Go to http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/top_poems.html and choose any ONE of the top FIFTY poems listed for your perusal.
Then, using the scaffold below; complete a STETS analysis of the poem. Each question needs to be answered in full sentences. Complete this work as a WORD document and then cut and paste as a comment below.
STETS Analysis
Subject Matter:
What is the poem describing? What situation, experiences and people are recorded in this poem?
Theme:
What is the underlying message that the poet is trying to communicate to the audience? What is the poet’s purpose in writing this poem?
Emotions:
What is the predominant mood or emotion of the poem? Does the mood change during the poem? If so, at what point(s)? What emotional response does the poet wish to evoke in the audience? How successful is the poet in obtaining this response?
Techniques:
How has the poet crafted this poem? Give at least three examples of the poetic techniques used and explain how they are used in the poem.
Summary:
How successful is this poem as social comment? Do you believe that it achieves the poet’s purpose? (Write this as a paragraph with quotes from the poem to prove your ideas)
Messy Room by Shel Silverstein
ReplyDeleteWhosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or--
Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!
STETS Analysis
Subject Matter:
This poem is describing a person being disgusted by a room. This person finds out that the room belonged to him.
Theme:
The message this poem is trying to tell is to think before judging something or someone. The purpose of this poem is to entertain and create humour.
Emotions:
The mood of this poem is to be disgusted and revolted. The mood changes in the end creating a ‘realising’ mood. The poet intends to make the audience laugh and feel happy and the poet is very successful in obtaining this response.
Techniques:
The poet used a second person point of view and some other techniques like:
• Rhyme – e.g. floor, door & wall, hall.
• Alliteration – e.g. “workbook is wedged in the window”
• Repetition of the sentence “Whosever room this is should be ashamed!”
Summary:
This poem is successful because it is easy to understand. Having it in a 2nd person’s point of view puts the audience in the situation. Strong adjectives, like overstuffed and murky, helps with visualisation. It achieves the poets’ purpose because of the unexpected twist in the end. This point of view reveals itself at the last bit saying “Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear, I knew it looked familiar!”. Also the repetition of the sentence “Whosever room this is should be ashamed!” right before the character realises it was his room makes it more humorous.
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ReplyDeleteA POISON TREE BY WILLIAM BLAKE
ReplyDeleteI was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I waterd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.
And into my garden stole.
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see,
My foe outstretchd beneath the tree.
STETS ANALYSIS
Subject Matter:
This poem is describing the growing wrath a person has towards his foe that was fixed with his friend just by telling him about his wrath.
Theme:
The underlying message that the poet is trying to convey to the audience is that if you have a problem with someone you need to tell that person that you have a problem with them and maybe you can work out a solution that will fix the problem. The poet’s purpose in writing this poem is to tell us that anything can be solved if we are honest with each other.
Emotions:
The predominant mood of the poem is mostly hatred but this changes in the second and fourth stanzas when the poet becomes more soothed and relaxed. The poet intends to make the audience feel angry and he is very successful at this.
Techniques:
The poet has crafted this poem by using first person’s point of view and by using other techniques like;
• Rhyme: e.g. night, bright / shine, mine
• Alliteration: Sunned it with smiles
• Personification: Wrath grew both day and night
Summary:
This poem is successful because as you read through the poem more and more information is revealed that fulfils the story it is trying to tell to the audience. Having it in 1st person’s point of view places the audience within the poem and they can feel what the poet feels “I was angry with my friend”. This poem achieves the poet’s purpose by showing in the last line of the last stanza that the foe is underneath the tree waiting for hug “My foe outstrechd beneath the tree”
Summary:
ReplyDeleteThis poem is very successful in social comment because the atmosphere it sets for the audience. I honestly believe that this poem achieves the poet’s purpose because it truly shows heart break and despair. This poem shows the audience what love is really about and how hard it is sometimes because even though you believe you have found the right person, you cannot be with them. The two people recorded in this poem were deeply in love with each other but could not be together even thought they wanted to be so bad.
I am not yours
ReplyDeleteI am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.
Oh plunge me deep in love -- put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.
Emotions:
ReplyDeleteThe predominate mood in this poem is heart aches and how much love can hurt, the emotions throughout the whole poem is sorrow and despair. The mood stays the same during the whole poem. The emotional response I think the poet wants to evoke in the audience is sadness and how much love can hurt people. I believe the poet is successful with obtaining the response he wants to get from his audience.
