Monday, April 29, 2013

Poetry Team Reponses



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Title: At first glance, the title 'Our Deepest Fear' makes me think of monsters and gloomy type of scene. I assumed the author would be a little boy or little girl.
Paraphrase: 'Our Deepest Fear' by Marianne Williamson is a truly amazing poem. The poem how people in the community is scared of reaching their full potential. 'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.' The line reveals how we are not scared we are not enough, we are scared that we are more intelligent, stronger then we know. The poet reveals how each individual has their own potential. Mrs. Williamson states how to each individual much rise to their full potential in order to better the world itself.
Connotation: The author uses special diction and syntax in order to betray her message. By using such powerful words you become one with the poem. The whole poem has words like 'inadequate' instead of a basic word like unintelligent. By switching just these two words makes a poem much more powerful and much more motivating.
Attitude: The authors tone is just really self motivating each individual. The poem reminds me of the coach telling his players to do the impossible. The poem is so inspirational and has the attitude where you just want to get up and go get to get that education or do whatever you want to do in life in order to succeed. By keeping that powerful tone the audience is able to feel what the author is trying to convey.
Shift: ' Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure'. There is a shift in the middle of the poem when the author is explaining How each individual has the potential to be anything they want not just to better themselves but also the world itself.
Title Revisited: After reading the poem several times I have came to the conclusion that our deepest fear is not about monsters or any physical challenge. The title means we must mentally overcome our obstacles and self-doubt.
Theme: the author's theme is pretty self explanatory. Each individual has ability to do whatever they want in their life. However, we are so scared of rejection we reject ourselves. We have the opportunity to get education and not only better ourselves the better those around us. The author mentioned how playing a small role in the world does not help anybody. Be who you want to be a but make sure its a person you can be. Everyone is beautiful and everyone is powerful. Do not let self doubt control your life. You are the controller of your own game so play well and win everything.


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Title: The title of the poem expresses the significance that the narrator put on his fantasies by referring to his dreams as a state of apotheosis
Paraphrase parts of the poem: "joy departed"- Meaning no longer joyous or containing joy. “But a waking dream of life and light hath left me broken-hearted”- The narrator articulates his fears of when his fantasy world will come to an end. Connotation: "broken-hearted"- His heart isn't literally broken, but he is devastated or sad. "What is not a dream by day"- This doesn't literally mean that dreams during the day, but what one dreams at all. Attitude: In my opinion, the attitude of the poem is one that is introverted, or even emotionally inept, as if "his" message is not to be shared with society. This seems like a sensitive subject for the narrator, as he shares his deepest thoughts and feelings.
Shift: I feel that there is a shift between "In visions of the dark night", and "But a waking dream of life and light", the first quotes creates a dark, depressing state for me, while the second quote creates one that is more joyful.
Title Revised: I feel that "A Dream" has significance as the narrator discusses his very own dream. His dream ,I feel, is to live in his own fantasy wold, undisturbed.
Theme: The theme of this poem is how the narrator wants to live in his own dreams, maybe because of traumatic life experiences. He finds more comfort in his fantasy world than he does reality and fears the day that his fantasy world will cease.
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Title: A Summer’s Dream by Elizabeth Bishop sound like it will be happy and uplifting.
Paraphrase: In this poem, I feel as if Bishop is observing these 4 characters in one room and making a poem about them. The owl seems a bit random. The poem, although it is titled A Summer's Dream which makes you think of sunny, fun and happy things, seems like a contradiction to the actual poem which has nothing to do with summer and who's tone has dark feelings at times.
Connotation:
Diction: wharf, geraniums, linoleums, somn ambulist
Attitude: The attitude of the author is a mix between dreamy and gloomy. She doesn't stick to one subject and jumps from one thing to another. This moment seems like a real moment but pictured in a dreamy way where her attention shifts from one thing to another.
Tone: I hate repetition but her tone seems dreamy, smooth and gloomy at times.
Shift(s): I think these two verses are where the poem shifts from normal, content to serious and gloomy. Extraordinary geraniums crowded the front windows, the floors glittered with assorted linoleums.
Every night we listened for a horned owl. In the horned lamp flame, the wallpaper glistened.
Title revisited: The title is referring to a memory and the poem is the description of part of the memory that she allows us to see into. She gives us details that make us question the title but in all the title is what she got out of the memory although we can extract other feelings from the poem.
Theme: Im struggling on this one...

Saturday, April 27, 2013

GROUPTHINK

Each person in our group has chosen a different poems in different categories therefore we get a better understanding of different types of poems. Since we each have chosen a poem and have presented many presentations to each other we have learned different types of writing themes, diction and tones.

Vendler Grid



Meaning
Antecedent
Scenario

Structural Parts
Climax
Other Parts

Skeleton
Content Genre-
games

Tone
Agency
Roads Not Taken
Speech Acts
Outer and Inner Structural
Forms

Imagination

Friday, April 26, 2013

Poetry Grid Lock

TPCASTT:  Poem Analysis Method:  
title, paraphrase, connotation, diction, 
attitude, tone, shift(s), title revisited and 
theme
Titleof poem means
Paraphraseparts of the Poem
Connotationof some of the words – changing literal meaning to implied or associated values
AttitudeWhat is the attitude of the author, characters or yourself?
ShiftAt first we think or feel one way – then there is a shift:  identify the shifts and explain them
Title revisitedAny new insights on meaning or significance of title?
Theme                        

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Poetry Group


My group consists of myself, Dani Galindo, Alicia Hernandez & Valerie Gonzalez. We each have one poem on our blog we personally have chosen. At the end of the week, we will collaborate with one another and reveal our analysis of each poem we have done.
UPDATE: Sebastian Guillen has been included in our group!

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Reflection on the Macbeth Exam

For me the Macbeth exam was really difficult with each section being on a timed slideshow it really didn't give the reader (us as students) enough time to read, understand, and put into prospective the information provided.

The First Book by Rita Dove




I chose this poem because it was simplistic it brought me back to the beginning of the year and our discussion on real books vs audio books.