Assignment #4

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night- Dylan Thomas



1.My emtions/feelings after reading this poem is sad and darkened. I feel like people are blinded of the good light and are on their way to death.



2. I chose this picture because this shows how the light is reflected away from the dark light. Pink Floyd named this album The Dark Side of the Moon.



We Real Cool- Gwendolyn Brooks



1. After reading this poem I feel fortunate and blessed to not be in this predicament. This poem talks about people who go through the motions of living a gang style life. I cannot relate to this poem for I have never lived like this.



2. This picture shows what can happen to people who go down a path of rebellion towards society, violence in communities, gang initiations, etc.



I felt a Funeral, in my Brain- Emily Dickinson



1. This poem is about how after hearing a loud noise right next to you, in that brief moment you stop and look around and carefully listen to every specific detail around you; How every little distraction can take your mind away.



2. This poem reminds me of the movie because I saw this in theaters last week and how this relates to the poem in my aspect is during the movie there are so many distractions and occurances that take away from the meaning of the film which is death and saying goodbye to someone.



The Road Not Taken- Robert Frost



1. This poem is a powerful one because to me it is about choosing either right or left. Which way is going to take where you want to be? In life there are choices and decisions needed to be made and unfortunatley you will not know outcomes to all of them. You will know you made the right choice once you get to where you want to be, the road less traveled.



2. This picture shows a man looking for the right direction in life. Which way will he choose? Only he will know.



If the World Was Crazy- Shel Silverstein



1. This poem happens to be my favorite because it takes you into a whole new world, a world we are not use to but a world where anything goes. This brings an emotional state of happiness because it is a happy poem.



2. This picture is a unique one. It is just so different from what we percieve of the world.

Poetry

1. Poetry is writings that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm. 

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2. A poem is a way of expressing emotions and feelings. Poems usually include the use of irony and symbolism. A poem can be anything. A a novel or a long story isn't considered to be a poem, although The Illiad  and The Odyssey are considered to be epic poems. There is a difference. An epic poem is a long poem that tells a tale of a heroic figure. Regular novels and stories are long narrative written in literary prose.

3. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. Throughout her life she rarely ever left her house and never had any visitors. Although the people who she became friendly with had a major impact on her poetry. She never had any romantic love but had close friends from time to time. Dickinson's poetry reflects her loneliness and the speakers of her poems live in a state of want but they are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the hope for happiness. She was heavily inspired by the Book of Revelation which lead to a conservative approach to Christianity. 

A Bird came down the walk

A Bird came down the Walk— He did not know I saw— He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw,  And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass— And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass—  He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all around— They looked like frightened Beads, I thought— He stirred his Velvet Head  Like one in danger, Cautious, I offered him a Crumb And he unrolled his feathers And rowed him softer home—  Than Oars divide the Ocean, Too silver for a seam— Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon Leap, plashless as they swim

John Keats was an English romantic poet born on 1795 in London. He was the oldest of four and he lost both his parents at a young age. At the age of fifteen he dropped out of school to become an apprentice to surgeon. He studied medicine in a hospital in England. He was licensed apothecary but never worked in that field and decided to write poetry instead. His greatest work was the Hypernion but was never complete because he had to come home and take care of his brother who later died due to tuberculosis. Keats family suffered to tuberculosis and at the age of twenty five tuberculosis took Keats life...Ironic!

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

The poetry of earth is never dead:    When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,    And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead    In summer luxury,--he has never done    With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never:    On a lone winter evening, when the frost       Has wrought silence, from the stove there shrills The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,    And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,       The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills