How do we relate to a poem? And how do we differ from it? We resemble poetry in a way that life provides us with varieties. While we constantly develop, we often encounter victory and failures and learn from them. Sometimes we are full of colors and happiness, and sometimes, we are in a gothic setting. We assimilate to a poem in a way that we don’t always have the answers to our questions. My uncertain voice, irregular pattern, unknown image, and my varying moods and tones are what defines me, and it is the kind of poem that I am. Throughout out my life, I contained my Filipino values while adapting to American culture that shapes who I am today. I have spent my life wandering like a tiny bubble drifting through the winds and circling in patterns …show more content…
What determines my behaviors? The MTA? Overwhelming college work? Stress? What are my moods and tones? I can either be really calm or extremely energetic depending on the event; it never favors one side. Most often, my mood shifts from a hundred to zero real quick. For example, my subway rides during the morning often affect my mood for the entire day. I start off with an energizing walk to the station where I encounter a crowd that would already be complaining about the delays. If only the MTA was clean, comfortable, strictly disciplined, cool, doesn’t fluctuate the fares, and constantly arrives on time, I would have one less stressful situation to worry about. Furthermore, if only people didn’t yell at each other like when my roommate yells at me for the unwashed dishes, the soaking bathroom, and the untidy living room, I would have been the nicest person with the best attitude. This mood shift is a silent reflection of my life – the chaos, uncertainty, and disorganization of things. But, without this, the responsibility of reconnecting with my bliss wouldn’t be a part of my routine. These ups and down of my mood and tones are the one that provides balance. It encourages me to breathe and reconnect with my tranquility to grant myself some slack and reevaluate my goals accordingly. Like in my poem, when certain events happen, I would exaggerate and shift my tone to express my feelings and emotions. Although, as I transition, the mood shifts to a subtler
Poems are forms of communication that give an applicable view of the past, present and future events. Reading the poem titled “America”, written by Richard Blanco brought me memories from my childhood in my parent’s house and also what is happening now in my house as a parent. The poem explains how one person doesn’t have all the knowledge about something. It also, describes the daily life struggles I experienced during my childhood, when my parent 's and I moved from our hometown to live in another town becuase of their work and it brings to light the conflict of cultures I and my children are going through since we moved to United State of America .
As Edgar Allan Poe once stated, “I would define, in brief the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.” The two poems, “Birthday,” and “The Secret Life of Books” use different diction, theme, and perspective to give them a unique identity. Each author uses different literary devices to portray a different meaning.
Through different elements of poetic literature the poets and their poems succeed to communicate their themes of love and family relationships. Poems were meant to express feelings of anger, love, money, or work management. Although some are written in different forms whether it is a sonnet or a haiku. Either way the poets used different techniques and word forms to get their selected theme across to the readers. The first theme that can be deciphered from poets is: family relationships. Two poems that exhibit this theme are: My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke and Schizophrenia by Jim Stevens. Both poems are similar yet different depending on the reader’s perspective. The second theme that can be deciphered from poets is: love. Two poems
When the issue of Animal Testing is brought up in the course of a conversation, almost every single person that is involved in this discussion will have opinions that differ in some way, shape, or form. Many people will talk about the horrific conditions that animals are forced to live under, as well as the pain and suffering that they must endure while being tested. However, these conditions are not all that horrible when you take into account the state of the world we live in. This issue can be debated back and forth until the end of time. It is an issue involving two totally opposite views, pros versus cons. Pro-Con. The Con side will state that so many animals are needlessly used while in a test, but according to Roger Marshall, large numbers must be used in tests in order to account for statistically reliable results (Marshall 1). The Con side will also say it is not needed, and it serves no purpose, however, animal testing is a great thing, because it can help find cures for human illnesses, it can aid in the advancements of medical procedures, and it can also find cures for illnesses of animals. For many years, performing research on animals has had invaluable benefits for the human race, and without the constant developments we receive from it, we might still be plagued by the most medieval of viruses that we do not even think about in this day in age. The probability of heart attacks, strokes, and kidney failure would greatly increase if we did not possess the medication we can now use to control high blood pressure. According to the American Medical Progress Education Foundation, great advancements have been made regarding cardiology, including coronary blood flow, coronary bypass techniques and high blood pressure medication (Research 2). Many medications have been produced as a result of testing on animals, including insulin, the medication used to regulate diabetes. If animals were not used in medical research, we might still be living in a world where we must fear diseases like polio, smallpox, and even measles. Human Benefits. Medicine alone is not the only thing that has been vastly improved due to animal testing, the way we treat diseases and surgeries has all drastically changed and improved.
