Sunday, April 19, 2015

Final Poetry Project

Denisse Flores                                                                                                                          810

Original Poem #1:  A dark city with beautiful lights
                                         That's how I see my wonderful city
                                         The lights sparkled less
                                         Don't you know what I'm talking about
                                         She was the light to this wonderful city
                                         When she became alone and isolated
                                         The city was no longer wonderful
                                         The city was no longer filled with beautiful lights 

Reflection: This poem was based on the book " 13 Reasons Why " by Jay Asher. In the book Hannah Baker decides to take her life, in my poem the lights represents Hannah. The literary devices incorporated were symbols and metaphors. 

Original Poem #2:  The big stars shine
                                         While the sky stays dark
                                         The town is always deserted 
                                         Though the town never sleeps 
                                         It is always filled with stars 
                                         It even fills reflects ocean  
                                         The town never misses the beautiful yellow stars 

Reflection: This poem was based off Vincent Van Gogh's painting called " The Starry Night ". The yellow stars in the painting were incorporated in my poem. The literary devices I used was a Allusion.  

Sonnet:    In am distressed as my heart lonely dries 
                 The baby was born in the hospital
                 Madness roars across the room as she cries
                 The mom was wrong she was not logical
                 The dad was not there, it was hard for her
                  It was hard to raise her with one parent
                  Yet they still made it work without the sir
                  They did not need him, he was transparent
                  All the crying and failure was worth it
                  Because at the end they had each other
                  The mom grew older, the girl gave a fit
                  The girl was even aging with her mother
                  The girl was turning into a woman
                  The old mother was proud at that human  

Reflection: I wanted this sonnet to have a meaning to it and this sonnet is a problem that many people face today. I have friends and family members that grew up/are growing up with no fathers/mothers and this inspired me to pick the topic for my sonnet. The literary device I used was a shakespearean sonnet and speaker. 

Heart Poem:
       One of my favorite poems from the packet is called " Another Sonnet for Stephan " by  Alvin Lester Sitomer. I love how the narrator portrays the life of a boy until he eventually dies as an old man.  

      The sonnet  portrays a four or five year old named Stephan until he's an old man.Throughout the sonnet it shows that the narrator had a close and long relationship with Stephan. For example in lines 2 "Whose face lights up whenever we would play", this indicates  that they would play together when they were younger. Then in line 5 "I see a college youth who goes to Penn" it shows that the "little boy" has grown up and is now in college. Then in lines 10 "Creating business plans and paths to wealth" it indicates that he is now a man that has a job and he's wealthy. However, in line 11 "While fighting back attackers of his health" shows that he is really sick and his health is in danger, he might have cancer. Finally the narrator writes "The boy,the youth,the man are each now gone,/Except that in my heart they linger on." (lines 12 and 13). Those lines shows that even though Stephan has grown up and died, the narrator will always remember him. 

      I love this sonnet because it's different and it's something I've never read before. This sonnet made me feel like I knew Stephan because of the way the writer described him. It  made me appreciate the people I love in my life because one day they can be gone like Stephan.       

                       

                           
                            
  



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