My Poem and how it Relates to my Life :)

I have chosen The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. I did this poem not only because it was an easy poem but because it is a lot like how my life has been the past 10 years.

This poem spoke to me while I was trying to choose a poem. By that I mean it was the only poem that related to my life. And by that I mean sense I was 4 my parent haven’t been together. So when he “Robert Frost” says and I took the one less traveled by it was the same for me. Until I was 13 I had no choice in who I wanted to live with but I wanted to choose I hated living with my mom my life was bad and I hated her house and everything about it. But when we moved to Olympia everything changed I grew closer to my mom and I don’t hate life as much anymore. But Robert is saying he was going to make a choice that would change his life forever and a choice that others would have chosen otherwise. That’s the same with me instead of taking my mom to court to let my dad have full custody of me I decided to get on with life and be happy the way I was and in the long run that choice might turn out to be a good one and it has.   

Poetry Out Loud (POL)

Part One:
a poem hat begins with the first letter of my first name: "Not Waving but Drowning" by Stevie Smith
a poem that starts with the third letter of my last name : "Medusa" by Louise Bogan
a poem I suggested to Hannah was "Number" by Mary Cornish
a poem Hannah suggested to me was "The Vacuum" by Howard Nemerov
Two poems that i would like to read are "Alone" and "A dream within a Dream"

LOBSTERS

During the discussion on the poem Lobsters in the 2^nd discussion it was brought up a lot about how the author was maybe trying to compare the Lobsters in grocery stores to humans. Also it was brought up in the way of a question and it was stated that he was probably trying to write in that way. Also what was brought up a lot was the last two lines of the last stanza “Thinking: There’s something underneath the world. The flame beneath the pot that boils the water.” It was asked why he was comparing those things, or if he was even comparing them at all. Another thing is what he meant when he wrote it.  

At 1^st I thought the poem was about the way Lobsters live and how they look and a very descriptive kind of informational piece. Now after reading it and talking about it in class, I understand more than just what is written on the page. I now think that the author is trying to compare Lobsters to humans. I think this because he states “We pause and are bemused, and sometimes it happens that a mind sinks down to the blind abyss in a swirl of sand, goes cold and archaic in a carapace of horn, thinking: There’s something underneath the world. The flame beneath the pot that boils the water.” This is telling that the lobsters are bewildered and confused when they are in the tank at the store. Also people are bewildered and confused about many things throughout their life.   

5 part paragraph analysis

To make a “good” paragraph lots of people and most people need to work on is embedding quotes. Most quotes are embedded but not correctly. Another thing that lots of people need to work on is in their commentary. Lots of the papers that I heard during class the commentary was not what they thought of the quote but was plot summery.

 To make a “good” paragraph lots of people and most people need to work on is embedding quotes. Most quotes are embedded but not correctly. Another thing that lots of people need to work on is in their commentary. Lots of the papers that I heard during class the commentary was not what they thought of the quote but was plot summery.

For me I prefer to do free write because there is little thought put into them. Ii is difficult for me to an organized set out planed paper. This is because it is difficult for me not to write what comes to my mind. That is another reason why I like to do free write. I personally need to improve on everything that goes into a 5 part paragraph. 

My Boo Radley

Ok, so I didn't know what to talk about but while I was looking through my pictures on my computer to add to my post I found, well this one, a picture of me when I was six at my very first cheer competition. Before I got to the gym were it was held I was really really nervous. Although my cheer coach was a really big "meany head" when I meet her for the first time she seemed really creepy and weird like Boo. But once I started to get to know her more and started to realize that she wasn't scary or mean or any of the things I thought she was. When I was about ten and a half she left the team and I didn't appreciate that, nor did the only three people left on the team. Once everyone realized that she wasn't doing what she was supposed to and things she moved away without telling anyone. But for the 4 and a half years i knew her she had changed my perspective on cheer leading. At first I thought it was for a lot of preppy girls who only cared about was there hair and being rude and thinking everyone liked them when most people didn't. She also taught me a lot of life lessons that I am still using today. That is how she was my Boo Radley... sort of. =]