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Blog Post topic: Choose a few lines that stand out to you in the poem, and explain how the author makes them stand out, why you are interested in that section and what it makes you think about, and how it connects to the overall meaning of the poem. The first lines that stand out to me were “let water heal your body.  Think of bathing as a ritual of new beginnings”. These lines stood out to me because I can relate to them well.  I relate to these lines because I feel that these lines are true. I think that water really does heal your body for a couple of reasons.  The first reason is that water is used for hydrating the body which helps to heal the body. Then the second was that we shower or bath in water which when we do this we are washing off everything bad that had happened that day and I think of it was a “new beginning” like what the line says.  The author made these lines stand out because she made them their own stanza which shows that they are importa...

“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing … And this is why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.”

Poetry blog post #one  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 A Dog has Died by Pablo Neruda tells the story of his dog that had died.  In the poem the author Pablo Neruda describes the importance of the dog to him and how the dogs death affected him.  The poem has eight stanzas all with a differing number of lines. The number of lines in each stanza ranges from two to twelve.  The last two stanzas contain two lines while the first one contains three, and all the ones in between have between four and twelve lines in them.  I couldn’t find a pattern for the number of syllable in each line in the poem. I also couldn't figure out what the rhyme scheme of this particular poem either,  but it still seemed to flow very well and everything just seemed to fit very well. This poem is being used to help the author relieve the pain he has ...

when I read this I get an image of someone eating a plum and also them taking it from the icebox and the color purple comes to mind because plums are purple.  also an image of someone angry that someone ate their plums and at the same time someone apologizing for taking them.  the story behind it is that they are apologizing for eating someone's plums.  some of the sounds are S which is repeated in the poem

the line first difference between prose and poetry   prose is written between the margins, while poetry is written in lines that don't follow margins verse to turn  poets need to understand the effects created by the turning of the line length and rhythm each line in a poem can be broken into feet and each foot into stresses to show rhythmic pattern this is called scansion an iamb is one light stress followed by a heavy one metrical lines one-foot= monometer two-foot= dimeter three-foot= trimeter four-foot=tetrameter five-foot= pentameter metrical feet and symbols iamb-  light stress followed by heavy one trochee- heavy stress followed by light one dactyl heavy stress followed by two light ones anapest two light stress followed by a heavy one spondee  two equal stresses constancy this is the rhythmatic pattern that makes people enjoy poems  variation some variation in poems can make the pattern ...

more devices and sounds alliteration is the repetition of the initial sound of a word in a line or lines of a verse assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words in a line or lines of verse onomatopoeia is the use of a word that through its sound, as well as it sense, represents what it defines