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      “Desire” by Langston Hughes
      This poem is written into one stanza with nine lines within it. It doesnt have a specific rhyme scheme but in two lines the last words rhyme: “death” and “breath”. Other than that nothing else rhymes. The first line: “Desire to us” is interesting because it leaves the reader guessing who “us” is. The author basically states that desire is impossible for “us to acheieve because he says that death “was like a double breath/ swift dying/ of our mingled breath” and that doesnt sound like desire is an achieveable thing to accomplish. The imagery in this poem is something that is hard for me to imagine like “of an unknown strange perfume/ between us quickly/ in a naked/ room”. This is hard for me to imagine and I am not exactly sure how to decipher it. The line breaks in this poem are really random. I probably would have done it differently. Each new word in a new line is capitalized even though if it isnt a new thought. I dont really like this poem because it kind of destroys my image of desire with something creepy since I have no idea what Langston Hughes is talking about. i think that this poem is really hard to decipher. All that I can take away from it, is that it doesnt sound like desire is a good thing. I think that this poem follows a stressed then unstressed pattern. I think the line “swift dying” is interesting because it kind of contrasts each other. When I think of the word swift I think of wings or something positive. Dying obviously makes me feel sad at this line contrasts each other.
      ”Prayer” by Langston Hughes
       The first thing I notice about this poem is that the author uses repition. Langston Hughes repeats “Gather up” at least three times throughout the poem. He also repeats the line “in the arms of your pity” twice. I think this poem is very church related because it is obviously beause of the title but in the line “no love from above” indicates that “above” is heaven. This poem actually reminds me of New Orleans and after the storm. The first stanza is “Gather up/in the arms of your pity/ the sick, the depraved/ the desperate, the tired/ all the scum/ out of our weary city”–it actually kind of scares me how much this sounds like New Orleans. I think that the author is saying for people to gather up and pray for people who need help or who are less fortunate. The second stanza makes me think that the people who he wants to pray for cant pray for themselves because he says “Gather Up/ in the arms of your love/those who expect/no love from above”. I think he means that the “those who expect/ no love from above” do not have a lot of faith and need other people to have faith for them. I like this poem a lot becuase I think the tone of the poem is faith and wanting to help people. As for structure the poem is written into two stanzas with six lines in each of them. There is no rhyme sequence. 
      “Island” by Langston Hughes
     The first thing that I think of when I read this poem is that it makes me think that this is the person from cast a way writing it. The poem has four stanzas with couplets in each. The rhyme scheme in this poem is really weird it follows an abxbxxab. This poem makes me think someone is stranded in the water and sees an Island of hope. “Wave of sorrow/do not drown me now” is really pretty because i like how he calls a wave sorrowful and by saying “do not drown me now” he is saying that he is not going to be defeated by the sorrow. “I see the Island/Still ahead somehow” is saying that he is hopeful to reach the island. “still ahead somehow” is saying that is not there yet but he still has hope for it. “I see the island/and its sands are fair” is saying that he is almost there and the reward of getting there is going to be good–you can tell that by the way he describes the sand. “Wave of sorrow/take me there” is saying that something bad can turn out to help him out maybe. Like the sorrowful wave that was hurting him can turn out to be good because it can take him to the island. I think that this poem follows a stressed unstressed pattern that carries on through consistently.

