You Asked For By Larry Levis

In the poem “An Echo Sonnet”, author Robert Pack writes of a conversation between a person’s voice and its echo. With the use of numerous literary techniques, Pack is able to enhance the meaning of the poem: that we must depend on ourselves for answers because other opinions are just echoes of our own ideas.

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.

Poets are very cleaver when it come to the way they say things in their poems. Most poets don’t just come out and say what they are going to say. They seem to write about something totally off topic but then you understand what they are talking about. They are almost long metaphors, which aren’t very easy to understand. They also say someing in the way they write the poem. The structure is very important. They place things in certain ways or at certain times and you don’t really think about it unless you read the poem deeply, as in actually study it. Thomas Hardy did this in “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave”

The poem suddenly becomes much darker in the last stanza and a Billy Collins explains how teachers, students or general readers of poetry ‘torture’ a poem by being what he believes is cruelly analytical. He says, “all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it”. Here, the poem is being personified yet again and this brings about an almost human connection between the reader and the poem. This use of personification is effective as it makes the

The poem consists of three stanzas with different numbers of lines. It begins with the sentence, “I have a rendezvous with Death” which is repeated three more times in the poem, in lines 5, 11 and 20. The poem alludes to the realities of war in phrases such as “disputed barricade,” “some scarred slope,” and “some flaming town.” Besides being a war poem, there are elements of an elegy. Generally, elegies are written to lament over someone who has passed away. In this piece, however, the poet contemplates on his own possible death during war. Despite the atypical aspects, the poem embodies an important characteristic of an elegy. An elegiac poem is generally composed to laud and honor a decreased person so that he or she will not be forgotten.

On a ordinary day, and a ordinary date, Zac was dating a girl and they just went out to dinner. He really likes the girl and he didn’t want to get married at the time, but she did. So when she got really personal and asked if he want to get married. Zac just said ‘’No’’ and was saying how he wanted to travel to mexico and go fishing with a pretty girl like her. So they just talked about what they wanted and she realized they both wanted completely different thing. So she just broke up with Zac. He decided to head to mexico that night as soon as possible. He packed up all his things and headed to the coast of mexico. When he got there he went and bought a nice little house just on

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.

This is a very controversial and moving poem. The language is frank and interesting. The rhythm shows the passion of the narrator and the poet transparently. There is amazing balance between abstraction and what is tangible. This poem is highly effective in that it engages the reader immediately with a

The language used in the poem is eye catching. The use of the word “f*ck” aids the poem to draw in heightened attention. Swear words were a newsworthy issue in Britain, where, despite being commonly used, they continue to function as political fodder. The Public Order Act of 1986 made swearing a criminal offence. It remained tied to the Welfare State’s disenfranchised, impoverished, and rebellious youth. (Hibbet,

I really enjoyed the poem, but it is quite sadistic when someone thought about it as deeply as I did. In my personal opinion the poem is about sociopaths and mental illness, and the crazy things it does to our minds. They way it conveys its point is by by saying things like “confine me a padded cell” and “let the doctors take me away”. I mean that keep me up at night when I read it. My question was how did the man who wrote this poem think like that. Does he suffer from a mental illness? The poem never answers this question directly or indirectly just continues with the poem. My opinion of the poem is that it is a call out to our mental health wing of our government. Some of my family have mental disorders that are not severe and some that

This week in our Writer’s Workshop we focused on composing our own poetry. Miss Hiral gave an example by composing a poem that shared her feelings and recent experience from her trip to Colorado. She explained that poems describe something in detail- a poem is a piece of writing more similar to a song than a story as they use rhyme, rhythm, and sometimes a specific pattern.

Poetry is a reduced dialect that communicates complex emotions. To comprehend the numerous implications of a ballad, perusers must analyze its words and expressing from the points of view of beat, sound, pictures, clear importance, and suggested meaning. Perusers then need to sort out reactions to the verse into a consistent, point-by-point clarification. Poetry utilizes structures and traditions to propose differential translation to words, or to summon emotive reactions. Gadgets, for example, sound similarity, similar sounding word usage, likeness in sound and cadence are at times used to accomplish musical or incantatory impacts.

"Is there anybody there?  said the Traveller, knocking on the moonlit door; and his horse in the silence champed the grass of the forest's ferny floor" (De La Mare, 1-4) and in a dreamlike manner, the scene is set.  "The Listeners" by Walter Del La Mare is a dark and spooky poem with an unexpected ending.  It is about a "traveller" who rides through an eerie forest in the middle of the night in search of someone.  His travels lead him to a quiet house where no one answers his call. However, he feels the presence of someone in the house and calls out to them, but "the listeners" don't budge to answer him.  The poem is deep and dark, and leaves many