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sarah0972 — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:13:32 +0000

10. “Blow, blow thou winter wind” by William Shakespeare
       This poem is written into two stanzas and there are ten lines in each stanza. The poem also has a rhyme scheme which follows as a a b c c b d d d d. This poem has some repitition in it like “Heigh ho! sing heigh-ho, unto the green holly/ Most friendships is feighning, most loving mere folly/ Then heigh ho, the holly!/ This life is most jolly” is repeated in both of the two stanzas. These lines indicate that the Shakespeare likes the winter and encourages the winter and its attributes. You can also tell in the title that the author likes it. The first stanza tells the winter to blow and says that the winter isnt that bad when he says “Thou art not so unkind” which is also a double negative which makes it positive. The second stanza also encourages the winter to blow and says that it is not bad when he says “Thy sting is not so sharp”. The couple of lines that repeat in both the stanzas makes the poem positive with all the exclamation points and words like “holly” “jolly” and “frienships and “loving”. You can tell that this poem was written in the time of Shakespeare because he uses old english words that we do not use in our vocabulary today like “thou” “art” “dost” and “thy”. I really like this poem because instead of complaining about winter, this poem and author makes winter sound exciting and joyful. I think that this poem follows a stucture of two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllables and so forth.
11. “Now Winter Nights Enlarge” by Thomas Campion
      This poem has a very interesting structure. There are two stanzas with twelve lines in each of them. The first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh lines are were they should normally be. Although the second, fourth, sixth, eigth, tenth and twelveth lines are in the middle of the poem–meaning they start in the middle of where the first etc. lines are. It is really strange looking. There is a rhyme scheme: a b a b c d c d e f e f g h g h i j i j k l k l. Some of the rhymes are slant rhymes like “love” and “remove”. I think that this poem follows a stucture of a unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable and so forth. This poem has a lot of imagery that reminds me personally of winter season and more specifically christmas: “airy towers”, “cups o’erflow with wine” “yellow waxen lights”. Although I like this poem, I do not understand the signifigance or what the author is saying when he says “Now Winter Nights Enlarge”. I guess it just means that winter is getting colder? You can tell that this poem wasnt written around our time period because the author uses words like “doth” and “hath”. I like this poem a lot but I am unsure to what the poet is trying to tell the reader when he wrote this poem. I dont think I am taking away the full meaning.
12. “January” by William Carlos Williams
       This poem, well, I think that it is written in one stanza with eleven lines. Although the fourth and ninth lines are intended so much that it looks like it separates the line into different stanzas. I like this poem because it describes the winter wind like music. In the first couple of lines he mentions that he notices the wind. He tells it to “Play Louder”. I think that he is saying in the next couple of lines that the wind can not convince him to go outside. Also it sounds like he wants to stay inside writing poetry because he says he is “bound to his sentences”. The last stanza just concludes again how the wind is musical. I like the title of the poem because it can help you understand more that the wind outside is cold wind because January is during the winter season. I think that this poem doesnt have a specific meter and you could stress or unstress any syllable you want and it would still sound okay. The poem has no specific rhyme scheme and the poem itself kind of resembles a prosaic piece of writing. I like this poem but i dont think it is my favorite in the anthology. I like it though because it is unique and different than any other poem in the anthology.

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sarah0972 — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:08:55 +0000

7.”Ice” by Gail Mazur
The first thing that I notice about this poem is that each stanza has couplets. There are tweleve stanzas. I would think that since each stanza had couplets that it would have a very specific rhyme scheme but it doesnt. This poem has a lot of enjambment like in lines like “aching. Outside, the hockey players keep/ playing, slamming the black round puck/until its dark until supper. At night”. I like this poem because the imagery is really clear and you do not have to dig around for it: “In the warming house, children lace their skates/ bending, choked, over their thick jackets.” You know exactly what the kids are doing and you can relate to the kids in what they are doing. I also like the title of this poem because the author uses “ice” to not only describe a setting but to represent how a girl feels good about herself. The last couple of stanzas describe a girl who feels flawless on the ice with her father:until it’s dark, until supper. At night, /a shy girl comes to the cove with her father. /Although there isn’t music, they glide /arm in arm onto the blurred surface together, braced like dancers. She thinks she’ll never /be so happy, for who else will find her graceful, /find her perfect, skate with her /in circles outside the emptied rink forever?” I really like the last couple of stanzas because the ice acts as a gateway for this year to feel free and to be wit her father.

