Robert

Poem Journal

importance of communication in a relationship. The three major stanzas suggest the three feelings mentioned above. || a battle drum, motivates other black men to fight back for their rights, as they are also American. || obscured from the truth by these dreams. || 29 || Remora, Remoraby || Thomas Lux || (interesting word choice: (the ones in the brackets) moron, idiot, imbecile, nincompoop, interesting use of size, magnification-related words - small [fish], great sea..., oxymoron - the top beneath all else - indicates the blue current at the top of the ocean, which is actually beneath all the land areas) ||
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 * 1 || Aug-12 || Carpe Diem || William Shakespeare || Youth is short, if you have someone to love go right for them, before its too late. ||
 * 2 || Aug-16 || Fire and Ice || Robert Frost || Engenders a feeling that no matter what decision one chooses, there will be a probability that the results will be the same. so just decide on what you think! ||
 * 3 || Aug 22 || If you forget me || Pablo Neruda || Conveys the idea of how one can easily be attached to loving another person but at the same time detaching from their relationship, thus stressing the
 * 4 || Aug 22 || I Too Sing America || Langston Hughes || This poem suggests the struggle for black and white equity among society where the 'darker brother' was given orders by the others, this poem, as if
 * 5 || Aug 22 || A Dream within a Dream || Edgar Allan Poe || This poem is rather mystifying. To me, this poem indicates the obsession over a thing or being, as if their disappearance is just a dream and they are
 * 6 || Aug 22 || There is another sky || Emily Dickinson || A beautiful description of a heaven like scenery, an evergreen wonderland where nature sprawls out of all corners. Instills warmth within me when i read this. ||
 * 7 || Aug 22 || Messy Room || Shel Silverstein || Unfortunately, in many cases this poem reflects the reality of my room ||
 * 8 || Aug 22 || Fast rode the knight || Stephen Crane || The Poet utilizes cacophonous sounds such as St-, Bl-, Sp-, -ek.. to majestify the fast rode knight and his impetuous actions to save his love. ||
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 * 10 || Aug 26 || A girl || Ezra Pound || I like the poet's use of metaphors to describe his love as a tree, it makes me feel like every line ascending causes the tree to grow into a part of 'me' and at the end root 'downards'. ||
 * 11 || Aug 26 || Life is fine || Langston Hughes || Hughes' poem uses repetition to describe two events where 'I' decided to end his life but hesitates before doing so, his poem sends out a message telling people to not die for things such as love. I like his line when it said "i coul've died for love- but for livin' i was born'. I think this is really true, one should never give up their life for a reason as there are many roadblocks in life, we just need to walk over them. ||
 * 12 || Aug 26 || To you || Walt Whitman || This poem talks about a person asking his or her love to run awa with him. Although really romantic, i do not think this would be at the best of my interest. ||
 * 13 || Aug 26 || I wandered Lonenly as a cloud || William Wordsworth || Poem starts off to be relatively sad and lonely but then progresses become more cheerful, i think this could be a suggestion for poeple to stop acting upon themselves and start becoming involved with the community ||
 * 14 || Aug 26 || Picture Puzzle Piece || Shel Silverstein || This poem is rather confusing but then it brings me back to childhood with all the cartoon characters that appear in the poem. I guess my childhood is a picture puzzle piece to my life ||
 * 15 || Aug 26 || Stopping by woods on a snowy evening || Robert Frost || I think this poem talks about the nature and its beauty within, the person in the poem pauses for a short break to view the sight of nature. ||
 * 16 || Aug 26 || Touched by an Angel || Maya Angelou || The peom describes the power of love and how it can struck away any possible chain of fear or any mechanism that can stop one from chasing after it. The poem also hiddenly hints the downside of a relationship, pain. ||
 * 17 || Aug 30 || If I Ran the Zoo || Dr. Suess || A light rhyming poem telling the story of a flock of obsks going to find a job in nobsks ||
 * 18 || Aug 30 || Greatheart and the brain drain || Dr. Suess || A funny description of the life of a scarecrow and the things it wants, on the other hand it may be a poem telling about the hard things aging can bring ||
 * 19 || Aug 30 || On Aging || Dr. Suess || once again tells the tragedy of becoming an old man and the downsides of becoming of this age ||
 * 20 || Sep 05 || I have a Rendezvous with Death || Alan Seeger || The poem exploits multiple possibly ways of death and the speaker is determined that death is soon and inevitable. i do not like this type of depressing poem ||
 * 21 || Sep 05 || Dead Snips proud men || Carl Sandburg || defines death as a powerful exsistance outweighing that of the governemnt and All.. I think this is rather true as if dead, no one can do anything ||
