Today in class students chose aspects of Writing about Poetry they'd like to present their lessons on next week. Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Students got together in groups and started planning.
Homework is to find a poem in Indivisible to share tomorrow. Use WAL to help in the analysis.
We will also critique the Ruined essays.
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Marie Heide
07 May 2012
Prof. Sabir
English 1B
Vijay Seshadri wrote the poem The Dream I Didn’t Have. When I first read the poem, I noticed that the poem has an end-rhyme pattern, where the last words of a line rhyme with another last word of another line. However, the rhyming pattern is an end-rhyme, but it is not consistent. The first stanza, lines one and four rhyme- table and stable and lines two and three rhyme- down and gown. The second stanza, only lines six and seven rhyme- line and sign. Lines five and eight do not rhyme. In the third stanza, only lines ten and eleven rhyme- vision and incision. In the fourth stanza, lines fourteen and fifteen rhyme- trains and plains.
The speaker of the person is the deceased who is lying on the autopsy table. I gather that the speaker is deceased because the words “one round number and one simple line” (Seshadri 31) , where the round number refers to zero and the simple line is the line that measures the heart beat. However, simple line can indicate that it is lying flat which is imminent to death. The way that Seshadri splits the line that states “My life readings were stable,” and then adding on the next line, “though. They were, in fact, decisive-.” By splitting up the sentence and then putting a dash after the word decisive, the poem tends to slow down and has the reader focus on what the speaker is trying to tell you. In this instance, that he is deceased.
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