Introduction to Poetry
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My Papa’s Waltz
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140 Syllables
Kenneth Rexroth
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I liked the poem but at the same time it really wasn’t my favorite poem so far. I found the poem uninteresting but there were parts that did interest me. Throughout the poem I kept asking questions on what the speaker might be trying to say but in different words. When the poem said, “Run it are murderous fools” the two last words “murderous fools” really stick out to me because I am wondering what it means or even who the speaker is calling ‘murderous fools’. I think that the speaker is an angry person. I can tell by the language and the way he has written the poem that he is upset about something or someone. I say this because in the poem the speaker says, “This world is a fraud” “the people who run it are murderous fools” “Everything ever printed is a fraud” “Literature is a fake behind their gods and laws and pee hole bandits their science is just a fancy way to kill us and our girls and kids” “and scare the shit out of all the dirty squares.” I was really confused when the poem said “dirty squares” Is there someone or something the speaker is calling a dirty squares? I feel like the dirty squares might be referred to money or something like that.
My confusion always seem to go to “murderous fools” I keep questioning who the speaker is calling that. I think that the poem is talking about how a person most likely the speaker of the poem is mad the democracy he/she lives in. Maybe something happened or maybe the government who I am guessing is the reason for his anger did something to the society the speaker lives in that somehow affected him. When the speaker says, “Literature is a fake behind their gods and laws and pee hole bandits their science is just a fancy way to kill us and our girls and kids.” I feel like the speaker is trying to say that the people who run the country inform us with lies. That maybe they are keeping things from people who are looking for the truth on what’s going on. I think the speaker is saying that maybe the people of the government are using false information to distract us from the real truth that we are unaware of. Maybe the speaker is trying to say that we should write a poem about the truth not false information the government gives us. A poem in which we could unmask the truth from the mask of lies we are fed everyday that makes us fools to think that they are true.
Mother to son
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Do Not Stand By My Grave And Weep
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The Quiet World
By: Jeffrey McDaniel **** I really liked this poem it was really interesting. But I was really sad in one part it was the last two stanzas but the lines that stood out, “Late at night, I call my long distance lover, proudly I say I only used fifty-nine today. I saved the rest for you.” “When she doesn’t respond I know she’s used up all her words, so I slowly whisper I love you.” I found that very sad because the fact that the speaker used up very little words that day just for to spend the rest of them with his lover was very sweet. But when she didn’t respond because she used up all of her’s was kind of selfish. Then the fact that the speaker said I love you to his lover even after that was very sweet. I wonder why or how the speaker’s lover spent all his/her words. Was it job related or personal time related. This poem starts off by saying that the government made a new law or rule of some kind that allows people to use only 167 words per day. I am confused about who the speaker talks about when he/she say “and also to appease the mutes.” I think the speaker is talking about deaf people somehow or people with speech problems. I think the speaker somehow means deaf people because deaf people can’t really talk well because they obviously can’t hear and they really don’t know what they are saying. But the speaker could also mean people with speech problem people who can’t really talk but I think deaf people fits more into this because there are some deaf people who can’t talk but not so well but they use a hearing aid. Overall I think this poem was entitled “The Quiet World because with the limited amount of words being used everyday makes people more cautious of what they say because they don’t want to waste all the words that they are permitted to use. But once they are used they aren’t allowed to speak anymore after that. I am confused as to what happens to the people who use more than the words they are given. Are they not allowed to speak for sometime or something like that. Are they charged for it? I think that they aren’t allowed to speak for some of the words they are given for the next day. |
Always
By: Pablo Neruda
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I liked the poem it was good i liked how the poet built the poem it was very creative. The speaker of the poem was very compassionate when he spoke of the woman he is in love with. He seemed to not care of the past lovers the women has had. When the speaker said “Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet” he seems to not care of those extra details about the woman that may be part of her past. The speaker loves the woman all he does is think about him and her. The speaker ignores the world around him and the men that the woman has brought “Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; we shall always be alone we shall always be you and I.”
Throughout the poem the speaker talks very lovingly of this women who he finds wanting very much. At the beginning of the poem the speaker talks says “I am not jealous of what came before me” meaning that he really didn’t care about the other men the woman has been with. But when he starts talking about the men that she can come with when he starts seems to get jealous even after he says he’s not. “Come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea to the eternal surf, to Time” I was confused as to why the speaker has Time with a capital T maybe he means to say time in an exclamation. “We shall always be you and I alone in earth to start our life!” the speaker wants to start a life with this woman but is she ready or does she even want to start a life with the speaker? Could the woman be using the speaker? Maybe she could just stay with him and then leave when he can’t give her the love that she needs.
