In this unit, we learned about poetry, analyzing and writing are the two main focus of this unit, we annotated 5 poems, each poem has its own particular features and poetic devices, every poem is different.

If I were in Charge of the world: The first poem was if I were in charge of the world, the author used a lot of repetition in the poem and breaks the repetition at the last paragraph which is one of the most-seen technique used in poems. for the next assignment, we had to write a poem based on the poetic devices from this poem, I chose to write about “If I were you” the “you” means a person (a person I know) who harms himself a lot because he is a man with depression. Next, we created photostory, the purpose of creating photostory is to create more feelings and emotions.

If I were you

If I were you,

I would stop harming myself,

Living in remorse,

Wasting time.

 

If I were you,

I would make myself happier,

Without medical treatments,

And make some trustworthy friends.

 

If I were you,

I would find a way to relieve stress,

Instead of harming myself,

Maybe harming yourself is a way.

But it makes others stress.

 

If I were you…

I can’t be you,

Can you hear me,

I can’t be you,

Be yourself and choose wisely.

 

Where I’m from: The poem “Where I’m from” is a look back to the author’s childhood, she clarifies her identity as she is looking back to her childhood, each object has its own special meaning to the author because her identity is made up of all these objects mentioned in the poem. my annotation explains each object’s meaning based on my opinion. I referred the poem “Where I’m from” as a template and wrote a poem named “Who am I” the poem shows the speaker cannot truly discover himself and he has no life goals because he doesn’t know his life direction. The poem also shows his religious background as the poem “Where I’m from” does.

Who am I?

I know I’m flesh and bones,

Covered from head to toes.

 

But who am I?

I know I was created by God,

And there’s no evil and black blood.

 

I know I’m still a child,

Who spends so much time on basketball,

I know I’m a heart,

I know I’m a soul.

 

But I still can’t truly discover myself,

I don’t know my purpose,

And I don’t know my direction,

I’m still living in confusion,

But If you ask me who I am,

I would just tell you,

I am me.

Ode to Family Photographs: “Ode to family photographs” is also a look back to the author’s childhood, the poem makes the reader feels like the author is looking back to his childhood as he is looking at his old photos taken by his mom, even though her mom was never good at taking pictures, he still liked it since those photos took him back to his childhood, the author also used the technique of repetition, the speaker describes the pictures one by one. I made a poem named “Ode to My Sweet Memories” it is also looking back to my childhood, but it’s based on a particular time, the time period is set to 5th grade.

Ode to my sweet memories

 

I appreciate everything that brought me here today,

All the sweet memories.

I would like to go back to 5th grade,

 I’m not going to rewrite something,

But to review something.

 

They are my friends,

Behind the camera are my parent and sister,

This is my shooting form when I was in fifth grade,

I told my sister to record myself,

But she recorded the basket.

 

This is when I’m on a vacation,

There were no worries,

That is the true smile from my heart,

 

These are my sweet memories,

My sweet memories,

All of them are so lovely.

Sick: Sick is a poem which shows stereotypes of children, it shows that children don’t like school and they lie to adults in order to get out of going to school, the poem “Sick” is a type of list poem, list poem is like the author give you a list of things after the introduction, such as “I will do this…I will do that..” I wrote a poem called “Tomorrow” It’s also a list poem, listing what “I” will do tomorow, the poem shows laziness and how we don’t want to get to work.

List poem Tomorrow

Yesterday you said tomorrow,

Tomorrow I will do this, I will do that,

I will clean my house,

I will start my homework,

I will do basketball drills,

I will prepare for my exams and test,

I will do all the science homework and some math,

And I will just wait for tomorrow today, Its okay,

I still have plenty of time,

Anyways, I’m going back to sleep.

Lunchrooms: For the last poem, we annotated “The Lunch Room”, it is a poem with two voices, which means there will be two speakers at one time, the poem “The Lunch Room” shows a lot of stereotypes toward teenagers, Me and Paul wrote a poem called “Same” the poem is telling the reader that everyone or every race is important, no one is special, everybody is the same, without someone, they are nothing, so everyone is important.

Same

I’m white, (Paul)

                                                                                               I’m black, (Anderson)

We are both colors, (Together)

Two important colors, (Together)

I’m hidden in brightness, (Paul)

And I’m hidden in darkness, (Anderson)

I brighten the brightness, (Paul)

I darken the brightness, (Anderson)

Bringing the contrast, (Together)

Without black, (Paul)

Without white, (Anderson)

I’m nothing, (Together)

I’ll be hidden there forever, (Together)

I’m white, (Paul)

I’m black, (Black)

We are both colors, (Paul)

2 Important colors. (Anderson)