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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.

Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and doctoral candidate in Education at Harvard University with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society. Smith Clint wrote a poem called “Something You should Know.” The poem is about an early job he had in a Petsmart. The poet allows the readers into his personal life, but before he had trouble opening up to people and his work. Moreover, Clint wrote an insight in the poem about relying in anything to feel safe and he says it is the most terrifying thing any person can do.

The Poem “Introduction to Poetry” is by Billy Collins, an English poet, and it is about how teachers often force students to over-analyze poetry and to try decipher every possible meaning portrayed throughout the poem rather than allowing the students to form their own interpretation of the poem based on their own experiences.

Poetry is an abstract art form that gives us insight into the past, present and future, allow us to reflect on our lives and provokes thoughts and emotions. * We are Belinda and Katarina and today we will be discussing the theme of city vs bush in the poems Clancy of the Overflow by Banjo Patterson and The Call of the Bush by Dora Wilcox. *The theme of city versus bush interested us as the general opinion of the preferred lifestyle is constantly changing as time progresses, for example, we prefer today 's city lifestyle compared to the bush. These two specific poems provide information on past opinions and experiences dealing with the treatment of city versus bush.

I was thirteen, and I had just come home from a school softball game. My friend Dalton had invited my sister and I to come and swim at the neighborhood pond. My sister stayed home, but I got permission to go. After a while of swimming, Dalton looks at me claims that he’ll jump out of a tree near the bank if I jump out. Of course, I accepted my friend’s little dare and climbed into the tree, focusing on the seven-foot-deep drop-off off of the bank. Regrettably, I didn’t jump far enough. My right leg landed in the drop-off, but my left leg hit the clay, which caused all of my weight to shift to my left foot. I felt an immense pain in my ankle and started screaming while crawling over to the bank as Dalton ran to get my mom. After I finally made it to the emergency room, I found that I had broken my fibula at an upward slant, which caused the upper part of the bone to slam down into my ankle.I had completely blown out every ligament and tendon on the left side of my ankle. I had to have a plate and four screws implanted into my fibula along with the surgical repair of all of my ligaments and tendons. The entire ordeal left me extremely interested in the human body, and this interest was heightened when I had to get my appendix removed a few months later and again when I took Anatomy and

One obstacle I have faced, and will continue to face, revolves around my feet. When I was born, the doctor immediately informed my mother that I was happy and healthy, however, my feet happened to be upside down and backwards. In the next few weeks, my parents met with scores of doctors to learn about my condition, know as bilateral Clubfoot. The most notable of these doctors was Dr. Ignacio Ponseti, arguably the most learned doctor in the field of Clubfoot, who said to my mother: “my best advice would be to prepare him for a desk job”. Since my birth, I have had two sets of surgeries on my feet, have had casts on both legs for years, and was in a wheelchair for almost a year at the age of five. The innumerable challenges posed by my disorder

When I was an infant, I had to go through numerous surgeries and my body quickly deteriorated as infections and septicemia overtook my body, infecting the joints in my pelvis. Because of this, one leg developed shorter than the other making it nearly impossible to stand or walk and thus needed a pelvic brace to alleviate the pain until I was 3 years old. My parents were told afterward by the doctors told my parents that there is nothing they can do anymore and that there is no hope in me.

My freshman track season I started to feel some pain in my left foot, so I decided to go to the doctor. He diagnosed me with tendonitis. I had to wear a CAM walker as I rounded out my freshman season, but eventually when I was feeling better I no longer needed the cumbersome boot. A few months later, when it was volleyball season, the rigorous volleyball tournaments began to have dire consequences on my foot. During one of the matches, I injured my foot again to the extent that I could no longer put weight on it. The doctor said that the arch in my foot was collapsing, and the only thing he could do to fix it was surgery, A few weeks later, on my 16th birthday I had foot surgery.

I remember when I was about two years old, I seen my brother on the hospital bed laying there sleep. I was to young to actually know what was going on but I knew something was not right. My mom used to spend hours at the hospital monitoring him and making sure everything was going all right. Most of the circumstances I spent nights at my grandparents house because my mom didn't want me to see him like that. When my brother was born he acquire Talipies Equinovarus also called Clubfoot. Clubfoot is a birth defect in which the foot is twisted out of shape or position. The cause of Clubfoot is unknown. My brother spent years in and out of the emergency room. He wore vast after cast for years too. My brother is sixteen now and doing better than

Ted Kooser, the thirteenth Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for his honest and accessible writing. Kooser’s poem “A Spiral Notebook” was published in 2004, in the book Good Poems for Hard Times, depicting a spiral notebook as something that represents more than its appearance. Through the use of imagery, diction, and structure, Ted Kooser reveals the reality of a spiral notebook to be a canvas of possibilities and goes deeper to portray the increasing complexities in life as we age.

A sister or brother is someone you treasure and it hurts when they are taken away from you. Taken away symbolizes death in this matter. Abuse is something that many people go through in their lives as children and even adults. Abuse can cause loved ones to be “taken away”. This poem was written by a young girl who was abused as a child.

We go straight into my middle school memories. During this time I had two major scars that made my first two years of middle school dreadful. They changed my outlook on school and my overall physical appearance. They made me have a cast almost the whole time through these years. The first injury is the roller skating accident. In my first year of middle school I was looking to do everything cool everyone else did, so I went roller skating with my brother because the popular group did. We got there at around six in the afternoon, and we skated for about two hours. Within those two hours I fell from being cut off, when I was cut off I fell to the ground but my ankle went one way and my leg when the other. I crawled to the side of the rink and cried on the ground. After a little bit my brother came off the ice and told me to get up because I was embarrassing him. He made me walk through the parking lot on a broken ankle and I walked on it for three days after that. That experience made me fear ice and skating rinks and also fear not getting a bone checked

Some of the poems and essays I have read during this class were relatable to me. Being away from college, I have struggled with not being at home. I have become a different person when I am at school, but when I am home, I feel like I am my normal self again. Some of these authors of the poems and essays that I have read throughout this class has struggled with being somewhere where they don’t belong and that they are someone else when they are not home. Unlike the other poems and essays we have read throughout the course. I enjoyed reading the ones about “home” because I actually understood what they are going through and that I can relate. Some of these poems and essays include “Going Home” by Maurice Kenny, Postcard from Kashmir”, by Agha Shahid Ali, “Returning” by Elias Miguel Munoz and “Hometown” by Luis Cabalquinto. All of these poems deal with duality.