Today, read together or silently to page 39 (through Richard Cory).
Post a response to the poems you have read on the blog.
What was your favorite poem? Why? Your least favorite poem? Why?
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My favorite poem from this selection was "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson. I really liked this poem because of the rhythm of her words. Her poem topic was light, sweet and kept you happily interested. I liked the length and how she used hope as a sort of metaphor for something that cant necessarily be defined. My least favorite poem was "I Sit and Look Out" by by Walt Whitman. I really didn't this poem because I found no creativity or language usage in it whatsoever, he was just sort of stating the obvious. The poem felt very tedious while I was reading it and its layout and repetition was hard to follow.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem was My Childhood's home I see again written by Abraham Lincoln. I like it because its bringing back the memories good or bad from his childhood life. it rhymes the poem had words that describe what the person is trying to get across from the reader. it states how the person is going to see what his memories from his childhood and picking out other things to rhyme in the poem.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem was an excerpt of the poem "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman. I was my favorite because it was about the narrator feeling confident about themselves. My least favorite poem was "Casey the Bat," which seems like a dramatic monologue. I felt as though it dragged on for too long. That's why it was my least favorite.
ReplyDeleteI really like the poem "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson. The way she used a bird as a way to represent hope was very interesting and creative. It was very easy for me to "visualize" what Hope would look like as a bird and many of her declarations about Hope as an idea were very true. I really didn't like the poems by Walt Whitman. They were all extremely repetitive and seemed to lack a lot of creativity and imagination. I found it really hard to read through them because I found them so boring I wanted to stop.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the poem " 'If I can sop one heart from breaking' " By: Emily Dickinson Page 31 I enjoyed this poem because i understand how it feels to have someone with a broken heart close to you and not being able to do anything about it. Anybody would help someone with a broken heart knowing how it feels. A poem that I did not enjoy as much was " A Noiseless Patient Spider By: Walt Whitman Page 24 I didn't understand his metaphors or the context used in them. The little I did understand was very irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem is I'm Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson because it reminds me of people facing the world together although they may be pushed out from society. My least favorite is My Childhood's Home I See Again by Abraham Lincoln because it related to someone remembering of the bad memories in the past.
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ReplyDeleteSome poems were very confusing and some where understandable. But my favorite one was Richard Croy because it was unpredictable he was so calm but yet killed himself at the end. I kind of understood it but than again I don't because it seem like he was having a good day but than he kills himself. Maybe he was stressed or under pressure. My least favorite was Success is counted sweetest because I did not understand what was going on.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem was "I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman. I loved the morbidity of parts of it as it touched on relationships between spouses, feelings of hatred and jealousy, and "agony." The last line of the poem, "See hear, and am silent" is the line that most makes me feel something because it shows how all of the awful things that happen in the world through human interaction can be witnessed by outsiders but they can't do anything about it themselves. People are forced to be onlookers to awful situations while not being able to help the victims. I think this poem is easily relatable to many people who have witnessed something that they haven't been able to help.
My least favorite poem is "There is no frigate like a book" by Emily Dickinson. This poem, although well composed, had subject matter that didn't really speak to me. It seemed lacking in material that meant something significant in the world, except to convince someone that reading is a good way to take someone away from a place. It offers no shock of opinion, because most people know that the entire point of reading is to go to a place different than the one you live. The poem didn't speak to me very adequately.
My favorite poem By Emily Dickenson was "Because I could not sleep for death". I felt like it was very creative and it showed how we cannot control death which is obvious. I like her style of poetry because its short and it sort of rhymes, she has rhythm. I also like " Bury me in a free land" by Frances W. Harper because its a very true poem. It shows how heartless humans are and how we, as a society need to make a change.
ReplyDeleteMy least favorite poem was "Old Ironsides" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, SR. I did not enjoy this particular poem because i felt like it was a little cliche because there is a lot of poems about America etc. It just was a little boring to read it wasn't anything extraordinary/ spectacular.
