week 12 poetryblog

This is my week twelve poetry blog. There were some poems that I could not find no matter how hard I tried. Here is the list of poems and poets we had to read. To my dear and loving husband by Bradstreet , Memorandum, by Bolton, Before the Birth of One of her children, by, Bradstreet, To An Athlete Dying Young, By Housmann, Battle Hymn Of The Republic, By, Howe, Thinking About Bill, Dead Of Aids, By, Williams, This Is Just To Say by Williams. The first poem I selected was Memorandum By Bolton. The reason that I chose this poem was the nature of the poem. The speaker seems really hate her ex- boyfriend. The speaker mentions how he used to admire famous people and what they looked like. He also only seemed to want to talk about himself and his problems not so much the speaker’s problems or concerns. Her boyfriend did not seem to even take into consideration her feelings , or how he made her feel when he looked at other women and talked about them. The next poem that I chose was To My Dear And Loving husband, By, Anne Bradstreet. This poem is speaking very tenderly about how a wife loves her husband. She seems to love him so much that she idolizes him, you could even go as far as to say she puts him high up on a peda-stool as if he can do no wrong. I would expect this type of writing from a seventeenth century puritan because they were god fearing people and lived to obey God. I think her devotions are expectant on the rewards she will receive in Heaven for following Gods commandments here on earth. That she believes in eternal life, and that they will live forever in the presence of God. The next poem selection I made was Before the Birth of One Of Her Children. In the beginning of this poem the speaker seems to not care much about her life she has no children, friends or anyone who really cares about her. She seems to wish death upon herself as if she has no reason to live. She felt worthless here on earth and longed to be in the arms of god the father where she would feel loved. The fourth poem I picked to write about was To an athlete dying Young , By A. E. Housman. I think this poem is written in a fathers view about his young son who won a race at a young age. The poem keeps mentioning the runner being shoulder high. The father seems to be proud of his son even in death and continues to speak his name and accomplishments so that his son will not be forgotten. The fifth poem I choose  to write about was the Battle Hymn Of The Republic , By Julia Ward Howe. This has always been one of my favorite hymns growing up . It speaks such truths and glorifys our lord  God and Jesus. This poem tells of the battles we as Christians must fight. But we are never alone. Our father is always with us fighting right beside us. This poem has always been comforting to me because it reminds me that God is always with me and that he will never leave me nor forsake me.

October 29 Poetry Blog

For this weeks poetry blog we had the following poems to read.  We were to read all the poems by Hughes on The following pages 1129-1157. All the poems by Alvarez on Pages 1185-1212. The poem by Marlowe , Called The Passionate Shepard To His Love On page 1239 which I could not find in my book or on line and also Raleigh " The Nymphs Reply To The Shepherd" Pg 134. The poems by hughes seemed to be talking about being colored and growing upas as a slave longing to be free. The Poems by Alvarez talked of immigrants and racial tendencies of an earlier time.
 The first poem that i chose to write on was Sometimes the Words Are So Close by Julia Alvarez. In this poem we are reading this from the point of view of handwritten words.It seems to be talking about the fact that no one hand writes things anymore. Everyone uses a computerto type papers and the art form of handwriting has disapeared.The second poem i chose was Queens by Julia Alvarez. This poem seems to be talking about a young immigrant girl who wants to know why people are judged on their color or country or even their religion.It tells of a woman who has lived on their street whos main concern was her property value going down due to the variety of people living on it.The third poem i chose to write about was highto Low by Hughes. In this poem he seems ashamed of the person the poem is about. He mentions how she lives and sends her kids to school she has no class or respect for anyone.He seems to think that this person is ruining the respect of people for their entire race. The fourth poem that i chose to write about was 50-50 by Hughes. This poem is about a woman who is complaing about not having someone to callher own she is all alone. There is a man in the story who seems to like her if she would just use her head..I think she loves  Big Boy but does not know how to tell him.I think big boy is a big jerk he not only wants her to provide him a place to lay his head but he wants her to provide for him to he sounds like a lazy person.I think that the title 50-50 means that she is taking a gamble . If she lets him in sure she will have aman but what kind of man will that be.The Fifth poem that i chose to write about was Negro. This poem tells what it was like to be a negro.From being a slave to a worker to a singer to a victim and finally to a Negro again.He seems to identify being a Negro with lots of hard work .The speaker describes a life of hard work and slavery no freedom for the negro.

poetry blog dickinson and frost

Week 10, Poetry Blog.