      “Life” by Grace Treasome
       The first thing that I notice about this poem is that it is written in only one single stanza with quadtrains within it. It follows an abab rhyme scheme because “tooth” and “root” ryhme as well as “heart” and “start”. I believe that this poem follows a stressed then unstressed rhyme scheme. Example, for the first line “Life is like a jagged tooth” I think that “Life” should be stressed and “is” should be unstressed and so on. The author uses one similie “Life is like a jagged tooth” comparing life to a jagged tooth. If I were to inerphret that that means I would think the author was trying to say that life isnt perfect. A jagged tooth is an image of a flaw so comparing it to life indicates to the reader that life is not perfect. The next line makes the life sound terrible: “that cuts into your heart”. I wouldnt really say that life “cuts” into your heart but this line paints an image that life is painful. In a sense I could see that being true but it also sounds morbid. “Fix the tooth and save the root” I think is a metaphor for fix a flaw in life maybe and keep what is important to you. The next line kind of confuses me: “and laughs, not tears, will start.” I undserstand “and laughs not tears” kind of means you know the ordinary, focusing on the good things will make you happy but “will start” is weird and I wonder what that means and why that is there. This poem is very short and if there were no line breaks would be one sentence. The author uses all correct grammar although she only capitalizes the first line instead of each new line. The first and third line have seven syallables and the second and fourth line have six syallables.
      “Fog” by Carl Sandburg
      This poem has two stanzas with couplets in the first stanza and quadtrains in the second stanza. There is no distinctive rhyme scheme. This poem uses really cool imagery because in the first stanza the author says that the fog comes on “little cat feet” I think that is so cute. That picture to me seems like the fog is creeping in really small and sly like a cat. It also makes me think of a cat walking through the fog. “It sits looking/over harbor and city/on silent haunches/and then moves on” is the second stanza. I think that a cat is a perfect example of something to compare fog too. They both creep in and stare and stuff silently and then walk away somehwere else. I think that the line breaks make sense because there is a main focus on each line. “looking”, “harbor and city” “silent” and “moves on” are all the main ideas of the poem and that is why I think they are on separate lines. I think that the poem follows an unstressed stressed pattern. I think it is interesting that this poem was written in 1916 because it seems like something that was written recently. I really like this poem a lot because I never would have been able to think of comparing fog to a little cats feet but now everytime I think of fog I will think of the cat. I like this poem a lot.
     “Missed Time” by Ha Jin
      This poem has two stanzas with five lines in each. The poem has no specific rhyme scheme. The poem does have enjabment because some thoughts start and end in the same line. For example, “around me. I have no use” this makes the line brake random and you wonder why he just didnt start a new line. I really like this poem because it is about how a man doesnt write in his notebook anymore because he is in love with someone and doesnt need to record how much he loves her. The second stanza is cute because the narrator goes “when I am gone, let others say/they lost a happy man/though no one can tell how happy I was”. I think this is sooo cute because maybe he cant write down how much he loves this girl and since he loves her so much he doesnt want to record it or cant. I think that this poem however gets across how much he is in love by how he describes that he himself doesnt even know how much he loves this girl. You know that he isnt sad about not writing in his notebook because he says that his pen lies “languorously without grief”. I think this title however is interesting though becuse its called “missed time”. You would think that since he is happy with his lover that he wouldnt title not writing in his notebook as “missed time”. I would think he would have named it something more like “no need for words” or something like that. I like this poem because I think it is so cute. I like that this man is happy because it makes the tone of the poem cute and happy.

      “The Hippopotamus” byHilaire Belloc
This poem is written in one single stanza with quadtrains so the poem is very short. The first line and the third line first words are capitolized while the second and fourth line first words are not capitolized and they are also indentend. The poem also follows an aabb rhyme scheme although the rhyme is a slant rhyme. The words “Hippopatumus” and “platinum” sort of rhyme but they are not exact. The words “ones” and “em” also sort of rhyme but again are not exact. The content of the poem is kind of weird. The author says he uses platinum bullets to shoot a hippo because if he used leaden ones then the hide is going to flatten the bullet and the poet would have been unable to kill the hippo. I think that this poem may be a metaphor for something else or actually maybe it is taken literally, I really cant tell. The poem maybe is being a little bit sarcastic in saying how strong or how hard it is to kill a hippo. I can sense the sarcasm in the line “his hide is sure to flatten em”. I think that the poem follows an unstressed then stressed and unstressed and stressed pattern. “I shoot the hippopatamus”–”I” should be unstressed while “shoot” should be stressed and then so forth. If you compare this poem to prosaic context the entire poem could be considered a sentence since it is so short.
      “Eight O’Clock” by A.E Housman
This poem is written into two stanzas with quadtrains within each stanza. The first line and the third line rhyme while the second and fourth lines not only rhyme but are intended as well. I think that the author does this in order to make the ryhme scheme more obvious. This poem is really good. I think it is about a man getting hanged at eight o clock. The second stanza indicates that the character in the poem is about to get hanged because he uses imagery lines like “strapped, noosed, nighing his hour”, “cursed his luck”. I really like how the author doesnt come out and say that the man is going to die but instead she gives hint to it. I also like, even though its kind of sad, the imagery that the author uses to paint the scene. “heard the steeple”, “market place and people” all paint the scene of which the man is going to die in. I think that it is really interesting how the author entitled the poem “Eight O’Clock” because you would think that he would have titled it something that would have indicated something about the man’s death. This title is so subtle yet I think it is cool how significant the title how she used it to tell the time of the man’s death even though she doesnt mention the time again throughout the poem. She only mentions the clock. I think that this poem follows a unstressed then stressed pattern of voice. “He stood and heard the steeple”–”He” should be unstressed while “stood” should be stressed and so on in that pattern. I like this poem.
      “Upon Julia’s Voice” by Robert Herrick
       This poem is written into one single stanza with quadrains within it. It follows an aa bb rhyme scheme but the ryhme is a slant rhyme because the words are not exact. ‘voice” and “noise” in a way kind of rhyme but not really and “Chamber” and “amber” look like the ryhme and they kind of do but not exactly so the poem has a slant rhyme sequence. This poem has a lot of alliterations like “so smooth, so sweet, so silv’ry” and “melting melodious”. In the line “So smooth, so sweet, so silv’ry is thy voice” follows an unstressed and then stressed pattern because “So” should be unstressed while “smooth” should be stressed and the poem continues to follow that sequence. You can tell that this poem was written a long time ago because the author uses old english vocabulary like “thy” and “thee” which people do not use these days. You can tell that the author likes Julia’s voice because he uses positive vocabulary like “sweet” “smooth” “silv’ry” and uses lines like “melting melodious words” and “the damned would make no noise” which all indicate a positive reaction toward Julia and her voice. It is interesting however that the author uses parenthesis for “(walking in thy chamber)” because I am not really sure of the signifigance of putting that phrase in there is for. This poem flows easily and I kind of like it.

