The Song Poetry Analysis

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and doctoral candidate in Education at Harvard University with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society. Smith Clint wrote a poem called “Something You should Know.” The poem is about an early job he had in a Petsmart. The poet allows the readers into his personal life, but before he had trouble opening up to people and his work. Moreover, Clint wrote an insight in the poem about relying in anything to feel safe and he says it is the most terrifying thing any person can do.

Courage by definition is the ability to do something that scares you. Courage is very bad. Courage is something some black people didn’t have back in the 1900s. Black people were scared to stand up for themselves. Melba had courage. Melba stood up for herself. Melba wanted to integrate Central High School.(page1). (page1-10). page(1-10).

In the poem “The Poem You Asked For” is written by Larry Levis. Before reading the poem, I looked over some of the word choices the poet chose to use. For some reason the word that stood out to me the most was the word “shit.” I believe that this word stood out to me the most because I am not use to seeing profanity in a poem or even a short story. I think most authors and poets use profanity to get the reader’s attention. Although some people might think it was not a good word choice but overall, I think it was a good word choice for the poet to use, When reading a poem, it can be tricky for me to understand what the poet is trying to get across. Although in this poem it was easy for me to understand the poet’s meaning. He used specific word

The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife, and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. The poem expresses deep sorrow and sadness that derive from the loneliness of the speaker, after his other half’s passing away. Nemerov attempts to take his readers on a grief-stricken journey, by strategically employing figurative language (mainly personification, metaphor, simile, and alliteration), fractured rhyme schemes and turns in stanza breaks in the poem.

While reading page nine through fifteen in the Wake Tech English 111 Reader I learned new strategies and tips on how to improve my song summary essay. I learned how to implement new strategies in my song summary essay so that I could write my introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion proficiently in my paper. Mutually, before reading the Wake Tech English 111 Reader I also did not know that when writing a rough draft for an essay a conclusion, introduction or body paragraph could be written first. Similarly, Ashley I always thought that an introduction had to be written before any other part of an academic essay. Primarily, I thought that an introduction had to be written first because my previous English teachers stressed

Artist, Kesha, co-wrote and sang the song titled “Praying.” In the video that she created for the song she shows us, the audience, what she went through during her healing process from the sexual and mental violence she received. Through many methods, such as religious references, Kesha took us through her journey through ethos, logos, and pathos.

Courage is strength. Courage is honesty. Courage is standing one’s ground no matter what. Courage is standing up for others. In Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem Finch, along with their father Atticus, live in Maycomb County, a small, mainly racist town in Alabama during the Great Depression. The Finch family’s neighbor, Mrs. Dubose, and Atticus display acts of personal courage in the story. Specifically, Mrs. Dubose displays courage in her honesty and strength, and Atticus displays courage in his responses to racism based threats and keeping others safe.

During the act of describing a situation, like the base runners in a baseball game, it is importuned to be clear and concise. In the “Who’s On First” clip this was not the case. The main issue is the three base runners all have names that have other meanings in the English language. Who, What, and I DONT KNOW can all be interpreted in a different way rather than names. If Costello started his story with “Here are the guys name, Who, What, and I DON’T KNOW” and then told Abbott the order of the base runners there would be no confusion. Being clear at the beginning with the names would be the best option for situations such as this, but then again it wouldn’t have been funning.

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.

I have chosen to analyze songs by the artist Sam Smith. I will be analyzing the songs “Good Thing,” Life Support,” and “I’ve Told You Know.” Through the artist’s tone and theme, he tells a story of how he got his heart broken by an ex-boyfriend by using imagery, connotations, and metaphors a long with many other creative writing aspects. Sam Smith uses his heart breaking love songs to conjure up an image of betrayal and confusion in the reader and listeners mind.

It Ain’t Hard to Tell by Nas is most useful than the other lyrics. “My poetry’s deep, I never fail Nas’ raps should be locked in a cell, it ain’t hard to tell” the underlined words are an example of how Nas used internal rhyme. “I freak beats” which is a metaphor because Nas used the word freak to mean something else for a dramatic effect. “Packing like a Rasta in a weed spot” is cultural nationalism. Numerous people know that Ratas’ are known for smoking weed.

In my preparation for this essay I thought that there was going to be very little that I would learn about the elements of poetry. This is not because I am an expert and have nothing new to learn, but rather the opposite. I have never really spent the time to break down and appreciate poetry. One of the reasons I think that I haven’t spent the time on poetry is due to my reading habits. I usually read to gather information and poetry is on the other end of the spectrum. Fredrick Gruber sums this up, “Poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.” (Gruber) Having said all of this though, I did see a couple of things that I could apply to my own writing. I will first start off with some elements of poetry that I

There are several complexes as well as nonlinear problems which can be solved using a special type of optimization techniques. Some of which are inspired by natural phenomenon like Fish Schooling, Swarm behavior, Ant colony etc. Among these, the PSO is a simple but powerful search technique which gives better results. The PSO algorithm maintains a population of particle where each particle represents a potential solution to an optimization problem, each potential solution in PSO is also associated with a randomized velocity and then the potential solution called particles are flown through the problem space. Let S be the size of swarm where each particle i can be represented as an object with several characteristics. A population of the