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Poetry Journal: Checked 18 September 17/15-25 KBoyce Diverse collection and OK commentary.
 * || Date || Title || Poet || Comments ||
 * 1 || August 15, 2011 || All the World's a Stage || William Shakespeare || Feels like how Shakespeare sees the world. Diverse range of people are mentioned, seen as characters in a play.Talks about the life of a typical man in terms of scenes. ||
 * 2 || August 22, 2011 || Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines || Pablo Neruda || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Very romantic, follows a orderly structure and continouly repeats"Tonight I can write the saddest lines", has a negative and sad mood of lost love,creates a sense of distance through the word choices, describing the sky, etc ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">August 26, 2011 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mother o' Mine || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rudyard Kipling || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Has a very organized structure, has a prayer tone, constantly repeats Mother o' mine. Has a strong relationship with the mother?3 stanzas, transitions from hill, to sea, and body and soul. Gradually gets more powerfulPoem of power: the "mother" is her source of power ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">August 26, 2011 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dame Mary Gilmore || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">War poem? The speaker has a very powerful, direct, commanding tone, as if wants to musterstrength to the reader. Poem about ownership of land, and will not waver. ABABA rhyme scheme. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">August 26, 2011 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cause And Effect || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Charles Bukowski || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Very short poem, and utilizes enjambment making the lines gradually get shorter and shorter.The structure emphasizes the theme of being left behind and the final line is just "them"Lonely and sad mood ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">August 26, 2011 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Benediction || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rabindranath Tagore || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Personification of benediction; makes it seem all the more friendly, approachable, and comfortableThe speaker has an optimistic tone, creates a jocular and relaxing mood.Uses happy and warm imagery. "He loves the light of the sun, he loves the sight of hismother's face" ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">August 26, 2011 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Death Be Not Proud || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Donne || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uses Shakespearean language. Personification of death, has a positive connotation of death. Describes it to be the ultimate state of rest. Has a few rhyming couplets.Conveys death is everyone's fate from kings to peasants. Inevitability to escape from death. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">August 26, 2011 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sadie and Maud || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gwendolyn Brooks || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem has a simplistic and relatively short structure as it tells the story of Sadie and Maud. The success and failures of the girls.Colloge doesn't always equal to success?? As Maud "is living all alone in this old house" while "Sadie scraped life with a fine tooth comb" ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">August 26, 2011 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Pain || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Khalil Gibran || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discusses the meaning of pain. Lots of metaphors that compares to what is pain. Talks about acceptance of such pain and moving forward.Lots of contrast, good vs. bad ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">August 30, 2011 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dreamland || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edgar Allan Poe || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lots of nature imagery to bring contrasts, has a overall melancholy mood; word choice of the poem continues to show that the speaker has a dreamlike tone. The beautiful imagery suggests a sort of surrealism to the poem. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">September 1st || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In You The Earth || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pablo Neruda || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Personification of a rose, lots of femine references, maternal love, ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">September 1st || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Acceptance || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Robert Lee Frost || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ABAB rhyme scheme, has a lot of nature imagery, used to convey the speaker's message about acceptance.Has a very solemn tone, and uses birds as a metaphor ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">September 4th || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again and Again || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rainer Maria Rilke || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uses nature imagery, talks about the repetition of love through the lines "again and again"Concept of a cycle, a relatively short poem. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">14 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">September 5th || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Full Fathom Five || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">William Shakespeare || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uses metaphors to compare his father to the sea, a relatively short sonnet, the speaker has a tense, and stressful tone, hears bells? represents a certain time has come? ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">15 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">September 8th || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Negro Mother || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Langston Hughes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A very powerful, and emotionally gripping poem about slavery. Uses lots of dark and light imagery which contrasts one another. As light represents hope/ dark represents the negative and bad times during slavery. The speaker has a very motivational tone, brings hope in darkness, and grasps courage for road to freedom. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">16 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">September 15th || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Fragment: To Music || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Percy Bysshe Shelley || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Short, very simply poem,uses nature imagery to describe a piano, the imagery creates a relaxing and peaceful mood ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">17 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">September 15th || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prayer Before Birth || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Louis Macneice || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Has a sardonic tone that seems to highlight the faults of humanity, has a very wishful tone, as if wishing for a perfect world. Has a solid structure, repeating the prayers of the unborn. Deals with the things everyone goes through in life. Has nature imagery to demonstrate the beautiful world the unborn desires. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">18 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 17th || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Motto || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Langston Hughes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Relatively short poem and simplistic language. The poem overall has a really childish tone but it is straight to the point. The poem is comprised of rhyming couplets, making more childish. Very colloquial. