thanksgiving poem

Thanksgiving is a time of joy,

so don't be to coy.

It's a time to eat your fill,

when the turkey is killed.

Football on the big screen,

thats sure to stir up a scene.

Pumpkin pie, apple pie, cherry pie,

be sure to eat before you say goodbye.

Vergissmeinnight

Forget me not; that's really the true meaning behind this poem. It's interesting how the poet looks at an enemy soldier's outlook because he feels sympathy towards the soldier. There is a picture of his girlfriend or wife that is next to the soldier and the reader feels a strong sense of remorse. No matter whose side a soldier is on, the soldier is still human and has people who care for him. It's really the despair behind war, and this poem is able to bring that out through it's descriptive explanation. The poet talks about how the gun won't decay like the body who used it and I though this was an interesting perspective because something that was so indestructible killed the user instantaneously. It may symbolize how war will kill many but the idea that stands behind the war will last forever. "For here the lover and the killer are mingled"-this sentence also explains the meaning of soldiers and how an average teenage guy back home is a killer on the front, and that the combination of two diverse lives makes war seem all the more awful and distort. When the soldier was trying to fight for rights and peace, he caused a war inside a woman who loved him. This poem definitely gives what war really does to soldiers and their family from both sides of the front.

The Snow Man

Wallace Stevens does a magnificent job of showing how a snow man feels in the winter. This is a 5 stanza poem with three lines in each that has some significant word choice; the word choice is my favorite part about this poem. Such words as "bare" and "crusted" bring out what the readers pictures in their mind. It's the viewpoint of winter through the eyes of a snow man. The snow man doesn't think of the "misery in the sound of the wind" "blowing in the same bare place." It's the snow man's only environment he gets to live in and makes the best of what it can offer. The tone is very bleak and desolate, kind of like how people picture winter. The last two lines where it says, "nothing himself, beholds nothing that is not there and the nothing that is" gives the reader a sense of loneliness, despair, and hopelessness that accompanies a freezing, cold winter winter day. It makes the reader look for the future that will entail more happier, warm summer-filled days.

On Reading Poems to a Senior Class At South High

At first when I read this, I was very confused but towards the end the idea made sense. It's definitely a smirking, sneering tone with lots of sarcasm. I can completely relate to this poem because I know how it feels to feel like your drowning in a classroom; I've had lots of classes like that. Everybody is talking and "thirty tails whacking words" around which definitely happens. Also, the relief after class, knowing I learned a lot and can go home and relax; I admire that feeling. This poem doesn't have any certain amount of lines for the 7 stanzas given, and the wording is kind of choppy; it definitely doesn't flow that well. It's neat how the author relates a classroom full of students to a bunch of fish in an aquarium. That analogy he paints in my head makes the experience he is talking about all the more vivid.