Poetry Reflection

      Starting this unit, I disliked reading and writing poetry. In between the unit, I started liking poetry a little more. Not enough to like it fully, but to enjoy it. I like it because you can express yourself in a few lines of writing. It's like an escape for people who are going through hard things in their life and they have no one to talk to. The place that poetry had in my life is I believe that poetry actually does belong to everyone. It belongs to everyone because in poems I have seen, the poets put their feelings into the poems that they write. 

      Life and experiences of a poet affect the poem they create. It affects the poem because there are many feelings in the poem. The different types of feelings are created by what the poet is going through. For example, a poet who shows feeling in his poems from life and experiences is Edgar Allan Poe. I believe this because he went through many things and because of these things, his poems are affected in what tone he is trying to get across.

      Two poems that I have chosen to analyze are my found poem and "Rain" by Shel Silverstein. My found poem had double meanings to it but I chose the one that fit more in that poem. Many poems are short in length but they have bigger meanings. In the poem, "Rain" it talks about how there is rain stuck in someone's head and now they cannot do things they did before. I feel like this poem is saying that one little thing can change your life and it can change the way you do things. The impact that words have on the poem is big. I think this because word choice can change how you view a poem and how you can interpret it further on.

Non-fiction Poem
Bio-Poem
Where I'm From Poem
Spine Poem
Found Poem
Nonsense Poem

"The Bird and Fox"

AoW Poem

The terrorist group you conversed with,

made child fighters

increase like fish when they see food

Your children are used for fighting in wars

They are responsible for vulgar attacks

Why would you let them fight?

Letting them go at a young age

Knowing that they wouldn’t survive,

doing what they were forced to do

39% died detonating vehicles,

39% weren’t able to live their lives

to the fullest

33% killed as foot soldiers

33% weren’t able to live their lives

Your children using weapons

Weapons that are made for adult use

Could you imagine the gunshots being heard all around?

BOOM! was haunting them all the time

People said your child left with a smile

Was that a real or painful smile?

Do you ever regret talking to them

or was it just best for you?

Or was it when opportunity to hit you like someone who won the lottery,

did you go straight for it?

The article I was inspired by is: "How ISIS recruits child soldiers, then kills them"

Bio Poem

Fadi

Intelligent, scared, protective, aware, and determined

A character in N.H Senzai's story

Lover of learning, photography, and his family

Who notices his country is very dangerous, his family is trying their best to create a good environment for their family

Who feels like most of the bad things are his fault, his sister missing was his fault, feels like he is a bad brother

Who learns that finding his sister is his top priority and that his family needs are important as well

Who used to think that everything was fine until he started noticing things differently

Major character in Shooting Kabul

A book that shows change all around

Character Development

In the book, Bronx Masquerade, it talks about high school students going through many problems but finding an out by using poetry. By using poetry it helps them express themselves without actually saying their feelings out loud. One of the characters I think have changed the most is Diondra.

In the beginning of the book, Bronx Masquerade, Diondra was judged by her height and most people thought she loved playing sports. Diondra actually was an artist but her father didn't approve. In the book it says, "If I can get into an art school, I'm going." This quote showed that towards the end Diondra started to accept who she wanted to be. 

The elements of a story affect Diondra in this book. The conflict affects Diondra, because her father is telling her how he is disappointed in her and how he wishes she was a boy. This affects her because hearing negative things come from her father affect her in a bad way. Diondra thinks that she'll get nowhere by being an artist but I think that the negative comments make her more confident with what she makes.

Spine Poem

Stolen Lives
Speak
Crash
Nothing Left to Burn
102 Minutes

The theme of this poem is survival. Survival is the theme because this poem represents survival. The message of this poem is surviving life. This is the message because Stolen Lives means all of the lives that were stolen in some way haven't survived.

The main point of this poem is about stolen lives or anyone who has been taken from living. It shows how crucial living your life is. This is also the main point because people are being taken away from families or from what they do daily.

Found Poem

Poem-

She was aware of the warmth of his words

to live and breathe the sky.

Everything seemed clear.

Then, as if his mind were on something else, 

he said, "I'll handle us and there's something you need to know..."

The theme for this poem is change. This is the theme because in the beginning of the poem the girl was happy with life so far and the mood soon changed. The picture gives off the theme because you can see that the first half of the poem is giving off a positive mood but the second half is giving off a negative mood.

The main point of this poem is to show people how fast things can change. I think this is the main point because as you read the poem you can see that everything changed just by a few words that were spoken.