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">19 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 18th || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Striking || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stuart Calverley || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem's language is like a narrative, and tells a story of the railway passenger talking with the speaker. The language is very formal in structure and in language. The majority of the poem describes the different stops from the train station, further drawing the connections from the railway passenger. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">20 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 19th || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Apology || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">William Carlos Williams || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The structure of the poem is in free verse, to demonstrate the speaker's trail of thought how it is in bits and pieces. There is a constrast in terms of mentioning a single identity, and then referring to a group. Portrays how the single person doesn't belong. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">21 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct 22nd. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Complaint || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">William Wordsworth || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Has a very smooth flowing, organized structure with a structured rhyme scheme. Lots of literary features of the personification, simile, and metaphors of love to convey the speaker's emotions how he feels about love. Says love as a fountain, that provided him the comforting emotions, and it is a deep well that never runs out. Strong raw emotions of the speaker an be felt. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">22 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 24th || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Character || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">William Wordsworth || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The speaker presents a lot of contrast when describing "humans" or "a character". The contrast of "paleness" and "bloom", or good and evil serves to demonstrate the nature of humans having two different natures within them, and that there is always a good or a bad side. The speaker also presents contrast to describe the various emotions that can be expressed on the human face, illustrating the diversity among humans. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">23 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 24 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was an April morning: fresh and clear || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">William Wordsworth || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poet utilizes a lot of nature imagery to describe the beauty of the April morning. The joy and love of the environment from the speaker is able to be sensed by the reader through the various descriptions that the trees make, and the river.I liked how Wordsworth said "Of common pleasure: beast and bird, the lamb,/The shepherd's dog, the linnet and the thrush/Vied with this waterfall, and made a song", illustrating the extent of how the speaker is consumed by the beauty of nature that is around him.The Poem overall is very peaceful and relaxing because of the imagery that is created. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">24 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 24 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Whirl-Blast from Behind the Hill || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">William Wordsworth || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am able to detect a sense of the common style that Wordsworth utilizes with a lot of nature imagery. The language Wordsworth uses to describe nature, creates a very strong image in the reader's mind. The poem conveys the beauty of nature of the changing seasons through the vivid personifications of leaves "dancing" at a festival, and the general movements of nature. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">25 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 24 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">William Wordsworth || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Very strong use of nature imagery, and creates a very calm and soothing effect through out the poem. The simile of calm and nature as a resting wheel, and illustrating the wheel in a field of grass creates a nice serene environment to the reader. The reader is also able to sense the poet/speaker's love for nature with all the beautiful imagery created and the strong connection to nature that is established. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">26 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 25 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anthem For Doomed Youth || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wilfred Owen || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem conveys a sad, and negative tone about the lives lost in war. The overall poem has a ABAB rhyme schemes that allows the poem to have a smooth flow through out. Strong imagery is utilized to create the sadistic image of war in the reader's mind. The speaker makes good references to the screams and cries of those who lost their lives, as well as describing the expressions of those who were affecting, such as describing their eyes. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">27 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 25 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Apologia Pro Poemate Meo || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wilfred Owen || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem demonstrates a contrast between the horror and the beauty that is perceived through war. The poet similar to his previous poem utilizes strong imagery of the environment of war of what the soldiers are going through.The poem is long in length, but in the beginning of each stanza opens with a positive message of courage, fellowship, and even beauty. Shows the slight positive aspects that can happen in war. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">28 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 30 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Arms and the Boy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wilfred Owen || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem uses good descriptions to illustrates the harsh environment of war such as "famishing for flesh", "zinc teeth", "hunger of blood", etc. There are a lot of metal descriptions to emphasize the cruel, and hazardous nature the soldiers inhibit. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">29 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 30 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Between Us Now || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thomas Hardy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem has an interesting structure with 3 stanzas, the second stanza seems to serve as the thing that is "between" the poet and his lover, further emphasizing the separation between them. The overall poem has a large emphasize on pace and speed of time, end even the past and the future, and time seems to be an object that is keeping them apart. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">30 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct. 30 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How Great My Gried || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thomas Hardy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is a relatively short poem, but it is very direct and straight to the point. The overall tone that seems to be expressed is rage mixed with depression due to the use of language using explanation marks and diction. There is repetition of the lines "How great my grief, my joys how few," which continues to portray the speaker's overall anxiety in the poem. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">31 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov. 1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I Have Lived With Shades || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thomas Hardy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The overall poem has a very organized structure, and is relatively long in length. The poem has a dark, and depressing tone, with imagery of decay, and rotting in the darkness. The personification of the rooms helps to demonstrate a empty, and hallow environment that the speaker is trapped in. