Gone Poem

In the final stanza, he makes the reader sad as he assumes the inevitable will happen and she will die. He expresses this through metaphors such as a “black figure in her white cave”, which is a reference to the bright white hospital rooms and although he is the black figure he thinks she just sees a shadow which could be the grim reaper or even death himself, coming to end her journey. No one wants to deal with the sorrow of losing a loved one for good, as

He was one of the children taken away. On the last line, when he says, ‘I came back’ clearly backs this point. The producer uses lots of negative words such as snatched, humiliated, took to show the intents of the white people and all the lies they told. The author uses lots of past tense words as the poem is about an event that happened in the past. The emotions that the author wants his readers to feel are sad and angry.

In the last stanza of the poem, this is a realization of the poem where a schoolgirl who is hiding underneath her desk understands the meaning of death, grief, and sadness unlike the society around her. When the schoolgirl says

Gone” by Micheal Grant is the first novel is a 5 booked Series. The novel follows the story of the children of Peridido Beach, a small town located in Southern California, who are one day suddenly abandoned - and forced to grow up extremely quickly - when everyone over the age of 14 disappears into thin air. Throughout the book I read and experienced a story of anger, intelligence, determination and most of all bizarre events that left me hungry for more. This creepy, unrealistic yet haunting novel captured and reeled me in from the first paragraph making it an overall intriguing and entertaining read.

When an 9.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Japan on March 11th, 2011, it was the first of a series of horrific events that Japan would be forced to endure. Many homes, families, properties, and belongings were lost on that day. And when the tsunami rolled over the island, many believed that it was over for them. Not only had people’s lives been put in disarray and desolation, but there had not even been simple necessities available. Food. Water. Communications. And electricity. When the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had been hit by the earthquake and tsunami, the reactors were shut down and so was the electricity. Over the course of months the reactors suffered, extreme heat, fires, hydrogen explosions, and radiation exposures. At the time,

The poem at first comes off as a simple poem about spring and winter, but there are many hidden meanings as well. As well as the fear of the end of the world.

This line also marks a change in the poem for the narrator from expressing her frustrations to possibly coming to terms with them and attempting to put her experiences behind her and move

The poet creates these emotions for the reader when he talks about how the narrator’s mother cannot protect herself anymore. The narrator talks about how he has to protect her: “So I protect her from knives, / stairs, from the street that calls / as rivers do, a summons to walk away, to follow” (12-15). The tone for this poem is downhearted, gloomy, and distressed. The author displays his feelings toward the subject of the poem when he shows that the narrator knows she will never remember his name, even though he is helping her so much. The narrator shows these feelings after he helps his mother get dressed: “when she sometimes looks up / and says my name, the sound arriving / like the thrill of a bird so rare / it’s rumored no longer to exist”

At this point in the poem, the speaker’s attitude toward loss is rather blasé due to the fact that the items she has misplaced holds no emotional attachment and can be replaced.

Early in the morning of April 27, 1986, the world experienced its largest nuclear disaster ever (Gould 40). While violating safety protocol during a test, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl power plant was placed in a severely unstable state, and in a matter of seconds the reactor output shot up to 120 times the rated output (Flavin 8). The resulting steam explosion tossed aside the reactor’s 1,000 ton concrete covering and released radioactive particles up to one and a half miles into the sky (Gould 38). The explosion and resulting fires caused 31 immediate deaths and over a thousand injuries, including radiation poisoning (Flavin 5). After the

It is a sad poem and it makes you feel great sadness for the author because it brings you back to a time or memory you have that you were in the same position at one point in your life. After reading so many of the similes in the poem it gives you the effect of reality that she has been dealing with this issue for quite some time and can’t seem to shake her feelings. In the poem she says “Like a train off its track, toward a boarded-up station, closed for years”. This gives proof of how she is still dealing with the lingering pain. A boarded up station would have no use to a train that is on the wrong path.

The poem is a reality poem about real life. It infers about memories, nature, and the cycle of life and death. Things can only stay beautiful for so long, but the circle of life will continue. The ending seems like the world is over, but in reality it will keep on going.

The final stanza of the poem represents the woman going into labor and the delivery of her child into the world. “I wither and you break from me;” (16). This line represents the moment the

On Friday, 11 March 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake/nuclear disaster shook Fukushima city at the north-eastern coast of Hionshu island near the town Okuma. The earthquake caused a tsunami with 30-foot waves that damaged several nuclear reactors in the area, leaving nearly 20,000 deaths and 2,500 missing caused by the initial earthquake and tsunami and by post-disaster health conditions. (CNN, 2017)

The nuclear disaster in Fukushima occurred at fourteen forty six, Japanese time. The disaster occurred because a major magnitude nine earthquake struck North Eastern Japan and a fifteen meter high tsunami also struck the power plant (Grimston). There were eleven overall reactors that were effected by the earthquake and tsunami. Nine of the reactors cooling systems continued to work after the natural disasters occurred, but reactors one, two and three of the Fukushima Daiichi plant were terribly damaged and could not cool down the fission process. This is what lead to the one, two and three reactors to melt, causing the most detrimental damage to the global community (Grimston). Critics of the disasters say that Daiichi was not up to global nuclear safety standards because the wall the protected the plant was only stable against six meter tall tsunami waves, not the massive