Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Poetry Blogging
In class this week we have looked at poetry of different types. These poems relate to our theme of 'Boundaries'. Your next blogging task is to share with us your views of the poetry we have discussed. In your discussion you are not only to discuss the SUBJECT of the poems, but also the THEMES and LANGUAGE techniques. Good luck and good blogging.
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Swimming lessons by Gregory Harrison.
ReplyDeleteRepetion and rhyming is used in this poem.
This person has to overcome the annoyance of swimming lessons each wednesday.
The person hates the whole process of going to the baths.
He would prefere going to the gym. This poem is a poem maybe for a younger audience.
It didn't really appeal to me.
Swimming lessons...... by gregory harrison
ReplyDeletethis poem is about a child who hates wednesdays and what happens on that day which is swimming, they hate everything about swimming and wishes it never exsicted.
swimming lessons. by Gregory Harrison
ReplyDeleterepetition is used in this poem such as "I hate" and "I can't"
This boy really hates everything about swimming.
Also this poem has alot of rhyming. This peom doesn't lighten up my day.
swimming lesson by gregory harrison has repitition in it. " i hate" is the main repetion in the poem.
ReplyDeletethe ideas of the poem is probibly telling us the disadvantages of swimming. techniques would be the descriptive like "the painful,burning sting' is highly discripteve.
his boundray would be not being able to swim or hating swimming
‘Swimming lesions’ By Gregory Harrison
ReplyDeleteThe boundaries that the boy in this poem has to overcome are that he cannot swim and he hated the whole thing of swimming all together and the swimming lessons the school done.
The poem is based on a boy that hated the water and who could not swim. When the boy gets into the water, he hates the feeling of all the water going throw his ears and noise.
In this poem, they use Similes, Metaphors to get the person interested in the poem. In the poem, there is a lot of fear in it where the boy cannot swim.
This is a poem about a boy that has to overcome a boundary that he can’t swim.
Poetry Blog 2
ReplyDeleteThe Target by Ivor Gurney
The poem has a rhyming scheme, but it is not really obvious when the poem is read aloud. This poem is about a man who has to kill or be killed. The poem is also telling his thoughts of his mother. He wonders if dying would ease her suffering. The narrator believes God does not care. This poem is really interesting.
Poetry Blog 3
ReplyDeleteThe death of a cat by Anthony Thompson
The poem is about a child who finds his dead cat and is very sad about it.
The tone of the poem is sad .The poem is using some language techniques such as onomatapoeia when the cat does its "Miaow". In this poem the child really loves his cat and its a shame that the cat had to die. This poem is very sad. The boundary in the poem is the child's cat dying.
‘The Target’ By Ivor Gurney
ReplyDeleteThe boundary that the man in the poem ‘the target’ is about a man that takes another man’s life and having to live with that for the rest of his life. The solder that took the man’s life mother has to live with his son had killed someone.
The man in the poem said “he should have let the other man live and he die’s so it takes the pressure of his family and he can compare bullet holes with each other”. The poet extends his thoughts to that of his mother. He wonders if dying would ease his mothers suffering.
The man wondered about the victim if perhaps was an only son. He is haunted by memories that he has killed someone so he can stay alive another day. He wants to compare bullet mounds if he gets shot.