     “Slow, Slow, Fresh Fruit Fount, Keep Time With My Salt Tears” by Ben Jonson
This poem is one stanza with eleven lines within it. The structure of this poem is really odd. The second, fourth and tenth line are indented. But the fifth, sixth, and seventh lines are intended even more and then the eigth line is even more intended. I am not sure why the author did this. Maybe he wanted the poem to look cool but it didnt work because I think the structure is just distracting. I believe that this poem is a euphony because I think that it flows easily. I like this poem because I think the author uses a pretty and polite vocabulary when writing this poem by using words like: “fresh”, “faintly”, “flowers”, “beauties”, “snow”, “pride”, “daffodil”, “withered” and “weeps”. All of these words  make the poem sound so daintly and clean. The author uses, in a sense, repition. It is not repititon of the same word but of the same structure. The author repeats the word “slow” in the beginning of the poem and then repeats the word “drop” at the end of the poem. The author also follows an abab rhyme scheme because every other word rhymes. Although “tears” and “bears” do not exactly rhyme but it looks as if it rhymes so it is infact a slant rhyme. I also think that the poem follows a structure of an anapestic poem because I believe that it has two unstressed syallables followed by a stressed syallable. This poem is really sad because the author paints imagery of how he is so sad. Lines like “woe weeps out her division when she sings”, “fall grief in showers”, “our beauties are not ours” and “natures pride is now a withered daffodil” all indicates to the reader that the author is not happy. I like this poem because even though his poem is about something really sad, it sounds really pretty.
      “Rose-Cheeked Laure, Come” by Thomas Campion
       This poem is written into four stanzas with quadtrains within them. The poem has no specific rhyme scheme. The structure of this poem is interesting because the fourth line in all of the stanza are all indented. If you just read the last lines in each stanza by themselves, it could be a poem within itself. I like this poem a lot because it sounds really pretty. The author uses words like “smoothly” “beauty” “lovely” “heavenly” “grace” “purely” “delight” and “perfect” to describe this girl Laura. I believe that this poem follows the structure of a trochaic poem because the first syallable is stressed and it is followed by an unstressed syallable. The first line “Rose-cheeked Laura, Come” seems to me like “rose” “Lau” “Come” should all be stressed and then “cheeked” “ra” should be unstressed. In this poem, I didnt know what the word “concent” meant but I looked to the side of the poem at the footnote and learned that it meant “harmony” which is another pretty word. This poem also has a little bit of emjambenment because one of the lines breaks right in the middle. “Ever perfect, ever in them/selves eternal” is an awkward line break. The line “Heav’n is music and thy beauty’s/birth is heavenly” is also a line of enjambement because it breaks right in the middle of a phrase. I like this poem but only beause I like the title and the title paints a picture of imagery and a girl with rose cheeks but also because I like the language.
      “Virginia” by T.S Eliot
       This poem is written all in one single stanza but with thirteen lines within. The first thing I notice about this poem is that it has a lot of repitition. The author repeats “red river, red river” in the first line and “Red river, river, river” in the last line. Throughout the poem he also repeats “wait, wait” and “living, living”. I think the author repeats this to maybe to stress these words because they are significant to him. The poem also has a lot of enjambment. “Still. Will heat move” is an example where the author uses enjambment and so is “Heard once? Still hills/ Wait. Gates wait.” and “Never moving. Ever moving”. This poem has a lot of imagery by describing how still the river is. This poem is basically just describing landscapes. There is no specific rhyme scheme. The poem structure is stressed then unstressed, stressed then unstressed. I believe in the first line “Red river, red river” the red should be stressed while the river unstressed. There is one metaphor in the poem but I dont know what it is a metaphor for: “Iron thoughts came with me”. This poem is only okay because I dont really like reading about landscapes.

