notes on poems

the slodier

it is a love poem for england and the idea that dying for your country is glorious

italian sonnet -2idea

england explicit +inplicit using imagery 

engalnd mental/spiritual

the sentry

The Sentry

I'm blind..I'm blind.

This poem is about what a brutal nightmare war is which is shown through imagery, onomatopoelia, alliteration and metaphor.

The firts paragraph tells us where the poem is set. "Shrinks of death" shows what a horrible and awful place it is. never ending nightmare is the word that comes into your mind after you've read the second paragraph since it gives an impression of a living nightmare which continues and you can't be awakend from it. But there is still hope as the 3rd paragraph tells us. People still hopeing they might survive ot it might end although at the end of the poem, people loose this and the 'light dies out'.

examples of repetations

-rain

-die/death

-love

-soltitude

Rain,Rain Rain

Repetation is when you write down a word lots of times.

The writer repeats rain because as he listens to the rain he is thinking and the rain makes the atmosphere more miserable and sad. Because rain is usually the symbol of darkness and sadness and dullness so this makes it easier to imagine the badness of being a soldier. And also the rain whashes you clear when ypu die.

He uses the word 'die/death' a lots of times because everyone's always thinking about death beavuse they know they are going to die. This gives it a dull picture and shows how miserable it was.

Love is also repated many times because everyone is losing the ones they love and they know they shouldn't love anyone because they are going to loose them. And this connects to the thought of death.

The writer also uses soltitude more then one times because it is not meant in the way that it's written down. Soltitude means being alone but in this situatuon he is not alone but he's surrounded by people who are just as miserable as he is and noone talks to each other because they know that they are going to die and they don't want to make new friends because it's going to be hard for them to see them die.

jargen: there are groups if you are part of the group it is inclusive and if you are not then its exclusive
Latin american dance

rumba: basic, new york, spot turn, karadja, hand to hand, swivel
cha cha: basic, time step, new york, spot turn, cuban break, double cuban break, swivel
samba: basic, whisk
jive
bachata
salsa
merenge

For the first time since I realized that Teddy was gone, too, I feel something unclench. I feel myself breathe. I know that Gramps can't be that late-inning pinch hitter I'd hoped for. He won't unplug my breathing tube or overdoes me with morphine or anything like that. But this is the first time today that anyone has acknowledged what I have lost. I know that the social worker warned Gran and Gramps not to upset me, but Gramps's recognition, and the permission he just offered me--it feels like a gift .Gramps doesn't leave me. He slumps back into the chair. It's quiet now. So quiet you can almost hear other people's dreams. So quiet that you can almost hear me tell Gramps, 'Thank you.

Alanysis:
Tone-

10 things i hate about you

I hate the way you talk to me 
And the way you cut your hair 
I hate the way you drive my car 
I hate it when you stare 

I hate your big dumb combat boots 
And the way you read my mind 
I hate you so much that it makes me sick 
It even makes me rhyme 

I hate the way you're always right 
I hate it when you lie 
I hate it when you make me laugh 
Even worse when you make me cry 

I hate the way you're not around 
And the fact that you didn't call 
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you 
Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all

I hate the way you're not around. In poems, rhyming is not the only thing that matters. You also have to make sure that the meter and the rhythm is on point to make it good and to get and keep the reader's attention. In this poem the writer usually uses 3x4 I ams then breaks it with 1x3 I Ams.
For exmple here;
 "I hate the way you talk to me -4 I am
And the way you cut your hair -4 I am
I hate the way you drive my car- 4 I am
I hate it when you stare "-3 I am
So here it uses keeps it the same for 3 times then at the end of the paragraph it breaks the rhythm. This is good because it makes a change and makes it more dramatic and more catchy. The meter helps make the message more powerful.


I hate the way you're not around 
And the fact that you didn't call 
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you 

Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
In a poem the way you say it is also and important thing so you have to make sure that the you say it with the right tone. Changing the tone also makes it more interesting because if you keep it the same then it becomes boring. In this poem the tone first angry then it becomes sad and she strats crying. ''
I hate the way you talk to me'':So first she list things she hates about the person who she is talking about and her tone is angry but then it becomes sad and the end she starts crying and she admits that she doesn"t hate him ''
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you 
Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all''

10 things i hate about you
-tone
-meter
-setting