Blog 5, rotation 1

Rotation 5, blog 1

“Unholy Sonnet: Hands Folded” Mark Jarman
-all one stanza
-whole poem is two sentences
-lines aren’t too long, but need the next line to make sense
-comparing hands to a church
-the last two lines are a couplet
-last two words: “withstand and hand”
-no exact rhyme scheme, some end words rhyme but it seems to be by chance “skin, within” and “light, tight”
-tactile imagery: “if that will ease your grip and let them go”
-metaphor: “the nails like welders’ masks”
-weird to compare hands to something not living (a church)
-doesn’t have any words that would need to be looked up
-has a little beat, but nothing too strong
-feels a little more like prose when read aloud
-tone: dark
-talks about trapped people: “among them you can hear their half- choked cries”
-talks about people trying to get out of something  not very happy
-“but stuck now they are willing to confess”  makes you feel like once these people have been greatly punished then they will tell everything they know
-seems realistic to me  until someone is greatly punished then there is a greater chance that they will tell whatever information they know

“Drinking alone by Moonlight” Yueh Hsia Tu Cho
-not a good beat when read aloud
-a lot of punctuation usage
-made up of one stanza  pretty long
-personification: calls the moon a her
-“yet with the moon as friend and the shadow as slave”
-tone: seems peaceful at first, but then towards the end seems lonely
-“a cup of wine, under the flowering trees”  makes you feel peaceful, makes you think of the people sitting on the bayou in the evening
-“I drink alone, for no friend is near”  could be seen as lonely, but I feel that this line is leaning more towards the fact that he likes to be alone
-everyone needs some alone time  this could be his
-towards end of the poem: “now we are drunk, each goes his way.”  makes you feel like he is lonely now because he feels that once he’s drunk he has no friends
-sense that maybe the wine makes him depressed
-visual imagery: “for he, with my shadow, will make three men”
-only one word that I had to look up: inanimate  lifeless  contributes to the loneliness tone at the end of the poem

“One Art” Elizabeth Bishop
-the words disaster and master is repeated
-the last two lines of the poem: a couplet using these two words as the ending rhyme words
-made up of six stanzas
-each stanza has three lines except for the last one  the last word in the first line rhymes with the last word in the third line in each stanza: “fluster, master” “faster, disaster”, “vaster, disaster”
-poem starts out with talking about losing little things, like a key
-each stanza builds up to larger objects lost, things such as a city and then even a continent
-the last stanza talks about losing someone  bigger than anything
-people are what affect you the most, not material items
-tone seems a little sarcastic at the end: “Even losing you…it’s evident/ the art of losing’s not too hard to master.”
-has a good rhythm when read aloud  I think the rhyming helps with this beat
-words that may need to be looked up: intent, fluster, realms, shan’t (older than every other word in the poem)
-the poem has a light feeling the whole way through even though it’s talking about a serious topic: losing things
-poem makes a point though  everything will be lost one day “so many things seem filled with the intent/ to be lost that their loss is no disaster.”
-the lines are pretty simple, and straightforward
-no metaphors
-the line “the art of losing isn’t hard to master” is repeated a couple of times
 I think this helps the poem because it’s used as the poem builds up on losing bigger and bigger things/places