      “Grass” by Carl Sandburg
      The first thing I notice about this poem is that the line breaks are very random. There are four stanzas with tercets in the first stanza, tercets in the second stanza, tercets in the third stanza and couplets in the fourth stanza. The third line in the first stanza is broken into the middle of the line. The second stanza looks normal. The second and third lines in the third stanza are indented into the middle of the poem. The last two lines in the last stanza are both intended. This poem has no particular rhyme scheme at all. I think this poem is about the Holocaust because the author mentions Austerliz, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Ypres and Verdun. The author uses imagery and the metaphor to describe himself like the grass at all the concentration camps. He says to “pile the bodies” and let him cover them because “I am the grass”. I dont really know what grass has to do with the Holocaust and why he would pick something so random as to describe himself as. Maybe he means he wants to start over and leave the past behind him and let him work to try and cover up the past maybe. The author repeats the phrase “let me work” in each stanza.  But I dont know how grass works. Maybe he means to make a place that something so horrible happened in beautiful. The author uses a lot of punctuation like dashes, semi colons, periods, commas and question marks. I think that it is interesting that some of the lines are intended into the middle of the poem. I like this poem even though I think it is so random to compare the Holocaust to some grass.
       “Advice to a Friend who Paints” by Kelly Cherry
        This poem is all in one stanza with seven lines in it total. The line breaks are all complete thoughts and this poem has no signs of enjamberment. Although, unlike most poems, the first word in the start in the beginning of the line are not capitalized. The context of this poem is kind of complex and I can not tell which words are metaphors or what they mean. Sometimes the author uses description like “sketchy suit”. I think this poem is about giving advice to someone who paints (hense the title) and there are some hints of advice like “consider shy Cezanne” and pointing out specific things in an object. I actually think that this is such a random thing to write about but then again I guess that is what makes the author a good poet because it shows that she is a unique poet and doesnt just write about what everyone basically writes about: love. Some of the worst in the poem really contrast like “polite” and “skull”. I dont really like this poem but I think the author did a good job of writing about something new.
      “Upon Julia’s Clothes” by Robert Herrick
      Finally a poem that rhymes! This poem has two stanza with tercets in each. The first stanza all has ending words that rhyme like “goes” “flows” and “clothes” and the second stanza has ending words that rhyme like “see” “free” and “me”. You can tell that this poem was written a long time ago because the author has an old fashioned vocabulary. The author uses words like “Whenas” and “methinks” and “mine” and “taketh”. These words all indicate that this poem was not written in 2006. I think this poem is about sex because the poet kind of uses sexual vocabulary and gives off the vibe that he has had sexual relations with the girl in the poem because he is talking about her clothes and uses words such as “silks”, “sweetly”, “vibration” and “glittering”. There is something in the tone of the poem that makes me think that this poem is about sex or at least love. He refers to Julia as “my Julia” which makes me think that they are not related . I like this poem a lot because I like how the poem rhymes and how the rhyme scheme is organized.
      “Blandeur” by Kay Ryan
     This poem is written into one stanza with twenty lines in it. The line breaks in this poem are so freqent and every other word for twenty lines is broken up randomly. It makes the poem really annoying to look at. I looked up the word “blandeur” from the title in the dictionary but it wasnt in the dictionary. I dont even know what this poem is saying because the line breaks are so distracting. I think it has something to do with land mass or something because the author talks about canyons and valleys and glaciers so I think the poem is really about geography. I dont like this poem because I know nothing about geography and because I relaly dont like these line breaks and I really dont think its necessary to have so many.

      “Not Waving But Drowning” by Stevie Smith
      This poem is written into three stanzas with quadtrains within them. The poem has no specific rhyme scheme but in the second stanza the second and fourth lines have ending words that rhyme. However, I do not believe that the author meant for them to rhyme since he didnt choose for any other words to rhyme. The author doesnt use really any repition except for “no” which he repeats three times in one line. I think this poem is interesting because it says “Nobody heard him, the dead man” well no one can hear a dead man because he is dead so maybe this poem is a metaphor or an image for something else. I am confused because it says “I was much further out than you thought/And not waving but drowning” was the person speaking drowning or the dead man drowning? I didnt understand what the word “larking” meant so I looked it up and found that it meant a harmless prank. “He always loved larking/And now he’s dead” probably means that he is dead from a practical joke. I think the person speak was trying to save him because it says “i was much to far out all my life” meaning maybe that he tried to save him throughout his life but he was always too far to rescue him before he died. I am also confused because it says “Oh, no no no, it was too cold always\(Still the dead one lay moaning)” and I am unsure what the signifigance of putting that line into paranthesis is. And dead people can not moan because they are dead. This poem has to be a symbol for something else or maybe it is just a play on words. I like this poem though because I like the title “Not Waving but Drowning” because it is a clear image of seeing someone in the water moving thier hands about but not to wave to someone but they are drowning. I just think it is a cool topic to write a poem about. The author uses a lot of punctuation such as commas, colons, periods, apostrophes and parenthesis. The first word in each line is capitalized as it should be. I like this poem a lot!
      “Winter News” by John Haines
       This poem is written into four stanzas with five lines, quadtrains, couples and tercets within it. This poem has no specific rhyme scheme because nothing in this poem rhymes at all. This poem uses imagery to talk about cold weather. Specific lines make the reader able to tell how cold it really is. Phrases like “stiffening dogs”, “white-haired children” “voice of the snowman” “freezing” and “clouds of steaming breath” all help the reader give a sense of how cold it is. What I do not like about this poem is the line breaks. I think they are really random and I would do it differently if I were the poet. Here is my version of what the line breaks should be line to help the poem to flow:
They say
the wells are freezing
at Northway
where the cold begins.

