Thursday, February 19, 2009

Reflection: The Red Wheelbarrow

This poem of Williams is like Haiku and other imaginary poem which uses symbols in delivering their message of the poem. This poem seems simple with just a wheelbarrow and white chicken like it’s an ordinary seen in a farm that nothing to analyze or think more about it.
This poem simple yet imaginary brings us message between the difference of two objects, people, etc... Where the message of the poem is in there that shows us the difference of two contrasting object, people, etc. can be together in a poem and everything around can have a role to play on.

Reflection: Telephone Conversation

This poem shows us the conversation of two people in a phone talking such a business deal on that make us think that it’s a simple poem. The poet only shows this conversation but what’s behind of this poem is very ironically. Conversation of two people which is the other one in another line is discriminated by the other person on the other line, when he asked the color if it’s dark or white.
This poem only shows us the discrimination of white to the black people and this poem was made because of the black or African author itself that inspires him to do this kind of poem.

Reflection: Gretel in Darkness

The poem of Gluck uses the story of Hansel and Gretel but the message of the poem is according to her as she delivers her message or the message of the poem thru the used of the story of Hansel and Gretel. The persona of the poem is the author or the narrator. She used the character of Gretel to express the message of the poem.
Though this poem uses the story of Hansel and Gretel it still has its own story because the poem is about a trauma that Gretel experienced from the hand of the witch. It expresses her loneliness and her lost of being alone.
This poem shows us what trauma can do to us. Experiencing such things we will never forget. How this change one’s life from a normal life. The poem tries to show us the effect of trauma in our life if we experience things that we don’t want to happen in our life.

Reflection: A Supermarket in California

The poem of Allen Ginsberg is one of the artistic poem because of its style it uses different symbols to show his message and emotion to the reader. It gives sympathy to the reader to feel the emotion and message of the poem.
This poem express its message thru the used of different symbols that we usually sees in the market. He used the idea of these things in expressing his emotion of despair. He saw people in this things and keep on asking from it. It is full of imagination that gives life and uniqueness of the poem.
This poem is very imaginative because it’s hard to see something in a thing if you don’t focus to the message nor to your feelings on how are you going to express it to the reader.

Reflection: We Wear the Mask

The poem of Dunbar is full of power because it speaks for the people who are treated unfair in the society. The poem of Dunbar speaks for the right justice and fair treatment to everyone even he is a black or whenever he comes from or whatever his status in our society and whoever he is.
I like this poem because it expresses the rights of every people. It is fighting for the freedom of him but because we are meeting different people in our life, we go to different places and we feel different emotions. We have to wear different mask to hide our real feelings, to hide who we are because of we are afraid to be judge by the people.
We wear different mask because we are hiding from the reality that is happening to us but even how many times we hide our emotions, we can never escape the reality of our life because we are existing in this world and we meet different people that some of them would really know us and we can’t hide from them even we wear different mask.

Reflection: L(a

The poem of Edward Cummings is a very artistic poem because it has the idea of making a poem thru the image of a number or letter. It has the idea as the message of the poem expressing different feelings of the poet.
This poem struck me because first I have no idea how the poet made this kind of poem. It seems hard to express your idea with this kind of poem which is very artistic. Even how short it is but the main idea or the message is there and easy to understand.
I like the concept of this type of poem because it challenge me to have the same idea of poem but different in message. Expressing our feelings may do to a very short poem but a very stunning one that catches attention of every reader.

Reflection: Four Haiku

The poem is very good this concerns with the beauty and appreciation of such little things in our surroundings.
It’s like transforming a little thing in a huge thing everything in this world should appreciate because it is God’s creation. Any little things even how ordinary it was it still has a value like money even how small the amount or it is just a cent it still has its value.
Our nature is very beautiful it composed of little things or ordinary objects but this objects are the one that makes our nature beautiful and those things around us may consider such a blessing and a miracle too in our nature.