Response To Me Poem

In “The Poem You Asked For” by Larry Levis, he is comparing writing a poem by comparing it to a plant, stubborn person, and toad. Larry Levis, a 20th-century writer is well known for his brevity and surprise approach in poetry. This poem magnifies the complications that authors may face while trying to write something of such importance. The speaker uses an abundant amount of figurative language to personify how writing is so difficult, and can lead to many difficulties and dead ends. The author uses figurative language to portray the theme of difficulties in the writing process such as: difficulties prewriting, writers block, and how hard it is to let go of writing as an author.

Reflections Within is a non-traditional stanzaic poem made up of five stanzas containing thirty-four lines that do not form a specific metrical pattern. Rather it is supported by its thematic structure. Each of the five stanzas vary in the amount of lines that each contain. The first stanza is a sestet containing six lines. The same can be observed of the second stanza. The third stanza contains eight lines or an octave. Stanzas four and five are oddly in that their number of lines which are five and nine.

I can feel the room around me. It’s just a small box. I can’t even stand up in the damn thing and I’m 5’5”. I’m blindfolded with a cloth thin enough to

Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1.Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. (20 points) Yes, Communication can change people in many different ways, depending on the type of communication and the message it conveys. Communication changes people by educating them; allowing people to exchange feelings and ideas with others; making possible arguments and reconciliations; and in many other ways. Communication can be misunderstood too there’s many different types of communication. 2. Provide an example of each poetic device from any of the assigned poems. For each quote, explain the author’s intended meaning. What is the author really saying? (36

In the Egyptian love poems, it is apparent that both the boy and the girl long for their lover when they’re away. In ‘Seven whole days’ the boy talks about how when his love is away he feels ill and no medicine or magic can make him better, only the sight and presence of his beloved can cure him. While in ‘Am I not here with you’ the girl speaks about her worry that the boy will leave once morning comes because food will be more important to him than the girl’s love and whatever relationship they

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

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.

You wake up strapped to a chair that can only be described as a cold and uncomfortable dentist chair. When you realize where you are you start to squirm in the seat however there is no success in doing so the chair only squeezes tighter and tighter the more you squirm. Then you hear the door to the room you are next to open and what you hear is what can only be described as a scene out of a horror flick. Of course the noise from the other room was first of gasping for air and second screaming before death.

Poetry can be divided up into different forms, more easily expressing an author’s emotions and intent with their poetry. For analyzing purposes I chose the poems Self-Help by Michael Ryan, Ghazal by Agha Shahid Ali, Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown, and Emergency by Michael Dylan Welch.

If it’s more than you can bear, then take the ᴡᴇɪɢʜᴛ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴏғғ ʏᴏᴜʀ sʜᴏᴜʟᴅᴇʀs–

The second stanza is almost like the first in the fact that it appeals to the same senses. It talks about the actions and the feelings of the child. It describes how the child would wake and wait for his father to call him. The second stanza also describes the mood of the house in the line, "fearing the chronic angers of that house." Perhaps that line is

Family: they are a huge part of people’s lives and are generally the people you lean on when you need help. They are there for you and love you unconditionally. They care and give advice, and once death comes to take somebody from the family, everyone still cares for them while they are gone. Then again, not all families are this way. Some are not as friendly towards each other and some don’t care what happens to those they call loved-ones.

Original PoemYou saved me. Do you know how much you changed my life?Before you there was so much mayhem in my life with nobody to help sort itout. I was abandoned by everyone, left alone with only strife. But you took that all that negativity and showed me what love was about.

JUST BECAUSE I AM ….. She is pretty, Made of pink, Loves makeup, And… Is that all you have got to say about , Well let me help.

The poem I read “The Poem Wants a Drink,” by Karen Glenn, title stood out to me immediately because it isn’t a sentence you see often. It’s uncommon to describe inanimate objects as having emotions and desires, such as a poem needing a drink. To me this hinted that the poem was going to have a more dark subject matter or tone. The first stanza confirmed my initial thought that this might not be a positive poem, as the poem describes itself as a “layabout with limited ambitions.” The second stanza opens with the lines “this poem doesn't give a damn for rhyme or reason.” This line stood out to me, first because of the curse word, which is something that is generally avoided in poemes I have seen before.