http://ahumphreys.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:38:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Syliva Plath- “Lady Lazarus”   This poem has three lines in each stanza. Some of the words are slant rhymes. This poem also starts off with a lot of n sounds. For example in the first stanza there are the words “again,” “ten,” “done,” and “manage.” In this poem Sylvia Platt uses ... http://ahumphreys.edublogs.org/2007/11/13/rotation-7-blog-2/ Elizabeth Bishop- “Filling Station”   In this poem the first two stanzas almost make the poem seem like its going to be a sestina. The words “dirty” and “station” are used at the end of two of the seven lines in both the first and second stanza. The last two stanza’s do ... http://ahumphreys.edublogs.org/2007/11/08/rotation-7-blog-1/ Paul Laurence Dunbar “We Wear the Mask”   This poem has a rhyme scheme. It goes A, A, B, B, A, A, A, C, D, A, A, C, C, A, D. This poem is discussing how you wear a “mask” when you are grinning and lying because your not really being yourself and ... http://ahumphreys.edublogs.org/2007/10/31/rotation-6-blog-3/ Chryss Yost- Lai With Sounds of Skin The title of this poem gives the poem a sexual feel. The poem does have a rhyme scheme and it is A,A,B,A,A,B,A,A and then in the second stanza A,A,C,A,A,C,A,A. This poem is a octet . He also uses a lot of alliteration for example ... http://ahumphreys.edublogs.org/2007/10/22/rotation-6-blog-1/ Bruce Bennett – page 306 The Lady Speaks Again   This poem is sending a very strong message. If I had to guess I would say that this poem was written by a slave and is trying to tell her master something. She is trying to tell her that although the black people ... http://ahumphreys.edublogs.org/2007/10/17/rotation-5-blog-3/ W.S. Merwin- page 221 “For the Anniversary of My Death”   The man in this poem really brings up a good point. Every year we pass up the day that our death is going to be. Without knowing which day it is. I have never thought of it this way and it really ... http://ahumphreys.edublogs.org/2007/10/16/rotation-5-blog-1/ The first poem “With Serving Still” is an iambic pentameter because it stresses every other word. The second poem Resume is an anapest because it stresses only the end word of each line. Both poems have a rhyme scheme of A B A B.  http://ahumphreys.edublogs.org/2007/10/11/two-kinds-of-rhythm/ Langston Hughes- page 379 "End" This poem is talking about how in the life of a slave there is no time. Their is also no door for privacy. A slaves life they do nothing for themselevs just for their worker. Their isent light nor dark outside the door saying that no matter ... http://ahumphreys.edublogs.org/2007/10/08/rotation-4-blog-2/ Bruce Bennet- page 306 "The Lady Speaks Again" The lady speaking in this poem is the statue of liberty. Since the US just recently ended the great depression with the start of WWII it would seem things were getting better thus the door being more golden. This was also a time of great economic ... http://ahumphreys.edublogs.org/2007/10/05/rotation-4-blog-1/ Dana Gioia- page 123 “Money” In the first stanza of the poem they discuss all the different names of money. In the second stanza they talk about what you can do with the money you own. The third stanza is harder to understand. I feel like its about ... http://ahumphreys.edublogs.org/2007/10/01/blog-5/