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ReplyDelete1.My favorite pom in the book was "Childhood memories" by Abraham Lincoln. I liked this poem so much because I could relate to it. Lincoln talks about how he has so many bittersweet moments in that house, and how he remembers them as if he just relived them. I feel the same way whenever I pass by a house that I used to live in. I especially loved the last stanza where he is walking down the halls and is looking at all the empty rooms. It actually made me feel somber.
2.My least favorite poem was "A noiseless Patient Spider"(There was no author written down). Why is this my least favorite? Because it was actually talking about a spider. I don't like spiders and it was very confusing. I'm pretty sure the author is describing how a spider spins it's web, but then in the second stanza and in the last stanza the author includes his/hers 'soul'? It totally threw me off about the whole spider thing and made it unappealing.
Lol I got the title wrong!!!! The title is "My childhood's Home I see again" by Abraham Lincoln
DeleteMy favorite poem was "If I can stop one heart from breaking" by Emily Dickinson. It's sweet and light, and uses rhyme and meter without seeming forced. The message is good too, how if she can help one thing, her life will have meant something to someone, and her life and death would have purpose. Even if it's as small or insignificant as a songbird, she would not live in vain. My least favorite poem was Walt Whitman's "I Sit and Look Out." His writing is more reminiscent of a history textbook or brochure than a poem. It has little imagery or metaphor and seems tired.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem is "Hope" by Emily Dickson i liked it a lot because it was so nice and the way she wrote it the poem to me was very interesting i really liked it the way how she use it and the words that she use made the whole poem very nice and the mood of it was happy i also liked how she used the word "Hope".
ReplyDeleteThe poem i really disliked was "Im Nobody ! Who Are You!" by Emily Dickson i really didnt like it because to me is immature and i just didnt like anything about it i think that was not a good one by her.
i did not have a poem i liked in here. I guess the one I "liked" was Song of Myself by Walt Whitman because the person is really confident and proud about themselves. I didn't have a poem i did not like either.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem is "bury me in a free land" by Frances E. Harper. The poem is about being buried in a land of slaves and the things you'd hear above. its my favorite poem simply because its a beautiful poem and i really like the line, "i would sleep, dear friends, where bloated might. can rob no man of his dearest right" which is to be free.
ReplyDeleteMy least favorite poem is "I sit and look out" by walt whitman. its my least favorite poem because its too simple. even though its a personal poem I feel like a 7 year old can write something like that.
My favorite peom in the book is "My Childrens home I see Again" because it talks about how he comes back home meaning he's a rock in the wall that can see everything when the sun rises and goes down at night and his view of everything after twenty years he's been gone he sees outside is bad but he has memories and they bring the good out too not only the bad ,also seeing how fast his children have grown and adults have gained strenght as he watches everything from the rock in the mountain. Reminding me of Gettysburg Adress it reminds me of how everything he did he only looked out for others not only hisself as president but to make things better for his people and children
ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem was Richard Cory because it states that a life most people would want living more lavishly than a king with the city admiring him, isn't the perfect life for all.
ReplyDeleteThe poem i did not like was i sit and look out mostly because the words were some what repetitive and dull as if for a lower classed grade level.
My favorite poem out of all of the that i read was I sit and Look Out. I liked this poem because i felt it had a lot of mean behind it. i feel that i could connect to it and make the poem one with me. The poem i didn't like that much was Songs For The People. I liked the way it started off but as i read more and more into it i didn't like it. I just couldn't connect to it like how i wanted it.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem was actually the last poem "Richard Cory" because most people think if you have it all you'll be happy no matter what. Money, women, clothes, and cars this character in the poem Richard Cory had it all and was someone that everyone envied but still in the poem Richard Cory was unhappy. This poem shows that having materialistic thing will not always make you happy sometimes you need things other then wealth. A poem I didn't like was "Songs for the people". This poem started off okay and then turned into something I really did not understand. Overall if i spent a little more time on it I may have liked it better.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem was "The Children's Hour" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow because he was very passionate about the way he felt about his children. He made the readers feel a warmness, a happiness, he spreads the joy from his children to the readers.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem is "Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. It is my favorite 0poem because it is a different type of style and it has a sense of dialog in it. i don't hate a least favorite poem because they all are good
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