The three sources I have selected are all based on females. They are all of change and transformation. Two of my selections, "The Friday Everything Changed" by Anne Hart, and "Women and World War II " By Dr. Sharon, are about women’s rites of passage. The third choice, "The sun is Burning Gases (Loss of a Good Friend)" by Cathleen McFarland is about a girl growing up.
Many poets write about life, their opinion on life, and how they like to live it. Alexander Pope writes how he would rather spend his life in "Ode on Solitude". While William Wordsworth expresses his opinion on life "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. The authors both have different opinions on life and how life should be taken. Both poems can be compared and contrasted about their perspective on life.
In his preface of the Kokinshū poet Ki no Tsurayaki wrote that poetry conveyed the “true heart” of people. And because poetry declares the true heart of people, poetry in the minds of the poets of the past believed that it also moved the hearts of the gods. It can be seen that in the ancient past that poetry had a great importance to the people of the time or at least to the poets of the past. In this paper I will describe two of some of the most important works in Japanese poetry the anthologies of the Man’yōshū and the Kokinshū. Both equally important as said by some scholars of Japanese literature, and both works contributing greatly to the culture of those who live in the land of the rising sun.
Also, poetry allows authors to take different approaches to show the same theme. Garrett Hongo and Marcy Piercy use poetry to express the same message, that a person with the identity of a minority cannot achieve the American Dream,
On the first day of my Literary Genres class, an undergraduate literature survey, I asked my students what a poem was, and how they might differentiate it from, say, a novel or a play. Their responses were remarkably similar. All of them agreed that a poem had to look different on the page; to be a poem, it had to orient its words through stanzas, lines, and line breaks differently than prose or drama would. And most of them added that poems pay attention to language in some special way—but they had no idea how—and whatever that attention was, it was that which made poems hard to understand. I then asked them to rank the four genres we would be studying—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama—in order of their understanding and comfort level
Poetry is very difficult to interpret because everybody has a different approach, understand, meaning and point of view. My next writer is an African Americans whose poem is” Black Art” by Amiri Baraka “Black Art”. In the poem “ Black Art “, the poem is dedicated to African American to wake up and reverse the situation , by taking control over everything . The author urges the audience to be conscious and unconscious about African-American. Amiri is saying I need to see all the hardworking of the African American not just word but reality, proof, demonstration, and action been taking. In addition, in a poem the author express his anger; frustration to the audience how he feels and the action need take
Even though poetry is still taught in classes, students will only view it as a required subject. A majority of students do not find poetry interesting just from investigating on their own. However, when they are learning it in a classroom setting with their peers, they may have more enthusiasm about the topic. Yet, after these students learn about the influence that poetry has brought to our society, they are still inclined to explore their own writing style. There is nothing wrong with this, but this proves that poetry has strayed away from its actual literature and the value it
Tone plays a big role in poems, and it determines whether the author has a positive or negative attitude towards the characters in their stories. Starting off, each of the two poems compare a relationship
poem gives you the feeling as if you were part of the poem or the
In many situations, we simply need to disconnect from our emotions and perform the task at hand, but this is never an easy feat. For example, in the professional world individuals need to put their emotions and opinions aside as they can cause bad working relationships with coworkers or could even upset their boss. Similarly, individuals must learn ignore and prevent negative moods from altering and affecting their behavior and sediments. For instance, in a toxic workplace environment the negative mood of one or two people can affect the mood of everyone they come in contact with causing a cascade of negativity to spreading amongst them. In order to combat this, individuals need to ignore and control their own emotional responses to such negativity to prevent their emotional state from being deteriorated. Likewise, individuals need to be able to compose themselves in states of high emotion to prevent over reaction and blurring of judgment. As previously stated, emotions were an evolutionary adaptation indented to produce autonomic states of adaptability and responsiveness, which can be very beneficial at times. However, if a person cannot recover from this heightened state of emotion, there can be countless negative consequences. In a threatening situation we might respond with self-defense to prevent harm to ourselves or to others, but we also need to
Because “woman” and “moon rondeau” helps to understand that they deal with relationships, “woman” and “simile” use imagery a lot to be able to show the expression of how people are, and “simile” and “moon rondeau” shows that if people work together things can be accomplished.The point I'm trying to prove is that I want the reader to be able get a better understanding of the poems as they[poems] are read. Because in “woman” it deals with relationships but it shows a the failure in it and it may also use imagery but it continues to be using different types of it, in “moon rondeau” it deals with relationships but shows the good in it by working together and having a strong bond, in “simile” the imagery used is only between people and deer and it expresses that as deer you can work together or not do anything. My final thought on my poem analysis is that I agree with all that the three poems have to convey in their writing and that it helps to better understand the poet's thoughts and feelings put into their