Shalia+Wallace

//Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran// =** Happiness **=

// and you are too. //
=** Ode to My Mother **=

// After our first glance at birth I never want to say bye. //
=** My Riff Poem: I remember **=

When i found out I wasn't alone anymore Now i'm 16 I wouldn't want to go another day without you being here.
=** My Sonnet:What's Love... **= When I think of being happy I think of you Sometimes I may get snappy But when you’re around I’m never blue

The sight of your face takes away all my fears For an eternity I want to spend in your arms You're the one I want to love through out the years Everyday grace by your beauty and charms.

As many stars that twinkle throughout the heavens above; You will be a a bright reminder of what it means to love.

Every one has a destiny to find, looking in your eyes I have found mine.  = Analysis of My Poetry: = == I never wrote poetry during my spare time so when being told that I had to do a project on poetry I began to think, will my poems be good? I realized poetry is whatever you make it. As long as my thoughts and feelings were shown, the poem represented me. When I began to write my poems, I immediately started writing poems that rhymed. It just seemed that rhyming always made a poem better but as I wrote I began to realize that the less rhymes I use, the stronger my poems were. After taking notes on different things that consist in poems such as repetition, imagery etc. I tried to open the variety of things I used in my poems. In the frist poem above, Instead of using rhymes I tried to use imagery. Using different techniques in stead of the same one all the time gives those who read my poems some interest and maybe confusion. == = = = = =** Detailed Study: **= My Poet is **Louise Glück**

Louise Glück has written many poems that portray different view of women. Some may say that she has negative portrayals of females in life experiences while others will argue that Glück's work considers artistic expression and female sexuality to be opposing forces. I have done some research and I’ve found that for the last 10 years Louise Gluck, one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing. She has turned from the form of her early books, traditional collections of poems written over a period of time, to a various amount of book-length poems/sequences. They are written in her elegant style. They are books of individual poems, but they make a sequence. They are able to explore many moods that are from many points of view.

Louise Gluck has her own style. It is simple but easy to understand. Everything she has written has a deeper meaning. It may take a few reads over the poem but if you have read background of her you can simply see and get a better understanding of the meaning. After reading a few poems from her book "ARARAT" I have realized that she has a deep thought and way of getting you to wonder, which makes you want to read more. "Long ago I was wounded.." it begins. In this book she turns to Jewish Mythology. [Because I didn’t know any thing at all I had to read a little bit on Jewish Mythology.] The title of her book is A Jewish myth itself. "Like Adam, I was the firstborn. Believe me, you never heal. You never forget the ache in your side where something was taken to make another person."

But Gluck was "born to a vocation,". She witnessed many great and ordinary mysteries. The death of her father and the death of a sister show that there is a reason behind her dark writings of death. She not only speaks about death as in describing the scene of a funeral but she also gives detail in the way she uses her choice of words. The language and imagery and syntax are easy and then you realize that she has laid out quite plainly the way people love and reject one another. "Long ago, I was wounded. I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved."

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