I Carry Your Heart With Me By E Cummings

The poem that stood out to me the most from the speaker, and narrative vs lyric unit was “Lorena” by Lucille Clifton. I really enjoyed this poem and it made it easy for me to understand the concept of speakers. Lucille Clifton wrote the poem, but wrote it about a experience Lorena Bobbit went through. It was hard for me to understand how a poem could have a speaker other then the author but this one made me see how sometimes the author is not necessarily the speaker. “I thought about/authority and how it always insisted/on itself” (pg. 57, 2-4). These lines contain the phrase “I”, but when Clifton uses the phrase “I”, she herself is not the individual, Lorena Bobbit is meant to be the speaker. This poem was a narrative, it told a story about the even Lorena actually lived through. It really stood out to me a lot and helped me understand the concept on a deeper level.

The poem I chose to do a close reading essay on was, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” by Mary Elizabeth Frye. “Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004) is an American poet who remains known today for a single poem-a sonnet of just twelve lines-but it may be the most popular poem in the English language. “Do not stand at my grave and weep” is a consoling Holocaust poem and elegy with an interesting genesis, since it was written by a Baltimore housewife who lacked a formal education and had quite never written poetry before, and certainly none of note” (The HyperTexts). The tone of this poem is comforting and helps people find comfort with the view of death. This poem uses a lot of imagery, metaphors, and symbolism. Frye’s, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep,” is enlightening people how to handle a death of a loved one while using important parts of the theme such as tone, vocabulary, and overall meaning.

In 1955, Flannery O’ Connor published the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” which became her best-known short story. Although many appreciated her work it received much criticism for its peculiar character, The Misfit. His callous violent behavior made people uncomfortable with her work describing it as consistently distorted and manipulative. The Misfit’s unsentimental and cruel behavior characterizes true psychological disturbance similar to that of Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer. Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Is an accurate representation of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD). Through The Misfits recollection of his past, his trauma, and his lack of guilt he depicts a severe case of ASPD.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Good morning Ms Linton and students, today I will be informing you on why you must choose these two poems for the poetry speaking contest. The poems I have chosen are ‘The Man from Ironbark’, by Banjo Patterson as well as ‘He Started the Cycling Craze’ by myself. Narratives help the readers enjoy and understand poetry as it is a way the poets can connect to their readers by using storylines that may relate to them or something that they enjoy.

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We have recently read a story written by Flannery O’Connor titled “A good man is hard to find.” The story was about a family who were on their way to Florida for vacation. On their way, they had an accident that caused their vehicle to tumble ten feet down a ditch. While they were waiting for help, a group of escaped convicts from a Federal Penitentiary witnessed the accident and approached the family. It is unknown to the readers whether or not the intention of these convicts for approaching the scene of the accident was to help the family. However, unbeknown to the readers that this encounter between the convicts and the family was the beginning of the family’s hapless and dreadful demise in the hands of these escaped convicts. As part of our reading, we also had prepare for a mock-trial that involves one of the escaped convicts, who also happened to be the apparent leader, named the Misfit. The purpose of the mock-trial was to prove whether or not the Misfit was guilty of killing the grandmother. I am part of the Misfit’s defense counsel, and we pleaded the insanity defense also known as the “not-guilty by reason of insanity” plea and we won the mock-trial. As much as I loved the idea that we won the mock-trial, it was not the verdict I was expecting. Now, was the Misfit truly suffering from a psychotic episode that he was not aware of what he was doing? Or was this a classic case that involves a psychopathic killer? To be honest, I believe it’s the latter. The

What is a poem do they rhyme? In this poem “Egg Horror” By: Laurel Winter the eggs get very scared and tremble with fear. The main point would be that everything and everyone can get scared. Three poetic elements that I will talk about are sound devices, figurative language and diction.

The two types of narrative poems I will be contrasting are: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and “The Devil Went down to Georgia” because i feel they are both “narrative poems” in that they tell a story very similarly even if they don’t share many themes.

I think any topic that tells a story is a good topic for a narrative poem. I think songs by many of the artists I listen to are narrative poems and their stories reflect that. Amy Winehouse

Two poems that I have i read are The Raven and Phenomenal Women. Poetry elements that have helped me to understand the different parts of a poem are sound patterns and stanzas because they help to know how many stanzas there are and what rhyme they have. Challenges that I have faced reading poetry is that sometimes it can be difficult for me to understand what the poem is about or for example, what a stanza is saying or its meaning. A strategy that have helped me comprehend poetry are literary devices like figurative language, it helps me compare two things that are not the same and it helps to make an imagine of something in my head.

What is an epic poem, and how does it differ from other kinds of poetry or storytelling?

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words…” This quote by Robert Frost holds the truth to what poetry is all about. If a poem is a “good” poem then it will make you feel something and teach you more than just the simple words that are on the page. Authors are able to do this through the elements of poetry. These are the building blocks of any great poem. For example, an author may use a metaphor like in the bible verse 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, this is where the author of this bible passage expresses how “Love is patient, Love is kind…”, another may use rhyme to tell the story like Dr. Seuss and his “Cat in the Hat”. However, no matter what type of Poetic element is used, a true Poet must always use at least one of the poetic devices to help convey their point and build the story.(Kerziner 560) There are two poems that come to mind when I think about all of these qualifications. If I Should have a Daughter by Sarah Kay and Pretty Katie Makkai. These two poems discuss different ways mothers raise their

The poetic voice can be scrutinized in all poems. This is because all poetic voices are given a certain personality by the poet; they often incorporate all devices such as rhyme and figurative language into the poem. Poems have different meanings but can have similarities between poetic voices; most communicate through this voice as the voice links the reader to the poem.

The Webster’s dictionary defines a howl as a loud cry of pain, anger or amusement(Webster). When you want to be heard, you use a strong voice that will get you noticed. That is what Allen Ginsberg did. Allen Ginsberg is a poet from the 50’s. He was born in 1926 and was raised in New Jersey(Charters). He was about 30 years old when he wrote his poem entitled Howl. In his poem he uses very explicit and vulgar language, which later caused the book to be banned. Throughout the poem there are different themes like intellectual institutions, madness, religion, depression, sex, drugs, government, sexuality and many more that no one was talking or writing about during this time. The poem focuses around the life of Ginsberg and his

When reading the title, we often associate a love song as something jaunty,pleasureable, and celebrating, or its other extreme, regretting, nostalgic, and full of pity for the singer’s troubles in love. With Williams the singer, the main idea revolves around the concept of an incomplete union in first person point of view, which makes the reading more personal as the reader is using “I” instead you or he. From this concept stem the ideas that this poem is about hopelessness or happiness, communal sex or masturbation. Delving into history, literary techniques, association with the author, and own opinion of it, there is easily more to it than meets the eye.