In this unit, we explored poetry unit, learning how to become a “poet”, how to analyze a poem, and how to perform a poem. poetry is a way to express emotions, in this unit, we had written few poems based on our current feelings because the style and topic of our poems are not limited. Also, we had made poems that follow the styles of other poems. analyzing poems was also a part of this unit, we analyze its poetic devices, the author’s mood and how it impacts the audience.etc analyzing poems allow us to understand the poem deeper, therefore, we can create a good poem using the techniques we learned from the analyzing poems. for performing the poems we had written, we record ourselves and upload it to flipgrid which allowed us to improve on performing poems in front of the class.The first thing we had done is the analyzing the poems, the first poem chosen is “Don’t quit” by Ann Nixon, the author chooses to be emotional to inspire the audience, there are also many poetic devices used in this poem, such as repetition and rhyme which emphasize the content. the second poem is “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure” by Rehana Mohammadi, in the poem “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure”, the author chooses to be calmer, restoring the reader’s confidence to challenges.
TIEA:
After the annotation, we analyzed the poem more specifically on its poetic devices using TIEA in which “T” stands for the topic sentence, “I” stands for Introduction to evidence, “E” stands for evidence and “A” stands for analysis.
TIEA: “Don’t Quit” by Ann Nixon:
Topic sentence: In “Don’t Quit”, the author Ann Nixon uses the technique of repetition in the first stanza to starts with a more powerful and inspirational introduction to the audience.
Introduction: The author uses “when”repeatedly in the first stanza to emphasize the message she wants to spread through this, the “when” she used are conjunction words to connect what people do to pull you down or what obstacles you would face before you succeed, she chooses to say something repeatedly and emotionally to inspire the audience.
Evidence: “When people pull you down, as they often will./When the battle you’re fighting is all uphill./When the funds are low and the debts are high.” (1-3)
Analysis: The message of what the author wants to spread through this poem is to keep on working something we’ve been waiting for or working hard for, do not quit until we accomplished something, in the first stanza, the author uses repetition to emphasize the introduction in order starts with a strong introduction since introduction and the conclusion would affect the audience the most. The first stanza tells the readers there are many obstacles we have face, convincing the readers to accept the truth, the author gives a list of what to face and how to face them, it tells the audience that quitting is not how people would face the uphills and challenges, take a deep breath, or take a brief rest before we keep moving on.
TIEA: “Failure Doesn’t Mean You’re A Failure” Rihanna Mohammadi:
Topic sentence: In the poem “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure by Rehana Mohammadi, the author uses the technique of repetition and be less emotional to show the readers how important is “failure” and allow the reader to accept that failure is a process of success.
Introduction: The author chooses to be calmed and keeps telling the readers that failure will become a process and it will always exist in our lives. However, it doesn’t mean we are a failure even though we fail.
Evidence: “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure, It does mean you haven’t succeeded yet./ Failure doesn’t mean God has abandoned you, it does mean he has a better way.” (1,10)
Analysis: In the poem “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure” the author Rehana Mohammadi tries to restore the reader’s faith by constantly telling them failure doesn’t mean they are a failure calmly, the effect of saying this repeatedly allows the reader to be confident enough to face anything failures existed in their lives. The author chooses to be calmed because is trying to give the readers faith and confidence instead of being too inspirational, that also helps the readers to be calmed, also, it will make the readers reflect on themselves. being confidence in ourselves is what we should do before succeed, this is the message of what the author wants to spread through this poem.