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">32 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov. 5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I Said to Love || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thomas Hardy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uses a old Shakespearean language. The line "I Said to Love" is constantly repeated throughout, showing dominance of the speaker in the poem. The speaker conveys the message that it is alright to experience love, and it must be experienced without fear "We fear not such a threat from thee;/We are too old in apathy". The imagery of the warm suns helps to support the positive sides of love. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">33 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov.5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Broken Appointment || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thomas Hardy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Overall it is a sad and tragic poem that conveys the speaker's disappointment towards the one he loves. All his feelings seem to come to the forefront as he starts to question himself. The overall style and structure seems to be a bit clumsy and fragmented, which further demonstrates the pain the speaker is going through.The stanza starts and ends with you..., such as "You did not come" and "you did not love me", showing the overwhelming affect the woman has upon the speaker, ending with the final words to show his disappointment. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">34 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov 5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Christmas Ghost Story || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thomas Hardy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem portrays the speaker's agnostic views towards God and religion. The speaker seems to question some of the religious values from certain people. In this poem, the speaker has a lot of allusions, referencing from the bible, such as the"Man Crucified", as well as "Anno Domni". ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">35 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov 6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hymn to Lucifer || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aleister Crowley || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Speaker of the poem helps the demonstrate/characterize the nature of Lucifer, the devil. What is interesting is that it doesn't seem to be criticizing the devil, but slightly praising it, e.g "With noble passion, sun-souled Lucifer". The final lines of the poem "The Key of Joy is disobedience" continues the characterize Lucifer, as he is constantly referred to be the angel who disobeyed. The speaker seems to have a negative view in life, as he seems to see life's climax is death. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">36 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov 6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bouquet || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Langston Hughes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another example of Langston Hughes, short poems consisting of only 6 lines. Poem demonstrates the beauty of bouquet, and how its beauty can easily disappear "like snow". The poem seems to describe a celebration that us occurring, and the Bouquet serves the enlighten the mood and the environment. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">37 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That Crazed Girl || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">William Butler Yeats || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem describes a certain beauty that is found within the girl who recovered from a tragedy through music and art. "Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph". The girl seems to have survived a war field, and is slowly making her recovery. Yeats also presents a contrast calling the girl, "crazed" but at the same time, she is not crazy but courageous. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">38 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov 7 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">back to the machine gun || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Charles Bukowski || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The speaker has a slight humorous tone, using a very colloquial language and common slang. The language and tone, helps to characterize the speaker as a crude American. The there appears to have no organized structure in the poem, which continues to portray the speaker in the poem to be spontaneous. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">39 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov 7 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Pig || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Roald Dahl || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem overall is very comical as it is a narrative that tells a story of a gluttonous pig.The overall rhyme scheme was ABAB, that allows to poem to be more humorous, and makes it in a way, a bit childish. The poem at the end is disturbing as the pig at someone, characterizing the pig to be only concerned with food. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">40 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov 7 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last Night As I Was Sleeping || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Antonio MachadoTranslated by Robert Bly || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The overall poem is very repetitive, each stanza opens with "Last night as I was sleeping,/I dreamt—marvelous error!" The repetition helps to demonstrate the speaker's anxiety and overall concerns in life. In each stanza there is a progression of what is "inside" the speaker's heart, from a "spring", "beehive", "fiery sun", and finally God. The progression from spring to God, could possibly represent the speaker's repent, and remorse and is seeking aid from a higher power.The poem uses strong imagery from the different items within the speaker's heart, which help demonstrate the speaker's internal conflict. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">41 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov 7 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cake || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Roger McGough || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This poem is very immature and childish. The poem is really short, and it appears to have no deeper meaning other than eating cakes. The fact that the poem follows the structure of ABAB continues to support its childish nature. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">42 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov 18 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Weary Blues || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Langston Hughes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The overall tone of the speaker is very laid back, and calming. The poem relates well to the title of the poem, as it seems to have a rhythm of the overall flow of the poem, very bluesy. I can imagine someone "talking blues" to this poem with a guitar playing in the back ground with an AABB rhyme scheme. The poem itself contains lots of blues references and establishes a dark mood of loneliness, and all the speaker has is the blues. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">43 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov 18 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">She Walks in Beauty || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">George Gordon Byron || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The overall tone of the speaker appears to be completely mesmerized by the beauty of a woman. There are a lot of nature imagery which is used to compare the beauty of the woman. A lot of nature metaphors to further emphasize the woman's beauty not on the outside, but also on the inside as well. The overall poem has a smooth flow with the rhyme scheme of ABAB, continuing to establish how the speaker is infatuated with the woman. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">44 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ogden Nash || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Caution To Everybody |||||| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem is very simple in language, which makes its point clear. The speaker utilizes a humorous analogy comparing humans to an extinct bird. The speaker delivers a message that it is important to think before we make any action as "consider man, who may well become extinct/Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked."There is a slight humorous yet cynical tone in the poem, undermining mankind ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">45 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To A Daughter Leaving Home || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Linda Pastan || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem is very direct, it is obvious that the speaker is the parent of the child as he or she reminisces the past of the child. The poem's structure transitions from a close distance to a much further distance in the end. The poem makes a lot of time references, possibly illustrating the time lost once the daughter leaves home. The poem evokes a very sad emotion as the parent departs with the child. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">46 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Thanksgiving Poem || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul Laurence Dunbar || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The language of the poem is old shakespearean. The overall tone of the poem is very jubilant and religious. There are many references to God and the speaker is demonstrated to be extremely grateful for the life God has given him. The poem has a very organized and solid structure, demonstrating its formality. I felt as though the poem was read out loud by a pilgrim in one of the earliest thanksgiving, showing his gratitude for God, and for the wonderful life he has now. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">47 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Woman Work || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maya Angelou || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem demonstrates the struggle of woman during the that specific period of America's history. The poem is presented from the perspective of the working class woman who daily works and works even in the most difficult of times. The poem has beautiful references to nature, but sadly has a negative connotation to it as "Sun, rain, curving sky/Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone/Star shine, moon glow/You're all that I can call my own." The stanza conveys that the working class woman doesn't have a lot of ownership to materialistic goods, only the nature around them.In the beginning of the poem, it seems like a task list for the woman to complete. ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 Dec 2011 47/45-75 ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">March: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem reveals the speakers mental deterioration. Although it maintains an organized structure, the use of language can be a bit chaotic as the speaker constantly questions society, as to why is his life so terrible. The tone of the speaker greatly contributes to the overall theme that the poem is a meditation on the painful experience of seeing someone lose his or her vision. The poem is very cacophonous, of the sounds of “t”, “ck”, “g”, and “d”, highlighting some of the internal struggles of the speaker. The simile of monsters and black holes is carefully utilized to create the sense of lost and despair.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">48. Blind by Charles Webb **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Great use of enjambment to emphasize the importance of certain words, mainly pronouns. The nature imagery of clouds, and the sky establishes a sense of longing from the speaker as he is trying to recover from a loss. I admire how the poet creates an unexpected meaning for the clouds. In this case, clouds mean nothingness, that just drift uncontrollably in the sky.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">49. Some Clouds by Steve Kowit **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Passport used as symbol of self identity. Emotion of indignity is conveyed at having identity taken away or not being recognized by those the speaker nourished with his own hands. Defiantly declaring that hearts of people are identity, not passports, and so take away my passport! Use of contrast between nature imagery and man-made imagery to contrast freedom of identity/being recognized with imprisonment in lost identity.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">50. Passport by Mahmoud Darwish **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem helps demonstrate how complicated human relationships can sometimes be. The speaker serves like a narrator who is describing the situation that is happening between a couple. There is a specific rhyme scheme ABAB to kinda portray the back and forth relationship with the couple (kind of playful). Through out the poem, the speaker presents a lot of contrast to show the conflict between the couple. The title is interesting because the speaker literally is the witness who sees the struggle between the couple.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">51. Witness by Martha Collins **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem is very interesting as it seems to interrupt itself. The enjambment used in the poem supports the distracted, disjointed tone of the speaker. The structure itself is also quite chaotic. It is actually a bit humorous because the speaker’s mother is dying, however he or she is focused whether or not the birds on the sky are swans or not.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">52. Not Swans by Susan Ludvigson **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is a fantasy poem about the dead. The poem repeats “they”, demonstrating the prevalent nature of the dead as they progress and invade people’s houses. At first I thought “the dead” referred to zombies, however it has a more sentimental reference. The poem fantasies that the dead return for closure and has a sense of longing. I thought it was comedic at first, but it turns out to be a relatively sad poem.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">53. The Dead by Susan Mitchell **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From title completely describes what the poem is about, there are no surprises. The poem beautifully illustrates the Missouri environment through the various nature imagery of the plants, clouds, snow, water source, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">54. Herd of Buffalo Crossing The Missouri On Ice by William Matthews **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">April: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A really repetitive poem, nearly in every line it opens with “a change”. The poem has a rhyme scheme of AABB, as well as a steady rhythm of an Iambic pentameter. Each line is simple, and easy flowing, possibly demonstrating how easy it is for a change to occur or happen. The content is very diverse and the poet/speaker uses a broad range of examples of change such as location, age, job, rules, society, etc. I like the final line “A change of sails, blowing you into the unknown”, demonstrating the random and spontaneity of change.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">55. Changes by Ethan Allen **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am getting a feeling that he uses the similar styles of short, simple, and concise structure in his poems. “Don’t” has each line to be a statement from the speaker, as if talking to another person. It poem’s structure is also very repetitive, but the poem progresses and gets more and more direct and declarative.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">56. Don’t by Ethan Allen **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Speaker grown up child who used to believe that all things never died and would always return. Transition in line “Later this vision is not True” True capitalized to signify some sort of ultimate truth – perhaps about death or circle of life. Those who die would not return. Speaker mentions grandmother, pet parakeet who have not returned from death. Poem once again turns when speakers explores concept of whether these dead things have transitioned into another state and have indeed returned. Inquisitive tone as speaker asks where do dead things go?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">57. In Childhood by Kimiko Hahn **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Overall the speaker has a very depressing tone as he defines his loneliness. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The speaker has a powerful and evoking use of imagery. There is a progression as he illustrates his loneliness, of the world around him, but then how the loneliness impacts his mentality. The poem overall maintains a cool dark atmosphere, illustrating a “mist”, “dark of night”, “lonely tears that cool my face”.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">58. Lonely Life by Mark R Slaughter **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A vary different style compared to the previous poem. The poem itself has a very simple structure each line lists a object, or a person that is lonely. It has a rhyme scheme of AABB, a reason for this rhyme scheme is so that the poem would be more memorable.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">59. Loneliness by Tess Connor **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A very interesting poem that personifies death. The speaker illustrates the common image of death as the grim reaper (a hooded figure, in chains, with a scythe). The speaker is very imperative, expressing his annoyance of death questioning his fate, and question the right of death to take lives. It has an AABB rhyme scheme, with a Iambic pentameter rhythm emphasizing on certain words that personifies death
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">60. It’s Death Again by Mark Slaughter **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Has a much more solemn tone than the previous poem. The speaker still personifies death, describing him as a hooded figure. The poem uses a lot of vivid imagery illustrating the hollow emptiness that death brings. The overall poem creates a sense of deterioration, and loss through the imagery of death. Speaker uses old Shakespearean language such as “hark!”, and“nil”. It feels like its one of Macbeth’s sonnets.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">61. Beldame of Death by Mark R Slaughter **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reader is left to ponder the significance of jigsaw pieces throughout poem, which are only revealed as pieces of love in the last line, building a narrative tension. Speaker describes the puzzle pieces as a ceramic nightmare, a mess to be put together with glue and paste. Use of first person pronoun “we” creates sense of unity and cooperation between two lovers. A sense of perseverance also established as the endure ceramic nightmare and achieve the “well earned puzzle” called LOVE.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">62. Jigsaw Puzzles and You **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The overall poem conveys the hollow, and empty life of the speaker. The poem takes an interesting approach as the speaker makes no significant reaction as death approaches. The speaker seems to be ambivalent towards death, accepting, yet depressing as he claims his life has no importance “Death and I so bound”, demonstrating they are fit for each other.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">63. Death and I by Mark R Slaughter **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem is very repetitive repeating “death is” in every line. Each line describes what the speaker thinks about death. The examples that the speaker provides are both vague and specific, demonstrating that death has endless possibilities of occurring. The speaker appears to be suicidal as there is no resilience to death, and he suggests helping death with “a knife” and how death will end his misery. The reader can easily detect the depressing mentality of the speaker.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">64. Death by Nick Andrew Smith **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem has a very simple structure, with the AABB rhyme scheme. From the poem I can detect a sense of longing for the end of a childhood. I enjoy the use of imagery to create the very tranquil atmosphere of the area around the sidewalk.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">65. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem has a very repetitive nature, constantly reiterating “dance me to the end of love”. The overall atmosphere that is created in the poem is very romantic through the imagery that reveals the poet’s passion. I really enjoy the symbolism of the burning violin that reflects the delicate and romantic nature of the poet.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">66. Dance Me To The End of Love by Leonard Cohen **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem is very direct towards an ex lover rather than to a general audience. The content of the poem is very personal, I could actually feel the sense of pain and desperation from the speaker. There is an reference of the end of WWII to portray the extent of the poet’s anxiety.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">67. Waiting For The Miracle by Leonard Cohen **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another poem of lost love. The poem does a good job of portraying the loss love to demonstrate the speakers sense of longing. The imagery the poet uses creates a sense of the lover’s presence that will always be there with him. The speaker repeats the descriptions of the eyes of his lover, she will always be in his mind.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">68. Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye by Leonard Cohen **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The poem is extremely short, simply stating the four letter word is JAZZ. The poet uses interesting words, describing it as “naughty, sexy, cerebral, but solarplexy”. I guess the structure of the poem can reflect the nature of jazz, although it may be complex in terms of the atmosphere it can create, in reality it is very simple in nature.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">69. Four-Letter Word by James A Emanuel **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is another relatively short, direct poem depicting the suicide of a woman. The speaker asks a lot of questions trying to rationalize the decision of the woman. But within his questioning he finds the answer of her suicide “what friends?”. The speaker suggests that she might have killed herself out of sheer loneliness. There is a sense of regret from the speaker, as if he had the opportunity to have her, but simply chose not to.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">70. For A Depressed Woman by James A. Emanuel **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Speaker seems to be conveying the intensity of passion between two human beings. Short, concise, powerful and purposeful diction. Fibers and flesh – reference to human tissue? Electricity – energy or tension is transuded through a simple sigh. Speaker can see sun-bordered clouds in the addressed’s eyes – illustrating the great attention to detail or her proximity with “you”. Swooshing of curtains to suggest bedrooms? Temples like drums – increased an strong pulse rate. Hypnotic pulsations, dreams loud blink of light bulb, kaleidoscopes convulse – sexual intercourse and orgasm? Intensity and passion conveyed throughout.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">71. Current by Anna Piutti **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another example of personifying death as sort of the villain who is against the speaker. The poem focuses on the moment the speaker sees death and his reaction. A lot of cold and dark imagery was utilized to illustrate the intensifying moment when the speaker sees death. The poem does a great job to show the fear of death, but as well as the resilience from the speaker, who clearly wants to live. Each stanza in the poem ends with “the angel of death at his kill” possibly demonstrating the inevitable outcome of the speaker who will face death in the end.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">72. Angel of Death by Udiah **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again, another very repetitive poem. Each line contains “I will not change”, demonstrating the conviction of the speaker and he unwillingness to change into someone she is not. Because of its repetitive nature, I got really tired of them poem keep on repeating “I will not change, I will not change, etc”.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">73. I will not change by Ashley Dietz **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the diction, the poem demonstrates a wide range of musical terms, characterizes the knowledge/passion for music of the speaker. The poem illustrates the great range of effect music can have upon on an individual. The poem also highlights the close connection between the speaker and his or her step-daughter, how they feel connected through music. I enjoy how the poet compares music through imagery.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">74. Loud Music by Stephen Dobyns **

