JSB “I Am Offering this Poem,”

1. The title seems to mean that he is giving us this poem to read as a prize or something. After i read the poem it means that he was nothing to give her so instead he wrote her the poem.
2. I know that the author is giving this poem to his lover. You can tell hes deeply in love with her. (repeats i love you 3 times.) She must mean a lot to him because he wrote this poem for her.
3. Well what happens in the poem is that he dedicates to her his poem named "i am offering this poem." He hope she enjoys it and loves it.
4. His emotions are in love. He cares a lot for her. 
5. The dramatic moment is when he compares the poem to keeping her warm, or too food filling up her belly.
6. His tone is optimistic. Hes very cheerful towards her.
7. The poem represents repetition. He repeats how much he loves her. Its used to show that he cares for her.
8. " I am offering this poem to you, since i have nothing else to give, keep it like a warm coat, when winter comes to cover you, or lie a pair of think socks the cold cannot bite through." It tells us why hes writing the poem and that he must care for her.
9. The shifts are were he talks about it feeding her, then how it will keep her warm, and then how he cares if she dies.
10. I connect to this poem because its something i would do for a girl. Its a very special touching poem.

advice from the experts

1. The title before i read the poem seems to mean that someone is learning something they just started. After i read the poem it seems to mean that the people that are telling him not to jump are experts of the situation.
2. I know that the speaker in the poem may be thinking of committing suicide or about to do something that he should be doing. He's having thoughts about to do it or not and the "bunch of gawkers urged me don't, don't jump."
3.In the poem the it goes backwards. It shows him after he jumped and then it goes back in time saying how the gawkers urged him not to jump.The setting is crucial to the poem.
4.The speakers attitude is kind of contemplative tone, and very solemn
5.the dramatic moment in the poem is when he jumps off the building. He feels compelled to speak up how he was about to jump off a building and end his life.
6.well as i said  in answer 4, he has a very contemplative tone they add to the poem by putting suspense on whats going to happen next.
7.The poem doesnt represent any particular poem and its not either rhyme or repetition.
8.Well since the poem isn't very that long the whole thing is very central to the poem.
9.The shift in the poem is when hes talking about how hes on the floor laying hurt, and then goes back and says how the gawkers told him not to jump.
10. I connect to this by sometimes when i'm hanging out with my friends i feel peer pressured to do some things over maybe they would pressure someone else and theres always someone that says dont do it, please dont do it. I picked this poem because it was short and easy to explain.

poetry is dead.

I believe that poetry is not ‘dead’. People around the world continue to write and read poetry. However, from a different viewpoint, poetry is, in a sense, ‘dead’. I believe it has lost its popularity over the years because people have lost the value for poems and would rather read a science fiction novel. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives.Poetry allows your body to release any feelings or emotions and it helps you to relax your mind. Another great thing about poetry is how it lets people see through the eyes of anyone. Once people see how you think, they might have a feeling of why you say what you say or do what you do. Poetry can make it easier to step into the shoes of someone else, which, in my opinion, is the key to happiness. Poetry makes you think. Its a goods brain relaxer as some say. it can also calm you down and release your stress

before she dies

1. The title seems to mean someone’s perspective before their dog died, and what thoughts went through their head. After reading the poem the title signifies the writer’s feelings toward her\his dog age and about how its going die, and they are curious to know when they are going to come across again. But before I read it I thought it was going to be about maybe her mom dying.
2.You can tell that the writer is going through a-lot of grief, and the tone of voice was sad. It will take a long time to know how it is for you. Like a dog’s lifetime long multiplied by sevens.
3. In the Poem the writers is grieving about his dog whos about to die, the setting is very important in this poem because it puts you in a sad depressing setting it wouldn’t have been the same in another setting.
4. Speakers attitude toward the subject was sad and depressing, hes sad about his dog who is about to die. “I wondered how these lustered days seem to you” when he said that you could tell that he was trying to hope for the best.
5. The dramatic moment in the poem is at the end when the writer says It will take a long time know it is for you. “Like a dog’s lifetime long multiplied by sevens.” He told this poem so that he could release some emotions that he was felling inside. 
6. There wasn’t any figurative language but the way he made it seem like he was talking to a human being , or his best friend. You can tell he really cared about his dog a lot. 
7. The poem represents repetition. She repeats the word “you” in the first stanza. The “you” in the poem is the “she” that is about to die.
8.”late today with my dog wool, I lay down in the upper field, he is panting and aged, me looking at the blue. Leaning.” This is most central because it lets you know she’s talking about the dog in the poem and how she’s spending its last moments with her.
9. The authors tone in the poem are matter-of-fact, contemplative and apathetic. 
10. I relate to this poem by my dog being very old. I always lay down with him and pet him knowing any moment he could pass away. I get the sort of sad feeling the other is representing in this poem

Nursery Rhymes For The Tender Hearted

1. 1.       The title for me means a little kids rhyme poem, after I read the poem the title kind of confused me because  a nursery rhyme are meant for little kids and there’s words in there that I barely understood.
   
   
   2.       I know that the speaker of the poem has a very different point of perspective for the cockroach then most of us would have.  He speaks to the roach in a very gentle or calm voice as if it’s a pet or “brother.”
   