Oil tins bang
as evening comes on,
and clouds of steam breath
drift in the street.

Men go out to feed
the stiffening dogs,
the voice of the snowman calls
the white-haired children home.

I think that the author uses a strong sense of imagery and I feel that my way of line breaks give emphasis to those lines of imagery. The orginial poem breaks up those images into different lines and I dont think the effect is as strong if the images isnt together on the same line. I like this poem a lot because I like the images of the “white haired children” and the “stiffening dogs” but I think that the author doesnt do justice to these images because he breaks them up into different lines.
      “The Runner” by Walt Whitman
       This poem is only one stanza with quadtrains. The author uses dashes, apostrophes semi colons, commas, dashes and periods to punctuate his poem. Nothing in the poem rhymes at all. The author uses imagery to paint his poem about a runner. He describes the “flat road” on which the runner runs. He describes how the runner is “well train’d” and it is interesting that the author chose to take out the e in trained and put an apostrophe. “He is lean and sinewy, with musclar legs” also describes the runner and paints a clear image of what the runner looks like. I didnt know what sinewy means but apparently is it a word for having tendons that poke out so I guess just another word for muscular. “He is thinly clothed–he leans forward as he runs” is also a direct image of what this runner looks like and characteristics of how he is running. “With lightly closed fists, and arms partially raised” also gives the reader an image of what the runner is doing. I like this poem because it is a direct image and you dont have to guess what you think the author is saying. However, I do not think that I take away as much from this poem because it is kind of boring. It is written well with line breaks and looks like a poem but what does it mean and why did the author write it. I just dont think that it carries a lot of signifigance. Maybe it means a lot to the writer but I dont think the reader can take much away from it unless they like to run or are on Cross Country. Maybe there is a symbol to this poem but it goes right over my dead. I do commend the author however for using clean direct imagery.
     “Fork” by Charles Simic
     This poem is written in two stanzas with quadtrains in the first stanza and five lines in the second stanza. Again, this poem has no particular rhyme scheme and I am sick of all these poems not rhyming. I like this poem a lot though because it has cool imagery. It makes you really think about how weird a fork really is. The author states that it “must have crept/Right out of hell”. Which makes it sound like a fork is a bad thing and it also makes it seem like a living thing when he says “crept”. The author says “It resembles a bird’s foot/Worn around the cannibals neck” I like this line because everyone can agree that a fork does in fact look like a birds foot in a way but I think it is creepy that he said “Worn around the cannibals neck” because it makes a fork sound voodoo-esk and besides not everything you eat with a fork is meat. “As you hold it in your hand/As you stab it into a piece of meat” makes the eater sound guilty because they are using a fork–it would sound the same if the author had said as you hold a knife in your hand and it gives off the same feeling. “It is possible to imagine the rest of the bird” again makes the reader feel guilty for using a fork that looks like a bird’s foot because you basically killed this bird or cut off its foot in order to eat a piece of meat. “Its head which like your fist/Is large, bald, beakless and blind” is weird. It is weird to compare a head to your first and again it makes the reader feel damn guilty for eating this peice of meat because the poet when writing this was probably eating a bird and feeling really bad because the bird is dead. I dont know but at first I like this poem but now I do not because I feel like the author is trying to make you feel bad for the birds because you use a fork. Forks and birds dont have anything in common so why is the author trying to make you feel so guilty. Maybe that is not what the author is trying to get across maybe he is just freaked out because he feels like a bird or eating with a birds foot-I dont know but I do not like this poem. I like to use forks thank you.

