my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

this poem has a humerous side to it because the speaker is making fun of someone. he is picking out aspects that we are used to hearing boasted about and instead is downgrading them. he does this in a nonchalant way; not a mean, point-your-finger obvious kind of way. the author uses similies to enhance his picece by comparing red coral to the mistress' lips. he also uses a metaphore where he compares her hair to black wires. this poem makes me think that the speaker must have thought very hard over how much he dislikes his mistress' appearence to be able to come up with words and ideas such as these.

on her loving two equally

i thought the title for this poem was interesting and i dwelled a bit on it before reading the actual poem. it caught my eye becuase of the way it is structured. we don't normally see words phrased like these. the poem has a dramatic tone. the speaker is caught between loving two men. she can't make up her mind which she wants to be with. the poem is structured in a unique way in which she numbers her stanzas. this makes me think that the speaker is having three complete and different thoughts. when i read the poem i got an image of a woman musing over two men, thinking and daydreaming about it at random intervals. the first two stanzas seem more connected than the third one. in the third stanza the speaker seems cross and desperate about deciding which boy she wants to be with.

Emily Dickinson

Idiosyncrasy- a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.

This poem was fun to read because of it’s sing-songy rhyming scheme, and also because it is humorous, and also because it makes a very good point. Emily Dickinson’s work is confusing and hard to read sometimes, but since she was so good at what she did, she got away with it.

Metrical feet

This poem is one of the most interesting I’ve ever read. The first thing that caught my eye was that it almost has two different titles “metrical feet” and “lesson for a boy”. I think this is really significant because the poem does have a double meaning. It teaches the reader about metrical feet and it seems as though it is also a lesson for a young boy. The speaker is someone who cares about the child and his fond of him as hinted in lines 17 through 20. I also enjoyed the creativity with which the author used personification throughout the piece. I wonder if this piece really helped the kids it was written about and for or if they looked at it and rolled their eyes.

the word plum

i think this poem would work great as a slam poetry in mpiece. they way it is written with some words in italics already hints at how different words should be spoken outloud. this poem is tight because the words seem to express what goes on in a person's mind and mouth when they bite into a plum. when i read this poem, in mind i see a person's mouth in profile, their teeth pushing into a purple fruit. i like how the words chosen for this piece are abstract, yet they describe the action of eating a plum perfectly.

i am like a rose

this poem seemed to me to be about a man who is very pleased and proud of himself. he says he is like that one perfect rose that you single out from a bunch of average roses. it seems like he feels he is above anyone right now. like he has worked really hard and made it to the top by his sweat and blood and hard work alone.

song

i really liked this poem becuase it seemed so happy. i really got a sense of young love. roses seem like something that young loves give one another. once the relationship gets older, roses seem to steriotypically end after awhile so it just made me think that this was still a strong, budding relationship. the man is telling the rose what he actually wants to tell his lover. that she should not be shy, but should come with him and go out and about where she can be seen as beautiful.