Ain T Nothing Wrong: Poem Analysis

“An Anti-Semitic Demonstration” was the more effective poem by using metaphors to explain the fear one feels during the arrival and anticipation of being sent off to a concentration camp by Nazis. During this time period life as a Jew must have been unbelievably frightening, for one was unsure of when they would be collected and where the would be taken away too. All just because of their religious beliefs or the fact they may be considered “undesirable”. Whereas in “The Family Album” they explained more about how the Jews were before their life changed forever. Neufeld does not go to explain the way they felt during the tough times of the Nazi ruling. However, he instead talks about how life was instantly changed when no one saw it coming.

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

Frost further points out that the stretch of woods being viewed is very rural. This is made possible by the reference to the location between the woods and frozen lake. In closing the final sentence of the second stanza Frost reiterates the fact that this occurs on “the darkest evening of the year” stating the darkness of the mood.

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

Take a minute to imagine “Men looking like they had been/attacked repeatedly by a succession /of wild animals,” “never/ ending blasted field of corpses,” and “throats half gone, /eyes bleeding, raw meat heaped/ in piles.” These are the vividly, grotesque images Edward Mayes describes to readers in his poem, “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976.” Before even reading the poem, the title gave me a preconceived idea of what the poem might be about. “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976” describes what an extreme version of what I expected the poem to be about. The images I

Equal Opportunity is a free verse poem and it is made by Jim Wong - Chu. The poem is about early Canada. In the early Canada, the railways were highways. People used to take railways all the time. But there was a rule. The rule was that Chinese could only ride in the last two cars but that is until an accident happened and kills all those in the front of the cars. Canadians made a new rule. The Chinese must ride in the front two cars of the train but this rule lasted until another accident happened and kill all those people in the back of the train. After much debate, the Chinese were allowed to site anywhere on the train.

The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife, and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. The poem expresses deep sorrow and sadness that derive from the loneliness of the speaker, after his other half’s passing away. Nemerov attempts to take his readers on a grief-stricken journey, by strategically employing figurative language (mainly personification, metaphor, simile, and alliteration), fractured rhyme schemes and turns in stanza breaks in the poem.

Reflections Within is a non-traditional stanzaic poem made up of five stanzas containing thirty-four lines that do not form a specific metrical pattern. Rather it is supported by its thematic structure. Each of the five stanzas vary in the amount of lines that each contain. The first stanza is a sestet containing six lines. The same can be observed of the second stanza. The third stanza contains eight lines or an octave. Stanzas four and five are oddly in that their number of lines which are five and nine.

The suspense and creepy mood only continues to grow as it describes “the rustling sounds of the purple curtain” getting closer, and closer listening to the sounds it describes the speaker freaking out

Poetry can be divided up into different forms, more easily expressing an author’s emotions and intent with their poetry. For analyzing purposes I chose the poems Self-Help by Michael Ryan, Ghazal by Agha Shahid Ali, Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown, and Emergency by Michael Dylan Welch.

“We Real Cool” is centrally themed around a group of seven pool players as seen in the lines, “We pool players.” , “Seven at the golden shovel.”, and “We real cool.” , who are living each night to the fullest. The entirety of the poem is a series of simple sentences that describe the things they do each night.

The book “Inside out and back again” is based off a family living in Saigon during the Vietnam war in, 1975. The story is based on a 10-year-old girl named Ha, she lives with her mother and her 3 older brothers. The family left Vietnam because it was unsafe and Ha’s mother wanted her children to grow up in a safe environment. Unlike what Vietnam had to offer which was a war and communists. Ha and her family left Vietnam to go to America, a more peaceful and safe place.

Never in my life have I seen amazing poems such as “Dump” and “How Things Work”. Both poems show how us as humans need to stop throwing things out, and how we need to stop buying things we don’t need. “Dump” is a well-written traditional poem, about how we always throw too much away. “How Things Work” is a joyful, yet hopeless sounding freeverse poem, which shows how we buy many things, and need to learn how to reuse everyday objects. Both poems have very amazing word choice, and how we have to save some things, and not throw things out right away.

Poetry is a reduced dialect that communicates complex emotions. To comprehend the numerous implications of a ballad, perusers must analyze its words and expressing from the points of view of beat, sound, pictures, clear importance, and suggested meaning. Perusers then need to sort out reactions to the verse into a consistent, point-by-point clarification. Poetry utilizes structures and traditions to propose differential translation to words, or to summon emotive reactions. Gadgets, for example, sound similarity, similar sounding word usage, likeness in sound and cadence are at times used to accomplish musical or incantatory impacts.

Are drugs really the answer to anyone’s problems? “Comfortably Numb,” a song, written by Roger Waters of the band Pink Floyd is about depression, mental health and drug use in the music culture. They write about a person who focuses on escaping his own mind because he can’t bear what is going on in the outside world. The band mate retreats to his inner self and is having conflict with the physical world. “Comfortably Numb” is a song (in it’s generation) that most people, who were having problems, could relate to by taking drugs to dull the pain.