   
   3.       In the poem the man goes to the pantry to find a midnight snack were he finds the roach crawling as well.
   
   
   4.       The speaker’s attitude towards the subject is very happy but chill with the fact that there’s a roach in his pantry. He rather sing to it then kills it or move it out the pantry. He seems to not care that it’s all over his food.
   5.       There’s really no dramatic moment other than he’s comparing humans to a cockroach. Were others would want nothing to do with the roach at all.
   
   
   6.       The memorable figurative language is that he uses imagery and personification by giving the roach human traits. Like for example “little roach” or “little soul.”
   
   
   7.       The poem rhymes and has a very song-like tone.
   8.        In the second and third stanza: “Most adventure of vermin, how I wish I could determine how you spend your hours of ease, perhaps reclining on the cheese. Cook has gone, and all is dark then the kitchen is your park: in the garbage heap that she leaves do you browse among the tea leaves?” if you can tell in these line he wondering in the roach does this and doesn’t mind if it’s all over there food.
   9.       There’s no notable shift’s except when he’s talking about the roach and then explains how there brother’s because he too does the same in the pantry night. The speaker has a whimsical, optimistic, reverent, lyrical, jovial, intimate, reflective, and quizzical tone. His whimsical tone is where he’s talking to the roach about reclining on the cheese. They add to the poem by showing how he doesn’t have a very normal opinion over the insect.
   10.   I choose it because since we went over the poem during class it was very easy to understand it. I don’t connect to the poem because I hate roaches and I don’t think I would be satisfied if I found out the roach is reclining on the cheese or letting its long antenna whisk its gentile tips across the biscuits.

mother to son

1.       The title seems to mean a relationship between a mother and son. Maybe there ups and down or strong love. After I read the poem, the title meant the mother giving her son a discussion about her life not being easy.

2.       I know that the speaker of the poem is from the country side with her accent, and she’s talking to her son who maybe is growing up or is young. But she wants them to have an idea about life not being easy.

3.       What happens in the poem is the mother is giving a lesson to her son about life. She introduces the conflicts of her life; she mentions her life wasn’t just a breeze through.

4.       Her attitude seems caring and confident but also complaining about what she’s explaining. “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinter s, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor—Bare.” Is an example of how she complains about her life not being perfect.

5.       The dramatic moment is when she compares her life to: crystal stair’s, tacks, splinters, boards up and carpet.

6.       She speaks with a very earnest intense and reverent tone. Very calm and obsequious.

7.       The poem doesn’t represent any particular form.

8.       “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. it’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor Bare. But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’ corners, And sometimes goin’ in the dark Where there ain’t been no light.So boy, don’t you turn back Don’t you set down on the steps’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.” I think this line is most central in understanding the poem because it explains that shes talking to her son about her ruff life and how it’s not always easy. That he shouldn’t let down just always keep going.

9.       The main shift is when the mother is explaining how ruff her life was and then she says “So boy, don’t you turn back. Don’t you set down on the steps” which lets us know she’s  talking to her son about her life.

10.   I chose this poem because me and my mom have a strong relationship and I wante to see if the poem was similar to ours. Also I related to it by when I was little my mom would tell me about her life and how it isn’t easy and that I need to do well in school and succeed.

cockroach

1.The title mean's the insect cockroach and after the poem it more of a disgusting creature.

2.I know that the speaker of the poem(Anne Sexton) dislikes the insect very much, shes disgusted by the name. she calls it the ugliest and if you lied to god his wrath turned you into a cockroach.

3.In the poem she talks about religion and how one time she had a experience with a cockroach and it fled across the floor and she shrieked and the girl picked it up in her hands and held it like a diamond ring.

4.the speakers attitude towards the subject is hatred and disgust, she feels feared at some points in the poem. She considers the roach as foulest of creatures. "you are lumps of coal that are mechanized."

5. The dramatic moment is when she is comparing it to the size of a shoe, which isn't physically possible, the purpose of the author's poem is mostly everyone agrees on this point with roaches. Shes speaking up so people can agree with her and say "oh yea im scared of them too"

6.There are a couple memorable figurative language and sound devices, there's a derisive tone because she's mocking the roach by describing it to a lump of coal, which also fills under the tone ridiculing. She has a callous tone towards the roaches.

7. The poem doesn't represent repetition or rhyme. its just straight forward about how she doesn't like roaches.

8."your uncle was made into and apple, your aunt was made into a Siamese cat, all the rest were made into butterflies but because you lied to god out rightly-- told him that all things on earth were in order- he turned his wrath upon you and said, I will make you the most loathsome, I will make you into God's lie, and never will a little girl fondle you or hold your dark wings cupped in her palm.” The line is very important because it involves religion and what she believes the roaches were made about. How roaches are made because of a punishment from God.

9.The notable shifts in the poem are when she goes on talking about religion in the second stanza from hate to glimpse of love, and how she talks about her real life experience with the roach and friends.

10. I can connect to them poem because I feel the same way with snakes and spiders. I related to the line, “fled across the floor and I shrieked.” Every time I see a spider crawl near me I yelp or run away.