Suzanne Buffam

The tone of this poem is a mixture of emotions. She seems to enjoy being in his company, although the stories he shares break her heart. She expresses her conflicting feeling when she states the following:

INTRODUCTION – (1 paragraph) STRUCTURE 1. Opening sentences which introduce the poem, its author and its form.Explain why the poem is of a particular form (either a ballad or lyric poem). 2. Thesis statement: A general statement about what the poem communicates about life and life experience. 3. Signpost: briefly outline the more specific reasons for how/why the poem conveys this life experience and / or message. (Introduce the main features which will be explored in more detail in the body of your essay).

This poem was about very religious. In this poem she talks about her admiration of

Construct a close reading of this poem that demonstrates your awareness of the poet’s body of work.

Prompt: Write a unified essay in which you relate the imagery of the last stanza to the speaker’s view of himself earlier in the poem and to his view of how others see poets.

To help Year Twelve students that are studying poetry appreciate it's value, this pamphlet's aim is to discuss a classic poem and a

impossible. Although Linda Brent was not able to get her children away from Dr. Flint and his mistreatment, she did not abandon her family to save herself. Instead, she decided to hide in her grandmother, Aunt Martha’s, attic. Several times during Linda’s life she was faced with the choice of fulfilling her desires of being a free woman or putting her family first. She believed that once Dr. Flint noticed that she had escaped to the North, he would be fearful of her children escaping and would sell them. When Mr. Flint sold Benny and Ellen to someone working for Mr. Sands she was told by Mr. Sands, also the father of her children, that he would free their children soon to live with Aunt Martha.

spread. But with fame came even heavier tasks as she caught the attention of the

Carlos Deluna was an American man who was convicted of first degree murder. Carlos was executed by the state of Texas for the killing of a 24 year old woman at the Shamrock gas station. The victim Wanda Lopez was stabbed multiple times apparently from a buck knife. Wanda Lopez was the attendant of the gas station and the police was senseless and oblivious to the tape at the gas station and only saw when she was giving the murderer the money yelling “You want it? I’ll give it

Love is a subject often talked about in society, love is viewed as an essential part of human emotions and one’s life is not complete until one has experienced it. Seldom talked about is selflessness, when selflessness is talked about it is usually accompanied by an unlying need for acknowledgement. A selfless act is generally manipulated to create a false image of a person to boost the of opinions of the surrounding community. Because of humanity's natural inclination to self-interest love and positive emotions conflicts with selflessness. In our readings, Barbara Fredrickson’s ideas about love and positive emotions shared in her text Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become conflicts with Robert Thurman’s claims about selflessness shared in his text Wisdom.

Question: What does this text suggest to you about the interplay between how individuals perceive themselves and are perceived by others ? Poetry Critical Analytical Response The opinions of others can have influence on the perception of yourself significantly.

In complete honesty, I found your poem difficult to decipher. There are several ways the lines can be correlated. However, if you could provide a few lines of clarity within the poem, it would enable readers to have a better grasp on the poems theme/topic. The diction used throughout the poem appealed to me because the line structure appears simple and elementary. Nonetheless, the words in the poem seem carefully chosen and well thought out. Even the reference of Pygmalion in line three was clever “You are the man who made the statue. You are cold marble.” The way you make the transition from the subject being the creator of the statue to completely embodying the statue. After line twelve there is a shift in the imagery the poem provides.

poem is not merely a static, decorative creation, but that it is an act of communication between the poet and

Poetry like so many other things in life is complicated and easily misunderstood, similar to the poem entitled “Poetry” by Marianne Moore. Through her unique way of writing Moore uses literary devices imagery and personification to make the readers question why it is she has come to “dislike”(line 1) poetry. In particular, her word choice leaves a lot of room to wonder exactly why she has chosen to write it this way. A main theme that is represented in this poem is conformity and whether or not it is something to be followed.

In this literary analysis it is essential to compare and contrast Cathy Song’s poem “Heaven” and Bryan Thao Worra’s poem “Pen/Sword” to give the reader a better understanding of what the authors’ are conveying to their readers. The similarities in the style, word choice, and theme will be compared, along with the differences of style, word choice, and theme reflected throughout each poem. Furthermore, I will determine the meaning behind the broken up and/or the way the lines of each poem while describing why the lines are strategically placed throughout the pieces. This will allow me to identify the meaning that the authors’ are explaining to the reader. Each poet specifically writes to give the reader(s) a picture of what they are feeling and defining their emotion through their writing.