Into The Great Wide Open Poem Summary

Joy Harjo’s poem “The Path to the Milky Way Leads through Los Angeles” is written with the intent to reveal the Native American struggle of having to find a way to submerge themselves into a culture that had been forced upon them. In this poem Harjo an Okmulgee Native has trouble when adjusting to the city of Los Angeles; all while still trying to hold on to her Native American heritage. This displacement of culture is what constitutes the separation between a person and their culture. Removing the art and other manifestation from a group that know nothing other than their own teachings will only cause what we see as pre-existing; which is the whitewashing of a culture. The sacredness of the Native culture is quickly overturned when the

Imagine being 18 years old and packing up your life, moving to Hollywood just to become famous. Eddie an 18 year old young man move to Hollywood California to become famous and successful. “Into the Great wide open”, a narrative poem by Tom Petty, tells a story of the life of a rock star, while using a shifting tone, and is told in a realistic fashion.

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.

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.

The author wrote about Eddie who has been having it rough lately. He tried to make the best out of his situation living under the circumstances that he does. His family keeps pressuring into avenging his cousin's death. But he still manages to keep his head held high although it seemed like the entire world was against him. He avoids getting into trouble or doing drugs because he knows that he wants a good future and doing those things would not help. He keeps his head down and works for his dollar no matter how hard it can get for him.

Through Eddies school experience got off to a rough start with many fights and comments about his parents and their Asian culture. He never took comments against him very well, he fought back many times with physical violence. He had to change schools many times through his adolescence because

I believe the gender of the speaker is this poem “Aside” is a male. I think this because of the descriptions throughout the poem such as his addiction to alcohol and him taking an interest in amateur cartography and playing games. The man is someone who I believe is skinny and homeless. Due to “My ribs that show through t-shirts,” which refers to him as being thin and “And these shoes I got for free,” because of him not being able to afford his own pair. I thought the man was an addict “Rely a bit too heavily on alcohol.”

I wanna actually grow up and succeed and instead of follow, lead. I wanna grow up to actually become a model not sit there and hold a bottle. I never wanna get up when I hear the alarm, but then again I never wanna marry Jake from state farm. Even Though, the alarm makes me wanna put a bullet through my head I know i'm better off at school then in the bed. I could get my 90 up to a 99 just fine. I don't wanna work at a booth selling Babe Ruth. As this ends I gonna try harder, and date

My reaction to this poem was being stunned of how many rights were limited towards those who were colored and what dark times they had to face before being accepted to live like normal people. This was a crucial lifestyle they were living and there’s no way that humanity can ignore this crisis because it’s part of our history. I never really understood how imperative black history until I read this heartbreaking poem of a lifestyle of an individual. It depicts how she lived an awful life as a black person in society and it hurts just knowing the fact that just because your different colored in society doesn’t mean that you get treated differently too. There was so much unequal benefits the had to face on a daily basis, so many limited right to the point where the future

This story is about Eddie becoming a rockstar. Than have it all taken away using a curious tone. In the narrative poem “The Great Wide Open”. The situation of Eddie was a lot like Bo Jacksons. Bo Jackson was on top of world making millions playing football but then got hurt. Then his football career went down the drain just like

That one even becomes his own identity. As an teen age boy, Eddie produces more than young boy could do. He used his own cultural understanding to communication with people surround. Instead of oral language, the music become the platform for his “two selves”.

In the poem “To This Day” by Shane Koyczan describes a bibliography about his life when he was in his childhood because people use to pick on him and he had a bad childhood. People have to put their shoes into people who are getting bullied because people who don’t get bullied don’t get what position the person who is getting picked on is actually really hurt and all they think is that it is funny, For example in the poem it says, “we both got moved to the back of the class so we would stop getting bombarded by spit balls but the school halls were a battleground where we found ourselves outnumbered day after wretched day we used to stay inside for recess because outside was worse”. This evidence shows how it is so sad how they had to put themselves

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.

When faced with the countless problems of war including death, disease, sorrow, and loss, soldiers develop and intense bond between one another as they seek support in one another. A brotherhood is formed among these soldiers who rely on one another for protection and companionship amid a time in their lives where they are faced with the constant threat of death and violence everyday of their lives. But what happens to them after the war? In After the War, poet brings awareness to how the war-torn soldier attempts to reestablish their self in a society they have been isolated from for so many years through use of free verse and repetitive phrases, which further reinforces the theme throughout the poem.

The day grew long as all became dim, the sun slowly rolling down the tall-standing battered hill. The water shone with the colours of the sun; never-ending ripples rang throughout the lake. It was a long, worn-out day with nothing caught at all—well, a perch or two, but nothing to hold our heads high for. Then came the coat of mosquitoes invading our helpless boat; we were stuck there, as if we were serving ourselves to them on a silver platter. Others on the lake declared it “the end” as motors rumbled into shore after a long day. The mosquitoes bit as if were their Thanksgiving, and it was at that moment, I knew I’d be sore the next day. Night was only a couple of moments away from whisking out all the happiness brought to us