Compare&Contrast:
For the final assignment, we analyzed the poems by comparing them and see how they are similar and different in Poetic devices, mood, messages.etc
Similarities: In “Don’t Quit” by Ann Nixon and “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure by Rehana Mohammadi, both authors used a lot of same techniques since the style of the poem was chosen to be inspirational in both poems, both authors choose to use the technique of repetition which emphasize the message they want to spread through the poem, repetition is the main technique used in both poems, it is due to the style of the poems, because both of them are inspirational which means saying something repeatedly would be very helpful for impacting the audience in an inspirational poem. In the poem “Don’t Quit” by Ann Nixon, the author uses repetition at the beginning of the poem in order to make a powerful introduction since this makes the readers become more emotional, it has better effects to the audience. “When people pull you down, as they often will. /When the battle you’re fighting is all uphill. /When the funds are low and debts are high.” (1-3) Notice how the author use the word “when” repeatedly, the author gives the audience a list which tells them the challenges in our lives. In the second poem “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure” by Rehana Mohammadi, the author also used repetition for the whole poem, the author uses “Failure doesn’t mean” and “it does mean” repeatedly in the poem to make contrast which makes the poem to be more inspirational, this gives the readers confidence, allowing them to be confident enough. “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure, it does mean you haven’t succeeded yet./ Failure doesn’t mean you haven’t accomplished something, it does mean you have learned something./ Failure doesn’t mean you’ve been a fool, it does mean you have a lot of faith” (1-3) Both poems start with repetition at the beginning of the poem and both introductions are powerful and inspirational. However, the way they inspire the audience is different.
Differences: The way they influence the audience are different even though both poems are similar in style and technique, the speaker’s tone in these two poems are completely different, in the poem “Don’t Quit” the speaker’s mood is calmed at the beginning. However, as it goes further, the speaker becomes more emotional, in the end, the speaker ends up with telling the readers to shout with her “I will not quit” “When people pull you down, as they often will./ Stop and rest and take a deep breath, but don’t you quit. /When life presses you down a bit, stand up and shout “I will not quit!” (1, 11 ,23) At the beginning, the speaker seems calmed, we can see that the speaker’s tone changes as she reads, we can see the change in mood by referring to the word “but” at line 11, the speaker’s mood has changed to really emotional since then, the reader’s mood would also change as the speaker changes, the difference between the first poem and the second one is that the first one is I personally think that the first poem is more inspirational since it is more emotional. However, the second one seems more calmed and it inspires the readers by restoring their faith. “Failure doesn’t mean you will never make it, it does mean it will take longer. / Failure doesn’t mean God has abandoned you, it does mean he has a better way.”(9-10 stanza, last 2 stanzas) From these 2 poems, we can see how both authors end the poem differently, one ends up emotionally and the other one ends calmly. However, I think both ways have good effects to the audience, speaking emotionally makes the reader feel the same way as the author wants them to fell, so the readers would be affected by the author easier than speaking calmly because it is more powerful which I personally think it would affect the readers more. However, speaking logically and calmly is also effective to the audience because it makes the readers think and reflect on themselves.
Inspirational Poems:
After analyzing the poems, we created inspirational poems based on the style used in the other poem. I first poem written is named “Fears” it inspires the audience to overcome fears, 7 poetic devices are used in this poem.
Fears
Look into your fears,
What do you see?
Losing your career,
Failing into sea.
Your fear does not walk,
Your fear does not talk.
Like a lashing rain,
Its effect does not harm.
Fear is a dark room,
Causing doubt,
Pitch Black,
And dead silent,
But nothing hurts you!
Fear wants you,
Fear shouts at you.
But don’t be afraid!
It can’t harm you!
Face to your fear!
Shouts at your fear!
Tell them:
“I’m not afraid!”
Inspirational poem video slideshow:
The slideshow is for the final performance, we will be presenting our poems in front of the whole class with autoplay video slideshow.
FlipGrid:
For performing the poem, as I had mentioned, we recorded ourselves and upload it to flipgrid, it encouraged us to overcome “awkwardness” and perform the poem in front of the class which I personally think it is really helpful:
Inspirational Poem #2:
My second poem is about hope and dream, in this poem, I use 5 senses to describe my dreams.
Dream
I have a dream, a dream that never comes true,
I have a hope, a hope that is for me and everyone.
My hope feels like air, and it also looks like air,
But it is everywhere, just like air.
My hope sounds like a dream, it sounds so sweet
My hope smells like a dream, it smells so sweet
My hope tastes like a dream, it tastes so sweet.
But it never comes true,
Becuase everyone, everyone fight for their dreams.
