Poetry+3+-+5

    - // ** "A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. "** //  -W. H. Auden ** -- **

By Stacy, Becca and Jess

**<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(252,29,125); FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Hug O' War <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-ALIGN: left"> by Shel Silverstein        ** <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">  <span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(206,92,250)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(202,87,250)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(253,252,252)">    <span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: rgb(55,93,87); FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: rgb(254,22,86)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(249,21,79)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(252,29,125); FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">**Analysis:** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(254,37,104)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> The late Shel Silverstein wrote this poem about love and violence from the perspective of a child. To the reader, the aspect of love clearly prefaces above the violence and hate that the adult world experiences today. Hug O' War expresses the innocence of a childs mind. In the last line of this poem, the prospect of everyone winning can never be acheived as long as the world competes. ====<span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: rgb(55,93,87); FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: rgb(254,22,86)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(249,21,79)"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(252,29,125); FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(254,37,104)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">          <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  Hug O' War is often wrongly interpreted and taken light heartedly or even jokingly. Many people miss the depth and reality of the poem and the fact that tug 'o war is what Silverstein is talking about directly but there is a deeper meaning. Silverstien is actually talking about the state of the world today. ====

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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: rgb(55,93,87); FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: rgb(254,22,86)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(249,21,79)">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">        ====== <span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: rgb(55,93,87); FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">**<span style="COLOR: rgb(254,22,86)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(249,21,79)">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">

<span style="COLOR: rgb(31,227,13)"> <span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(206,92,250)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(202,87,250)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(253,252,252)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 200%; COLOR: rgb(45,225,48)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,227,13)">The Road Not Taken <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,227,13)">by Robert Frost ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 180%; COLOR: rgb(44,100,232)">

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(206,92,250)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(202,87,250)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(253,252,252)"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 170%; COLOR: rgb(12,255,0)"> Analysis: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(8,7,7)">[|Robert Frost claims that he wrote this poem about his friend Edward Thomas, with whom he had walked many times in the woods near London. Frost has said that while walking they would come to different paths and after choosing one, Thomas would always fret wondering what they might have missed by not taking the other path. About the poem, Frost has asserted, "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem - very tricky."]  <span style="COLOR: rgb(6,5,5)"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(8,7,7)">

Many interpret that in this poem Frost's purpose is to instruct the reader to take their own path rather than following the footsteps of others, but instead he is telling the reader that in life you must make choices, but you can never know the outcomes of your choices until you have lived them. The poem consists of four stanzas with five lines in each stanza. In the first stanza, the two roads diverged in the wood are used as a metaphor to represent a time in the author's life when he had to make a decision. The author tries to look as far down one road as he can to try to think through his decision, but knowing that no matter what he does he will not be able to determine the outcome of his decision before he makes it, he takes the other road. He thinks at first that this road is the road less traveled, but then notices that "both that morning equally lay" and they had been worn really about the same. The speaker wishes that some day he could go back and take the other road, but realizes that in life there is no turning back and once a decision is made you cannot change it. He realizes that he will never know where the other path leads to. There is no right path, just the path taken and the one not chosen.

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**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: rgb(255,0,164)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(251,35,157)">   S<span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">UMME R      **    <span style="FONT-SIZE: 60%; COLOR: rgb(0,144,255)">  //    b     y Poetry3-5        //      ======

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Sweet, soft breeze, Sandy knees, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Sun-kissed hair, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Salty air, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ripped up jeans, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Beauty queens, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Sun set scene, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In love teen, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Cool, wet sand, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Golden tan, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Crashing waves, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Techno raves, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Midnight kisses, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Secret wishes, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Roofs of car s,  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Shooting stars, Summer '08 Save the date!

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 * Only Hope by Mandy Moore**

<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(206,92,250)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(202,87,250)"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 160%; COLOR: rgb(0,214,255); FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">media type="youtube" key="j8f8RHWMPyY&hl=en" height="355" width="425" <span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(206,92,250)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(202,87,250)"> <span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(206,92,250)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(248,247,247)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: rgb(5,0,0)"> There's a song that's inside of my soul. It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again I'm awake in the infinite cold. But you sing to me over and over and over again.

So, I lay my head back down. And I lift my hands and pray To be only yours, I pray, to be only yours I know now you're my only hope.

Sing to me the song of the stars. Of your galaxy dancing and laughing and laughing again. When it feels like my dreams are so far Sing to me of the plans that you have for me over again.

So I lay my head back down. And I lift my hands and pray To be only yours, I pray, to be only yours I know now, you're my only hope.

I give you my destiny. I'm giving you all of me. I want your symphony, singing in all that I am At the top of my lungs, I'm giving it back.