The poem expresses a solemn respect for those who passed in war. The poem has a very solid structure, which supports its entire formality. There is a lot of repetition of the words “they” do emphasize the importance of respecting and honoring the dead. The poem is very depressing as it expresses gratitude to those who passed, and we live on in their memory.
 * 75. To Remember the Fallen **

Every stanza of the poem consists of a single rhyming couplet. It praises the trees for being close to nature, and having the time to pray to god. In the speaker’s eyes, only nature is true beauty.
 * 76. Trees by Joyce Kilmer**

Possibly a poem translated from Spanish as most of his other poems are in Spanish. Sad mood strongly established using allusions to Cyrano and Quixote, two men which are thought to be among the most unfortunate.
 * 77. Weeping by Federico Garcia Lorca **

Strong imagery of grass being overgrown in the house especially as it "extends miles and miles into the walls". However, contrast to such an unpleasant scenery, the speaker focuses on the importance of new life as the old man rocks in a rocking chair with an infant.
 * 78. Grass by Russell Edson **

When I first glanced at the poem I thought it was weird, as the narrative is expressed inside the mindset of a killer who is planning a murder. Each stanza is very specific, and I think the poem characterizes the killer to be very careful and pensive. The speaker, like Macbeth also weighs and tries to rationalize his decision to kill.
 * 79. Premeditation by Mark R Slaughter **

