poetry

Poem 1:

 Woman Work by Maya Angelou

I've got the children to tend

The clothes to mend

The floor to mop

The food to shop

Then the chicken to fry

The baby to dry

I got company to f eed

The garden to weed

I've got shirts to press

The tots to dress

The can to be cut

I gotta clean up this hut

Then see about the sick

And the cotton to pick.

Shine on me, sunshine

Rain on me, rain

Fall softly, dewdrops

And cool my brow again.

Storm, blow me from here

With your fiercest wind

Let me float across the sky

'Til I can rest again.

Fall gently, snowflakes

Cover me with white

Cold icy kisses and

Let me rest tonight.

Sun, rain, curving sky

Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone

Star shine, moon glow

You're all that I can call my own.                                     

Analysis :

·        Maya angelou want to let us know the importance of the women in our lifes ,from these poeme we knew the i Woman Work by Maya Angelou

·        “I've got the children to tend The clothes to men The floor to mop The food to shop Then the chicken to fry The baby to dry I got company to f eed The garden to weed  I've got shirts to press The tots to dress The can to be cutI gotta clean up this hut Then see about the sick And the cotton to pick.” May anaglou uses imagery to make us imagine how hard work are these things .and the ryhtme existe

·        ‘Shine on me, sunshine”alteration all the poem

·        “With your fiercest wind” metaphor

·        “cold icy kisses”hyperbole and personnafication

·        “Star shine, moon glow”hypebole

Poem 2 :

Be glad your nose is on your face,

not pasted on some other place,

for if it were where it is not,

you might dislike your nose a lot.

Imagine if your precious nose

were sandwiched in between your toes,

that clearly would not be a treat,

for you'd be forced to smell your feet.

Your nose would be a source of dread

were it attached atop your head,

it soon would drive you to despair,

forever tickled by your hair.

Within your ear, your nose would be

an absolute catastrophe,

for when you were obliged to sneeze,

your brain would rattle from the breeze.

Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,

remains between your eyes and chin,

not pasted on some other place--

be glad your nose is on your face!

                                              Jack Prelutsky

·         The theme of the poeme is that we have to thank god about every thing he give it to us

·         “were sandwiched in betwee your toes”imagery the writer imagne that our noes is between our toes the writer draw an image and he want us to imag in it 

·         “tickeled” “sneez” “breez” onomatopoeia 

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Poem 3:

Homework by Allen Ginsberg

Homage Kenneth Koch

If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran

I'd throw in my United States, and pour on the Ivory Soap,

scrub up Africa, put all the birds and elephants back in

the jungle,

I'd wash the Amazon river and clean the oily Carib & Gulf of Mexico,

Rub that smog off the North Pole, wipe up all the pipelines in Alaska,

Rub a dub dub for Rocky Flats and Los Alamos, Flush that sparkly

Cesium out of Love Canal

Rinse down the Acid Rain over the Parthenon & Sphinx, Drain the Sludge

out of the Mediterranean basin & make it azure again,

Put some blueing back into the sky over the Rhine, bleach the little

Clouds so snow return white as snow,

Cleanse the Hudson Thames & Neckar, Drain the Suds out of Lake Erie

Then I'd throw big Asia in one giant Load & wash out the blood &

Agent Orange,

Dump the whole mess of Russia and China in the wringer, squeeze out

the tattletail Gray of U.S. Central American police state,

& put the planet in the drier & let it sit 20 minutes or an

Aeon till it came out clean

·        The theme is the injustice the pollution war ,racism ,all the bad things in the world

·        “If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran I'd throw in my United States, and pour on the Ivory Soap,scrub up Africa, put all the birds and elephant back in the jungle,”the writer use imagery and personnifaction the writer want to clean the world from the injustice and the poluution and war .

·        “wash out the blood” imagery

·        “squeeze out” omomatopeia

·        “Dump the whole mess of Russia and China in the wringer, squeeze out” hyperbole ,perssonifaction and imagery

·        “the tattletail Gray of U.S. Central American police state”, hyperbole ,perssonifaction and imagery

·        “& put the planet in the drier & let it sit 20 minutes or an”hyperbole ,perssonifaction and imagery

·        “Aeon till it came out clean”hyperbole ,personnifaction and imagery

·        The writer uses a lot of imagery and hyperbole and onomatopoeia

Poem 4 :

Homework, oh homework I hate you, you stink.

I wish I could wash you away in the sink.

If only a bomb would explode you to bits,

homework oh homework you're giving me fits.

I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark,

or wrestle a lion alone in the dark.

Eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines,

than tackle the homework my teacher assigns.

Homework oh homework YOU'RE LAST ON MY LIST.

I simply don't see why you even exist.

If you'd just disappear it would tickle me pink.

Homework oh homework I hate you, you stink.

