Poetry Chapbook

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 3^rd 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.