Poem Summarizations

The Ride by Richard Wilbur, uses poetical devices such as rhyming. The first line and third line rhyme, while the second and fourth line rhyme with each other in each stanza. Also the writer uses many of the same vowel sounds such as “seemed” and dreamed”, and “thanks” and “flanks”. My first impression of this poem was to think about horses, but more modernly cars. While the title, called The Ride, is intriguing enough, he talks about steering and fears which can be related to cars. I look at this poem like he is dreaming of riding his horse but then he wakes up. So the picture I chose was this fancy sports car as a way to relate to his poem only in my sense I would be dreaming of cars like this. I also related horse power in a car’s engine, to this poem.

A Poem for the End of the Century by Czeslaw Milosz, does not use a rhyming scheme. The poem uses anastrophe for example: “Who without any need”. This poem is in free verse. When I first read this poem, it made me think of just the world in general. Reflections on how the world works, everything wrong with the world, why I’m doing this assignment, and just how everything in life is chaos. The pictures I chose were pictures of g

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This poem uses Apostrophe, he is directing this poem to Audrey Elaine.

Untitled by Shannon White, uses Connotation, and does not use any rhyming scheme. The bird is actually quite beautiful. You can really think of all animals, but I thought of dogs for the most part. The pictures were of hearts and flowers and they represent true love for a person to have for someone else, even though no one knows what life will bring in relationships so represented that with a heart mixed with a question mark. I believe strongly with many of their bands views and I think their music is very influencial. The poem was about a bird called a Cuckoo and the Cuckoo reminded me of two things.

The Outcast by Michelle Harris, uses repetition in lines eight and ten. Mostly when they described the trees it made me think of the natural beauty of the Willow tree and mostly just all trees. When I read this poem, it made me think of fish, seeing as trout is a type of fish, I thought of how many different species there were in the water.

The Panther by Tirra Lirra, uses repetition and allusion. I thought by the title, it would be a humorous food joke but it was describing the sea cucumbers.

Personal War by Laurie Picotte, uses the Heroic Couplet rhyming scheme while also rhyming vowel sounds throughout the poem.

The Great Sea Cucumber by Gene Baro, is written in free verse and does not rhyme.

Approximate Word count = 1794
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

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