Rotation 3, blog 4

Rotation 3, Blog 4

“Anger” Cesar Vallejo
-made up of 4 stanzas
-good amount of usage of punctuation
-each stanza starts out with the word “anger”
-then from the first line the big object is broken down into more little pieces throughout the stanza
I.E.: “Anger which breaks a tree into leaves/ and the leaf into unequal buds/ and the bud into telescopic grooves.”
-as you can see each line is broken down into a smaller and smaller object from the bigger object in the first stanza
-no rhyming but has a good beat when read aloud
-the line “The poor man’s anger” is repeated in every stanza as the fourth line
-the “poor man’s anger” line is used after the big object in the first stanza has been broken down all the way into something that is useless
-words that may need to be looked up: octave, steel, arcs, dissimilar
-compares anger à tree
From good à doubts
From soul à bodies à organs
-really interesting word choice when comparing anger to objects/ideas

“O Moon, when I gave on thy beautiful face” Anonymous
-the end lines rhyme:
“Face, space” “mind behind”
-only one stanza à one whole sentence but commas are used also throughout the poem
-word that may need to be look up: careering
-has a really good rhythm
-for consisting of only one stanza à a really good/interesting poem
-good word choice
-makes the moon seem real à “o moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face (first stanza)”
-even though the writer is talking about the face of the moon à in a way sounds like the face of a person
-really good imagery:
“Careering through the boundaries of space”
-makes you think of space as a huge place but it does have boundaries still
-also makes you feel that the moon has a “job” in a way
-the last line in the stanza: “if I ever shall see thy glorious behind.”
-this line by itself can be taken as the bottom of a girl
-therefore this line needs the rest of the poem to make sense
-in this poem though the writer is talking about the other side of the moon, and maybe even to the extent of what is behind the moon itself
-maybe another world

“I’m Nobody! Who are you?” Emily Dickinson
-made up of two stanzas
-a lot of punctuation
-no specific rhyme scheme
-metaphor: “How public – like a frog”
-Words that may need to be looked up: bog, livelong, dreary
-tone: really happy à wouldn’t think that a poem about being a “nobody” would have a happy tone
-this poem shows the side of a person who likes being a “nobody” and doesn’t like being in the spotlight a lot
-this poem could also be taken as a joke à “Are you – Nobody – too?/ Then there’s a pair of us!/ Don’t tell! They’d advertise – you know!”
- These three lines really stand out in the poem
à showing that the person likes to be a nobody
-also funny or light hearted in a way because she says “They’d advertise” and I have a feeling that she means people would talk about this pair of “nobodies”
-this actually does happen in some schools
-ironic in a sense à poem is about someone who is a nobody and enjoys it but then at the same time is happy that someone else is a nobody with them
à I feel like if you were a nobody you wouldn’t want to be with others
-pretty good poem overall à I like the tone, choice of words, and how the main idea of the poem has a twist to it