 * 22 || Sep 05 || Let me die a youngman's death || Roger Mcgaugh || The speaker wants to die a death full of excitement and joy and not a death of a typical old man, i understand his feelings. when i am of his age, i would not like to just die and not be known ||
 * 23 || Sep 05 || Death, to the Dead and Forevermore || Robert Louis Stevenson || Commemorates the dead and praises them for their highest contributions to the society. ||
 * 24 || Sep 07 || Sympathy || Emma Lazaurus || A really sad poem, i understand the feeling of the speaker. Although the women you love cannot love you anymore, you still love her and quietly admire her for what she is doing currently. ||
 * 25 || Sep 07 || Symphathy || Rabindranath Tagore || This poem is about a baby seeking for a mother's care, the speaker reflects my feelings at times when i was young. I too felt like i needed more attention from people around me. Great poem and great metaphors ||
 * 26 || Sep 07 || A Study in Feeling || Ellis Parker Butler || Poem talks about how a musician needs to be able to feel others in order to transpose the medium into music ryhthem. I think this is really true in the sense of not only music, but also for art too. ||
 * 27 || Oct 17 || The Second coming || William Butler yeats || i read this poem in tribute to Things Fall Apart, it really demonstrates the chaos of society and how everything is actually falling apart ||
 * 28 || Oct 17 || Cloony the clown || Shel silverstein || This poem is relaxing and has a sense of humor that illustrates a sloppy side of human beings, althoughthis poem is really funny i think it is trying to imply a sense of understandment for the clown ||
 * 29 || Oct 26 || London,1802 || William Wordsworth || this poem is written in old english and is intergrated wiht imagery of the power london held as a country. I do not like these kind of poems ||
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 * 31 || Oct 29 || Pebble || Zbigniew Herbert || (//Translated by Peter Dale Scott and Czeslaw Milosz)// (interesting choice of topic; ordinary, and negligble thing - described with words such as "perfect", "dignity", "calm", "clear"... very interesting way of looking at a common object) ||
 * 32 || Oct 29 || Happiness || Elisabeth Frost || (first person narrative - feels like someone is actually talkting to me 'see', 'now say'...... italicized key words of the poem draws attention. the contents reflect reality - nowadays, while most people say that they strive for happiness, they don't really welcome/greet happiness. use of metaphorical language [word flower] in describing various connotations/different interpretations of words - 'a thing in words turns and flowers...'. repetition of happiness stresses the speaker's conviction in that mere word could contribute in bringing real happiness to human lives) ||
 * 33 || nov 4 || The Song Of Empedocles || Matthew Arnold || (second person narritive- directe to someone ) the poem's tone is depressed and sorrow, it uses words such as melanccholy, fear, unwilling linger as well as cold and darkness. descending imagery such as radiant down, sunlight scatters describes the dispers of the relationships ||
 * 34 || nov 4 || A man may make a remark || Emily Dickinson || I feel that this poem expresses an obvious dissatisfaction with males and their “remarks”. “it in itself is quiet”, meaning it may not seem like much on its own. However it may “furnish the Fuse unto a Spark”, meaning that it can enrage someone else, and cause them to explode. The later stanza seems to plead with the men to stop, and warns them of the consequences with “ powder exists in charcoal before it exists in fire”. ||
 * 35 || nov 9 || I Knows how to forget || Emily Dickinson || A poem that is filled with questions to the audience. She states that knowing how to forget is a good thing, but later seems to point out the many problems that are actually inherent within such a seemingly good trait. ||
 * 36 || nov 9 || It was not death, for I stood up || Emily Dickinson || This poem seems to be the author convincing herself of all the reason why she cannot be dead. She could stand when the dead cannot, the night did not swallow her existence as she could clearly hear the afternoon bells. She feels a burning on her skin, but she claims that it is not fire, but rather a form of sirocco. However for some reason she feels all these things and even goes on to imagine her own burial ||
 * 37 || nov 9 || Charge of the Light Brigade || Lord Alfred Tennyson || This poem does well to highlight the heroism displayed by the honorable Light Brigade, which successfully attempted an impossible feat. The brigade soldiers are portrayed as heroes, and the lines of the enemy are associated with dark imagery such as “valley of death, Mouth of Hell, Jaws of Death”. Ends the poem stating the great honor these men earned through their brave actions. ||
