When I have fears & Mezzo Cammin 1

The poems give a sense of fear and sadness thorough the poets uses of giving the emotions a physical being and a rhyming scheme.

Supporting points

Point 1: In the poems the poets give their emotion of fear a physical being.

J – He gives his emotion of fear after a “faery” and a “creature”

H- When he talks about “Death” and his “Past” he capitalizes it making it become a name not just an experience.

Point 2: Keats and Longfellow use their rhyming to add to the effect of the tone.

J- He uses rhyming scheme of a sonnet ababcdcd ect. This adds to effect of when he mentions his fears and how “faerys” like to rhyme.

H- His rhyme scheme is a bit more random which adds to the fear and sadness he has. Abbaabcdcdc.

How to break a record and live in a space suit

Living in a space suit would be a guinness
Breaking a record would be fun
It should be better than the other idea of wearing nothingness
Especially when one that you could chill under the sun

When you are in space it is important to have food
When in a space suit you could be quite bored
Also some water would be good
If you had some music you could listen to that chord
A book would also help pass the time
But how you would eat when you can’t open the outfit
That book might get boring when you read the same lines
And those songs better not be counterfeit
So living in a space suit would be a bad idea
Next time I suggest trying to dig to china

My Papa's Waltz

The poem My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke is very heavily toned. It is a poem where the poet discretely combines dancing with the beating of a child. Roethke uses rhyming, first person and sentences that have duel meaning to add to this poems dark tone.
The rhyming in this poem could throw anyone off at first glance. Many relate rhyming to nursery rhymes. However this poem is not one for a child. It uses very harsh words to rhyme like “breath” and “death” or “knuckle” and “buckle”. This adds to the true meaning of the poem which is not about dancing but about the father of the speaker beating him up. The rhyming also gives the reader a sense of childhood. The ababcdcd rhyme scheme could bring the reader back in time to a child’s view and giving the reader a sense that the speaker is actually a child.
The poem is in first person. This adds to the feeling the reader will get of fear and sorrow. The poet used first person to make the experience seem more real and more fluid like an actual dance. When the poem is read in first person the experience of the beating comes out to sound more like a dance. The poem is also made from the son’s view. The reader is the put in the seat of the abuser. This is because the speaker is saying “the whisky on your breath” and using the term you. This pulls the reader into the poem more as the reader doesn’t notice that the narrator is referring to them as his father.
Lines in this poem could have duel meanings. The lines dance back and forth, from lines that make it sound like their dancing to lines that you know that the father is beating the speaker. An example of one of the duel lines is “Then waltzed me off to bed/ still clinging to your shirt.” This could mean that the father was dancing with his son till the son had to go to bed. That the father was the leader and the son was the follower in the dance. Yet it could also and most likely mean that the father was beating the son to the point that the son couldn’t do anything but give up and hold on to the father’s shirt as he was hauled up to bed.

What Happened? & Q&A on The Golf Links

What
Happened?

What is this world we live in?
What Happened with it?
What Happened To us?
What Happened To The freedom and security?
What Happened To The World that was full of peace

What Happened To The World We lived on, one with nature?
What Happened To The World We Use to know?

What Happened To The World We Use To see as a child

What Happened To The World We Use To Have?

I don’t recognize it anymore.

Questions and Answers

The Golf Links

The golf link lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play.

Is this brief poem satiric? Yes, because the men are the ones who are using the golf balls are playing infront of the the labor children.
Does it contain any verbal irony or is the poet making a matter-of-fact statement in words that mean just what they say? Yes, he is saying how the children watch as their hard work is played with by people higher up in money and socal status in the world then they are.
This poem dates before the enactment of legislation against child labour. Is it still a good poem or is it out of date? I believe that it is still a good poem. It reminds us of how it use to be and why we should never let child labour happen again.

Chronology by Margaret Atwood

When reading the poem Chronology by Margaret Atwood I was really lost in the text. I had recently seen the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and well I was looking into the poem the movie’s plot really hit me. This poem is like the movie in that it is about a man getting younger as he gets older.
I believe this poem uses the idea of a person becoming younger as they get older is because the poem starts off by stating in first person how “I was born senile and gigantic”. However, the word senile is more often used with elderly people. The main character then goes on to tell us that “by 20” they finally discover that they have been “living backwards”. They then mention how the “lines on [their] features” were “slowly expunged”. When one gets older they tend to grow “lines on [their] features” they do not expunge them.
The narrator in the poem does not identify their gender. They never state clearly if they are a boy or girl. At first with lines 8-10 you believe that the narrator is a young boy when they mention “comicbooks” and that they were “bored with horror”. However in the next four lines they mention “red lipstick”.
In the end this poem is a very complicated one that would be really interesting to look at more deeply.