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James Niigaanwewidan Sinclair’s poem Dancing in a mall discloses the plethora of excitement involved in participating in the “Idle no more” movement. The upbeat tempo manifests the enthusiasm conveyed by those involved in the crusade against the government of Canada’s mistreatment of reserve lands. As the movement gains support, the energy grows with it, demonstrating that the participants in this cause will not cease until the essence of their protest is fully embodied. The narrator of Dancing in a Mall communicates his passion for his indigenous culture and the “Idle no more” movement through symbolism, referring to Native folklore and by using repetition to convey his enthusiasm for the cause.

Poetry is a way of writing that can be easy to very complicated to comprehend. Things that can affect the portrayal of a story through a poem can be determined by the rhythm and meter in how the readers read it, how the poem is structured, and also the use of syntaxes within its lines. All of these elements of poetry could aide in how us as readers portray the theme. In “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt” by David Bottoms there are several differences that reside between the two. The differences between these two poems regarding these elements of poetry are that they are structured completely different, display totally opposite rhythm and meter and the syntaxes they contain are reflected in each poem differently.

How would you like to learn English nursery rhymes in a foreign language? Well, that was my introduction to poetry, as a Sinhalese child, chanting ‘Humpty Dumpty’ in a kindergarten classroom. It meant little though the picture of the fat little egg-man did make me laugh. But… the rhythm, rhyme, and repetition were sweet to my ears, and something I will always remember. They linked me to my new culture, much later, in an English speaking Primary school and gave me a sense of belonging.

In the poem "To the Men of England" Percy Bysshe Shelley calls upon the people of England to come out and do something regarding their oppression state. The poet addresses the issue that affected the working class of England following the Napoleonic Wars. She uses a series of appropriate analogy and though-inducing questions to invite the 'Men of England' who were affected by the economic depression to think about the current conditions that they live under the rule of unappreciative lords and take actions against this injustice. In the poem "Go Slow" Langston Hughes talks to himself as he ponders on how long he will continue suffering from the injustices of the masters. They prohibit him from living, eating and working in that place, yet they ask to wait and go slow on taking any action against the injustice that he is experiencing. He wonders how he will survive without eating, living or working there yet he is human and not a supreme being hence needs all this for his survival. Though written in two different historical periods, the two poems address the issue of exploitation and oppression of low-class people by their masters. The two poems use poetic devices such as word and end-rhyme repetitions and figurative language though Shelly uses a more imperative and harsher tone while Hughes uses a sarcastic tone to support the meaning and importance of the poems.

The rhyme and pattern is AAA,BBB. It is supposed to be a romantic poem. It wants humans to be in touch with their souls and natural beauty. The poem wants you to appreciate how nice nature is.

As human beings, we develop in many ways. One essential aspect that helps us develop our identity are the struggles we face. The struggles are highly significant that we face them in our daily. In the poem “The Layers” by Stanley Kunitz it sheds light on the idea of how we, as humans become resilience due to the adversity we face, and how we acknowledge the struggle and face them with our head held high.

“On my first son” was a poem we read in class, and after reading it one time through, my table partners and I did not have a single clue about what the poem meant. After brainstorming ideas and recording our thoughts, we were able to understand the poem 20 minutes later. This process was repeated when Anna, Udonne, and I tried to make meaning out of the poem “Outbound” by Greg Williamson. Our discussion process consisted on going line by line and asking questions about what we did or did not understand. Anna asked if anybody had trouble with the first two lines, which were “We passengers ride backward on the train And train our eyes on what has passed us by.”

The was a time in my life where I was trying to be a boxer but things

The excerpt from Kim Addonizio’s and Dorianne Laux’s book, The Poet's Companion was informative and lucid. As I previously noted in reading response eight, this excerpt felt less didactic and more like a hand-holding guide as compared to previous readings on creative nonfiction. I liked the authors’ emphasis on writing and reading being the only ways of finding one’s voice. The explanation of the elements of craft in the context of poetry was very helpful in recognizing the amateur mistakes in my poems. Moreover, the sample poems aided in clarifying any questions I had after reading the authors’ opinion on voice and style. I enjoyed reading the sample poems which

Swirls of clouds dancing as they fill the night sky, stars blazing in their own luminescence, casting shadows onto the acres of land. Beyond the corn field lies a small town. A tiny town, my mind has been aching to see.

If I can speak beautifully and sing like an angel, but don’t love others, I sound like a child banging on a piano or a screeching radio. If I’m very smart-almost a genius- but don’t love others, I am nothing.

The poet is disheartened with both the facts. He says that the soldier that fight, especially in the vanguard of the army, have funerals with the rejections of all rituals, for example, no flowers, no candles and not even their dead bodies. He concludes that first the soldiers are not sent but forced to fight in the war and then when they die their funeral is carried out for formality with no respect or even sympathy. He calls these rituals "mockeries" in a bitter and furious tone in the octet of the sonnet and the choruses "shrill, demented" and compares it to the falling of bullets of machine guns on the ground when he says "wailing shells"

Hi y’all my name’s Cooper. Do you enjoy the simple things in life? Then I’m the perfect match for you.

The two West Coast MC’s discuss black culture, racism, fame and image. Kendrick realizes that he is the new voice for the people and is now included in a long line of leaders. Like Mandela, Malcolm, MLK, and Tupac, he understands that he has a limited time, and when speaking with Tupac he learns that he has to reach out to the youth and recruit them to change the world. If they do not change the world, he has to at least be the spark for someone to do so. He then finishes the album by reciting a spoken word poem, about the black man being destroyed by the system that is inherently built against him. However, Kendrick takes this one step further by not only criticizing the system that oppresses young black males, but by criticizing his own people for buying into the self-destructive narrative sold to them by society. As the “caterpillars are trapped in the mad cities they call home seek to pimp out the butterflies around them”, so too does Kendrick diagnose the problem for his own people who are caught in a perpetual struggle for self-identity, self-love and self-respect (Duckworth, 2015). The polarityor conflict between his call to greatness (“illest Negus alive”) and his own personal problems, acts as an analogy for the larger tension between those caught in the ghetto and those who grow their wings and fly (Duckworth, 2015). This is the world he knows the world he paradoxically

yo D’Eazy where u at the guy is pretty good, he even got technique however what he doesnt know is im on fleek spitting fire is all I do, im even on a streak dropping MOABs on a daily hopping bitches, including bailey stopping cops in their track if they dont listen I give them a smack asking for forgiveness from that God however next time, im making christmas drop the mic and start my business might even make it into the guinness mine as well as call my song an illness because no one understands my sickness but its fine because when i run, no one sees my swiftness coming through a scene, call me the witness aint no one knows im this vicious seeing me, all suspicious mine as well as call my raps ambitious but when im done, mine as well as call