The Great Figure Annotation

It a lyric poem as the poetry is basically him declaring what should be done to reckless drivers who ran over the poor, little animals who were in their way, although not seriously, for in the first few verses declare death as punishment and oddly it not the driver but the vehicle itself, is given personification, accounting for it crimes of the animals it murdered:

The speaker uses imagery repeatedly in this poem so we always know exactly what is happening. “we drove fast toward smoke” is said in line 4 which seems really basic but the basics are really import to the poem because any little descriptive words shape a poem and that is just what Barecca is doing here. In lines 17 and 18 the speaker describes her father’s smile “my father smiled a smile from a secret, brittle heart” she says he smiles from a secret brittle heart when he sees a Cadillac in a driveway which makes the reader think of a malicious smile on the fathers face. The malicious smile in relation to the Cadillacs and the fact that he likes to see fires in rich neighbourhoods also helps us come to the conclusion that he finds pleasure in seeing houses of upper class citizens burn, because he is less fortunate in losing his job, which is a key part to the poem.

The poem I chose as my favorite was, Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt by David Bottoms. The poem is about a young boy who played baseball with his father being his coach. Constantly, his father with stress the importance of bunting; yet, the son never understood why. The son continued wanting to hit his home runs and scoring for the glory. As the boy grew into a man he finally understood why his father had stressed the bunt all those years. The father was trying to show the boy sacrifice. The person who bunts normally is thrown out. When the boy was younger he did not understand this, but as he grew older he understood the message his father was trying to show him. This poem is my favorite because I can see some of my own actions throughout

The poem I picked is The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. I found many forms of figurative language in this poem but I will be talking about three different types. I will be talking about rhyme, personification, as well as metaphors. The theme of this poem is death. About the sorrow, pain, worry,and just everything that goes along with the death of someone you love. The tone of this poem is melancholic which means great sadness or even depression.

“The Poet with His Face in His Hands” has 3 features that make it especially interesting to me: it is quite gruff and straight to the point, it’s intriguingly descriptive diction that enhances the use of imagery, creating a picture in your mind to last the whole poem. And the message behind the words written on the page, that there are in fact far too many people crying in the world.

The main theme of the poem however, is the sadness and misfortune that accompany us on our journey through life. The Wilson River Road, in which the events of the poem take place, is symbolic of the road of life that we all travel upon. The darkness and the setting of the poem point to the seclusion and indecision that we experience when dealing with life’s tragedies. Many people feel as confused as the narrator does when he was “stumbling back of the car” (5, 911) in his attempt to do the right thing. In his moment of decision, though, the only company the narrator had was the silent and unheeding world around him.

The two poems I chose to analyze were “Curandera” by Pat Mora and “Loose Woman” by Sandra Cisneros. They were an interesting read and made sure to reread several times to make sure I got everything I could from them. Both poems are so unique from other poems I have read; they are also unique from each other yet share similarities as well.

My text evidence is that in the beginning of the poem it said ‘’ The wind was a torrent of darkness among the trees.’’ Which means that it’s dark and gloomy outside and it makes the poem feel like it’s going to have sad things happen. My other text evidence is near the end of the story when the girl was captured and tied up with a gun to her breast and she had to warn the highwayman of the trap which cause a fatal decision to save the highwayman’s life or her own. The mood of that part caused her to shoot herself to try to save the highwayman. My final text evidence is at at the end of the story when the highwayman discovers that that girl had died so that made him go to her body where he got shot and died next to

Poetry has been defined by many people in numerous ways. Robert Frost puts it perfectly stating “A poem begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes a direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life…” In Margaret Atwood’s Siren Song, it does just that. The speaker portrays the scenery and the siren as danger.

For this poster I have used different layers to make a graphic combining a background image, the yellow duck ,the black duck, the bucket and the text and the speech bubbles.

This poem is about these people that fell in love with each other.The first person is Bess, Bess is the girl who lives in a hotel room because her father own the place.the Highwayman man is a thief and rob carriages and takes gold. Their was a man who loved Bess and so he found out and word sped to the guards and locked Bess up in her room.Then the Highwayman came riding,riding and she heard the highwayman riding so she warned him with her life.the Highwayman heard it so he keeps and he gets caught and he dies. some people say that you can still hear the ghost on a winter.

The poem was written in a way that is similar to an autobiography. The narrator of the poem is telling the story from a first person perspective, mostly speaking in a non-traditional manner. The tone of the poem sounds carefree as if the narrator was having a conversation with the reader. For example “I won 't be keeping myself chaste for long, for when one husband from this world is gone Some Christian

Synopsis This poem by John Buhler is about his hand me down truck that his grandpa gave him. It's just like any other fairytale truck story, but his is different. John put his blood, sweat, and tears into that truck to make it exactly what he wanted it to be. The first literary device used is free verse which is through the entire poem.

As mentioned earlier, the each part of the story is conventional to the section in which it occurs in the poem. The poem has no flashback or flash-forward

There are a lot of images in the poem. There is also a brief hint of