Techniques:
I think the poet has crafted this poem with using real life events that have happened to her and maybe her love life. The poetic techniques used in this poem is repetition ‘not lost in you, not lost,’ rhyming couplets ‘A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light’ and atmosphere which I think is the best poetic technique used because it sets an atmosphere for everyone reading.
STETS Analysis
ReplyDeleteSubject Matter:
What is the song describing? The song is describing a story that the singer went through. What situation, experiences and people are recorded in this song? The situation in the song is that someone accused the singer Michael Jackson of having a child with someone else.
Theme:
What is the underlying message that the singer is trying to communicate to the audience? The message the singer is trying to tell the story. What is the singers purpose in writing this poem? The singers purpose is to tell the story of this girl Billie Jean accusing him of having a child.
Emotions:
What is the predominant mood or emotion of the song? The predominant mood of this story is mystery because it takes time to realise the story. does the mood change during the song? No not much. If so, at what point(s)? What emotional response does the singer wish to evoke in the audience? The singer wants the audience to like the song and have a good time listening to it. How successful is the singer in obtaining this response? The singer is in my opinion successful in getting he response because when i here this song i have a good time and remember the story.
Techniques:
How has the singer crafted this song? The singer has tried to tell the story with in the song and has had success .Give at least three examples of the poetic techniques used and explain how they are used in the song. Three techniques are repetition, rhythm and rhyme.
Summary:
How successful is this song as social comment? The song is very successful in public and almost everybody knows it. Do you believe that it achieves the singers purpose? Yes. Because it tells the story very well with the song and rhythm. For example the chorus is very catchy but is also part of the story. (Write this as a paragraph with quotes from the song to prove your ideas)
A Life by Sylvia Plath
ReplyDeleteTouch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball,
This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear.
Here's yesterday, last year ---
Palm-spear and lily distinct as flora in the vast
Windless threadwork of a tapestry.
Flick the glass with your fingernail:
It will ping like a Chinese chime in the slightest air stir
Though nobody in there looks up or bothers to answer.
The inhabitants are light as cork,
Every one of them permanently busy.
At their feet, the sea waves bow in single file.
Never trespassing in bad temper:
Stalling in midair,
Short-reined, pawing like paradeground horses.
Overhead, the clouds sit tasseled and fancy
As Victorian cushions. This family
Of valentine faces might please a collector:
They ring true, like good china.
Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.
The light falls without letup, blindingly.
A woman is dragging her shadow in a circle
About a bald hospital saucer.
It resembles the moon, or a sheet of blank paper
And appears to have suffered a sort of private blitzkrieg.
She lives quietly
With no attachments, like a foetus in a bottle,
The obsolete house, the sea, flattened to a picture
She has one too many dimensions to enter.
Grief and anger, exorcised,
Leave her alone now.
The future is a grey seagull
Tattling in its cat-voice of departure.
Age and terror, like nurses, attend her,
And a drowned man, complaining of the great cold,
Crawls up out of the sea.
STETS analysis
Subject Matter
the poem is about a woman looking to commit suicide and failing to do so, and when she is in the mental hospitsl she feels trapped
Theme
the theme or message being portrayed is you shouldnt give all that up just because it is bad.
Emotion
the emotion shown is confusion and anger in all that she does
Technique
technique is shown with
rhyme: tear/year, stir/ answer
simile: It will ping like a Chinese chime in the slightest air stir
Summary
i think this poem is successful because of its rich technique and detail used to describe the poem. the poem is very, very hard to decipher and hard to undertstand so i dont think this is suitable fro many eg:At their feet, the sea waves bow in single file.
Never trespassing in bad temper:
Stalling in midair,
Short-reined, pawing like paradeground horses.
Overhead, the clouds sit tasseled and fancy. what the hell is that supposed to mean????
Happiness
ReplyDeleteSo early it's still almost dark out.
I'm near the window with coffee,
and the usual early morning stuff
that passes for thought.
When I see the boy and his friend
walking up the road
to deliver the newspaper.
They wear caps and sweaters,
and one boy has a bag over his shoulder.
They are so happy
they aren't saying anything, these boys.