- Shel Silverstein

·        The author discuss   a problem of all students the problems of homework

·        “I wish I could wash you away in the sink” imagery and hyperbole

·        “Homework oh homework” repletion

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Poem 5 :

My poem delights me.

My poem is mine.

 It is like fresh bread

When I bake it myself.

 It is like my son

The day he was born.

I laughed as I wrote it,

And clapped my hands.

 I will stop a stranger

To show him my poem.

 Because it delights me.

Because it is mine        

-by Rich Accetta-Evans

·        My poem delights me “ imager the writer want us  to imagine the poem

·        My poem is mine.the wrietr want to own his poem because he think that is the thing that he createted and it is his

·        is like my son”it’s asimile the writer comper the poem with his son

·        delights me.” “it is mine” this is repetition

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Poem 6:

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.

·        The theme of these poem is racsime .

·        There is rythme in every line that lead  the reader to through the poeme like “I rise ,stile I rise”

·        “I walk like I’ve got oil wells/ oumping in my living room”

“shoulders falling down like teardrops” and I danse like I’ve got a dimands/at the meeting of mythighs”all of this is imagery

·        shoulders falling down like teardrops we have the image of shoulders that fall off like tears and the tears symbolize the sadness

·        the main symbole of the poem is that rising dus .for dust to rise

·        “you”symbolize the white people

·        “I”is the black people  we can say that the poem is about an discussion between white and black people

·        Maya used a lot of likes in her poem “like air” ,”like moon” “like suns” all this is simile

·        We have a repletion in “I rise” “I rise” 

Poem 7:

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size

But when I start to tell them,

They think I'm telling lies.

I say,

It's in the reach of my arms,

The span of my hips,

The stride of my step,

The curl of my lips.

I'm a woman

Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,

That's me.

I walk into a room

Just as cool as you please,

And to a man,

The fellows stand or

Fall down on their knees.

Then they swarm around me,

A hive of honey bees.

I say,

It's the fire in my eyes,

And the flash of my teeth,

the swing in my waist,

And the joy in my feet.

I'm a woman

Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,

That's me.

Men themselves have wondered

what they see in me.

They try so much

But they can't touch

My inner mystery.

When I try to show them,

They say they still can't see.

I say,

It's in the arch of my back,

The sun of my smile,

The ride of my breasts,

The grace of my style.

I'm a woman

Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,

That's me.

Now you understand

just why my head's not bowed.

I don't shout or jump about

Or have to talk real loud.

When you see me passing,

It ought to make you proud.

I say,

It's in the click of my heels,

The bend of my hair,

the palm of my hand,

the need for my care.

'Cause I'm a woman

Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,

That's me.

·        "I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size."    "The curl of my lips. . . / It's in the fire in my eyes. . . / The sun of my smile. . . / The need for my care." Imagery maya angelo used it to make us imagine her

·        In the second stanza Angelou uses a metaphor: "Then they swarm around me, / A hive of honey bees." She talks in these santaza about the men when she enter the room

·        Maya Angelou uses repetition in this poem to stress certain phrases.  An example of this is "I'm a woman / Phenomenally. / Phenomenal woman, / That's me." 

·        Her use of repetiton helps to give the poem  familiar way

·         “It's in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips,The stride of my step,

      The curl of my lips”  maya used in these vers a hyperbole ,I think beacause she want to create a strong emotional response

·        “just as cool as you please” maya is doing a comparaison between two objects  by using a simile

·        “It’s in the click of my heels” onomatopoeia

·        “The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand,the need for my care.”

Maya used imagery and hyperbole

Poem 8:

Racism, Racism, Racism

Its here

Its alive

It has a pulse

Its worse than drugs and crime

Racism, oh racism

Why are you here

Your not wanted

Get! Just get

Away from here

Racism, oh racism

Just Get!

Robin Keys

·         The theme of this poeme  is to stop rcisme the write use a lot of poetic devices

·         “it’s here” “it’s alive “ this is personification the writer describe the racism as if it is a real personnel in front of him

·         “it wors than drugs and crime” we can say it is imagery cause the writer draw a picture of racism and he wants to want us to imagine it  that the racism  worse then drug

·         “racism ,racism,racism,racism”the writer is using here the repletion to make us know the importance of the subject

My poem  :

Friendship

A very short word

A word for everyday

One soul

For a lot of hearts

This is friendship

Friendship, is like rainbow

It is full of color

Friendship is miracle

you my best friend

Who accepts me as I am

Whenever I see you

My heart is full of joy

With you I am not afraid to be me

With you I do feels no troubles

I like my memories

Of our craziest moments

Without you my life is gloomy

Nothing but you makes my heart sing

You are the person I enjoy talking

You was always there for me

You are my flower in the garden of life

You are god perfect gift

It’s make me feel happy to know

That you choose me as a friend