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"Poetry is a universal language..." - William Hazlitt...  **--**
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**Introduction:** **-- ** I have too many ideas and a short amount of time to get them all created and written down. My memory is too bad for me to trust myself with anything. These poems are poems written down on something as simple as a napkin, envelope, and sticky note, all because my laptop has a weak battery. These poems came straight from my mind and the type of music I was listening too at the time. I tried to keep them close to my heart: family, emotions, and past experiences.

I tried to use repetition, similes, and metaphors as much as I could. I also used enjambment like Emily Dickinson did in her poems. An enjambment is when a poet continues a sentence in two different stanzas. I wrote a memory poem, ode, found poem, “I was raised by…” poem, riff poem, and imagist poem. Also included is a detail analysis of the poet Emily Dickinson’s style of writing, a drawn picture of what my ode poem means to me, and an audio of my ode recording.

In my memory poem, I focused on using repetition to start at the beginning of the stanzas and tried to emphasize my lines with punctuation. I talked about my first memory as a toddler in San Diego, California’s Lego Land and that memory stuck with me. My next poem is my ode to my songs on my iPod, I wrote about how they keep me sane and the songs I play represent my ever-changing emotions. When I was writing my ode, I added lyrics that stuck out to me because when I read poems, there’s always a line that stands out to me. I wrote about how my mind was a circus and tried to emphasize the use of enjambment because I would always cut off sentences: "'There'll be some screws lose'.../but/no one knows./It's easier to get out then in./Have the power of the/ring leader..."

Where as for my found poem, I tried to stick with one topic: “dreams” because the one we heard in class stuck to one topic. The next poem we read and “marked up” as a class was “I Was Raised By…”, we made our own version. To shake up our versions, we thought of different ways to start our lines, instead of using: “I Was Raised By…”, we used: “I was taught by”, “I was disciplined by”, and so on. Our next poem inspiration came from a video and it was our riff poem. We took one line from a poem and made our own poem from that line. I chose the line: "we do what it takes to shake the snake/ that coils around our humble lives" and continued the poems with a time and life theme. Our last poem was the imagist poem, where we described an item in detail. I chose to talk about my fridge. After the poems, we analyzed a famous poet and put together our Wikispace!

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**Memory Poem: Lego Land Venture**
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sighs of exhaustions //PLOP//! as a child falls onto her butt <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">a whole new world has been seen <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">a Lego Land <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">California, to be exact. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">“HEY YOU CAN’T BE THERE!” <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">suddenly toys and Lego men are chasing <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">from behind the three year old's legs <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">What to do now? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Surrender? Certainly //NOT//. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">run run run...as fast as your legs can take you <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">past the river <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">past the once toddler proof fence <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">past the hills <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">past the... <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">past the exhaustion <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">past the legs giving up <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">stop, surrender <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">have them bring you back over the barrier that kept you... <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">from mommy and daddy <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">have them place you into your stroller <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">have them feed you from a Lego straw <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">have them fatten you with pizza <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">have them pull down the shading in your stroller, <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">so you can rest.

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<span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">**Odes to My Songs** media type="file" key="My Ode.m4a" align="center" width="300" height="50"
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"Can You See Me Clearly Now?"
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<span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Waking up to the silence, <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">speakers are turned up <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">to wake everyone up <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">so early in the morning... <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"to something so confined." <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The windows open, <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">the dances and the singing <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">starts.

<span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The artists starts <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">without even knowing... <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">solving just my every day problems, <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">that may not matter <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">to most, but to me <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">it is what <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">holds me <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">down and keeps <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">me grounded.

<span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">They talk about... <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">love, <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">anger, <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">passion, <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">past struggles, <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">dreams, <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">and then come the reality <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">to pull me back.

<span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I talk back. <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">About me, dealing with those whom are trying to get in <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">but "only as a symphony <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">can" allow you to come <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">into me. <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It shows what the <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">tunes <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">mean to me. <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Remembering what they say, <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">what they tell me. <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">One by one, <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">people will be trying <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">to "go into the circus of my mind."

<span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"That's where the show starts." <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where will it <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">end? <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"There'll be some screws lose"... <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">but

<span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">no one knows. <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's easier to get out then in. <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have the power of the <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">ring leader... <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">to control those followers. <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I'm kinda normal" <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"and that's okay with me."

<span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Above is my audio to my "Ode To My Songs". <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Link to the audio: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[]

<span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Above is my drawing of my poem: "Odes to My Songs". I chose to draw an open minded head. I wrote in lines from my ode and made it hard. <span style="color: #c7c70a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Link to the picture: []

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<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">**Found Poem: You Don't Have To Worry About My Dreams...**
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<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I care... <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">about my dreams.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I don't, let's play my little violin... <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dun dunn dunnn <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">So just stop. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stop thinking so much, <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">you always over think <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">ignorance is a bliss"

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I want to explore. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"your dreams? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">so biased and unruly...I would say." <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well then, don't believe what you hear around you.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"its not always supposed to work the way you want. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">good or bad, <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Life moves on...with or without you <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">and no one cares." <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, I care.


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<span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">**"I Was Raised By.."**
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<span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was nurtured by the <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"eating comes first" <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Asian foods roaming through the house <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">like the boogie man they chased away <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">when roaming under my bed… <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">in my black hole of a closet, <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">as a toddler. <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Take what you can eat…" ruling <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">by... <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">grandparents <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">parents, <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">aunts and uncles, <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">never cousins... <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">super hero chefs,

<span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was taught by a <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"don't eat when we do homework", <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">stay still when you do work, <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">hard working <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">high school smarts learning <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">A, B, C, 1, 2, 3 loving <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">potty training <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">mama and baba,

<span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was disciplined by <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">a lover of <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">quiet corners <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">ear pullers <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">sight seeker <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">yellers <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">lectures <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">hand slappers <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"have you learned you lesson yet" <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">tooshie wackers! <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">type of family.

