UNDO At 5:12AM I am in our spot old light and sleepy bones watching flashes of you unwind in cosmic pictures: you are back home, the grey in your skin slowly unfolds to a glowing pink, you ungrow your bitten nails and porcelain wrists unchip the denial that haunts your limbs slips away whilst the veined routes outlining the alps of your spine sink. You stop being distant and the gap between us is no longer a cliff. Unwrite the letter and we feign the numb of eleven months returning to calcium flamed walls and syntax that evaporates on the tongue ten unbend the orange heavens and forget the smell of viscous regret and brittle words too blunt to stitch the wound back to unbroken eulogies and unstable desire back to burnt-out carparks that still …show more content…
Clock strikes and we climb up the stairs to a balcony where the night untraces the constellations of your cheeks collarblades of soot unblacken to a pilgrimage of skin, muddy footsteps trace home towards a summer of insoluble horoscopes whilst your hair plummets 8 inches to your waist once more the loneliness is reborn as I watch you untangle a tide of memories on a martyr drenched pillow, replanting lilies, detach yourself from the broach of your father’s arms seven the caving grief dissipates and your grandmother is alive again, your words no longer burn. Dismantle june and may is still a month instead of a euphemism, we are whole once again and the sadness slides over an unripened year, suddenly you are unsad and we are back in a library that no longer aches, I am unmissing you because we have never met, journeying back to the start six uncrack the mirror, we are strangers of a distorted reflection five I am unfizzled stardust that lurks between the blissfully empty lines of you
“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.
“’ But this is merely a negative definition of the value of education’” (23-24). Mark Halliday wrote “The Value of Education” from a first person standpoint. The introduction and the use of “I” demonstrates the poem is about the speaker. Likewise, the speaker uses imagery, self-recognition, and his own personal thoughts throughout the poem. He goes on throughout the poem stating external confrontations he is not doing because he is in the library receiving an education and reading books. With this in mind, the speaker goes on to convey images in your head to show a realization of things he could be doing if he were not in the library getting an education.
Would you ever think an indigenous poem about nature would have any similarities with a short story that is set later on in the future, where everybody is dependent on technology? “The Song My Paddle Sings” is by an early 1900s indigenous poet, Pauline Johnson, and “The Pedestrian” is written by early 2000s writer, Ray Bradbury. The short story and the poem both establish a very determined, lonely,anxious and gloomy mood. “The Song My Paddle Sings” is an indigenous poem that exemplifies to stay determined in every journey in life. The poem is about a man who goes sailing but there is no wind, so then he has to take down the sail and start canoeing but then the water gets faster and he accepts that he has to change for nature. Consequently
Letting go of comfortable, familiar feelings is a task many individuals are not willing to forget. For example, in the final paragraph of “Goodbye to my Twinkie Days” Nguyen writes that she may never eat the ten pack of Twinkies purchased. Even all throughout Nguyen’s story, in excerpts from the first paragraph to the last, it is made clear that Twinkies are not healthy nor a necessity. Nevertheless, the author knows that there is a certain comfort in knowing that in only a short trip to the top of the fridge, the tasty packaged “time machines” would always be there, whenever
Just as poetry is a permanent mark of feelings that last forever on paper, tattoos are permanent symbols that last forever on the skin. Tattoos and poetry can easily be combined such as in Kim Addonizio’s sonnet, “First Poem for You,” the speaker admires her partner’s nature themed tattoos in a darkened room. This may seem to be a simple poem, but by utilizing tattoos as symbols, including tactile and visual imagery in her poem, and using the sonnet as her structure, Addonizio laments about the true meaning of relationships and their longevity.
While reading both stories, they both seemed to share the same theme. The theme that both stories shared is the dedication to do work even if it isn’t necessary. In, “Clearing Paths to the Past” The person states they have an obligation to clear their sidewalk so others can use the sidewalk to get somewhere. In, “To be of use” the person telling the poem explains how they love to be dedicated to doing work even when they do not need to do the work with any effort.
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
You selected a few different poems to interpret this week then my self. You have a marvelous post summarizing each peculiar one. I likewise read Nostalgia by Billy Collins this week. My conception of the author is he practically ridicules the diverse periods of time as they were portrayed. I enjoyed this poem considering the composer certainly drives the point home with this topic. An abundance of humanity complains about past generations although trends were not the greatest it's persistent rebalance of pros and cons about all aspects of life. I couldn't agree more with you that the theme of the poem demonstrates that humanity wishes regression to the way life once
By in love with I genuinely mean in love with. Maybe to quote baby love I don’t know what love is. You know what? I don’t. I think it’s fictitious, how can something so subjective be true. But then again, morals are subjective and they’re real. They definitely arent true.
Poetry Annotation Level III Alan W. Jankowski wrote the poem “We Shall Never Forget,” to honor the emergency rescue providers who died during the crisis. Most people honor the victims who died in the buildings or planes. However, people forget over 400 of the people who died were police officers, firefighters or paramedics. They didn’t die because of fate, they died trying to help others live. Jankowski was driving to a job interview on the morning of 9-11.
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.
Parallel Poem from “Unspeakable”- Cover People Were no strangers to me Been applied countless times Only to be put right back where I was I’ve been judged because of My shininess My shimmer The way I glow And the boldness of my colour Had been taken for granted and lost it all
It is often said that women express themselves as much as possible but in Arial Luis poem “Slip of the Tongue” he communicates how western culture continues to hold women to unnatural standards of beauty by using actual makeup as an example of how women are held to these standards. He believes that a natural state is the perfect state of a women because she is not afraid of being criticized by society. Stanza six is one of the biggest shifts in the poem because it is the point where the woman says how other women use makeup to cover their natural state and how they want to look “perfect”. “First of all, makeup’s just an anglicized, colonized, commodified utility that my sisters have been programmed to consumed forcing them to cover up their
Select two poems that you consider to be your best work from the required writing assignments in lessons 1–6. Each of these poems should be at least eight or nine lines in length and no longer than thirty, which means that if you choose to submit a short poem such as a cinquain or a haiku, you will need to select an additional one in order to meet the minimum length requirement. One of the poems should follow an established format (a sonnet, villanelle, cinquain, or haiku, etc..) and one should be written in free verse. Both (or all) poems should include the following:
“Poems are written with the feelings and emotions, with the intuition and the instincts, that make each of us who we are” (Charters 669). Dana Gioia, the author of “Summer Storm 2000” expresses an emotional works to an event dated back 20 years ago. Gioia uses dictions such as, imagery, figures of speech, setting, tone, and ballad to help readers not only comprehend the poem but to help them envision and feel it as if they were the ones experiencing the story. Gioia uses these means as a way of expressing his feelings and thoughts while explain to readers the deeper meaning of what “Summer Storm” really entails.