Nursery rhymes

Comparing Poems The things about poems is that most of them have a similarity. I chose two poems to compare and tell you how they are similar. There was one major thing in these poems that were similar. I chose We Wear the Mask. This story has one great meaning and I will tell you about it later on in the essay. The second poem that I chose was Richard Cory. This poem had a similar meaning of it and I will talk about the poem here in a second. These both had a similar meaning to…

The subject of this poem is death by suicide and depression, the tone is very dark and gloomy. Personally, I don't have any experiences with suicide. However, I have experienced mild depression. That was my muse for this poem, not close the level of the speaker but the common depression that everyone experiences. The name of the poem is “Antarctica” because that is what I can related depression too, I remember feeling very cold when I had depression as well as lonely. It's a metaphor for the…

In Julia Alvarez “Sometimes the Words Are so Close” in the introduction of the poem she is presenting herself as the person who the poem is mentioning. She is in a situation in her point of life where she has difficulties in expressing her inner self with the modern society. She has embodied poetry for herself expression of the person who she wishes she could be. Through the help and love for poetry she has been able to show the reader more of her inner persona. In “practicing for the real me I…

The poems “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and “Escaping Reality” were composed four decades apart. They involve a speaker who is anticipating his escape from reality. They also involve a speaker’s search for a resolution through symbolism. In addition, they focus on a single theme which is despite your life responsibilities; you should use your imagination to escape when times get difficult. Furthermore, they feature the thoughts of a speaker who refers to himself in the first person perspective. The…

If one were to draw a connection between salmon and the corruption of people due to technology, it would sound absurd due to how stretched out it is. Although, in Sherman Alexie’s poem “Without Salmon,” a connection between similar ideas play off of each other in order to transition into how two unusual items are connected. For “Without Salmon” is a simple sonnet written with a simple diction, but the meaning placed behind it is impactful as a result of Alexie employing a tone of questioning…

Edwards Hirsch’s poem “For the Sleepwalkers” focuses on the author’s admiration of sleepwalkers and their ability to trust their bodies in a state of complete unconsciousness; this praise, however, furthermore establishes a metaphor for the lesson Hirsch intends to portray to readers. He insists that we must become vulnerable like sleepwalkers and trust in our own hearts as they trust their bodies out of the control of their consciousnesses. The author also highlights the idea of keeping our…

The Rose that Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur helped me understand more about tolerance because in most of the poems he’s talked about his struggles. In his poem “Life Through My Eyes” Tupac wrote “[l]ife through my bloodshot eyes/ would scare a square 2 death/ poverty, murder, violence” (11), and that is him talking about the things he’s seen and been through. Later in the poem he wrote “[b]ut mark my words when I say/ my heart will not exist/ unless my destiny comes through/ and puts an…

"Trying to Name What Doesn't Change" by Naomi Shiha Nye, is a poem about what does not change versus what does change. Nye shows perspective from a child and adult point of view about how they view change. "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change" is a poem about time and how it takes time for change to be noticeable. Nye wants the reader to thinks about what changes in their life and what does not change. The imagery in Naomi Shiha Nye's poem "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change" shows that the…

The sentimental New Year’s anthem Auld Lang Syne beautifully illustrates the power of true friendship and the glory of the past. Written by Scottish poet Robert Burns and set to a Gaelic folk song, the words of this stirring piece have moved audiences for more than 300 years, though modern listeners have to look beyond their rugged appearance to understand their true meaning. Originally written in Scots and often sung in broken half-English with words such as hae for have and tak for take, most…

The poem that I pick to be a candidate for this contest call, “The Best Poem in the World” is call “Tahquamenon Falls” by Denise Rodgers. I pick this free verse poem which is compose of mostly using rhyming couplets, and with no set meter to be my entry for this contest because it uses a lot of the literary devices that we have talk about in this week. Starting off with the first stanza of this poem. In the starting line of this poem, it uses literal imagery to tell the readers to imagine some…