I think if they could, they would take
each other's arm.
It's early in the morning,
and they are doing this thing together.
They come on, slowly.
The sky is taking on light,
though the moon still hangs pale over the water.
Such beauty that for a minute
death and ambition, even love,
doesn't enter into this.
Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.
Stets Analysis
Subject Matter: The poem is describing the feeling of happiness of the two people that are walking up the road. In the poem there is a transfer of the feeling when the person drinking the cup of coffee sees two boys that were filled with happiness in them, walking up the road.
Theme: The underlying message that the poet is trying to communicate is happiness is something that spreads.
Emotions: The emotion that is in the poem is just happiness, there isn’t any other moods or emotions that are shown in this poem besides this. The poet wants people to have a warm happy feeling when they are reading this poem.
Techniques:
Assonance: ‘When I see the boy and his friend’
Personification: ‘The sky is taking on light’
Lyric: The poet expresses their feelings towards the boys.
Summary: I find the poet’s poem to be very successful. The poem has techniques and words that are very easy to understand making it easy for nearly everyone to understand the message. The message that is in represented in the poem is the ‘happiness. An example is, ’I think if they could, they would take each other’s arm’. It had an easy poetic technique,’ assonance’ , and the line has a straight forward meaning. Its success was because how the whole poem is made up of techniques and uses of words that seems to fit well into theme of the poem ‘Happiness’. The combination of all of this appeal greatly to the reader’s emotions. It makes you have a warm and happy when we read it.
{J.T}
Touched by An Angel by Maya Angelou..
ReplyDeleteWe, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
S.T.E.T.S ANALYSIS
SUBJECT MATTER:
THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS POEM IS LOVE AND HOW IT HELPS US BREAK THE HOLDS OF OUR INSECURITIES, FEARS AND THINGS THAT HOLD US BACK.
THEME:
THE MESSAGE OF THIS POEM IS THAT LOVE IS REALLY STRONG AND CAN BREAK FREE OF THINGS WE COULDN’T NORMALLY DO OURSELVES.
EMOTIONS:
FEELINGS THAT COME FROM THE POEM ARE HAPPINESS, A SENSE OF WARMTH, COURAGE AND A SENSE OF FREEDOM.
TECHNIQUES:
SOME TECHNIQUES USED IN THIS POEM ARE:
RHYME: DELIGHT/SIGHT
RHYME SCHEME
SUMMARY:
I THINK THIS POEM IS VERY REALISTIC BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT LOVE IN A WAY THAT PEOPLE USUALLY WOULDNT TALK ABOUT. I THINK THE POET ACHIEVED THEIR PURPOSE BECAUSE IT GETS PEOPLE TO REALLY THINK WHAT LOVE IS AND HOW IT AFFECTS US. IT GETS PEOPLE TO ACUALLY REFLECT ON WHAT LOVE REALLY IS.
Still I Rise
ReplyDeleteBy Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Stets Analysis
Subject Matter: The poem is describing somebody who is going through accusations and getting made lies up about them. They are saying that they will continue rising and being better than the accusers.
Theme: The message of this poem is that the particular person does not really care about what anyone else says and only cares about what they think about themselves.
Emotions: The emotions of the poem is angry but calm at the same time. The poet is defying the accusers in a way that shows that they think that they are better than the people contradicting them. The poet wants to show their side of the story by expressing what they think and their side of the story. They successfully do this because they show their deep thoughts and fellings.
Techniques: Repetition- “I Rise I Rise Rise”.
Rhyme- “Bring the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and hope of a slave”
Summary: The poem is very successful because it shows how confident the poet is and the spirit they have by continuing to fight even when the going is tough and people are making life hard for them. It also shows a sense of mind and maturity by the way the accusations are being dealt with.
Still I Rise
ReplyDeleteBy Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Stets Analysis
ReplyDeleteSubject Matter: The poem is describing somebody who is going through accusations and getting made lies up about them. They are saying that they will continue rising and being better than the accusers.
Theme: The message of this poem is that the particular person does not really care about what anyone else says and only cares about what they think about themselves.
Emotions: The emotions of the poem is angry but calm at the same time. The poet is defying the accusers in a way that shows that they think that they are better than the people contradicting them. The poet wants to show their side of the story by expressing what they think and their side of the story. They successfully do this because they show their deep thoughts and fellings.
