Analyze this:
The Son is in Secondary School by Affran Sa'at
My badge has a Latin motto
Hope for the future
The future is hope
Or something
At times black crows try to interrupt
When we sing the National Anthem
It is difficult to maintain
The whiteness of my shoes
Especially on Wednesdays
I must admit there is something quite special
About the bare thighs of hardworking scouts
The Malay chauffeurs
Who wait for my schoolmates
Sit on the car park kerb
Telling jokes to one another
Seven to the power of five is unreasonable
On Chinese New Year
Mrs Lee dressed up
In a sarong kebaya
And sang Bengawan Solo
The capital of Singapore is Singapore
My best friend did a heroic thing once
Shaded all A's
For his Chinese Language
Multiple-choice paper
In our annual yearbook
There is a photograph of me
Pushing a wheelchair and smiling
They caught me
At the exact moment
When my eyes were actually closed
Analyze:
This poem is a free verse poem. It has no regular rhythm or rhyme, which makes the poem sound more natural. It some gives the reader and author more freedom, where the reader can choose how to read and the writer will not be restricted to a rhythm or rhyme only, which will let the the writer express more on the topic.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Lesson 2
Kay Ryan
Having won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Union League Poetry Prize, the Maurice English Poetry Award, and three Pushcart Prizes and work selected four times for The Best American Poetry and was included in The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997, this amazing poet has written staggering amounts of beautiful poems. That is the reason why Kay Ryan in July, 2008, the U.S. Library of Congress announced that Ryan would be the sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress for a one year term commencing in Autumn 2008, succeeding Charles Simic. Said Dana Gioia in is blog: "Over the past five years no new poet has so deeply impressed me with her imaginative flair or originality as Kay Ryan."
Dissertation of Kay Ryan...
I find Kay Ryan simply an amazing poet. Her wonderful poems are recognized by the public which allowed her to shoot to fame. Though her poems are often short, but all of them contains rich meanings. I think Kay Ryan writes poems to express her thoughts of her life. Now lets look into the Biography of Kay Ryan. She born in San Jose, California and was raised in several areas of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.She attended Antelope Valley College and received bachelor's and master's degrees in English from University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1971, she has lived in Fairfax, California, and has taught English part-time at the College of Marin in Kentfield.
Three poems by this Kay Ryan is:
1)Home to Roost
2)Nothing Ventured Patience
3)The Edges of Time
They are very nice!
Check http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/352 to know more about her and listen to her poems.
Source:http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/352
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan
Having won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Union League Poetry Prize, the Maurice English Poetry Award, and three Pushcart Prizes and work selected four times for The Best American Poetry and was included in The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997, this amazing poet has written staggering amounts of beautiful poems. That is the reason why Kay Ryan in July, 2008, the U.S. Library of Congress announced that Ryan would be the sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress for a one year term commencing in Autumn 2008, succeeding Charles Simic. Said Dana Gioia in is blog: "Over the past five years no new poet has so deeply impressed me with her imaginative flair or originality as Kay Ryan."
Dissertation of Kay Ryan...
I find Kay Ryan simply an amazing poet. Her wonderful poems are recognized by the public which allowed her to shoot to fame. Though her poems are often short, but all of them contains rich meanings. I think Kay Ryan writes poems to express her thoughts of her life. Now lets look into the Biography of Kay Ryan. She born in San Jose, California and was raised in several areas of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.She attended Antelope Valley College and received bachelor's and master's degrees in English from University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1971, she has lived in Fairfax, California, and has taught English part-time at the College of Marin in Kentfield.
Three poems by this Kay Ryan is:
1)Home to Roost
2)Nothing Ventured Patience
3)The Edges of Time
They are very nice!
Check http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/352 to know more about her and listen to her poems.
Source:http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/352
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Lesson 1: Figurative Language
Fast rode the knight
Fast rode the knight
With spurs, hot and reeking,
Ever waving an eager sword,
"To save my lady!"
Fast rode the knight,
And leaped from saddle to war.
Men of steel flickered and gleamed
Like riot of silver lights,
And the gold of the knight's good banner
Still waved on a castle wall.
. . . . .
A horse,
Blowing, staggering, bloody thing,
Forgotten at foot of castle wall.
A horse
Dead at foot of castle wall.
1)How are the figurative language used in the poem? Give the specific word(s), explain what type of figurative language it is and why the poet chose to use this figurative language?
The figurative language used in this poem is simile. The sentence is 'Men of steel flickered and gleamed Like riot of silver lights' .The poet chose to use this simile because he wanted to describe how great the number of the knights are. Silver like cannot riot but the poet wanted to make the sight of gleaming amour obvious to the reader.
2)Tell us why you like this poem in no less than 100 words.
One reason why I like this poem is because it describes with detail the scene of war to the reader. With the banner waving at the castle wall, and the spurs hot and reeking. The sentence:""And leaped from saddle to war." showed the hurry of the knights to get to war, to their horse and immediately to war.Another reason why I like this poem is because the massive troops is described to the reader with the silver glimmering. It makes the reader know how great the army of knights would have been like. Adding this two factors together, it creates the scene of massive troops of knights eager to ride their horses to war.At the end of the poem, it shows pitifully the state of the horse the knight was riding. This poem shows two sides of war: one elegant and one death
Fast rode the knight
With spurs, hot and reeking,
Ever waving an eager sword,
"To save my lady!"
Fast rode the knight,
And leaped from saddle to war.
Men of steel flickered and gleamed
Like riot of silver lights,
And the gold of the knight's good banner
Still waved on a castle wall.
. . . . .
A horse,
Blowing, staggering, bloody thing,
Forgotten at foot of castle wall.
A horse
Dead at foot of castle wall.
1)How are the figurative language used in the poem? Give the specific word(s), explain what type of figurative language it is and why the poet chose to use this figurative language?
The figurative language used in this poem is simile. The sentence is 'Men of steel flickered and gleamed Like riot of silver lights' .The poet chose to use this simile because he wanted to describe how great the number of the knights are. Silver like cannot riot but the poet wanted to make the sight of gleaming amour obvious to the reader.
2)Tell us why you like this poem in no less than 100 words.
One reason why I like this poem is because it describes with detail the scene of war to the reader. With the banner waving at the castle wall, and the spurs hot and reeking. The sentence:""And leaped from saddle to war." showed the hurry of the knights to get to war, to their horse and immediately to war.Another reason why I like this poem is because the massive troops is described to the reader with the silver glimmering. It makes the reader know how great the army of knights would have been like. Adding this two factors together, it creates the scene of massive troops of knights eager to ride their horses to war.At the end of the poem, it shows pitifully the state of the horse the knight was riding. This poem shows two sides of war: one elegant and one death
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