So I lay my head back down. And I lift my hands and pray To be only yours, I pray, to be only yours I pray, to be only yours I know now you're my only hope

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(10,0,0)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(6,4,4)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(20,1,1)"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; BACKGROUND: rgb(248,247,247) 0% 50%; COLOR: rgb(203,65,251); LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(3,3,3)"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 150%; COLOR: rgb(186,0,255)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; BACKGROUND: rgb(248,247,247) 0% 50%; COLOR: rgb(203,65,251); LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(3,3,3)"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 150%; COLOR: rgb(186,0,255)">Analysis: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; BACKGROUND: rgb(248,247,247) 0% 50%; COLOR: rgb(6,5,5); LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"> In the movie, __A Walk to Remember__, [|"each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life. Serious and conservative, Jamie was as far from cool as she could possibly be, and didn't care. Landon hung with the in-crowd an aimless, moody, reckless guy who breezed through school on looks and bravado and had no plans, no future and no faith in himself. When a prank goes terribly wrong landing a kid in the hospital, Landon is assigned to tutor a young student on the weekends and participate in the Drama Club's spring play. Clearly in over his head with both assignments, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. Soon, against his own expectations and the scorn of his friends, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible."]       <span style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; BACKGROUND: rgb(248,247,247) 0% 50%; COLOR: rgb(203,65,251); LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: rgb(15,0,0); LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; BACKGROUND: rgb(248,247,247) 0% 50%; COLOR: rgb(15,0,0); LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(6,4,4)">Jamie soon becomes ill and says that Landon is her only hope. Even during her time of sickness, Landon is standing by her side. In the third and fourth line she describes this saying, "I'm awake in the infinite cold. But you sing to me over and over and over again". His love keeps her living longer. She uses the metaphor "Sing to me the song of the stars, of your galaxy dancing and laughing and laughing again," comparing their happy times together to the stars in the galaxy. She also uses personification and seems to bring the stars and the galaxy to life. These lines lead the reader to imagine the stars singing and the galaxies dancing, things that only people can do. She is asking Landon to tell her of all of their happy times together. Her greatest fear is not of death, but of being without her Landon, whom she loves so much. The mood of this poem is solemn yet hopeful, because although Jamie knows she will only be alive for a little bit longer, she is hopeful and content knowing that she has Landon.

<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(206,92,250)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(248,247,247)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(10,0,0)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(6,4,4)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(20,1,1)"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; BACKGROUND: rgb(248,247,247) 0% 50%; COLOR: rgb(203,65,251); LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(3,3,3)"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 150%; COLOR: rgb(186,0,255)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; BACKGROUND: rgb(248,247,247) 0% 50%; COLOR: rgb(203,65,251); LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: rgb(198,0,255)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(227,96,13)">**Caged Bird** by Maya Angelou <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hills for the caged bird sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through singing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.

<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: rgb(255,116,0); TEXT-ALIGN: left"> Analysis: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; COLOR: rgb(8,7,7)">    //Caged Bird// was written by Maya Angelou when racial discrimination was strongly displayed in the U.S. Angelou uses many metaphors in this poem to describe the African American's fight for freedom. The free bird represents free white people, who fly around or do as they please and "name the sky their own". Her people, the African Americans, are symbolized by the caged bird. The caged bird is trapped in "bars of rage". Angelou uses the "bars of rage" as a metaphor for the laws limiting the rights of African Americans. The caged bird sings fearfully for the freedom it so greatly desires. This describes the African American's fight for their rights. Although its voice is often not heard and its dreams of freedom seem so far away, the caged bird keeps singing, just like blacks never gave up on earning their rights.

Maya Angelou's purpose for writing this poem is to tell the reader about African American's fight for freedom. The mood of this poem is inspirational. Angelou uses personification when she writes, "his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream", giving the bird's shadow the human ability to scream. Although she uses no particular rhyme scheme, her poem progresses smoothly and inspires the reader to never give up, but to keep singing, just like the caged bird.

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A Zit ** **<span style="COLOR: rgb(128,100,162); FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> by Becca Oberle **<span style="COLOR: rgb(128,100,162)"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">(a parody of A BIRTHDAY by Christina Rossetti)

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">My zit is like a ripe tomato <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Big and red and juicy; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">My zit is like a friend of mine <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Whom I decided to name Lucy! <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">My zit is like an attacking monster <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">That is eating off my face, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">My zit has puzzled all the docs; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> They do not know my case <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> They have tried to get rid of it by chopping it right off <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Freezing it then burning it but nothing seems to work, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">On me they have used all sorts of meds; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">To them it is quite an irk, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">However I have become friendly with it; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">I really do not mind, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">The only thing I can do now with it; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Is be generous and kind! <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,100,162)">

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A Birthday **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: rgb(146,208,80)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,100,162); FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> by Christina Rossetti <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,100,162)">  <span style="COLOR: rgb(8,7,7)">

My heart is like a singing bird <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">My heart is like an apple-tree <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">My heart is like a rainbow shell <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">That paddles in a halcyon sea; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">My heart is gladder than all these, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Because my love is come to me.

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Raise me a daïs of silk and down; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Hang it with vair and purple dyes; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Carve it in doves and pomegranates, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">And peacocks with a hundred eyes; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Work it in gold and silver grapes, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Because the birthday of my life <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Is come, my love is come to me.

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