I don’t think that women the poet is in love with isn’t slut because she has been with many men. I think that she is just a person who wasn’t shown much love at a child that she just just wants to be loved by a man. She seems to want to make up time in a way. Maybe the speaker realized this and wants to show her that he isn’t just there because of her looks. Maybe the poet wants to show the woman that the kind of love she needs he can give her that. The poet loves her because maybe he can see she is just a broken person who is missing love in her life. “Alone to start our life!” is this woman ready to start a life after the long past she has has? Maybe that could explain why she has been with all those men when she realized that they can’t give her what she really wants she left them. I feel like this woman is broken and the speaker sees that but he wants to fix her. Maybe the speaker wants to make this woman feel loved after all that time of being broken.
By: Pablo Neruda
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I liked the poem it was good i liked how the poet built the poem it was very creative. The speaker of the poem was very compassionate when he spoke of the woman he is in love with. He seemed to not care of the past lovers the women has had. When the speaker said “Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet” he seems to not care of those extra details about the woman that may be part of her past. The speaker loves the woman all he does is think about him and her. The speaker ignores the world around him and the men that the woman has brought “Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; we shall always be alone we shall always be you and I.”
Throughout the poem the speaker talks very lovingly of this women who he finds wanting very much. At the beginning of the poem the speaker talks says “I am not jealous of what came before me” meaning that he really didn’t care about the other men the woman has been with. But when he starts talking about the men that she can come with when he starts seems to get jealous even after he says he’s not. “Come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea to the eternal surf, to Time” I was confused as to why the speaker has Time with a capital T maybe he means to say time in an exclamation. “We shall always be you and I alone in earth to start our life!” the speaker wants to start a life with this woman but is she ready or does she even want to start a life with the speaker? Could the woman be using the speaker? Maybe she could just stay with him and then leave when he can’t give her the love that she needs.
I don’t think that women the poet is in love with isn’t slut because she has been with many men. I think that she is just a person who wasn’t shown much love at a child that she just just wants to be loved by a man. She seems to want to make up time in a way. Maybe the speaker realized this and wants to show her that he isn’t just there because of her looks. Maybe the poet wants to show the woman that the kind of love she needs he can give her that. The poet loves her because maybe he can see she is just a broken person who is missing love in her life. “Alone to start our life!” is this woman ready to start a life after the long past she has has? Maybe that could explain why she has been with all those men when she realized that they can’t give her what she really wants she left them. I feel like this woman is broken and the speaker sees that but he wants to fix her. Maybe the speaker wants to make this woman feel loved after all that time of being broken.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
By: Dylan Thomas * Honestly I didn’t like this poem at all. I was confused about what it was talking about and i really wasn’t feeling like I enjoyed it at all. When we talked about it in class and discussed about how the speaker was talking about death the way the speaker said each word he said it in a cold manner. The speaker was cold and aggravated about how people died peacefully. The speaker doesn’t really like the thought of death. The speaker seems to repeat “Rage rage against the dying light” a lot at the end of every stanza. This poem was really depressing in how the speaker Throughout the poem I was really confused and I really didn’t understand what was going on. When we were talking about it as a class I understood a little about what was going on. I understood a bit that when the speaker was talking about the different types of men and then talked about his father. Then I understood that the speaker was trying to say that there was a little of all those different types of men in his father. I think the speaker didn’t have a very good relationship with his father or maybe he did and just doesn’t want his father to die just yet. Maybe the speaker wants to spend more time with his father but the father just wants to die peacefully because he knows his time has come to leave. I think that the speaker was talking about how no one should die peaceful because they should fight for more life for them to live. I think the tone in which the speaker is saying this is a bit harsh mostly because of the way he says each line of the poem. The mood in which the poem sets me in a negative mood more like confused as to why the speaker has so much rage towards death. Usually death is a sad moment for some and for others it’s more of a peaceful thing for some people. I didn’t like the poem very much because the speaker spoke with so much rage and it was very rude because all those people just wanted to die in peace but the speaker seemed to be very rude about that. |
The Metal Puppet
By: Jenni Kirby
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I liked this poem it was really interesting. The speaker seems hurt by the way he is treated. The message seems to be like what I’ve heard a lot “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” it’s a very common message. The speaker seems to mention things that make him sound like a human. “I can feel, I can love” “I am alive” “I can hope, I can cry” “I have feelings, not a puppet master” “I am truly alive” The speaker thinks of himself as alive and the people around him think of him as a robot. Throughout the poem the speaker seems to describe himself in two different perspective. One perspective is how they see him as a robotic puppet, “Look past the metal, Look past the wires, Look past the circuits, Look past the chips, Look past the programing.” Then there is the perspective of the speaker in the way he truly sees himself, “Look at my soul, Even though I am metal I truly can feel, I am alive.”
