This Is What I Say - Parody

Parody of the poem "This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams.

This Is What I Say

You have eaten
the plums
Will that steal
your soul?


I'll just go
to the store
and buy myself some
Your sarcastic

apology
won't make me budge
next time I buy plums

I'll eat them before

"Harlem"

"American author Langston Hudges (1902-1967)," "is considered one of the most influential and prolific African-American Poets of the twenieth century. He published poetry from the Harlem Renaissance, a period during the1920s when African-American artists and their works flourished in Harlem, to the Civil Rights and Black Arts movements. Following the Civil Rights movement, the Black Arts movement of the 1970scombined militant black nationalism with outspoken art and literature." "And lasted until the middle of the 1930s Depression." "The short but inspiratioal poem"Harlem" by Langston Hudges addresses what happens to aspirations that are postponed or lost.

"What happens to a dream deferred?"

"With the increase of in a poor population, it was also the time when the neighborhood began to deteriorate to a slum, and some of the storied traditions of Harlem Renaissance were driven by poverty, crime, or other social ills." "In 1951-the year of the poem's publication-frustration characterized the mood of American blacks. The Civil War in the previous century had liberated them from slavery, and federal laws had granted them the right to vote, the right to own property, and so on. However, continuing prejudice against blacks, as well as laws passed since the Civil War, relegated them to second-class citizenship. Consequently, blacks had to attend poorly equipped segregated schools and settle for menial jobs as porters, ditch-diggers, servants, shoeshine boys, and so on. In many states, blacks could not use the same public facilities as whites, including restrooms, restaurants, theaters, and parks. Access to other facilities, such as buses, required the to to take the back seat, literally, to whites. By the mid-Twenieth Century, their frustration with inferior status became a powder keg, and the fuse was burning. Hudges well understood what the future held, as he indicates in the las line of the poem."

"Or does it explode?"

Is It Worth To Dream?

Is it worth to have hope for a dream that might never come true? In our society people live from dreams, dreams that no matter the situation will always be a priority. But even if the desire to fulfill those dreams that are there in your soul and mind, not everyone has the opportunity or luck to make them true. Reality hits us everyday, and in a place such as Harlem, a very poor area in New York City where a community of African Americans live, this must be a thing they experience every single day. In Langston Hudge's poem, Harlem, he uses a series of rhetorical questions, which mainly ask the reader, "What happens to a dream deferred?" followed by questions that answer the first one. Hudges' tells us that that if a dream is delayed, it will dry up and become so little to be noticed anymore, or if the dream stays like a fester sore, hurting you permanently, getting what is best of you and creeping inside you until only pain remains. Or if it stinks like a rotten meat, a dream that a person starts to hate, because there is no hope for it, a dream that makes a person uncomfortable and unhappy because it is out of reach. But then Hudges' gives us a totally different image of what he had created before. He asks, "Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet?" which in my case left me thinking that it was only a method to make the reader forget the disturbing images already made about a dream delayed. A dream deferred cannot be sweet, not even if that dream has lost its' meaning and does not matter anymore. Then Hudges' creates a depressing resigned tone when he says, "Maybe it just sags like a heavy load." which indicates that the dream that so much a person wanted to make true but never becomes a reality stays with them forever, making it harder to breathe, remaining like a heavy load in their shoulders as a reminder that it is still there, even if it will never be more than that; a heavy dream. Finally, Hudges' asks us, "Or does it explode?". The dream will either explode to make the person more miserable, or that person will explode in realization that he or she have to do everything in their power to make of that dream a reality. The tone changes throughout the poem, it goes from desperation, to resignation, to wonder. The similes used create images, that make us look at a dream in a different way, since a dream is not actually a thing , the author gives us examples of how would it feel to have a desired dream and not being able to make it true.

The Image of A Certain Lady

A Certain Lady by Dorothy Parker

Love, passion, and pain goes on in our lives, feelings we cannot avoid, and feelings that many writers have turned into poetry. In Dorothy Parker's poem "A Certain Lady", there is a woman as the speaker of the poem. We do not know much about her which makes her just a certain lady, like the authors' title for this poem. This certain lady never acts herself around a man, a man she seems to have affection for, but love. She expresses no happiness when she is around him but neither when he is away. I used two images of a flower. Both flowers are totally different from each other, one is bright and alive and the other one is dry and sad, and I imagine this lady to be like the two of them. She portrays a woman she is not, while hiding her inner feelings deeply in her soul. The certain lady uses the beauty, the elegance, and the freshness of a red and lively flower, but in the inside her feelings are blurry, she is not as lively and happy as she pretends to be around the man she wants to please. Her facade is mostly to please him, but she does it without receiving or expecting anything in return. The speaker never mentions a flower, but I see her as an image of it. the two flowers contrast with each other. The speaker reveals only one side of that flower, but the other one is kept hidden from everyone around her, especially the man. The ideas about the lady can be concrete because we know what she is thinking and doing, but also it can be abstract since we are not sure about what her real feelings are, we only assume that there is sadness in her for some of the things she says, such as, "nor can you ever see the thousand little deaths my heart has died", but apart from the few things she let us know we cannot see how deep that sentiment is. When she uses sarcasm as she talks, I imagine she uses it to hide her real feelings, she expresses as if she did not cared, and even tries to dismiss when he mentioned his adventures to her. She hides every emotion by saying it all sarcastically. The speaker is really effective at expressing her ideas and the two image representations enhance her facade and her inner soul in the poem. A Certain Lady, a flower that shines with beauty and flirt to those who praise it, a flower that lies because by the time you want to look at it again it has changed and its petals have started to fall and dry. A Certain Lady, a flower of two faces.

Poem Thesis Statement: "Fire and Ice" - Robert Frost

Frost favoring the world to end in fire instead of ice shows the importance emotion plays in the poem, because if it ended in ice all feeling would be frozen.

"Shakespeare and Thomas"

Throughout time, death has been known to be a topicin many forms of art, especially in poetry. William Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas made use of death in their poetry, and even though they both lived in a whole different scenario and time period. Both could portray death as how it is still considered in our society, as an impact. Death is the one thing that people mostly fear, and one we cannot prevent from happening. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night from Thomas and Sonnet 73 from Shakespeare depict death. Both poems were written for a person they were acquainted with, in Thomas's case; he wrote it to his father, who was dying from cancer. Shakespeare and Thomas used stanza to make the poem flow more easily, since using rhyme makes the reader keep the beat of the poems. In Thomas's Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, the reader is able to feel the desperation of the author. The desperation towards deaths' approach, makes us feel how impotent the author feels, since he is not able to stop death from taking his father away; that is why, he pleads his father to resist, to be strong and fight the darkness that approaches in every second that passes by. Thomas uses six stanzas in which he describes stages of men's lives. The author might have had a really close relationship with his father to be able to notice the every detail of how in the end, the wise men, the good men, the wild men, and the grave men reveal in front of him through his father. In the other hand, in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, Shakespeares tone is more serene. He tells that other person to love, to live, to accept, that one day death will take him away, but to enjoy the life that still remains. Shakespeare expresses more of the natural way of how life works, and how it has to keep its' cycle. He also talks about resignation towards death, but encourages us to not stop loving even if death will be our fate. The authors use of stanza created a more appealing poem. Even if one used it to portray a resisting poem and the other one to portray calmness towards death, both succeded into making their point, to express a feeling and to make it noticeable to the one intended to and to the reader. Death is not to accept, but to fight. Death is to prepare for, and to welome it.