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    The poem Carpe Dien(Seize the Day) is written by Judith Ortiz Coler. This poem has nine stanzas. The first seven stanzas talks about the things that happen to people during the day, and the last two talks about the ones that happen to them at night. People think the main theme of the poem is to show people how beautiful and important life is. There are lots details included in this poem that describes about the little things that take place in our lives and the small figures that encountered us in this long journey. Every small piece of those memories combine together to make who we are.  However, it also tells people to seek more in their lives. What really matters is what they do instead of what they earn. In the sixth stanza of the poem, the author says, “Love your work and enjoy your play. Remember, there is little lasting joy in things done only for gold or fame. Without love, your spirit will be a flower picked without purpose and thrown on the ground ...

Nobody Knows © Azumi Zaima Published: May 2016 Nobody knows it's empty, The smile that I wear. The real one is left behind in the past Because I left you there... Nobody knows I am crying. They won't even see my tears. When they think I am laughing, I wish you were here... Nobody knows it's painful. They think that I am strong. They say it won't kill me, But I wonder if they are wrong... Nobody knows I miss you. They think I am all set free, But I feel like I am bound with chains, Trapped in the mystery... Nobody knows I need you. They think I can do it on my own, But they don't know I am crying When I am all alone... Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/nobody-knows-6

In this poem performance project, I saw truly felt the sentence “poem is like a song.” Our group added beats and melody to the performance. Each of us chose several sentences and improvised them. We then combianed our parts together as the final production. For me, this was very interesting. I got the chance to pick out the lines that I like and add melody to it based on the beats that we decided to use. It was short process, and it actually amazed me of how quick the simple but pretty melodies can be created. Also, because I want to find the lines that rhymes with each other, I actually took a closer look at the poem and the languages used in it. I also found out that there are lines in different stanzas with the same stress patterns and they do rhythm with each other. These new findings encouraged me to look at poems the different way than I did before. I want to look at each of them as a song. I want to feel the tone of the poem and create my own music out of it. The strength of ...

The word "verse" comes from the Latin and it means "to turn" Length and rhythm In metrical verse, each line of the poem can be divided in to feet, and each foot into stresses (syllable sounds), to reveal the overall rhythmic pattern. The process of the dividing a line into its metrical feet and each foot into its individual parts is called scansion.  An iamb, or an iambic foot, is one light stress followed by one heavy stress.  Five iambic feet strung together create and iambic pentameter line.  Iambic pentameter is widely used in English metrical verse. It fits the way that their lungs work. Metrical Lines:(the lines may be all the same length) One-foot--monometer Two-foot--dimeter Three-foot--trimester Four-foot-tetrameter Five foot-pentameter Six-foot--hexameter. May be called alexandrine when it's pure iambic line.  Seven-foot--heptameter Eight-foot--octameter. Metrical feet and symbols: Iamb: a light stress followed by a heavy stress....

When reading the word “plum”, I distinctly think of the big, red plums. Since they are in a iced box, there might be some little drops of water on them. That made them seem even more attracted to me. There are lots use of the sound “s” in the poem. Made the whole poem really soft. This poem feels like a little apology poem to me. The image of a little boy climbing up the table, eating the plums with big smile and feels so guilty afterward just pop up in my head. Automatically make me think this is such a cute poem of that little boy. The simple wordings made this feeling even stronger. I can hear the sound of him biting on the plums as I read the last stanza. It’s loud and crispy, telling everyone how good the plums are. After reading the poem, I want to hunt for some plums too :p

Sounds in a poem are chosen, not random. Very confused: Dingdong Theory??? Vowels: a, e, i, o, u. Also w and y when they are heard in the same syllable as the vowel in front of it.  Consonants semivowels: can be imperfectly sound without a vowel. The semivowels are l, h, j, l, n, r, s, v, w, x, y, z, and c and g soft. The sound of c, f, g, h, j, s, or x and be protracted only as an aspirate, or strong breath.  Liquids: l, m, n, and r, on account of the fluency of their sounds.  More vocal than aspirates: v, w, y, and z.  mutes: cannot be sounded at all without a vowel, suddenly stops the breath at the end of a syllable. There are eight of them: b, d, k, p, q, t, and c and g hard. K, g, and c hard sound exactly alike. B, d, and g hard stop the voice less suddenly than the rest.  A mute near the beginning of the word and soften the vowel sound in the word. A mute at the end of the word stops the word suddenly and make the sound sharp(don't know if thi...