Throughout the poem the speaker was trying to say that not only people have feelings. Other things have feeling, sometimes words and actions hurt people and they don’t realize it because they don’t worry about what they’re doing. “Even though I am metal I can truly feel” the speaker wants to get a message to the readers about how even though he may be made out of metal he has feelings he can feel, words to hurt. The speaker says each line with deep meaning and feelings towards what he want to say to the readers. The speaker was a very strong person to go through all of this. The speaker gives off a positive mood to the poem and had a kind of positive/negative tone.
I was confused as to if the the speaker is a metal machine or was he like a computer or an electronic of some sort. But I think that the speaker is something that people don’t consider much of a good use to them. But the speaker seems to want to let the people around him know that the way they are towards him hurts his feelings. The speaker wants to let everyone know that he has feelings just like everyone else. The speaker says each line and stanza with deep emotion and meaning. I think the speaker is very strong for being able to stand up for himself and say how he feels and how it affects him. I really loved this poem and I loved the message that the speaker was saying.
By: Jenni Kirby
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I liked this poem it was really interesting. The speaker seems hurt by the way he is treated. The message seems to be like what I’ve heard a lot “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” it’s a very common message. The speaker seems to mention things that make him sound like a human. “I can feel, I can love” “I am alive” “I can hope, I can cry” “I have feelings, not a puppet master” “I am truly alive” The speaker thinks of himself as alive and the people around him think of him as a robot. Throughout the poem the speaker seems to describe himself in two different perspective. One perspective is how they see him as a robotic puppet, “Look past the metal, Look past the wires, Look past the circuits, Look past the chips, Look past the programing.” Then there is the perspective of the speaker in the way he truly sees himself, “Look at my soul, Even though I am metal I truly can feel, I am alive.”
Throughout the poem the speaker was trying to say that not only people have feelings. Other things have feeling, sometimes words and actions hurt people and they don’t realize it because they don’t worry about what they’re doing. “Even though I am metal I can truly feel” the speaker wants to get a message to the readers about how even though he may be made out of metal he has feelings he can feel, words to hurt. The speaker says each line with deep meaning and feelings towards what he want to say to the readers. The speaker was a very strong person to go through all of this. The speaker gives off a positive mood to the poem and had a kind of positive/negative tone.
I was confused as to if the the speaker is a metal machine or was he like a computer or an electronic of some sort. But I think that the speaker is something that people don’t consider much of a good use to them. But the speaker seems to want to let the people around him know that the way they are towards him hurts his feelings. The speaker wants to let everyone know that he has feelings just like everyone else. The speaker says each line and stanza with deep emotion and meaning. I think the speaker is very strong for being able to stand up for himself and say how he feels and how it affects him. I really loved this poem and I loved the message that the speaker was saying.
Blackberry-Picking
By: Seamus Heaney
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I really liked this poem. This was a very interesting poem because of how the speaker’s tone changes from positively at the beginning of the poem and then negatively at the end. The speaker talks about how the blackberries as how he likes them and about the color. “You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it” the speaker meant that blackberries only grew in the summer so the summer heat provided it to get the color.
I felt like the speaker was talking about a relationship in the poem. He almost uses the blackberries as a surrogate for a relationship that the speaker has or is looking for. I think this because when the speaker says “the sweet flesh would turn sour” it could be saying the sweet or nice personality of a girl and then the girl gets tired of being concealed and that's when her personality changes.
Sometimes people look for things that they think they need but they don’t see it because greed and lust cover their eyes. When they find what they thought they needed they nurture and conceal it. Not everything stays the way it is. For instance in the poem the speaker talks about how the blackberry turns bad, that happened because the speaker hoarded the berries. When a person hoards something they keep it away and eventually forget about it because they keep getting more and more stuff. I guess that’s why lust is a bad thing to have because we should value the things we have and not want more than we can get.
By: Seamus Heaney
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I really liked this poem. This was a very interesting poem because of how the speaker’s tone changes from positively at the beginning of the poem and then negatively at the end. The speaker talks about how the blackberries as how he likes them and about the color. “You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it” the speaker meant that blackberries only grew in the summer so the summer heat provided it to get the color.
I felt like the speaker was talking about a relationship in the poem. He almost uses the blackberries as a surrogate for a relationship that the speaker has or is looking for. I think this because when the speaker says “the sweet flesh would turn sour” it could be saying the sweet or nice personality of a girl and then the girl gets tired of being concealed and that's when her personality changes.
Sometimes people look for things that they think they need but they don’t see it because greed and lust cover their eyes. When they find what they thought they needed they nurture and conceal it. Not everything stays the way it is. For instance in the poem the speaker talks about how the blackberry turns bad, that happened because the speaker hoarded the berries. When a person hoards something they keep it away and eventually forget about it because they keep getting more and more stuff. I guess that’s why lust is a bad thing to have because we should value the things we have and not want more than we can get.