Techniques: Repetition- “I Rise I Rise Rise”.
Rhyme- “Bring the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and hope of a slave”
Summary: The poem is very successful because it shows how confident the poet is and the spirit they have by continuing to fight even when the going is tough and people are making life hard for them. It also shows a sense of mind and maturity by the way the accusations are being dealt with.
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
ReplyDeleteYou may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
STETS Analysis
Subject Matter:
The poem is describing the problem of racism and persecution and how she has risen above it coming out better and stronger.
The poem is describing the experiences of an black woman talking about her persecution by people and how she is able to rises up above what they say with confidence
Theme:
The underlying message the poet is trying to communicate is that people may put you down and think badly about you, keep your head high, be proud of who you are and be above it and come out better.
Emotions:
The predominant mood in this poem is one of defiance, empowerment, confidence and rebellion
The mood of the poem is the same throughout the poem. The mood of defiance remains throughout the poem.
The poet wants the reader to feel a great burst of confidence and courageousness as they read the poem.
The poet is very successful in obtaining this response achieving so with powerful words
Techniques:
Repetition of a word throughout the poem, “I rise”.
A rhyme scheme of a b a b has been used; this makes the poem sound clever
Rhetorical questions are asked throughout the poem, this was done to make the reader feel as though the poet was really questioning the reader
Summary:
It is very successful as a social comment, the poem deal with the issue of racism in society and the poet has said that she is proud of who she is and won’t be affected by how others see her. She has definitely achieved her purpose.
“You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise”, “You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”
If those I loved were lost
ReplyDeleteThe Crier's voice would tell me
If those I loved were found
The bells of Ghent would ring
Did those I loved repose
The Daisy would impel me
Philip -- when bewildered
Bore his riddle in!
Stets analysis
Subject matter
The poem is describing what would happen if the people you loved had died and it also describes what I would think when it says ‘the daisy would impel me’ means to commit suicide.
Theme
The message that the poem is underlining is what would happen if those you loved were found and what would happen if those you loved were lost. The poet’s purpose in writing this poem is to write about death in an interesting way.
Emotions
The mood of the poem starts from sad at the begging when it says ‘if those I loved were lost’ then to happy when it says ‘if those I loved were found’. Then to sad again when it says ‘The daisy would impel me’. The emotional response the poet wishes to evoke in the poem is the differences of mood if the people you loved were alive to if they were dead.
Techniques
Personification – when it talks about the daisy impelling him.
Imagery - when it talks about the crier’s voice
Summary
Yes I believe that the poem ‘if those I loved were lost’ was successful because it made you think of what the poem was about, such as when it says ‘the daisy would impel me’ it talks about suicide which is not clearly stated.
Carrion – Parkway Drive
ReplyDeleteCarrion
In a moment I'm lost
Dying from the inside
Her eyes take me away
Tear me apart from the inside out
Dead eyes speak in volumes
When our lips refuse to move
Could this ever be the last time?
The final time that we take this road
Give me the strength to return
Return the breath you've stolen
Give me the means to resist
Resist
Her heart I've broken again
Reflections built up on sorrow
We're walking the darkest road
And it just got lit with regret
In a moment I've lost
Taken from the inside
Her eyes take me away
Tear me apart from the inside out
Oh
From the inside out
The inside out
We've been running blind
Now we're falling through the cracks
We're left running
We are running blind
Now we're falling
Falling through the cracks
Into the world of the dead
Her shutting eyes
Her shutting eyes
They're shutting eyes want your return
Back to the world of the dead
In a moment I've lost
Taken from the inside
Her eyes take me away
Tear me apart from the inside out
My love I left
My heart I left
With my promise to return
A promise to return
Stets Analysis:
Subject Matter: The subject matter of this song is that a man has passed away leaving a loved one behind and emotionally dying inside. The girl made him feel as if he was in heaven and the beauty of the girl tears his heart from the inside out. Now that the man is dead he can see that he loves this girl more than ever even though he is now dead and cannot physically tell her.
Theme: The theme of Carrion is that there is a man who wants to convey his love to a girl but he has sadly passed away and now cannot tell her, but he promises to tell her one day. When he returns he will tell the girl he loves that he loves her.
