed compare the eagle to maybe an old man. This is an example of personification.
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