     “The Suitor” by Jane Kenyon
     This poem is written in one stanza with eleven lines in it. The poem has no specific rhyme scheme. The line breaks are very random and are enjamberment. The line “We lie back to back. Curtains” is all on one line and doesnt really let the poem follow was easily if “Curtains” was on a different line. The line seems to follow correct grammar and punctuation. This poem has a lot of similies. The line “like the chest of someone sleeping” is a similie for the curtains moving up and down. “Like a school of fish” is a similie for the leaves. The line “like a timid suitor” is a similie for a feeling “stopping for short visits”. I do not understand what a “box elder” is though. Looking it up I learn that is some kind of bug? The author uses imagery by description shown in the line “We lie back to back”. Even though this line is so literal it paints of picture of what is happening by using description. I think that it is interesting that this poem is called “The Suitor” because it doesnt really tie into the poem into the end when she compares her feelings to a suitor which is a strange yet unique approach to describing feelings.
      “Embrace” by Billy Collins
       This poem is written in two stanzas with six lines in it. This poem does not rhyme in any way. Everything that should be capitolized is. The author repeats the word “You” a lot as if he is physically saying the poem to a person. Actually all twelve lines in the poem have the word “you”. Except I do not think this author likes the person he is telling this poem to because he says “you could be waiting for a tailor/to fit you for a straitjacket/one that would hold you really tight” and that is not the way you express your love for someone. I think the tone of this poem is irony because the title of the poem is “embrace” which is decieving since the poem talks about how he wants “you” in a straitjacket. The author also refers to “her” a lot in the poem and maybe the author’s lover cheated on him so he is writing this poem out of irony and revenge.
      “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich
      This poem is written into three stanzas with quadtrains in each stanza. The poem follows an aa bb rhyme scheme. Each new line starts with a capitolized word even though it is not the beginning of a new phrase. The author uses all correct punctuation such as apostrophes, commas, semi colons, and periods and all the correct grammar. The line breaks make sense because it flows and it makes it so that the rhyme scheme is easy to follow and notice. There is some reptition in the poem because each stanza starts with the words “Aunt Jennifer”. It is interesting though because the last stanza starts with “When Aunt is dead”. This poem has imagery like “Bright topaz denizens of a world of green”. I think that “Aunt Jennifer’s tigers” is a symbol for something else because the first stanza talks about her tigers and the second talks about her wedding ring. The last stanza is interesting and it says “still ringed with the ordeals she was mastered by/the tigers in the panel that she made/will go on prancing proud and unafraid.” The word “mastered” in that poem makes it sound like that she faced difficulties so maybe her tigers were something that realased her from all of her hardships. I like this poem just because I think it is cool that she uses tigers as a symbol for something. I wish I could figure out what specifically the symbol was.
     “For A Lady I Know” by Countee Cullen”
     This poem is really short. It only has one stanza with quadtrains in it. The rhyme scheme follows an abab rhyme scheme because “heaven” and “seven” rhymes and so does “snores” and “chores”. The second and fourth line of the poem are intended. I think that is because it makes the rhyme scheme more obvious because the lines stick out. Maybe it is just to make the poem look cooler. The context of this poem is obviously about race. The woman he is talking about is white because he says “She even thinks that up in heaven/Her class lies late and snores” and the word class indicates that she is white. “While poor black cherubs rise at seven/To do celestial chores”. The woman in this poem is probably racist who doesnt think twice about black people and think they are there just to do work. Because she thinks “even in heaven” that indicates that she doesnt care about black people and thinks that white people are superior. Because this poem was written in 1925 it makes sense that at a time of segreation a white rich woman would probably think this. This poem could all be one sentence if it wasnt in poem form. I like this poem because it proves a point of how ignorant people used to be.

     “Hands” by Robinson Jeffers 137
     This poem is written in five stanzas with tercets, quadtrains, couples and some with single lines. What is interesting about this poem is that instead of line breaks, the author uses the indentation of the last line. All of the last lines in each stanza only have one or two words in them. I think by uses indents instead of line breaks, the poet is trying to be unique and different. This poem has no rhyme scheme what so ever. The poem also has enjamberment where a phrase ends in a line a period is placed and a new phrase begins creating two thoughts all in one line. This poem is about cave paintings and the similarities between humans now and humans a long time ago. This poem uses punctuation like commas, periods, colons, quotation marks, semi colons, and apostrophes. The poet does use a similie in his poem: “Signs-manual are now like a sealed message.” I like this similie and I think it is comparing the cave art to a sealed message that some people are unable to decode.

      “Oh, My Love is like a Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns
      This poem is written into four stanzas with quadrains within them. The second and fourth line of the poem is indented. I think the poet does that to emphaize the rhyme scheme. The rhyming scheme follows an x a x a pattern. Some of the stanzas have two words that repeat themself instead of rhyming. All the lines start basically the same. They either start with “Oh” “My Love” “Tis” “So” or “And”. Maybe the author did this to get an effective flow to it. You can definatley tell that this poem was written a long time ago because the poet refers to a girl as “a bonnie lass”. He also uses other old vocabulary like “thou” “art” “thee”. This poem is good because it is about love in comparison to a rose. This poem was probably one of the first poems to refer to love to something as pretty as a rose. Now when people talk about love in comparison to a flower, people will believe that it is really boring because it isnt orginial. Frost is a good poet because he took something that everyone wants to copy or base their poetry off of. This poem uses a lot of punctuation especially exclamation points. I think that the author uses so many exclamation points to emphazise how much he loves his “bonny lass” and that hes just really excited about her and it helps him to show emotion. He also uses a lot of commas, periods, colons, semi colons and apostrophes. I like this poem a lot because I like the emotion that the author tries to illustrate by using the similie of love to a rose.
       “Love That I Bear” by Hilda Doolittle
       This poem is written all in one stanza with nine lines within it. It has no obvious rhyme scheme. I think this poem is interesting because I think it compares love to animals and nature. The word “bear” in the title is supposed to mean “bare” I believe. The poet also uses other animals in the poem like “serpent spotted shell” and “soft owl”. I am not sure what kind of message it brings up to compare her love to animals. Maybe she is writing to express her love for animals. I do not believe however that to write about animals is an effective way to express love. I do think that the author does use beautiful imagery like “eye-lides of great bird eyes” I think that sounds really cool. If these poem were a sentence it would be a long run on sentence. It has numerous commas throughout it. The line breaks are actually very random and if I could change anything about this poem I would change the line breaks. I think this poem is okay. I think refering to love using animal metaphors is unique but I dont think the message is strong enough to show that she is in love. Animals and love dont seem to go together at all so that is why I am hesitant to say that I like it. 
       “The Secret Sits” by Robert Frost 
       This poem is only written in one stanza with couplets. The poem follows an aa rhyme scheme because the words “suppose” and “knows” rhymes. If the line breaks were not there this poem would be the same length as a sentence. It is interesting because the word “Secret” is capitalized and no other word is except for the words in the beginning phrases. The word “Secret” must want special emphasis since it is capitalized. The tone of this poem could be many things. It could be a pun although I am not sure for what. It could also be a metaphor for the secret knowing itself and being right in front of the people dancing around it and trying to figure it out. Maybe they are mocking the secret by dancing around and teasing it. This poem definatley sounds like some sort of children’s metaphor like a ring around the rosey type thing but I have a feeling that it comes from a specific story. I also think it is signifigant that the secret is sitting in the middle and not standing or waiting. Sitting makes it sound like the secret is a problem or a big deal. The fact that it is in the middle makes it seem like everyone is involved or sits on everyones should. I also think that it is interesting that the secret “knows”. Of course, the secret its self knows that it is but a secret isnt capable of thinking so maybe the secret is a person that has a secret and everyone is dancing around the person trying to figure it out.

