Poetry Chapbook
Poem 1-
Flying Bear
Dropout bear
Ye’s bear
Everyones bear
He shoots up into the sky and people watch him pass by
Graduation
Like a bolt of lightning nothings gonna stop him now
Teddy bear
Kanye bear
Everyones bear
Like a shooting star he flies way up
Up to the moon and beyond
Nothing gonna stop him now
Stop him now
Stop him now
I wrote this poem inspired by Kanye West, one of the
greatest rap artists and poets out there.
This was based off of the album cover of Graduation, his 3rd
album and is widely considered to be one of his best. In this poem I used short lines to emphasize the meaning of
the couple of words on each line. I also used a heavy amount of repitition to
let one line sink into the readers head, therefore giving the poem greater
meaning.
Poem 2 (Haikus)-
Pointed mountain tops
Fill the sky
White snow everywhere
Jutted mountain peaks
Tower so tall
Blue sky
Steep slopes in the distance
Orange cloudy sky
Moody
I wrote these poems inspired by the mountain range of the
Himalayas, more specifically a picture taken of Mount Everest. These poems are
short but convey lots of meaning about the setting of what I based them off
of. I used simple words and even
lines with singular words to show simplicity but at the same time a very
complex meaning.
Heart Poem Essay-
My
heart poem that I chose was Starry Night by Anne Sexton. This was a great poem
to analyze and to think critically about. It also contains a great variety of
literary devices and sophisticated, unusual words. The poem also has great meaning to it and can be interpreted
in a wide view of angles. The poem also has personal meaning to me and most
people that end up reading this poem can connect to it one way or another.
This
poem utilizes lots of personification, metaphors and similies which gives the
poem great depth and meaning. For example an excellent simile that was used in
the poem would be “One black haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the
hot night sky.” This compares the
large, hulking tree in the foreground of the poem to a a big figure, namely a
drowned woman in the night sky.
This is a powerful simile and gives this big mysterious figure life or
something that had a different life. An example of personification in the poem
would be “Even the moon bulges in its orange irons to push children, like a
god.” This gives life to something
that otherwise wouldn’t have life and is an in animate object. In this case the
moon is given human characteristics and is doing something that a human would
usually do. This shows how the literary devices in the poem give it much
greater depth and meaning.
The
poem also has some personal meaning to it aswell and does a great job of giving
somebody elses perspective of The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. It describes the main and essential
parts of the painting and compares them to many different things. For example
it talks abut the sky, the stars, the trees ant the small town in the
background of the painting and gives them a personality and something deeper to
them. The poem has personal meaning to me too. It gives one of my favorite paintings by one of the most
famous artists a personality and explores multiple meanings behind the poem.
