Poetry blog post #1 due Saturday by midnight -- choose any poem from the ones posted on the class blog (or Seize the Day from the handout) and analyze 1) how it works, and 2) what it means. 500 words.
The Poem That I chose to write about:
Title: Are You Ready?
It was like every other day coming home from school
Little did I know that life was about to be cruel
My parents were sitting in the living room
I wondered why
But I would find out soon
When the word cancer is mentioned you shutter
I asked my parents who had it with a stutter
Your five year old cousin Will
I suddenly felt a chill
How could a boy so young and pure
Have a rare cancer without a proven cure
I can not answer this question
Life taught me an important lesson
Live each day like its your last
Think about the future and how you can right your wrongs in the past
Because life comes at you fast
And one day you might not be ready
For the hard truth that makes you nervous and sweaty
And when it hits you
It's very heavy
And I can tell you now
That I wasn't ready
For the hard truth
That made me nervous and sweaty
Will you be ready?
The poem that I decided to analyze was my own poem that I wrote at the Hip-Hop Poetry event that happened at school. The reason why I chose to analyze my own poem is because it really means a lot to me and I understand the back story and deeper meaning to the poem. So first looking at the poem it has 7 stanzas total and it has 25 lines. I did not use any type of pattern for lines and I broke the stanzas when it felt right to separate them and also sometimes when I change subjects for what I want to talk about in the poem. I tried to keep the lines as close together as possible because I didn't want the reader to forget about the rhyme that I was trying to incorporate into the poem. So the rhyme scheme was basically AABB. Sometimes there would be three lines in a stance and they would all rhyme together or there was five lines and two would rhyme and three would rhyme. Those two would looke like AAA and AABBB. One of the things that stands out in the poem is the last line. This is the one line with punctuation in the poem and it is also only one line. The reason why this line is so important is because I wanted to let the reader think about their own lives and reflect on themselves.
The meaning of the poem is very personal to me and my family. Basically my cousin was diagnosed with cancer and he is not doing very well now. This came to me to write about this in the Hip-Hop poetry meeting because we were asked to write about something that makes me upset. Possibly losing a family member to a horrible disease makes me angry inside and I wanted to write this because I want people to know that live shouldn't be taken for granted. One of the lines says to "live each day like it's your last." I wanted people to hear this because sometimes we get caught up in the daily life that has no time to actually look around and see your surroundings until something bad hits you and then you see what you used to have. When people recognize what they have and they are greatful for what they have, then life will feel more satisfying. As the saying goes, life will slap you out of
nowhere. I wanted to let people know that life is a very sensitive thing and making the right descisions will make you feel more comfortable about yourself when it is coming to an end, that you knew that you lived your life right. In the beginning of the poem I wanted to show that it was just like any other day and them all of a sudden you hear something that takes your breath away and this can go either way. It can be a good thing or bad. Cherish the good moments and remember the bad because those make the good moments that much better.
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