this is just to say

William Carlos Williams wrote this poem as a very basic understanding of a activity he has performed. Eating the plums is very generic and simple, but as a bigger picture the plums could have been his idea or thought that he let out and with letting out the idea he may have ruined someone elses plan. But in the end he meant no harm.

This poem has three stanzas, each stanza has four lines. There is no rhyme scheme, and i do not think this poem stands under any "rules" except being a simple idea.

You fit into me

Margaret atwood-shes an canadian poet and shes also published 15 books.

This poem is freakishly short! I feel like shorter poems are more of a challenge to analyze because there isn't as much information to pull from. This poem is two stanzas and each only has two lines, there is no rhyme scheme. This poem can be analyzed in different ways, for one i viewed it as a person was in love but the love was rough. almost like "i hate that i love you" sort of feeling. The image of a fish hook into an open eye is not pleasant nor painless. So maybe Margaret meant the love was painful, the way the guy fit perfectly for her was painful? This poem is super short and hard to figure out any deeper meaning. I did notice there are no capitalized letters or punctuation marks. I think Atwood did this to add a definent strong feeling on her emotions toward the topic.

The Guitarist Tunes up

Frances Cornford- is a girl, which i didn't expect! She's also the granddaughter of Charles Darwin which is a huge history figure. She was raised around a huge family and was taught privately.

My first reaction to this poem is that a couple is sitting together and she's admiring the way he can play quitar. This poem is different from a lot of other poems because it is from a womans point of view, so it's easier to understand what she is talking about when she says, "attentive courtesy he bent over his instrument"

This poem is only one stanza and has 8 lines. This poem also has a aabbcc rhyme scheme, every two lines rhyme with each other.

Sort of a Song

William Carlos Williams-modernism and imagism...He also graduated from the University of Pennsylvania!

This poem is only two stanzas long and each stanza is a sestet. I think the idea of the poem was at first he has this real imaginative metaphor between a writer and a snake, but then by the esecond stanza he realizes his thoughts can be easily related to anything. Humans, snakes, and stones can all be put together to create the same outcome. "(No ideas but in things)-With no common it gives it sort of an expressive thought that he just randomly stated. Even though it may not fit in with the rest of the poem, i think this section can relate to a lot of other poets because many of them cannot write down their basic thoughts, but they write them through other sources or "things". The poem is short and quit, i don't think it was written to be thought over too hard, but maybe just as a "thought of the day". The title to me doesn't fit the poem at all. Maybe Williams is trying to say that all things in life, living or not, can create a song. A song usually starts out as a poem, so maybe thats what William was referring too!

Goodbye Highschool

All the early mornings,
and sleepless nights.
With midnight phone calls
and friendship fights.

Success was my goal,
all throughout school.
Always played by the book,
and never broke any rules.

Opinions can drive you crazy,
judgments can make mad.
Learning to keep my cool,
The credit goes to mom and dad.

Learning how to drive,
also discovering love,
gave me the influence
to always live above.

I've tried new things,
and changed as you see.
I became the woman
he said i couldn't be.

The great teachers and lessons
that got me through the day.
Taught m about the life and future
that I've come to live today.

Of Mere Being

Wallace Stevens-Went to Harvard and New York Law school...for most of his life he was actually a lawyer. I found this fact interesting because nearly all poets, are in the nicest, lazy! He grew up in Pennsylvania and was a lawyer in Connecticut.

My view of the poem: Our own thoughts and knowledge begin with the slightest touch of our palms. The feathers of a bird, such as on a pencil bring thought to our hands and as we write, they "sing" a song. Our thoughts come alive onto a single piece of paper, just as live is given to a bird when they sing their songs throughout the days. If I look at it more factual, the birds provide us with songs of inspiration and motivation as they sway through the trees gradually and effortless.


Facts about the poem: 4 stanzas and each stanza has three lines or is a tercet. This poem is open for the readers own imagination and opinions.

I don't have too much to say for this poem because i didn't really like it sorry.!

Hamlet Quote

HAMLET

Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,

Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,

Or that the Everlasting had not fixed

His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God!

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable

Seem to me all the uses of this world!

Fie on ’t, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden

That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature

Possess it merely. That it should come to this.

But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two.

So excellent a king, that was to this
hyperion to a satyr. So loving to my mother.

That he might not beteem the winds of heaven

Visit her face too roughly.—Heaven and earth,

Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him

As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—

Let me not think on ’t. Frailty, thy name is woman!—

A little month, or ere those shoes were old

With which she followed my poor father’s body,

Like Niobe, all tears. Why she, even she—

O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason

Would have mourned longer!—married with my uncle,

My father’s brother, but no more like my father

Than I to Hercules. Within a month,

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears

Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,

She married. O most wicked speed, to post

With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

It is not nor it cannot come to good,

But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

I think this quote best describes Hamlet because it shows many different sides of his emotional status and how he handles himself. This quote mentions his dad, mom, and his uncle which is nice to see who stands an importance in Hamlet's life. Hamlet seems very dramatic and emotionally stressed about his father's death and his mother's new love. Hamlet has to learn how to handle his father's death in a positive way, but it is so hard for him to focus on his emotional health when his mother moves on to a new marriage so quickly. Throughout the amount of play that i have read and understood, i believe this quote from Hamlet speaks a lot about who Hamlet is. Hamlet changes from a stressed guost hunting man into a caring, upset boy.