Emotions: The emotions running throughout the song are being enclosed because he is now dead and cannot share his feelings to the one he loves. Also he feels regretful because he didn’t spend his time on Earth telling the girl of his dreams that he loves her.
Techniques: The technique used in this poem is free verse.
Summary: I feel that the song does achieve the poets purpose because he expresses very deep emotions that people can relate too, many people love this song because of this reason.
Angels Brought Me Here STETS Analysis
ReplyDeleteSubject Matter:
What is the song describing? The song is describing the person’s love the girl and how much he wants to be with her. What situation, experiences and people are recorded in this song? The situation is that he is telling a girl how much he loves her and the experience is of love.
Theme:
What is the underlying message that the writer is trying to communicate to the audience? The underlying message is that he has been waiting a long time to see her or tell her of his love for her. What is the writer’s purpose in writing this song? The writer’s purpose is to tell us of his story and how he loved her.
Emotions:
What is the predominant mood or emotion of the song? The predominant mood of the song is love. Does the mood change during the poem? The mood doesn’t change at all If so, at what point(s)? What emotional response does the writer wish to evoke in the audience? The emotional response is love and he wants us to feel the love he has for the girl. How successful is the song in obtaining this response? It was very successful in achieving that emotion.
Techniques:
How has the writer crafted this poem? He has crafted this poem by expressing his love in words. Give at least three examples of the poetic techniques used and explain how they are used in the poem. The first is rhyme and it is used in the first verse to tell us how long he has been away and how he feels. The second is an idiom, it is used to say that angels brought him here but in fact they did not. The last one was alliteration which is used in the chorus where they keep using ‘you’ and ‘see’ and ‘I’
Summary:
How successful is this poem as social comment? Do you believe that it achieves the poet’s purpose? (Write this as a paragraph with quotes from the poem to prove your ideas) I believe that this is successful as a social comment. I believe that it does achieve the writers purpose which is to tell his story of how much he loves his girl for example ‘every breath is you're love, every heartbeat speaks your name’
it’s been a long and winding journey
ReplyDeletebut I’m finally here tonight
picking up pieces and walking back into the light
into the sunset of your glory
where my heart and future lies
there's nothing like that feeling,
when I look into your eyes
My dreams came true,
when I found you,
I found you,
my miracle...
(Chorus)
If you could see what I see
that you're the answer to my prayers
and if you could feel the tenderness I feel,
you would know it would be clear,
that angles brought me here.
Standing here before you feels like I’ve been born again,
every breath is you're love,
every heartbeat speaks you’re name.
My dreams came true
right here in front of you
My miracle...
(Chorus)
If you could see what I see
you're the answer to my prayers
and if you could feel the tenderness I feel
you would know it would be clear,
that angles brought me here
Brought me here to be with you
I’ll be forever grateful oh forever faithful
my dreams came true when I found you
my miracle...
If you could see what I see
you're the answer to my prayers
if you could feel the tenderness I feel
you would know it would be clear,
that angles brought me here
America by Allen Ginsberg
ReplyDeleteAmerica I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
America two dollars and twentyseven cents January
17, 1956.
I can't stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
I don't feel good don't bother me.
I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind.
America when will you be angelic?
When will you take off your clothes?
When will you look at yourself through the grave?
When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?
America why are your libraries full of tears?
America when will you send your eggs to India?
I'm sick of your insane demands.
When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I
need with my good looks?
America after all it is you and I who are perfect not
the next world.
Your machinery is too much for me.
You made me want to be a saint.
There must be some other way to settle this argument.
Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back
it's sinister.
Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical
joke?
I'm trying to come to the point.
I refuse to give up my obsession.
America stop pushing I know what I'm doing.
America the plum blossoms are falling.
I haven't read the newspapers for months, everyday
somebody goes on trial for murder.
America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid
I'm not sorry.
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses
in the closet.
When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.
My mind is made up there's going to be trouble.
You should have seen me reading Marx.
My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.
I won't say the Lord's Prayer.
I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.
America I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle
Max after he came over from Russia.
I'm addressing you.
Are you going to let your emotional life be run by
Time Magazine?
I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.
I read it every week.
Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner
candystore.
I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
It's always telling me about responsibility. Business-
men are serious. Movie producers are serious.
