Confessional poetry

It is official, I have taken my first poetry class, in a way I wanted to explore my poetic side while also learning new techniques and elements that I can take to the future classes I will teach. Many times, I have heard that poetry is a joke or that it is dead thanks to music, but I strongly disagree. Poem’s are meant to be this lovely little pieces that are fresh, healthy, and unique. This is something I have learned as this semester progressed. Some of my poem have had some blandness due to…

Australian poetry has always and will always have significant value to the Australian culture as it allows us to have an insight into the thoughts, hearts and ideas of the society in which they are produced. Australian poetry has been used to reflect and represent the changing idea of the Australian ‘hero’ over different time periods through the use of aesthetic features, the theme of heroism and the poet’s attitudes, values and perspectives. The three poems being analysed include; Song of the…

uses voice rather well in this book. For example, when Miss Stretchberry tells Jack that Mr. Walter Dean Myers is coming to his classroom one can just hear how excited he is. What was great about this book is the fact that it can be used as a whole poetry unit. The author was able to incorporate several poetic elements. Such as, tone, voice, spacing, free verse poems, and concrete poems. The author was also able to connect to younger students and students that are having trouble writing…

Analysis of “My Father’s Garden” “My Father’s Garden,” by David Wagoner is a poem about a child who reminisces about his or her father’s life. The speaker thinks back on his or her father’s work, his hobbies, and his education in this poignant tribute. With the author’s use of metaphors, similes, and alliteration, the poem emerges as a cautionary tale to show the impact of industrialization. With an extensive use of metaphors, Wagoner emphasizes the environment the father works in each day.…

Sabrina Butler Professor Adams English 103 5/14/15 Outlook on Death in Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” Death is considered by many to be the heartbreaking termination of existence; the moment when one is compelled to despair, to concede loss, and yield to the inescapable. As discouraging as this outlook on death may appear, one may be amazed at why Emily Dickinson preferred to make death one among the major themes in her poems. Because numerous poets of the 19th century composed…

Death, inevitable death, is a nature process that everyone has to go through, but what way we should go through, and how we should go through it, it’s a different perspective. For poet Dylan Thomas, he begged his father to come up with the vigor and enthusiasm of the young men, to fight with the death, rather than meet the arrival of death quietly, even death is an irreversible and inevitable thing. In the poem, the author used alliteration, assonance, metaphor, simile, and oxymoron to strongly…

Emily Dickinson, who varies her own stylistic devices. Using simple and direct tone and figurative language to reveal this notion, he shares these opinions by writing powerful as in poetry, “The People, Yes”, “I Am the People, the Mob”, “At a Window”, and “Child of the Roman”. Because he was alive and writing poetry during the 1910’s to 1930’s, his poems tend to share many of the characteristics with other poems from this same time period. A majority of Sandburg 's works are about the exact same…

There are a lot of adjectives that are used in the poem to suggest the innocence and purity of the boy, which juxtaposition is used by the adjectives and verbs used to describe the invincibility and strength of the Nettles. The poem explores the connotations of the word ‘bed’ and ‘bed of nettles’ and there is a stark contrast to what we associate a bed with and what the bed represents in the poem. Line 1 tells us that the boy’s aged “three” to indicate the boy’s vulnerability, which is then…

Support your claims with examples from the text/poem, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. 2. Reading Response: Poetry and Performance Listen to We Real Cool and My Papa’s Waltz. These clips demonstrate the importance of performance, rhythm, and musicality in the poetic form. Describe your listening experience of one or more of the poems. (If you prefer, you…

Esperanza lives in a small, rundown house on Mango Street. Throughout the story, Esperanza loses her innocence and matures. As the story begins, Esperanza is portrayed as innocent and young. She explains to the reader how the boys and the girls in her neighborhood seem to “live in separate worlds” (Cisneros 8). Esperanza does not seem to have an interest in the opposite sex. However, as Esperanza’s life continues on, she transforms into a young adult. She explains that someone “can never have…