Boa Constrictor- Shel Silverstein

This is a very interesting poem where Silverstein uses a few different writing techniques. He uses repetition, rhyming, and descriptive language.



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Anteater- Shel Silverstein

To me, this poem is too short to really have much meaning and doesn't really explain or say anything to me. I don't really get anything out of this poem.


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The Little Boy and the Old Man- Shel Silverstein

This is a pretty sad poem written by Silverstein mainly because of the last line where it is explained that neither the little boy or the old man get much attention from adults.

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Bear In There- Shel Silverstein

I like this poem because as I sat there reading it, I was able to perfectly imagine a little bear trapped in a freezer just sitting on a shelf.

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Messy Room- Shel Silverstein

I really like Silverstein's style of writing and the sense of imagery that he writes with. His poems are always pretty comical too.



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A Crazed Girl- William Butler Yates

I like this poem because the way Yates writes and describes this crazy girl.

A Fire-Truck- Richard Wilbur

It was cool the way Wilbur wrote about the descriptions of the fire truck in the beginning lines of the poem.



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Beat! Beat! Drums!- Walt Whitman

I like the style in which Whitman writes all his poems, especially this one and how he starts off every stanza with the same line.


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Love After Love- Derek Walcott

Walcott wrote about finding love after you have been hurt. I like how he says you need to give your heart back to yourself and that if you do so, you will love again.


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He Made This Screen- Marianne Moore

Unlike most of the poems I have read, this poem has rhymes in it. I like the mix up a little here and there and this poem gives some flavor to the ones I have read lately.


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Dolphin- Robert Lowell

I'm not really sure why this poem is titled "Dolphin" because it makes no reference to the animal, any animal, or the ocean. Once again, I don't understand what Lowell is trying to say in this poem.



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High Windows- Philip Larkin

It really caught me off guard when in the first stanza the "f" is used. I was not expecting at all to see anything like that in any of these poems. The rest of the poem wasn't that good because I was still amazed by the use of the word.

Bright Star- John Keats

I didn't quite understand much of anything that was said in this poem. I think if I could understand what was being said, I would enjoy it because I love looking at a clear night where stars are visibly seen.

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Summa- G.M. Hopkins

This poem is under the fragments section so I'm not really sure if it is finished or not yet. I did like in the last line though, the part where Hopkins mentions "The holy Three in One." referring to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

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Spring- G.M. Hopkins

I liked this poem because the spring in one of my favorites seasons and the descriptions that Hopkins uses make the reminisce of the warm weather, baseball, and the beginning of summer.


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Heaven-Haven G.M. Hopkins

I liked the nature comparison in this poem to the idea of Heaven. Hopkins explains Heaven as perfect, exactly how it should be.


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Into My Own- Robert Frost

I don't really like the style in which Frost writes his poetry. The language is difficult to understand and it just doesn't do anything for me. I didn't really like this poem or even understand it.


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The Hippopotamus- T.S. Eliot

This poem is written with two very different techniques and about two different topics. I liked how Eliot wrote the first lines of every stanza about the hippopotamus but then the next two were about religion. Eliot spoke of the fruit that rejuvenates the Church and how it is built on a rock and can never be washed away.



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Wiring Home- Rita Dove

It seemed to me that Dove was writing about a trip back home. The line about crawling on red knees makes me think of crawling and scraped up knees. I didn't really like the other comparisons though, they kind of confused me.


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Success is Counted Sweetest- Emily Dickinson

I like the first stanza of the poem,

SUCCESS is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need

because it shows Dickinson knows that to truly be successful, one must be able to taste that victory is near in order to fully obtain it.

Love of My Flesh, Living Death- Lorna Dee Cervantes

Cervantes writes in code, first describing such general topics. Then she narrows down her comparisons and instead of something so vague as the ocean, uses a seagull. She then continues the comparison to say that what she really fears is the person whom she is writing the poem about. That person is her fear and her love at the same time.


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Darkness- Lord Byron

Lord Byron opens up his poem with a comparison to a dream that's not really a dream. He is referring to a nightmare without actually saying it. He talks about the "Rayless, and the pathless, and the icy earth." He talks of the struggles of all men and in the end reveals the truth that the darkness is simply the Universe.





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A Sunset of the City- Gwendolyn Brooks

The author of this poem talks about past events that have happened in her life. She speaks of her children who have sine grown up and gone away from home and talks of the passing of time in general. The title of the poem signifies that life continues everyday, and nobody can change that.




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The Fall of Rome- W.H. Auden

It is hard to tell which time period Auden is exactly writing about. At one point, he speaks of the empty trains while another part he writes Caesar handing in his slip of resignation and stepping down. It seems as if Auden is jumping from topic to topic because then he writes about reindeer frolicking around in the fields.









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The Unknown Citizen- W.H. Auden

This poem is labeled "The Unknown Citizen" because the way in which W.H. Auden writes his poetry. His description of this "person" are so vague yet describe the every day life of an honest, hard working American. This man has no identity because he is every man who lived in the early to mid 1900s.


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