98. “Snow Rise” by Robert Pack
This poem is written in one single stanza with fifteen lines with in it. The poem does have a rhyme scheme: a bb a b c b c d e d f e f a a which is a little bit un orthodox yet orignial. I really like the winter imagery in this poem like “red cheeks radiant against the wind”, “each risen flake”, “watch drowned snow lift from the lake” and ”gloved hands”. All of these things help the reader to visualize winter. I think the first line is really interesting: “dreaming time has reversed”. Even though it is pretty, I am not sure what it is: a metaphor or what. Maybe it is remembering a dream from a while ago when the author was happy. I think that the poem follows a structure of a stressed syallable followed by an unstressed syallable and then a stressed and so forth. There is some possible evidence that this poem was influenced like a dream: “Are gliding toward me on the ice onto/ A frame of glided twilight”. This sounds like heaven-like and sounds like the imagery that would be in a dream. Also the line “again awakened” also hints that the poem was influenced by a dream. The context in this poem such as that previous line could also be a hyperbole. The author might have loved the girl in the poem and used hyperboles to describe exactly how much he liked her. I do think that the author and the girl in the poem broke up or maybe she died but the last line “As if your absence now concluded long ago” hints that the girl is gone. Maybe the author is talking about winter being gone. I like this poem a lot.

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9. “Be off!’ Say Winter’s snows…” by Victor Hugo
This poem has five stanzas and there are quadtrains in each stanza. This poem does have a rhyme scheme and it follows: a b b a c d d c e f f e g h h g i j j i. This poem has a little bit of dialoge ” Be off!’ say winter’s snows/ ‘now its my turn to sing”. It also has parenthesis: (Our fortune grows dim in/ The face of a Qous Ego).” The poem kind of tells a story through the winter’s point of view meaning as if winter were a person like “Not daring to oppose” which is a human characteristic. “Away my songs we must go” meaning the winter is talking and its songs are snow. A really pretty image that the author paints is “And off the white smoke swims/ across the heavens’ grey” That line is a image for all the snow across the land and I like how the author uses “white smoke” to describe the snow. I do not think that this poem has a particular structure of stressed syallables and unstressed syallables. Because of the dialouge I think that you could make it stressed and unstressed as you wanted. “Quos Ego” means violence for disobedience. I am unsure to how this fits to snow. Maybe it means that the snow will be violent snow if the fall doesnt go away? ‘Before those virile women” is an interesting line because well actually I am not sure what the signifigance of it is. The last stanza connects the author to the poem because “onto my frozen fingers” indicates how he fits into the poem. “A pallid yellow lingers” which is very interesting because I can not think of anything that is pallid and yellow that would be around in the snow except for maybe a key because the author mentions a key later on in the poem. I like this poem because I like the way it sounds.

6 anthology poems

sarah0972 — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:09:03 +0000

1. “Winter News” by John Haines (Blog 13)
2. “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost (Blog 1)
3. “Those Winter Sundays” By Robert Hayden (Blog 21)
4. “Happy Insensibility” by John Keats (Blog 21)
5. “The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens
This poem has five stanzas with tercets in each of them. The poem has no rhyme scheme at all. The author uses a lot of imagery that reminds the reader of winter like “pine-tress crusted with snow”, “junipers jagged with ice”, “distant glitter”, all of these images sound so pretty and makes me really excited about winter. I think it is interesting though that the poem is entitled “The Snow Man” because there isnt really indigation of a snow man in the poem. Maybe the snow man is the author himself. The last stanza of this poem is interesting and I cant tell whether or not it is supposed to be sad: “For the listener, who listens in the snow/ And, nothing himself beholds/Nothing that is not there and nothing that is”. First of all it is really confusing, especially the last line. I think that the structure of this poem should be stressed syallable, followed by an unstressed syallable. This poem also puts a lot of emphasis on winter wind and how it blows in the same place. I thought that was interesting and it makes the wind sound boring. I really do not think that the author likes winter or, at least in this poem, is speaking to highly of it. Because it sounds like he doesnt like it, it makes me not really like this poem. I just feel that the general overall tone of the poem is a negative one.
6. “Snow” by Jared Carter
This poem has thirteen stanzas with couplets within them. It follows an AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL MM NN rhyme scheme. The poem has a lot of enjambment where the line cuts off right in the middle to make a new line like : “you cannot, nor can I. Snow is the horse/ that would never dream of running away”. Also a line ends and begins in the same line. I think that this poem makes it sound like snow is pure. In the first couple of lines, the author is telling the reader that there are “moments we/cannot grasp or understand”. Then the author goes on to say that snow is not like that. It can not forget because “it has nothing to remember in the first place”. Then the next couple of lines talk about how snow buries things and how things become lost in the snow. My favorite line is “Snow is the horse that would never dream of running away” just because it sounds so pretty. This also makes snow sound so reliable and pure. Like you can always count on the snow to help you forget things you dont want to remember. The last couple of lines also tell you that snow is your guide because you dont need “No moon/no stars to guide your way. No light. Climb up and get in”. When the author says climb up and get in, he is talking about the metaphor where snow is the horse and the horse pulls a sleigh. I love this poem so much because I think it is so beautiful and I love how he compares the snow to a horse “that would never dream of running away” ahh i love it. I would think that this poem follows a stressed syallable followed by an unstressed syallable but it is really hard to say with all the enjambment.