The poem is very direct/imperative. Even though there is a strong voice, the overall mood of the poem is very depressing as it is about suicide. I lot of the ideas expressed though out the poem relates to the speaker’s unwillingness to live on anymore in the world. There is a good use of nature imagery as the poet reflects that “there is no more light” or hope in this world anymore.
 * 80. Murder Me by Tajeeanah Ross **

It questions or attempts to express the justification of murder. The poem seems to have various references to war, and asks the reader whether or not if it was right. The speaker utilizes various “killing” vocabulary to demonstrate its gruesome nature.
 * 81. Slaughter of the Innocent **

The poem is relatively comical as it seems to mock the amount of tension in murder. The tone of the speaker is fairly light-hearted, which is interesting considering the fact that the poem is about killing. There is good color imagery of the crimson blood, and utilizes onomatopoeia of the dripping and the various sounds blood can make. I thought it was very disturbing.
 * 82. **** Murder Murder **

This poem is about a man describing how wonderful the woman he thinks about is. To start off, there is a pleasant rhyme scheme present throughout the poem to express a joyful mood when the man thinks about the woman. Furthermore, lots of imagery is present when describing her beauty, as it would be impossible to do her justice without being poetic. Moreover, it was nice to see that the speaker also referred to the woman’s inner beauty as well as her outer beauty.
 * 83. She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon Byron **

This poem is about the speaker talking about two kinds of hearts. He sets this up by considering having two hearts: one that pumps blood, and the other pumping love. There is also a lot of paradoxes woven throughout the poem, stating the heart in two opposite conditions – probably referring to the differences in the two kinds of hearts.
 * 84. Hearts by Naji Almurisi **

This is an extremely short poem, and its most outstanding feature is the repetition of the first two lines of the poem at the end, to give the poem a nostalgic, even wistful feel. Multiple metaphors are used to emphasize the passion and love shared by the speaker and her love
 * 85. The Letters by Eileen Carney Hulme **

Describes the sincere beauty in the town Oxford. Prevalent images of nature and his description of the innate beauty of nature describes his pleasure for the town.
 * 86. Oxford by Jack London **

Reveals the speaker's discontent with contemporary world trying to boast their knowledge (although they cannot substantiate their argument that they actually know something) Sardonic tone is prevalent as she uses repetition that this is something "funny," while it means quite the opposite. Tries to convey that message that she is against scientific findings and only believes in god and his creation.
 * 87. Funny but Not So Funny by Mary Louis Mann Gabumpa **

A poem about death, the narrator describes her view on Death after her father dies. Through the use feeding him soup as a symbol for care, she is first regretful that she didn't spend enough time with him in his final years. This then leads her to remember times with her father during her childhood. What was interesting was the mention of her father having 6 fingers on each hand from birth, however the purpose of that reference eluded me. The narrator then goes into a inner reflection state where she reveals her fear "not waking up" through the use of mention of nightmares.
 * 88. The Night Is Full of Us by JULIE SUK **

