Dalena+Bui

"Poetry is a universal language..." - William Hazlitt 


 *  Introduction: **


 * I never thought I could write poetry before. I would just enjoy reading it but never capable of writing it. This assignment made me push beyond anything I thought I wasn’t capable of doing. As I began to write about memories, past and new memories, etc… Poetry came spilling out of me like a river never stopping and ending **


 * My first poem was the Memory poem. I write about my parents divorce because that is a memory that is as clear as day to me. I won’t forget it and that’s a memory I will have with me forever. I didn’t think I could write about since it a memory I rather not have. But I’m glad I did because I am saying what I had felt over the years **


 * My other poem I was raised by is probably my best one yet. It says everything I ever wanted to tell my dad but never been able to. The harshness in his words and how it affected me shows in the poems and how I responded to him in a way I would of never been able to. **


 * Writing these poems made me come out my shell and helped me discover a whole new side of myself and l learned I am capable of writing poetry and I shouldn’t be afraid of expressing myself through writing. **

 Memory Poem  When Life Did A 180

 **Ode To Clocks**

** You have a poem **
= **I Was Raised By ...** = = = = **I was raised by a father who tells me to act more like a woman…** =

**One day you will accept me for that**
=** A Rift Poem **=


 * We have fallen into a place where everything is music **
 * The sound of a bell **
 * The whistling of a bell **
 * The sound of trees rustling **
 * Where every little sound is a harmony waiting to happen **


 * Music is in everyone lives **
 * Music is there through up and downs **
 * Music is always there **
 * It I the enter of everything **


 * Without music would we be able to live? **
 * Are we able to breath? **
 * Are we able to speak? **
 * Would the creative juices stop spilling out our mind? **


 * The universe would break apart without music there **
 * Nurturing the mind and our souls **
 * Comforting and numbing the souls who need it **
 * To me without music… **
 * I couldn’t live to see tomorrow **

= **An Imagist Poem** =

**brings down people moods**
= **An Examination Of...** = = **Emily Dickinson** =

==== **Emily Dickinson the name you hear everywhere. For the beautiful poems she had written such as you love me, you are sure, Heart! We will forget him! , I’m Nobody! Who are you? Etc… But behind her poet as everyone known her as, does anyone know her story? Know why she wrote them or the meaning behind the poems. Her collections of poems all have a meaning behind it. All of the poems she wrote had written as her expressing a feeling she had a moment in her life she felt like she needed to express. The emotional rollercoaster’s she was on in her life toke a toll on her and the only way she could release it was through her writing. She was a hermit never going anywhere or acting as a role in society.** ====

==== **One of her poems was “Because I could not stop for Death” was probably written in one of the highest points in her life. She was going into the depth of two people fall in love and he pulled her out of the darkness she was in and they planned their life out and got married and revisiting the old memories together. In this quote from her poem “Because he could not stop Death, he kindly stopped it for me”. That person had a huge importance in hr life and they planned to spend eternity together. Emily went into a depth were when people fall in love they got into this universe of believing they will be together forever and flipped their lives upside down for the better. She reached an emotional sense that no one ever got to and expressed a raw emotion of how two lovers felt. She hit a point no one dared to approach in her time.** ====

==== **Her other poem “ I’m Nobody! Who are you?” was probably written in the lowest points in her life. She probably felt like she was a nobody since she didn’t interact with the society outside her house so sad thoughts enter her mind often. This poem represented the raw emotion of loneliness so deep that someone had to think they were nothing in society. A poet going into that deep of an emotion was probably a raw emotion she showed in her writing. Her poems were written for her to reflect every feeling she felt in any moment of her life. It was sad that she felt lonely probably until she died. But her seclusion from society helped write one the most beautiful poems this world has come to know. Its sad that she had to die were no one knew about her work until she passed away.** ====

==== **Maybe if she knew that she would get recognized for her work later on in life she would of passed away happier. Maybe she wouldn’t of felt so alone? Or thinking she was anybody? All these questions run through my mind and others to of what could have happened if she knew how appreciative people are of her work. But all I know is that she will go down as one of the best poets who has ever lived** ====

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