Everybody's serious but me.
It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again.
Asia is rising against me.
ReplyDeleteI haven't got a chinaman's chance.
I'd better consider my national resources.
My national resources consist of two joints of
marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable
private literature that goes 1400 miles an hour
and twenty-five-thousand mental institutions.
I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of
underprivileged who live in my flowerpots
under the light of five hundred suns.
I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers
is the next to go.
My ambition is to be President despite the fact that
I'm a Catholic.
America how can I write a holy litany in your silly
mood?
I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as
individual as his automobiles more so they're
all different sexes.
America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500
down on your old strophe
America free Tom Mooney
America save the Spanish Loyalists
America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die
America I am the Scottsboro boys.
America when I was seven momma took me to Com-
munist Cell meetings they sold us garbanzos a
handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the
speeches were free everybody was angelic and
sentimental about the workers it was all so sin-
cere you have no idea what a good thing the
party was in 1835 Scott Nearing was a grand
old man a real mensch Mother Bloor made me
cry I once saw Israel Amter plain. Everybody
must have been a spy.
America you don't really want to go to war.
America it's them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen.
And them Russians.
The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power
mad. She wants to take our cars from out our
garages.
Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Readers'
Digest. Her wants our auto plants in Siberia.
Him big bureaucracy running our fillingsta-
tions.
That no good. Ugh. Him make Indians learn read.
Him need big black niggers. Hah. Her make us
all work sixteen hours a day. Help.
America this is quite serious.
America this is the impression I get from looking in
the television set.
America is this correct?
I'd better get right down to the job.
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes
in precision parts factories, I'm nearsighted and
psychopathic anyway.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Berkeley, January 17, 1956
Stet Analysis
ReplyDeleteSubject Matter
The poem is describing how bad America is. How America joins wars to finish them off and how powerful they are with their army forces and fighting against communism.
Theme
The message in the poem is saying what America is like and how it fights off during the wars. It also describes America during the wars. This purpose of the poem is to tell the audience of what America is like to the rest of the world and how they are part of most of the world’s wars.
Emotions
The mood in the poem changes through each stanza. It starts off with it angry about America being powerful and getting part of each war and not being a peaceful nation into the poem turning into a matter of concern of America becoming a weaker nation than Russia and China. The poem both makes you feel angry about America and a matter of concern. The poem also makes us audience feel what America is like during the wars and the countries they are against.
Techniques
The poem is crafted by using third person point of view by it talking of the writer, America and the people of America. My poem didn’t have any rhyme but techniques were used in this poem. Techniques like Metaphors, Similes and Personification were used in this poem.
Summary
This poem was very confusing due to the fact it having to be in third person when the poet talks about American, the poet and the American people. Strong words were used in the poem making it seem very powerful as well but it was also a protest against America about the wars they were part of. It also tells us about the impacts of them joining the wars and how the rest of the worlds want to attack them. This poem is very powerful and the poet who wrote this had strong words against America.
You may write me down in history
ReplyDeleteWith your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Emotions:
ReplyDeleteWhat is the predominant mood or emotion of the poem? Does the mood change during the poem? If so, at what point (s)? What emotional response does the poet wish to evoke in the audience? How successful is the poet in obtaining this response?
The predominant mood or emotion of the poem is overwhelming because it gives us a negative mood of how the bully (s) may show despair to the victim and then the victim overcoming the bully due to ignorance and dispersed the way the bully feels about the victim in a more envious way. As stated the mood does changes every second stanzas showing us that the victim is starting to have her way upon the bully.
The emotion response that the poet wishes to evoke in the audience is feelings of empathy, she wants us to recall moments of bullying and how we overcome them and with what strategies. The Victim does not share any strategies in the poem but shows us the effect of ignorance can do to the bully. The poem is very successful in obtaining this response because we automatically get influenced into the poem and start to imagine a perspective in our case, therefore making the poets realistic. “You may write me down in history, with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I'll rise.”-------- Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? Cause I walk like I've got oil wells pumping in my living room”.
Techniques:
ReplyDeleteHow has the poet crafted this poem? Give at least three examples of the poetic techniques used and explain how they are used in the poem?