This poem, along with several ludicrous statements, addresses major fears that whole nations succumb to. Perhpas reveals destructive nature of human beings
 * 89. **** Bind by Amy Lowell **

The poem is very repetitive, stating “this is a warning” throughout each line in the poem. The poem has an ABAB rhyme scheme, allowing the poem to flow very smoothly. Because of such repetition, the speaker’s anxiety can easily be detected in the poem, delivering the message if we don’t change our current lifestyles it would lead to the end of the world.
 * 90. ****This is a warning by Sylvia Chidi**

The poem has a very solid structure, and uses a lot of nature imagery describing the various weather conditions such as the rain, and sun etc. The speaker seems to pay homage to the great weather that he or she is currently experiencing. There is also a transition as the “weather” seems to progress to be more violent, possibly demonstrating the anger from the weather god?
 * 91. Weather God by Lindsay Dougherty **

I thought this poem is very interesting as it questions what defines a hero. The speaker seems to question the common belief or impression of what is a hero, and rather is amazed by the over glorification of it. There are allusions such as of Hercules beating the hydra. The poem itself has a solid structure, often each stanza opens with “A Hero?”
 * 92. A Hero? By ****Timothy Venard**

It is interesting to see this poem as it differs from the previous one. The speaker in this poem demonstrates his or her gratitude to the “hero”. The tone expressed from the speaker shows great respect to the hero utilizing various metaphors stating the hero is “a rock”.
 * 93. My Hero by Nathan Kraft **

The snake in the poem seems to have some religious significance of Adam and Eve. I think it is interesting as the snake might have some representation associated with evil. Throughout the poem it describes the disturbing movement of the snake as it constricts, and binds the speaker. The smooth flowing nature of the poem seems to support the fact that is it about a snake.
 * 94. Snake; an oracle of oath by David Aoloch Bion **

95. ** How To Kill by Keith Douglas ** The speaker seems to be in a war zone trying to justify whether or not he can take a life. The poem questions the definition of masculinity, does killing make you a man? The poet utilizes a lot of metaphors such as weightless mosquitoes as he is haunted under his current circumstances. As the poem progresses, there is a obvious development of time as the “child” becomes a “man”.

96. ** Conversation by Ai ** The poem exams various social interactions, and the need for people to converse and talk. The speaker gives off a tone of loneliness as she monitors various people talking to on another. The poem is free verse, as it seems to demonstrate the speaker’s mental thought process with no specific structure. The poem quotes the various things people say in conversations, as the speaker listens and understands the need of the transfer of ideas through conversation.

97. ** America by Olivia Taylor ** This is a clear example of a very patriotic poet. The speaker clearly demonstrates his pride to be an American, through his use of imagery of describing the colors of the American flag, as well as the idea of freedom and liberty.

98. ** In a London Drawingroom **** by George Eliot ** The poem describes the lively views of London through the eyes of a painter trying to draw on an empty canvas. The speaker does a great job to target the 5 senses of the reader. Color appears to be a strong motif in the poem, of the suns rays, and even yellow because of the smoke. The speaker presents both sides of London both the beauty and grim aspects of it.

99. ** A Loafer by John Davidson ** The poem follows an ABAB rhyme scheme, describing the speaker who is a loafer around the streets. The speaker utilizes vivid imagery to describe the mess that he is in. The speaker is very assertive although he is waiting for death, making loud claims as he welcomes death. The poem makes various biblical references as he talks more about his desire for death.

100. ** A Ballad of Hell by John Davidson ** This is a very long poem. The poet utilizes very vivid imagery of hell describing the pain from the poet as well as the flames, even seeing Satan. Various objects were used such as a rose, a knife, wood, and a dagger. I thought this poem was used effectively in cooperation of lost love, showing the speaker’s mental deterioration. The poem also has a ABAB rhyme scheme, the style is almost Shakespearean when Macbeth began to lose his mind.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The poem is from the perspective of a child, this is supported as the language is often incorrect (and uncle there tell me..). Overall, it is a very dark poem where we see a child separated from his mother due to her “mental issues”. When she finally comes back we find out that she had actually gone to prison. The poem also implies that it is the child who is mental with certain hints within his dialogue.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">101. Mental Mommy by Liam Rector **