 * 38 || nov11 || The Captain || Lord Alfred Tennyson || The captain in this poem was not a good one; he ruled with oppression and often had bad temper. All of his crewmen held a grudge against him. One day the captain orders an attack on an enemy French Vessel, but when the time came to fire, not one man budged. Unfortunately the other side fired, and the whole crew was decimated. However even in the end, every crewman watched their captain go down, and was satisfied that they had defied the oppressor. This poem perhaps is teaching a moral that a leader should treat his men well if he is to expect much from them. ||
 * 39 || nov 11 || Boonies || D.A. Powell || In this poem, the poet is relating back to his innocent childhood life, when adolescence allowed their life to be full of color. But now due to growing up he has lost many of these old feelings of happiness and wishes dearly for it to come back to him so that he may “be beautiful” again. ||
 * 40 || nov 11 || The Harlot’s House || Oscar Wilde || The poem presents contrasting images of the nature of love and lust. The narrator appears both disgusted and fascinated with what he sees in the window of the harlot. The prostitutes try to dance but can only sidle (creep or slither). They laugh but their laughter comes out thin and shrill. They even try to sing, but fail. Their male partners, described as phantoms, have no true passion within them either. They seem only motivated by sexual desire. Sexuality and death repeatedly appear together. ||
 * 41 || nov 14 || In Eden || David Ferry || (no rhyme scheme, only three line. Uses metaphorical language to speak of divorce and separation as humans when separated from the garden of Eden) ||
 * 42 || nov 14 || Lines || John Keats || I noticed the interesting structure of the poem to be a composition of three limericks. Keats makes connections with words which are not often associated with each other as in "ripest quiet" and "shadows of sweet sound". This makes the presence of silence more sensual, which contributes to the tense mood. ||
 * 43 || nov 14 || Where's the Poet? || John Keats || La Belle Dame Sans Merci The poem is divided into twelve stanzas of four lines each, every even line rhyming. Although there are loving scenes in the poem, the mood seems to be always rather bland and cold due to negatively connoted words such as "starv'd" and "slumber'd" as well as to the constant repetition of "pale" and "cold". ||
 * 44 || nov 14 || La Belle Dame Sans Merci || John Keats || Although it may be stretching to say that this poem deifies poets,it definitely presents poets as a very potent being. This is seen most obviously as the word "Poet" is capitalized even though in the middle of the sentence (similar to how "He" is capitalized when referring to God). This is exemplified further as the "Poet" is not only able to understand all human, but also all animal's of the kind. ||
 * 45 || nov 17 || Epic || Patrick Kavanagh || This poem was particularly hard to understand, perhaps due to my lack of general knowledge to pick up the many allusions made throughout the work. ||
 * 46 || nov 17 || Peace || . Patrick Kavanag || Peace is personified as a male existence. The sad and hopeless mood is presented through the imagery of overgrown grass and the country fellows worrying about food. ||
 * 47 || nov 19 || Weeping || Federico Garcia Lorca || 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. ||
 * 48 || nov19 || Restaurant || Harold Pinter - || This poem does not employ any extremely difficult words or complex literary features. The only apparent literary feature is the presence of mood in this poem. A bright mood is created at the beginning with "laughing" actions in a large, open, and crowded place like a "restaurant". The poem ends with a sadder mood as people "shed tears" in a more cramped space like a "taxi". ||
 * 49 || no 20 || Poem (Don't look...) || Harold Pinter || The World is personified to "chuck out all its light" and "stuff us in the chokepit of its dark". Strong imagery such as "fat suffocated place" to reflect the unpleasant state of the place. ||
 * 50 || nov 20 || HAIR || Liam Wilkinson || Hair is used as a symbol of age; as his hair grows long, he feels older. The speaker compares himself to John Lennon and The Beatles, however recognizes that he is not as grand as them, hence he is in the "arena of my own cup". ||
 * 51 || nov 20 || Twice Shy || Seamus Heaney || Language is obscure and confusing, but paints a picture of two shy people beginning a tentative relationship after suffering mishaps in previous relationships. Interesting word choices and vocab make this poem nice to read. ||
 * 52 || nov 20 || I Won, You Lost || Philip Levine || It's mocking but poignant, clearly reflects the speaker's brooding memories and even regret. Contrast of new and old images increases nostalgia and the bitterness felt at the loss of someone dear versus the hatred for a violent past. ||
 * 53 || nov 20 || Hanging Fire || - Audre Lorde || The title has nothing directly to do with the poem. Provocative and controversial, it speaks of the neglecting of a young boy who has so many insecurities and regrets. Melancholy and regretful, the tone is not very enjoyable. Repetition of the last line of each stanza emphasizes the lonely voice of the young speaker. ||
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