Braggin Rap

Caden

4-30-13

Rap

My raps are so much tighter than yours

You'll be so upset you will be crying on the floor

I don’t need to try, to be the best

If you want to try and fight me, be my guest

You don’t want to try to mess with me

I’ll have you runnin away in one two three

Have you ever even made a rap?

I haven’t so what?

If you test me you are bound to get punched

I don’t want to rap anymore

I’m gonna leave now cause i’m getting bored

Poem Response #4

Caden

5-2-13

Student Response’s #4

Response #1

http://jacksonhoman.blogspot.com/2013/05/i-have-seen-poem-by-jackson.html

Jackson’s I have seen poem has lots of good imagery and I could easily picture those things happening.  I think that he chose an abstract noun something along the lines of disappointment in not being able to complete your dreams.  I like that he said that he brings some people joy but he will always be tears of a young boy.  I think the people he is referring to as gaining happiness from it would be people that want to see others fail to complete their goals.  I think that the poem is about working and working to complete your dreams to just have it all taken away.

Response #2

http://gretabishopisme.blogspot.com/2013/05/never-satisfied.html

Greta’s I have seen poem, Never Satisfied, Is a great poem about people completing their dreams and yet still wanting more.  I think that the abstract noun is something like satisfaction.  The poem contains great similes and metaphors such as the toast.  I find the poem to be very true in the fact that people will try and try to get what they want and most of the time once they get it they will just want more.  I don’t think that many people can just live with what they have.

Through the Maze

Caden

4-25-13

Through the Maze

I have seen so many

Slave away their days-

Working through corruption

Scurrying around the maze

Watch the flashing screens

I know just how to blind-

Selling and convincing

Controlling all the minds

My puppets dance the day away

I’m pulling all the strings

Hurry, work and earn

They need their shiny things

Fancy clothes, faster cars

More just more is what they plead

I will make it so

Because i’m all they need

Limericks

Limericks

Jerry

There once was a man named Jerry

He tried to be very scary

He would stomp and roar

But it was quite a bore

So he tried to become more merry

The Old Frog

There once was a lazy old frog

He lived in a big swampy bog

He never would jump

He just sat on his stump

And ate flies when they come to his log

An Old House

There once was a creaky old house

Inside lived a squeaky old mouse

He would sneak out at night

To give the children a fright

And scurried on back like a louse

Poetry Response #3

Caden

Poem Responses #3

Poem #1

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16445

The poem Rain, by Claribel Alegria is a poem of rain and sadness.  She describes the rain pouring down in combination of flooding memories.  I get the feeling she is reflecting on her childhood and is experiencing overwhelming grief.  She speaks of a servant that told ghost stories and of the “purple-dark afternoon” that someone was leaving her forever.  This seems to signify the death of a loved one, possibly one of her parents.  Alegria goes on to write how the flood of memories showed her a voracious, senseless world, an abyss, but she continued to love it. “Continuing  to love it” probably symbolizes growing up and moving on, still finding enjoyment in life after such a loss.  

Poem #2

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16329

The poem Flying by Sarah Arvio describes the strange sense of confusion people get when they travel in an airplane.  Passing through time zones is always a bit strange to the mind and body and the traveler experiences a period where they are momentarily “in between” times on long flights.  She mentions “even the most seasoned traveler feels the baffled sense that nowhere else exists”.  Arvio uses great imagery when she describes the cabin environment in the airplane.  The reader feels as if they are aboard a flight as the read about dry cabin air, cramped seating and airline stewardesses serving drinks and passing out pillows.  She describes cloud covers and the colors of the setting sun. This was not my favorite poem, but still interesting  for a poem about flying.

Poetry Response #2

Caden

Poem Responses #2

Poem #1

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20492

The poem Thanks by W.S. Merwin is a poem of gratitude. I think it can be thought of in many ways. I get the feeling this poem is describing wartime or the end of a war because he speaks of hospitals, funerals and the news of the dead. I think Thanks describes the flood of emotions people might be feeling during wartime. In one way I think this poem is about gratitude, but I also think it points out the fact that we go about life saying Thank You to everyone for every little thing, but a lot of the time it is an empty sentiment. I think it becomes customary without  thought.

Poem #2

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15401

The poem Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly and Beyond by E.E. Cummings is about love.  I believe he feels very vulnerable being in love and that the girl he is in love with has a lot of power over him.  He compares himself to a rose in spring.  When she is gentle and warm, it is like the sunshine to the rose, he feels like he can open up to her.  When she is harsh he closes up and feels the need to protect himself like a rose does in the frosty cold.  

Poetry Response #1

Caden

Poem Responses #1

Poem #1

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15526

The poem When You are Old by W.B. Yeats is a poem that talks of being older and reflecting on younger years. There is a feeling of encouragement to do things you enjoy while you are young and to follow your heart so that you won't regret it later.  Later in the poem it speaks of love and and says that many people have loved the one that he loved but he loved her for her soul not just for her face and talents. But he also implies that he never shared his feelings out loud and got lost in the crowd of admirers.   I think this is a good poem because I read it several times to try to decipher the true meaning.

Poem #2

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19250

The poem The Layers by Stanley Kunitz  is about looking at life through several perspectives. It seems to me that he has lived a very hard life, but stays strong and keeps moving forward.  There are certain phrases such as “roaming through wreckage” and friends that “fell along the way” that makes me think that he was living a life of suffering. Maybe he was an alcoholic or something like that, and many of his friends probably died from the same lifestyle.  He also mentions that a voice told him to ”live in the layers not in the litter”.  I think this is a powerful message, maybe from God or a higher power telling him to turn his life around and stop hurting himself. He says he is not done changing, implying that a positive change is in his future.