Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
The Wait
Peaceful waves on warm sand,
like colors pushing back and forth on one another.
Beach towels, Bubba kegs, and bass turned up high.
For our nights were never dull,
but filled with friends, food, and fun.
I enjoy looking back as people plead,
"Summer, please come back for me!"
The three techniques I used for this poem were:
Image- I used the waves on warm sand to send the reader to a peaceful beach, as many people miss during these last few weeks before we are let out for summer.
Simile- I used the simile "like colors pushing back and forth on one another" to give the idea of what the waves look like on the beach
Personification- Within the simile of "like colors pushing back and forth on one another", I personified the colors pushing back on each other to give the allusion of how the waves are very peaceful, yet hard and crashing as the waves are pushed onto the beach sand.
Alliteration- I alliterated the words "beach towels, bubba kegs, and bass" to give the audience the idea of the different lifestyle you have at the beach.
like colors pushing back and forth on one another.
Beach towels, Bubba kegs, and bass turned up high.
For our nights were never dull,
but filled with friends, food, and fun.
I enjoy looking back as people plead,
"Summer, please come back for me!"
The three techniques I used for this poem were:
Image- I used the waves on warm sand to send the reader to a peaceful beach, as many people miss during these last few weeks before we are let out for summer.
Simile- I used the simile "like colors pushing back and forth on one another" to give the idea of what the waves look like on the beach
Personification- Within the simile of "like colors pushing back and forth on one another", I personified the colors pushing back on each other to give the allusion of how the waves are very peaceful, yet hard and crashing as the waves are pushed onto the beach sand.
Alliteration- I alliterated the words "beach towels, bubba kegs, and bass" to give the audience the idea of the different lifestyle you have at the beach.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Reading Times
Over spring break, I was really hoping to get some good relaxing reading in while I had a marvelous week of breaking from school, and starting to enjoy the nice weather we started to get. I did get a good re-reading of some books that I have already read before, and hoped to catch up on with some details that I have missed. I was very excited to be re-reading The Help and Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Sunday- 30 minutes (Help)
Tuesday- 40 minutes (Help)
Wednesday- 30 minutes (POBW)
Friday- 45 minutes (POBW)
Sunday- 30 minutes (Help)
Tuesday- 40 minutes (Help)
Wednesday- 30 minutes (POBW)
Friday- 45 minutes (POBW)
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Song Analysis
The song I decided to analyze for this post is "Now" by Paramore. This song represents some of the terrible things that our world has come to, and even though some people may not like this genre of music, it is still very inspirational.
Starting off, I noticed within the song that they mention the word "now" a lot (ergo the name of the song). They show it in many ways, within the way they say it, when they say it, and others. For instance, in the first and many other lines to follow, the singer has an enjambment between the words "don't try to take this from me" and "now". If we said this sentence speaking regularly, we would not pause in between these two words to emphasize the meaning of NOW. Also, after listening to the entire song, I heard many times where the singer elongated the word of "now", while every single other word in the song was only held out a regular quarter note or eighth note. I think this was another showing of the emphasis that the writer was showing of ending this war NOW. Next, throughout the song, it mentions multiple times of almost moving forward. It describes them in different ways, but still comes to the reader/listener in the same message. For example, some of the sayings they used were "Waking from the dead", "we're starting over, or heading in", "if there's a future we want it", and "bringing my sinking ship back to the shore". These sayings symbolize that if the world wants to get better, they have to keep moving and push through the hardness of life. In forms of patterns, I had trouble finding any in the lines of writing.
Ever since we started to annotate more poems in English, I have been noticing it much more in every kind of writing that I see. In songs, books, or even things like quotes. I am excited now to learn more about poems and hopefully help me with understanding writing even more!
Starting off, I noticed within the song that they mention the word "now" a lot (ergo the name of the song). They show it in many ways, within the way they say it, when they say it, and others. For instance, in the first and many other lines to follow, the singer has an enjambment between the words "don't try to take this from me" and "now". If we said this sentence speaking regularly, we would not pause in between these two words to emphasize the meaning of NOW. Also, after listening to the entire song, I heard many times where the singer elongated the word of "now", while every single other word in the song was only held out a regular quarter note or eighth note. I think this was another showing of the emphasis that the writer was showing of ending this war NOW. Next, throughout the song, it mentions multiple times of almost moving forward. It describes them in different ways, but still comes to the reader/listener in the same message. For example, some of the sayings they used were "Waking from the dead", "we're starting over, or heading in", "if there's a future we want it", and "bringing my sinking ship back to the shore". These sayings symbolize that if the world wants to get better, they have to keep moving and push through the hardness of life. In forms of patterns, I had trouble finding any in the lines of writing.
Ever since we started to annotate more poems in English, I have been noticing it much more in every kind of writing that I see. In songs, books, or even things like quotes. I am excited now to learn more about poems and hopefully help me with understanding writing even more!
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