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sarah0972 — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:05:32 +0000

     “The Golf Links” by Sarah N. Cleghorn
      This poem is one stanza with quadtrains. It has sort of a rhyme scheme: the second and fourth lines –”day” and “play” rhyme. I really like this poem because I think that it reflects on society today. The poem is talking about a golf course and how it is so close to a mill. Since the poem was written in 1917, it could be a reflection of the Industrial Revolution. Since the golf course is so close to the mill, “The laboring children can look out/ and see the men play”. This is so sad. First of all it is sad that the people laboring people were children and not adults, not that it is good for older people to labor, but I think it is worse with children. I think that this poem represents society and the importance of writing it was to show the importance of rich vs. the underpriveliged. I also think it is interesting that it is “men” playing golf. Women play golf too (including myself). I think that this poem follows an unstressed followed by a stressed syallable and I think that the pattern remains constant throughout the poem. The second and fourth lines not only rhyme, but they are also indented perhaps to emphasize the rhyme. I also think that this poem is a little bit ironic just because men are playing while children are working. I also like this poem because it flows really well. I also like it because you do not have to dig really hard to find a meaning and it isnt soo hidden that it drives you crazy. But then again I think it gets the point across without being too obvious.
       “Oh No” by Robert Creeley
       This poem is written in two stanzas with quadtrains within each. In the first stanza the rhyme scheme follows as: X A(it) X A (sit). The second stanza follows a legitimate rhyme scheme: BB CC. The context of the poem isnt confusing but I am confused as to what the poem is saying. The author refers to “they” a lot and I am curious as to who they are. Also the author says that if you travel far enough “you will come to it” and I am also curious as to what “it” is. The title is “Oh No” so obviously the place can not be good. Or maybe it is a joke. I have trouble reading in between the lines. This poem is weird. I dont think there is any imagery or metaphors. I do think that the poem follows a structure of unStressed and then unstressed and then a syallable because in the first line :”If you wander far enough”, I think that “If” should be unstressed, “you” should be unstressed, “wan” should be stressed, “der” unstressed, “Far” unstressed, “en” unstressed and then “ough” stressed. I am not sure why but that is how I feel that the poem sounds good. I dont like this poem though because I do not really understand it.
      “The Covetous Cat” by Connie Bensley
      This poem is written into five stanzas with couplets in each stanza. Some lines in the poem have enjambent like “some bird liover has scattered bread/and in the middle of it a plump cat crouches/crewing at the crusts”. I feel that that is all enjambment. The poem describes a day in the park and the things going on and a couple notices a cat eating “some bird lover” ’s bread. The man says “Cats dont really like bread/he only wants it because it belongs to someone else” and the woman thinks to herself “Like You”. and she “withdraws her hand slightly. I think that the cat and the man have something in common and he is with the woman because someone else wants her and that is why she withdraws her hand. The rhyme has no apparent rhyme scheme. I also think it is interesting that the cat is “plump”. I dont know why but I just feel that has some significance. The dialouge in this poem are italicized. I also had to look up what the word “covetous” meant and it means to be really greedy so I think that means that the man and the cat are greedy (obviously). I thought that this poem followed a structure of two unstressed syallables, followed by a stressed syallable. The first line is interestng: “Because the common is remote/they walk along hand in hand”. If the common wasnt remote would they not hold hands together?I liked this poem a lot because I was able to read between in the lines.

