Poetic Reflections: A Thread in My Tapestry

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Mehreen Ahmed
Peasley
ELA – 7
2, February, 2016
Reflections of a Thread in a Tapestry
To be frank, I did enjoy writing poems for this project. I found that writing poetry was rather easy for me as long as creating rhyme schemes go. Each and every of my poems have some type of personal or emotional connection. When I write poetry, if the poem has no connection to me it simply has no meaning to me either. The main idea behind my cover art and my title, “a Thread in a Tapestry’, were that the connections between all my poems were that they were all parts of a whole. Nostalgia and Immortal were about one of my favorite memories, Those Who Were Amongst Us was about my personal views on society, and Vulnerable was about the people whom I love. These are all parts of who I am as a person. The idea was that a thread is a part in a tapestry and in my art the small details and designs came together and created a larger picture. I …show more content…

The common is that they are both from the same memory. However, one poem takes on a more bitter approach to the memory than the other. In Immortal I love how the poem is all in all so serene and peaceful. The style and form captures the ideas in the poem because even though they are so similar they have different tones and moods. In Nostalgia, it hits the reader with bitter reality like it does in real life, I wasn`t expecting it so I didn`t let the reader either. In Immortal, I let the reader relive in the vivid memories I do when I think about that memory so it`s kind of like a secret the reader and I share. My intended effect on the reader was for them to have the same reactions as I did- to enjoy the tranquility of Immortal and the harsh reality in Nostalgia. I was successful in getting the reader to have the same reactions as I

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