<span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was taken under the wing of <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">hang out buddies <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"let's go out" <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">safety lesson <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">grouping together <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">traveling together <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">cousins.

<span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've raised <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">warm hearted <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">hissy fitting <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">temperamental <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">portrait painting <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">family time loving <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">open hearted <span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">sister,

<span style="color: #a81010; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was raised by my family.

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<span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">**Riff Poem - "Shake the Snakes" - Line taken from poet, Kurtis Lamkin:** <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"we do what it takes to shake the snake <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">that coils around our humble lives" <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">or do we? <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">what do the sakes mean to us? <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">does it mean life or life after the death that consumes us <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">at the golden but olden age? <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">do we scribble down the bucket list that never gets fully completed <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">because... <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">because every memory is always altered <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">always forgotten and added on to a whole new story.
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<span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">No life is recorded fully... <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">justs remembered by the pictures, <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">the pictures that we add <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">a thousand words too. <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Those are the pictures that make us <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">lie to one another. <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lie to ourselves jt to make the <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">adventure more fun.

<span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">So in the end... <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">how do we shake the snakes? <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">raise the stakes? <span style="color: #f07e0a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">how?

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<span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">**An Imagist Poem: The Sacred Fridge**
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<span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fridge, <span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">keeper of all foods <span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">stainless steal outside <span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">one the inside holds glass shelves <span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">and cool crisp plastic interiors that <span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">hold the simplest of things, <span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">the things that keep the body functioning: <span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">apples, <span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">pears, <span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">two day old left overs that no one will ever eat. <span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Feed me as I bask in your <span style="color: #ff009c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">frigid stainless steel.

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<span style="color: #09c353; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Emily Dickinson. She is one of the most well known poets in English literature. Although she was not a published poet in her lifetime, after her death, her poems were discovered and published. Since the poems didn’t have a title, the first line of the poem titled them. After analyzing many poems, I chose to do a detailed analysis on Emily Dickinson. I, like many other of my peers, have concluded that Emily Dickinson mainly pondered about Heaven, goals, hard work, death, depression, love, life alone, and being in her own little world in seventeen of her poems.

<span style="color: #09c353; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">These poems have caught the attention of so many people because of her unique way of writing and putting her thoughts onto a page. Emily Dickinson often used the style of enjambment. An enjambment is when a poet continues a sentence in two different stanzas. An example of this work is in her poem: “A Bird Came Down”, Dickinson states: “He stirred his velvet head/ Like one in danger; cautious,” As one can see, Dickinson uses this technique to her advantage because this technique is found in most of her poems. Another technique Emily Dickinson uses is the technique of emphasizing the first word in each line of her poem. She never starts a line with a lower case letter. Very rarely, we see that there is a sign of repetition that can be found in her poems. In her poem, “The Heart Asks Pleasure”, she starts most of her lines with the words: “And then,” in both of her stanzas. Another important poetry technique Emily Dickinson uses is the art of comparing her life to nature. In most of her poems she will often say things like: “People like the moth,” and “Heaven is what I cannot reach! / The apple on the tree/ Provided it do hopeless hang, / That ‘heaven’ is to me.” In that line, Emily Dickinson compares the grasps of heaven to an unreachable apple on a tree. In the other line, Emily Dickinson compares people to a moth, flying around together to look for a light in their life.

<span style="color: #09c353; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">When reading her poems, one can figure out many things. One of those things is that Emily Dickinson wanted to be loved by a man. In her poem, “The Heart Asks For Pleasure”, she talks about the heart and how the hearts wants to be loved but when it comes to heartbreak, the heart will not be ready for all of the pain and sadness that will come its way. When all of that comes, the heart will go into a state of depression and question the way of life and living. This poem shows two sides of Emily Dickinson, it shows her yearn for love and how her loneliness effects her depression. Another poem I read that showed a stalker side of Emily Dickinson is the poem, “A Bird Came Down”, she talks about following a man and watching everything he does in his life in detail. After that poem I read, “If I Can Stop One Heart”, Dickinson says that if she can stop the pain of love, she will. Even if she hurts herself in the process, it will be okay, as long as if he, her love, is safe. This raises the question of her past relationships.

<span style="color: #09c353; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Emily Dickinson spent a majority of her life as a depressed hermit wanting to keep out of the spotlight. Most of her poems often talked about being alone, taking her life, wanting for ideas, and her life lessons. When talking about being alone, she looks as if it is a prize that one is offered because in her poem: “I’m Nobody”, she states to the reader: “Don’t tell/ they’d advertise – you know! / How dreary – to be – Somebody!” She uses punctuation to her advantage in this poem. She wants to emphasis the life of a common person, not as a celebrity, but as a normal citizen.

<span style="color: #09c353; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Emily Dickinson spent her life alone, so she slipped into a depression state and thought that everything around her. Some of her poems that spoke of depression or the ideas of entering onto heaven were: “A Long Long Sleep”, “A Littler Road Not Made”, “I Lived On Dread”, and “I Felt A Funeral”. In conclusion, Emily Dickinson mainly pondered about entering into Heaven, goals, hard work, death, depression, love, life alone, and being in her own little world in seventeen of her poems. I only wonder what would have happened if she was discovered before her death and how she would feel to be famous.

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