I really have 23 blogs but i didnt start the september 8 one as blog 1

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sarah0972 — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:42:43 +0000

      “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
       This poem is written into three stanzas with 5 lines within each. I like this poem because the author uses a lot of description and imagery to tell the reader or to describe how cold the weather is. He uses imagery like “blueblack cold”, “cold splintering”, and “cracked hands that ached”. All of these things people can relate to because everyone has felt coldness in their life. When he says “cracked hands that ached” I think of when it is so cold that your hands are like that and they ache because they are so cold and cracked from being so cold. This rhyme has no apparent rhyme scheme. Each stanza has lines that have enjambent. If it were written in prosaic, the lines would be run on sentences. Each new line is not capitalized with also makes it more clear that the lines are enjamb (spelling?). I think this poem is really sad because I think it is about a son taking his dad for granted and not appreciating him. The first stanza describes how his dad woke up early on sundays in the “blueback cold” and “No one ever thanked him”. The second and third stanzas talk about how he would talk back to his dad even though his dad had “driven out the cold/ and polished my good shoes as well”. I think it is interesting that the author then repeats “what did I know?” twice because reiterates the fact that he didnt appreciate his dad and he is looking back and feeling stupid I guess. The last two lines “What did I know, What did I know/ of love’s austere and lonely offices” sort of makes you look at the dad’s life and hints that it wasnt necessarily rewarding or that his dad was lonely. It makes you feel bad for the dad and the fact that no one ever thanked him. I like this poem a lot.
      “Happy Insensibility” by John Keats
       This poem is written into three stanzas with eight lines in each of them. This poem has a A B A B C C C D A E A E F F F D G H G H I I I D rhyme scheme which I think helps the poem to flow easy. This poem is assoicated with winter and christmas time and the author uses cold imagery like “Sleety whistle”, “frozen thawings” ” crystal” and other words to describe the holiday time like “Christmas” ”tree” “green felicity” and “joy”. The first two lines in the first and second stanza are the same “In a drear-nighted December” which I can not tell if that makes the poem sad or happy. I think that this poem is saying that Decemember is happy to be winter but sad at the same time that it is unable to remember “Apollo’s summer look”. I think that this poem follows a stressed and then unstressed syallable pattern although I feel it could also go two unstressed syallable and then one stressed. I think the title fits the poem well. Since Decemeber is happy to be winter but unable to feel the good qualities of Summer it shows that it is a happy thing and clears up any confusion the reader may have. The flow of this poem reminds me of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”.
       “Song for A Dark Girl” by Langston Hughes
       This poem has three stanzas with quadtrains in each. The second and fourth lines are indented in each stanza. There is a lot of repition in the poem. The first lines in every stanza are “Way Down south in Dixie”. The second lines in the first in third stanza are “(Break the heart of me)” but all of the second lines in each stanza of the poem have parenthesis. This poem is really sad because it is about someone’s “black young lover” being hung on a tree. This poem is about race because the author uses the description of Jesus and calls him “white Lord Jesus”. By calling Jesus white he also might be saying that Jesus is not going to help him since he is white and the author is black and the author also says “What was the use of prayer”. The author uses a lot of imagery like “Love is a naked shadow”. Shadows are dark so maybe the shadow is a reffurl (spelling?) to the dark skin of his lover. This poem does have a rhyme scheme A A B A A B A B A B X A. I would be interested in hearing this song if it really is a song. This poem was written in 1927 which, in the South, there were still slaves or at least predjudices against blacks.
      “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” by Emily Dickinson
       The first thing that I notice about this poem is that the author, Dickinson, uses A LOT of punctuation especially exclamation points and dashes. I think Dickinson is famous for her dashes. I think she uses all the exclamation points because she is so excited about writing poetry. This poem is written into two stanzas with quadtrains in year. This poem has kind of a rhyme scheme: A A B C D E F E. The author does use one similie : “How public - like a frog”. This poem is really confusing and I actually feel that it is just babble. I kind of feel like the poet is talking to herself in this poem like shes looking in the mirror or at a twin or something. I actually do not like this poem because it is so random and babbley. I think the pattern of this poem is two stressed syallables and two unstressed syallables. I am not sure if I am a huge fan of Emily Dickinson even though she is so highly rated and famous.

