Rotation 3, blog 2

Rotation 3, blog 2

“Fork” Charles Simic
-a very short point but pretty creative
-gets to the point, but uses personification and a metaphor is used within
-compares a fork à bird
“It’s head which like your fist/ is large, bald, beakless, and blind.”
-the first line keeps you reading: “This strange thing must have crept.” Leaves you thinking, what strange thing?
-the next line: “Right out of hell.” With this being on its own line in the stanza really adds emphasis to it
-makes you think that the “strange thing” must be horrible
-no rhyming at all
-the first stanza doesn’t have much of a beat compared to the second stanza
-weird thing that I noticed: compares the bird’s head to a person’s fist à says the bird is “large, bald, beakless, and blind.”
-how could a bird be beakless? This really caught me off guard
-the word “Blind” make me think of how a lot of Americans eat anything à putting your fork into whatever is put on your plate à not really conscientious of what we eat
-the tone starts out a little strong à makes you think of a monster “worn around the cannibal’s neck”
-each line could not stand on its own
-needs next line à keeps you reading

“To See a World in a Grain of Sand” William Blake
-a very short poem: only on stanza and the whole stanza is one sentence
-a lot of imagery and use of metaphors
Metaphors: “to see a world in a grain of sand”
Every other last word in each line ends with each other: “sand, hand” flower, hour”
-leaves room for imagery because the ideas in this poem are abstract:
“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand”
-since you can’t really hold infinity in your hand, this leaves space for you think what a symbol for infinity may be à may be a watch
-even though this poem is really short à leaves you feeling inspired
Tone: not dark at all, more creative and deep
“and a heaven in a wild flower” à makes me think of a huge field of flowers that are over grown yet still look beautiful
-also makes me feel warm inside à a pretty spring day where the air feels weightless
-each line couldn’t be its own sentence à needs the next line
-definitely has a beat to it when read aloud, and the rhyming helps to keep this beat
-for such a small poem it has it is VERY moving
-shows that a poem doesn’t have to be long to be good
-it depends a lot upon the author’s word choice

“The Wind” James Stephens
-rhyme scheme: every other end word rhymes and the last stanza is a couplet
“Shout, about” “and, hand”
-personification: “the wind stood up and gave a shout.”
“And thumped the branches with his hand”
-Needs each line – not end stopped rhymes
-not a whole lot of punctuation
-the ending couplet makes the tone suddenly very dark: “And said he’d kill and kill and kill/ and so he will and so he will.”
-a lot of repetition in the last couplet
-the killing part is what makes the tone dark and him being determined to do this à even darker
-the tone starts out as strong and noble in the first stanza à second stanza: shows the winds actions and what “he’s” capable of à third stanza shows his final plan
-reminds me of what it feels like outside right before a storm
-maybe even a little of Katrina “And said he’d kill and kill and kill”
-has a good beat
-rhyming helps to keep this beat
-a lot of room for imagery à makes you think of the wind as something you can actually see
-this imagery helps the poem
-not any words that would be hard to understand, maybe the worth withered but that’s it
-lines are a good length – not too long