“White Lies” by Natasha Trethewey

            This poem is written into three stanzas. There are six lines in the first stanza, twelve lines in the second stanza and ten lines in the first stanza. The poem has no rhyme scheme what so ever. In the first stanza the poet uses a lot of color to describe the white lies she was told. She emphasizes the significance of color of the white lies by saying, “light-bright, near-white/ high-yellow, red-boned/in a black place/where just white lies.” The colors may have specific connotations that further describe how the lies were white small lines. The only one that I could guess is “in a black place” means something along the lines of in a bad place or a place she does not like. It could also mean death or even about race. The second stanza she is saying about she could tell her own white lies. She says how she wants to tell the “white folks/that we lived uptown”. Maybe white folks goes along with white lies and those two words have a meaning that is intertwined with meaning in the poem. In the second stanza you can tell that the poet didn’t like the way that she was because she wanted to tell white lies about her background and where she got her clothes from. The third stanza is about how every time she told a white lie her mother found out and washed out her mouth with “ivory soap.” The color “ivory” also goes along with the color theme of white lies and white folks. The last line of the poem is really strong “I swallowed suds/thinking they’d work/from the inside out” meaning that she doesn’t like the way she is and hoping that the soap would purify her insides and thoughts. I really liked this poem a lot.

            “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams

            This poem is written into four stanzas with couplets. The first line of each stanza has three words and the second line of each stanza has only one word. This whole poem seems less than a sentence. None of the words in the poem are capitalized and there is no punctuation at all except for the last single word in the poem and it has a period. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem. The line breaks in the poem seem a little bit random. If I wrote this poem I would have broken the lines differently. I think that the tone of this poem is sarcasm because when talking about a red wheel barrow, the author says that that is basically only does good when it is “glazed with rain/water/beside the white/chickens.” I don’t think I have ever heard of white chickens and I don’t think a wheel barrow does its job when it is filled with rain water. It means that it has just been sitting there collecting rain and therefore I think that the tone of this poem is sarcasm.

            “My Life Had Stood- A Loaded Gun” by Emily Dickinson

            This poem is written in four stanzas with quatrains. Nothing in this poem rhymes at all. The structure of this poem is very interesting. Certain words are capitalized in the middle of a phrase that grammatically shouldn’t be capitalized. Words like “Life” “Loaded” “Corners” “Day” “Me” “We” “Pillow” and other random words are capitalized in the middle of the poem. Maybe the author wanted to capitalize these words in order to get across to the reader that these words are important and are what make the poem. It is also very interesting that in each line there is a dash or two dashes that separate the words in the line. Even the title has a dash. I am not sure why these dashes are here and in fact I think of them to be a little bit distracting to the context of the poem. Maybe these dashes are here to fill in the blank for words that you want to put in between yourself. I think that the author also uses metaphors. Her title and first like “My Life had stood- a Loaded Gun” is comparing her life to a loaded gun meaning it may take off at any time. She also uses the term “Yellow Eye” which could be metaphor for a cat’s eye or a witches eye. The poem doesn’t really have a refrain but the author uses “And now” in two continuous lines. You can also tell that this poem was written a while ago because
Dickinson uses old English like “Tis” “My Master” and the general tone of the poem sounds like it was written a long time ago.

            “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath

            The title of this poem gives a hint to what kind of technique the author uses to write this poem: using metaphors. Each line of this poem could be a metaphor. “I’m a riddle in nine syllables” is a metaphor for the rest of her poem. Each line following sounds like a riddle and each new line has exactly nine syllables. This poem is written in one stanza with nine lines. The poem has nine lines and nine syllables and the word “metaphors” has nine letters. The poem has no specific line scheme and the poet uses punctuation and capitalizes everything that should be capitalized. Although, the line “I’ve eaten a bag of green apples” doesn’t really sound like a metaphor or a riddle but more like a statement. Maybe this requires more background information. Looking for information, I realized that this whole poem could be a metaphor for getting pregnant because the number nine is how many months a baby takes to develop inside of the womb. The rest of the poem is describing how big she is “An elephant, a ponderous house” is referring to how big she is. “A melon strolling on two tendrils” could relate to her large stomach on top of tiny legs and then the line “I’ve eaten a bag of green apples” could relate to cravings and then “Boarded the train there’s no getting off” could relate to that its too late to have an abortion.

      “A Description of the Morning” by Jonathan Swift
      This poem is written into one stanza but with eighteen lines within it. The poem follows an aa bb rhyme approach and the rhyme scheme remains consistent throughout the entire poem. You can tell that this poem was written a long time ago because in the poet’s vocabulary are words like “master,” and “lordships.” No one these days have masters. There are also a lot of words that I would not understand if it wasnt for the key notes on the side. Words like “hackney-coach” which is a horse-drawn cab, “duns” which are bill-collectors, “turnkeys” which are jailkeepers and “bailffs” which are constables I would have never been able to figure it out the meaning because no one uses the same vocabulary three hundred years later. This poem flows fairly easy and I think that is because of the simple rhyme scheme. This poet paints imagery because the entire poem is just description of what is going on that morning. There is Betty running away from her master and his bed, people brooming, little boys with their bookbags in their hands. I dont think this poem has a deeper meaning because it seems like it is the description of a random morning. Maybe this poem has signifigance for historians studying the olden days but anyone can write a poem about the morning and describe it and have it rhyme. I think this poem is only okay.
     “The Farm on the Great Plains” by William Stafford
     This poem has seven stanzas with quadtrains in each stanza. This poem does not rhyme in any way. Each stanza is a sentence with line breaks throughout it. The line breaks seem appropriate because I think the way the poet has them the poem is able to flow and read easier. The poem uses a lot of description to write this poem and paints the scenery by saying things like “A telephone line goes cold;/birds treat it wherever it goes”.That line sounds descriptive but it also may have a deeper meaning. He also uses some dialouge and answers the dialouge in italics: “‘Hello is mother home?’”/No one is home today” I think this poem is about loving a specific place and having it go to ruins. I am not sure why but it seems like this poem has a sad tone to it. Maybe it is because he is talking about things being gone and “because both ends will be home”. I dont really like this poem very much because I think it is kind of boring. I think the author is trying to get meaning across but not on the surface of the poem but I believe it has a deeper meaning.
     “Piazza Piece” by John Crowe Ransom
     This poem only has two stanzas but one stanza has eight lines and the other stanza has only six lines in it. The rhyme scheme follows an a bb aa cc a rhyme. I think that this poem is interesting because it starts with a dash instead of starting with the poem. I am not sure what kind of message the poet is trying to get across by using dashes to start his poem off. The second stanza also starts off with a dash as well. All of the line breaks start with words like “For”, “And” “But” and “To”. This poem is about love because the poet says “Until my truelove comes, and then we kiss”. I like this poem because the first stanza is a man talking to a woman and the second stanza is a woman talking to a man. The last lines and first stanza of the first stanza are the same and the first and last line of the second stanza are the same. The first and last line of the first stanza is “I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying” and the first and last line of the second stanza is “I am a lady young in beauty waiting”. I think this is a cool approach to writing a poem and to have them be different but correspond to each other. The poet uses a lot of punctuation by using dashes, periods, commas and question marks. I am interested in the title because I am not sure what “Piazza Piece” has to do with a man and a woman trying to find each other. Maybe this poet found his wife or lover in a Piazza and its a prequel to their relationship and how they found each other.
     “Sorrow Moves in Wide Waves” by Lorine Niedecker
     This poem is written in four stanzas with quadtrains within them. It is interesing because the poet decided to indent the second and third lines of each stanza. The rhyme scheme is unique it follows x a x a rhyme scheme because the second and third lines do not rhyme but the second and last lines of each stanza do. Maybe the second and fourth lines are indented to give emphasis on the rhyme scheme. Some of the lines in the poem are enjambernment because some thoughts start and a new thought starts on the same line. This poem brings a sad tone with words like “misery” “blind” “blue “death” and “deaf”. I think the poet is trying to say that we are so conscious of sorrow and it passes through us like a wave. This poem uses a lot of punctuation by using numerous numbers of commas, periods, exclamation points, and quoatation marks. I like this poem a lot but I am unsure of what it means.