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sarah0972 — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:04:45 +0000

      “Homage to My Hips” by Lucille Clifton
       This poem is written in one single stanza with sixteen lines within it. It has no particular rhyme scheme. There is no capitolization of any word in this poem. There is, however, a lot of punctuation. It is interesting that nothing is capitolized but there is a lot of punctuation because you would think that they come hand in hand. The beginning of most of the lines have repition: most of them start with “they”. If they do not start with “they” then it starts with “these” or “i”. The line “these hips are big hips” I think that “these” should be unstressed while “hips” should be stressed and then the pattern trickles out from there. I like this poem because for one hips are something really unique to write about yet I think a lot of women could relate to or find humor in this poem because a lot of women worry about how big thier hips are. I think that the author realizes that women are self conscience when it comes to thier bodies and she wants people to know that she is not when she says lines like “they dont like to be held back/ these hips have never been enslaved/they go where they want to go/they do what they want to do”. I think that those lines mean that she isnt going to try and change her hips. I also think she expresses the point that her hips are big when she says they dont fit into little/ petty places, these hips/are free hips”. But the fact that she says “These hips are magic hips/i have known them/to put a spell on a man and/spin him like a top!” shows that she is ultimatley happy with her big hips. You also know that because she calls them “mighty” and “magic”. The author doesnt use any alliteration but she does use one similie “spin him like a top”. I like this poem a lot because I think that it encourages women to be more confident towards their bodies.
      “I Shall Paint my Nails Red” by Carole Satyamurti
       This poem is written ten stanzas with one line in each. Or it is written in one stanza with ten lines but it is double spaced. It is hard to tell. There is no specific rhyme scheme at all. I think this poem is cool because each line starts off with the word “because”. The context of the poem is cool. The best excuse I think she uses is “Because I can admire them in traffic jams”. You wouldnt really know what this poem was about unless you read the title. I am not sure though why this is classified as a poem. It could just be a list. I think that each “because” is stressed and the words following are unstressed. This poem is a little bit different because you dont have to search for a symbol or interpret a metaphor. Everything that she says is like she is speaking to you. It really does remind me of a list.
        “from Papyrus” by Terry Ehret
         This poem is werid. It has a little picture and underneath is the poem which is in couplets but glancing at it, it looks like a bunch of sentences. I actually think that they would be sentences if they didnt have enjambment. “A lake. A night without moon. Distant memory of what the sun looks like rising./The darkness blows across the water like a wind. Passions that cool with age” is the entire poem. I am not sure what exactly the poem is talking about whether it is describing a lake or just a night. Part of the poem is a discription but the other part is really pretty. My favorite lines are “Distant memory of what the sun looks like” because it sounds co cute. I think it just means that when it is one point during the night and the night is so pretty, it is hard to imagine what you are looking at during the day. I also like the line “Passions that cool with age” because I am intrigued as to what is means. I guess if I had to guess I would think that it means the things you like now you wont like as much when you are older but I dont know what is refering to? The lake maybe? What I also dont understand is the little picture above the poem. I am confused to what its purpose is.
      “Western Wind” by Anonymous
       This poem is written in one stanza with quadrains. I like this poem because it is really simple but I think it has deeper meaning. The poem has no specific rhyme scheme. I think that the line “Western wind, when wilt thou blow”—”western” is stressed and “wind” is unstressed, “when”" and “thou” are also stressed while “wilt” and “blow” are unstressed. Each line break is a new thought and it makes the poem flow. I dont really understand the line “The small rain down can rain” just because reading it out loud doesnt really make sense to me. “Christ, if my love were in my arms, And I in bed again” may have a sexual reference to it maybe that he is in a dry spot sexually and he wants the wind to blow meaning that he wants to find love.You can tell that this poem was written a long time ago because the author uses old english by using vocaublary like “wilt” “thou” and just like the general tone of the poem feels like you are stuck in Romeo and Juliet time. I like this poem because it folws easily and I like the old english.

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sarah0972 — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:36:18 +0000

      “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.

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sarah0972 — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:30:26 +0000

      “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.

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sarah0972 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:14:20 +0000

      “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.

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sarah0972 — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:28:55 +0000

     “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.