The poet has crafted this poet using different techniques that is explicit to poetic language that make up this poem and the special interest that make us want to keep on reading it. Three examples of the poetic techniques include:
• Similes – The poem is comparing (like or as) the victim or the person with sand which means that it can dodge the negative impacts. “like dust, I'll rise”
• Metaphors – The poem is comparing the person with another, giving us an interest that the victim is comparing themself to another to give a perspective of similar outcomes. “Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I'll rise”.
• Rhetorical questions and answers oral techniques – The author has used this technique to justify that the person has already proven this point and is just questioning and answering the response with the knowledge that they already know of. “Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom?, 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells pumping in my living room”.
Summary:
ReplyDeleteHow successful is the poem as social comment? Do you believe that it achieves the poet’s purpose? (Write this as a paragraph with quotes from the poem to prove your ideas).
The poem is very successful as a social comment because it shows us every day doings from a social aspect of bullying etc... It is telling us to empathize what the victim is going through, which we would imagine happening to us we most likely has happened. This poem is expressing everyday social life and impacts and how we may go through them. “You may shoot me with your words”, this is showing us that the victim is being bullied verbally. However the mood then changes into the victim taking back with the aspect of the rhetorical answering proving that the bully shows some envy towards the victim. “But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?” This does achieve the poets purpose because it explains the whole idea of the scenario of the victim and how it is comparing it to us socially in everyday life. It is showing it to us we realise that we may have used similar aspects as the victim did do get the reason of why the bully is bullying them.
During the poem, the victim expresses the words “you” meaning also that we act like bullies and also the victims. This is a message for everyone showing that we can be both victim and bully in which the way we act to everyone; the main aspect that would provision the bullying is the factor of envy. The main aspect that relates to the victim is the process of which the bully relates to them; without the bully and the main cause which is the envy the victim would not understand the bully and in fact there would be no BULLY!
This is a poem dedicated to everyone’s understanding of how we respect each other socially and ways we treat each other which enhance on the development we grow together.
Anthem for Doomed Youth
ReplyDeleteWhat passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries for them; no prayers nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, --
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
STETS Analysis
Subject Matter:
What is the poem describing? What situation, experiences and people are recorded in this poem?
The poem is describing about deaths of soldiers in war and atmosphere of War as two worlds are being depicted, “The War front” and the” Home Front”. The soldier’s deaths are embedded in a world of hell, through the use of sophisticated vocabulary; Wilfred Owen was able to create a powerful elaboration to make the audience experience a world like no other.
Theme:
ReplyDeleteWhat is the underlying message that the poet is trying to communicate to the audience? What is the poet’s purpose in writing this poem?
The poet wants to put the audience in the soldier’s shoes to experience horror and the effects of War. The poet’s purpose in producing this poem is to describe what war is like.
Emotions:
What is the predominant mood or emotion of the poem? Does the mood change during the poem? If so, at what point(s)? What emotional response does the poet wish to evoke in the audience? How successful is the poet in o obtaining this response?
Wilfred Owen communicates to the audience by creating an atmosphere of terror to make to audience feel vulnerable within an environment of War. The poet wants to express the emotion of pathos, making the viewer feel pitiful and sympathetic for the soldiers. The poet was successful in producing this poem.
Techniques:
How has the poet crafted this poem? Give at least three examples of the poetic techniques used and explain how they are used in the poem.
The poet Wilfred Owen constructed a Spenserian poem which comprises a fourteen line , two stanza poem, made up of three quatrains.
Rhetorical Question- What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
This phrase is used to begin a stanza and to capture the audience’s attention.
ReplyDeletePersonification- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
This phrase makes war more hellish and brutal.
Enjambment- Continues the next line to create effect that the phrase are meant to be read continuously.
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
Summary:
How successful is this poem as social comment? Do you believe that it achieves the poet’s purpose? (Write this as a paragraph with quotes from the poem to prove your ideas)
This poem is highly successful because Wilfred Owen has elaborated a clear perspective of War, and each stanza has sophisticated meaning in it, he uses interesting vocab/imagery to create a dramatic effect on the reader for example in the poem “Anthem for Doomed youth”, the quote Only the monstrous anger of the guns”. This phrase shows violence and the continuous release of bullets shooting out blood and guts. This challenging piece of poetry allows the audience clearly view the atmosphere of War and how it was cleverly portrayed throughout the poem.