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Poetry Synthesis Essay

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I feel lost in the million trails of this mountain. Seeing the beautiful moonlight as it drifts away like a butterfly. Wishing, I could play the piano keys again. Memories of my childhood, coming back to haunt me. But yet, here I am, lost in this wilderness. This short poem I wrote when I was in high school. I was going through a lot of family problems my brother had cancer, and my younger sister was going through depression. I turned to poetry to hide away the pain that I was feeling. In poetry there are several genres, but the three main ones are lyric, narrative and dramatic. First of all, in poetry lyric is an emotional writing that focuses on your thoughts and emotions. It can also be like a song-like quality. In lyric it is made up of two subdivisions that contain elegy and sonnet to make the poem stronger. An elegy is a poem that contains of …show more content…

He later starts hearing things around the house, and is thinking that his beloved Lenore will come back from the dead. He later starts seeing this bird a raven, and every time he sees it the bird says “Nevermore”. Throughout this poem he is grieving and this bird keeps telling him “Nevermore” which he does not understand why he keeps saying that. He tries to talk to the bird to get answers but the bird keeps repeating itself. In the end, the man could no longer take it and he ended up killing himself. A lot of times when people loose someone we tend to say we see them or they are still here with us, and that can later lead to our deaths. My Grandpa from my mother side had passed away, and we never went to his funeral. My auntie had told us that since that day of the funeral she could feel my grandpa around. She thought she was going crazy till she moved out and started fresh. This tells us that if we keep grieving in the past, and stay there most likely we will end up to our deaths since we do not let the past

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