In this week’s reading we had to read the following poems by Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, The Pasture, Mowing, My November Guest, Storm Fear, Mending Wall, Home Burial, The Wood Pile, After Apple- Picking, Birches, An Old Man’s Winter Night, Out! Out! , The Oven Bird, Fire and Ice, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Un harvested , Neither out Far Nor in Deep , Design, “In White”: An Early Version Of Design, On The Living Part Of A Poem. We also had to read the following poems by Emily Dickinson. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking, If I Shouldn’t Be Alive, The Thought  Beneath So Light A  Film, To Make A Practice It Takes A Clover And One Bee, Success is counted Sweetest, Some things that fly there be, Water is taught by thirst, Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (1859), Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers (1861), Portraits Are To Daily Faces, Some Keep The Sabbath Going to church, “ Heaven – Is What I Cannot Reach.,  “Hope” Is The Thing With Feathers , The Robins’ My Criterion For Tune, I like A Look Of Agony, Wild Nights – Wild Nights!, What Soft Cherubic Creatures , The soul Selects Her Own Society, Much Madness is Divinest Sense, I dwell in Possibility, They Dropped Like Flakes, After Wo, I Heard A Fly Buzz – When I Died, One Need Not Be A Chamber – To Be Haunted, Because I Could Not Stop For Death,  I felt a Cleaving In My Mind, A light Exists In Spring, Oh Sumptuous Moment , The Bustle In A house,  Tell All The Truth  But Tell It In A Slant, There IS No Frigate Like A Book , Fame Is The One That Does Not Stay.   The first poem I chose to write about was If I can stop one heart from breaking by Emily Dickinson. From reading the words in this poem it sounds as if her heart had been broken by someone she really cared about. She had experienced pain that cut so deep into her soul that she did not wish this kind of misery on anyone else. The next poem I chose to write about was success is counted Sweetest by Emily Dickinson.  This poem talks about success as being the thing that the less fortunate strive to achieve and when they do it means so much more to them than those that reach success easily. It is kind of like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I agree with this definition of success. I believe that to comprehend means to obtain and understand what one is striving for. Nectar is referring to the level of success one is trying to achieve. The defeated understand what victory better than the victorious because they have gone through a lot more hurdles than someone who is victorious easier. The last line of the poem I believe is meant to mean that when the success was finally attained it was through a lot of hard work and sacrifice. The third poem I chose to write about was “Heaven” is   what I cannot reach! By Emily Dickinson .  She treats  Heaven as an unobtainable goal. To me Heaven is obtainable If you know how to get there which is through Jesus Christ. I believe the person who is telling this longs to reach Heaven but does not know how. The next poem that I chose to write about was Home Burial by Robert Frost. This poem speaks of a father and mother who have lost a child. The father has to dig a grave to bury their child in. I think that this is was very hard on him. He so wants for his wife to stay and talk to him instead of leaving and turning to someone else. The mother however feels that he does not care that their child is dead since he was able to dig the grave and go on about his day as if nothing happened. This is a good example of the different ways men and women handle their feelings and emotions. The last poem I chose was Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. Fire is like the desires burning hot in people, maybe even their lies burning inside them. Ice is like the cold hearted people who hate everything and everyone.  

Poetry blogs week 9

Poetry Blogs Week 9

We had to read the following poems Death Be Not Proud by Donne, Lonely Hearts by Wendy Cope, Do Not GO Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas, My Mistresess’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun By William Shakespeare, My Papa’s Waltz By Theodore Waltz, The Chimney Sweeper By William Blake, and My Last Duchess By Robert Browning. This selection of poems seemed to be talking about unrequited love. Some talked of wishes and the hearts desires. The first poem that I chose to write about was My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. The reason I chose this poem was the way that Robert spoke of her was a little confusing to me. At first he seemed to really admire and miss her by talking of her picture that hung on the wall. I believe the duchess was killed .I believe the duke is addressing the people .The irony of this poem is that he still wishes her alive but I think he had her killed. I think he may have loved her but maybe did not show it well. The second poem that I chose was the chimney sweeper by William  Blake.. I did not understand why his father chose to sale him when his mother died . Maybe seeing him was to hard on his father or he could not afford to keep him. I am not really sure. This poem talks of a dream that he had of seeing the chimney sweeps locked in black coffins being set free by angels and that they were dancing naked in heaven. This dream sounds as if he was really wanting things to be better than having to clean chimneys forever. The next poem I chose was My Papas Waltz By Theodore Roethke. The details that charachterize the father are The whisky on his breadth which tells me he may have been an alcoholic. He loved his child with whom he danced to bed. I did not understand though what was meant by his saying a beat was played on his head. The next poem I chose to write about was My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare.To me it sounds as if he loves a woman who may not be beautiful. He seems to compare her beauty to other items such as roses and perfume saying she does not compare. He even goes as far as to say he longs to hear her speak although music has far more a pleasing sound. The last  poem I chose to write about was Do Not Go Gentile Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas. This poem seems to tell of a fear of growing old and being closer to death.

Poetry Blog Week of 10-08-10

Poetry blog # 2

The poems in this week’s reading seemed to have the same tone. It seemed as if all the poets were talking of death and dying. I do not know if this was just my interpretation or if anyone else had noticed this as well. The first poem that I chose to write about is We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem seemed to be talking about teenagers who do not like to follow the rules. The teenagers think they are cool for skipping school among other crazy things they do. They seem to be doing something bad enough that they think they are going to die. The second poem I chose was We Old Dummies by Joan Murray. This poem talks about people who may be in their golden years. They have been friends for a long time and enjoy doing things together. But again they talk of being dead soon. The third poem I chose was The Root Cellar By Theodore  Roethke. In this Poem  he seems to be talking of death as well . He mentions how shoots are dangled and drooped and how nothing would give up life. This poems seems to be talking about someone struggling to stay alive. The fourth poem I chose to write about was  Dulce Decorum Est By Wilfred Owen.  The poet again is talking about death and despair. I believe that the poem is about soldiers fighting in a war. It talks of the soldiers dodging bombs and gas while they were half asleep. The poem mentions throwing a wounded soldier in the back of a wagon  which could place this poem during the civil war. The Fifth poem that I chose to write about was Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare seems to again be talking about death and how delicate life is. He mentions that life can be snuffed out as quickly as a candle. He compares life to a walking shadow that disappears with the day. I chose to ask some questions about another poem in this series. Does anyone understand the meaning of the poem You Fit Into Me. This poem just does not register with me. I do not understand what the author is trying to say.