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   This wiki contains various selections of our favorite poetry. The first selection, "Memory", is a poem found in our school textbook. The second poem is a classic by the great Edgar Allen Poe, called "Dream Within a Dream". The third poem is an original piece entitled "When I See the Stars". Our fourth selection is a song by rock star Aerosmith, called "Dream On". The last poem on the wiki is called "There is Another Pie". It is an original parody of "There is Another Sky" by Emily Dickinson. We hope you, the visitor enjoy the site, and we hope that you will email suggestions to wikipoems38@gmail.com. Thanks!       **Memory **  


 //Margaret Walker //     <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">I can remember wind-swept streets of cities on cold and blustery nights, on rainy days; heads under shabby felts and parasols and shoulders hunched against a sharp concern; seeing hurt bewilderment on poor faces, smelling a deep and sinister unrest these brooding people cautiously caress; hearing ghostly marching on pavement stones and closing fast around their squares of hate. I can remember seeing them alone, at work, and in their tenements at home. I can remember hearing all they said: their muttering protests, their whispered oaths, and all that spells their living in distress. <span style="color: rgb(222, 18, 30); background-color: rgb(137, 156, 184)">   <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 58, 255); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left">  Picture taken from http://www.misslib.org <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="color: rgb(222, 18, 30); background-color: rgb(137, 156, 184)"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 58, 255); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(222, 18, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">**Analysis:**

Margaret Walker’s poem has a tone and mood of serious darkness and coldness. In the poem, the narrator is recollecting a memory about dismal people who are in a deep state of distress. The poem says that the city people are bracing themselves against cold and blustery nights. This means that these people are physically and mentally exhausted. When the poem says that “these brooding people cautiously caress”, the author wants the reader to interpret that the people caress this uncomfortable state not because they enjoy it, but because they are very familiar with it. Memory uses first person writing and Margaret Walker does a good job in incorporating that point of view in the poem. It is unclear where or when the poem takes place, but it is very obvious that it is a time of turmoil and distress for the people of this place. Also clear in the last few lines of the poem, is that the people have protested against whoever is causing this state of distress. Margaret Walker wrote the poem with the intent of giving off an impression of a gloomy, depressing scene, something that the readers cannot help but pick up and start feeling themselves.



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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">**<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Dream within a Dream **<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> //<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Edgar Allen Poe // <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left"> <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">**Analysis:**

This poem seems to have a meter like iambics, with a weak STRONG syllable alternation, but this is interrupted by the lines that have seven syllables. This poem uses a lot of figurative language to describe life, and time, as they slip past. Edgar Allen Poe's wife succumbed to tuberculosis at a rather early age, so this may have been the inspiration for this poem. Especially the first two lines show how she slipped away from him. The tone of this poem is mournful, as are many of Poe's poems. Poe uses the metaphor of the beach to describe his experiences, the roar of the ocean being the world around him, and the grains of sand that slip through his fingers being the things that he has treasured, like his wife, who slipped away.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">   <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">**<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">When I See the Stars **<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">   <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> //<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ep104445 //

<span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)"> Every night when I look at the sky, <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">There lies hope spread out high, <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">And when they are not there, <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">I always know that they will reappear; <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">In times when I go astray, <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">It will be them who lead my way <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">When I look up to watch them. <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)"> Forever and ever through many years, <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">They quell the cause of my tears; <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">Guidance is their name; <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">Inspiration is their fame; <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">Light shines brightly through <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">Because they make pain undo <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)"> Whenever I see them.

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Dream On (lyrics) **<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> //<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Aerosmith // <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)"> Every time I look in the mirror All these lines on my face getting clearer The past is gone It goes by, like dusk to dawn Isn't that the way Everybody's got their dues in life to pay

Yeah, I know nobody knows where it comes and where it goes I know it's everybody's sin You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life is in books' written pages Lived and learned from fools and from sages You know it's true All the things come back to you

Sing with me, sing for the year Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears Sing with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away

Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year sing for the laughter, sing for the tear sing with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream until your dreams come true Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream until your dream comes through Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream On

Sing with me, sing for the year sing for the laughter, sing for the tear sing with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away Sing with me, sing for the year sing for the laughter, sing for the tear Sing with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away......

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 64, 97)"> <span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left"> <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">**Analysis:**

Dream On by Aerosmith was the first single that Aerosmith released. It took Steven Tyler about six years to write the piano ballad. The song became a Top 10 single in 1976, in which it peaked at #6. The song is part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list. Dream On also ranked 172 on a list of the greatest songs of all time, made by the Rolling Stones. In the first stanza of the song, the narrator says that “overtime he looks in the mirror, lines on his face get clearer”. The stanza means sets the tone of the song, giving the listener the idea that the lyrics will be about a man who is getting older. The narrator goes on to say that “the past is gone” and that it “went by like dust to dawn”. He is obviously trying to express a feeling of sadness that time has passed so fast for him. He then tries to reason with this saying that everybody has to pay for things in their life. Later, the narrator expresses a state of superiority in knowledge and wisdom saying that he knows what nobody else knows. When he says that “maybe tomorrow the good lord will take you away”, he is saying to the listener that he or she could die tomorrow. Eventually, the chorus comes in which Steven Tyler starts talking about dreaming yourself a dream come true. Steven Tyler believes that no matter where a person is in life, they should keep on dreaming and believing. This is shown in a quote from Tyler himself,“It’s [Dream On] about the hunger to be somebody: Dream until your dreams come true.”  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(222, 18, 30); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">

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<span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)">**There is Another Pie** <span style="color: rgb(36, 64, 97)"> // Parody by ep104445 //

There is another pie, Ever tasty and good, And there is another flavor Though it be better there; Do not mind darker colors, Ben, Do not mind such taste- Here is some whipped cream, Whose texture is so smooth; Here is a little milk, Which has not been tainted ; In its power to quench I hear the stomach rumble: Eat, my glutton, Go eat my pecan pie! [|Original Poem: "There is Another Sky" by Emily Dickinson]

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 * Memory (This site helped us better understand and analyze the poem)
 * [|www.gace.nesinc.com/PDFs/GA_PG_fld020021_section3.pdf - >>]
 * Dream On (These sites helped with the analysis)
 * http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1296
 * http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/aerosmith/artist.jhtml

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