Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Rotation 4, blog 2

“End” Langston Hughes
-made up of three stanzas
-One stanza equals one sentence
-each line could not stand on its own without the next line
-no rhyming
-has somewhat of a beat/ rhythm
-no metaphors
-Kind of bland poem – not much excitement and doesn’t really make me think
-some imagery: “No shadows that move/ from dawn to dusk.”
-makes you think of an empty room with no windows
-tone: feels like you are lost
-no direction in life  confused or in a daze

“The World Is Too Much With Us” William Wadsworth
-One big stanza
-a little bit of rhyming but I think it’s coincidental: “hours, flowers” “boon, moon”
-words that may need to be looked up: sordid, boon, Pagan, creed, forlorn, wreathed, lea
-metaphor: “And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers.”
-only metaphor in the poem
-Tone: starts out that we have abused the naturalness of our world and have abused our power
-all of these bad things are occurring and if he/she could just see something happen that wouldn’t make him so sad
-would want to see Triton or Proteus  put him in a happier mood
-a lot of punctuation is used
-stanza is more than one sentence
-has a rhythm but not a definite one
-feels more like a story rather than a poem  the lines are pretty long  feels like all prose but is just broken up into short lines
-personification: “the winds that will be howling at all hours”
-gives the wind an animal/person characteristics
The line “For we are out of tune” makes me feel that we have changed the world itself
-we have changed the movement of the sea, and the direction of the wind
-even though we are “out of tune” it doesn’t really bother us
-this makes me think of Global Warming  we have ruined our earth for the worse, and even though we have done this horrible deed a lot of people don’t really care/ don’t want to change their habits for the better

“Acquainted With the Night” Robert Frost
-made up of five stanzas
-the last word in the first line rhymes with the last word in the third line of each stanza, “night, light, “lane, explain” “feet, street” “good-bye, sky”
-the last stanza is a couplet: “right, night”
-has a really good rhyming when read  I think the rhyming helps this rhythm
-The lines are end- stopped even though they all don’t have periods or punctuation at the end of them:
“I have been one acquainted with the night”  no punctuation but can still be end- stopped
-all three lines in the first stanza start with “I have”
-good imagery: “I have looked down the saddest city lane.”
 Makes you think of a really dirty, grimy street that has trash everywhere and the houses are pretty dumpy looking
Another example: “I have walked out in rain – and back in rain.”
-makes me think of a huge storm
-a little twist  saying he’s walked out in rain and back in  this diction plays off each other
-Tone: a little depressing  all dark adjectives: “night, rain, saddest, dropped my eyes, not to call me back or say good-bye”
-the line: “And further still at an unearthly height,/ one luminary clock against the sky.”
-makes me think of the moon
-the moon is really far away from earth, and it is a pretty bright source of light
-could be considered a “clock” because it can be used to tell time  depending upon its position in the sky, how much of the moon is showing, how high or low it is in the sky
-interesting poem  makes you think
-the lines seem pretty straight forward but I feel that you have to kind of read beyond what’s written on the page
-trying to paint a picture and I don’t think this one is very simple
-words that may need to be looked up: proclaimed, unearthly, luminary
-the last line: “I have been one acquainted with the night.”
 Makes me feel that this person may go on adventures at night or may just take walks at night
-also kind of gives me a bad feeling  vampires, dark/scary

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