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Poem analysis first draft

Johnny Liu

5/19/2016

                                                Poem Analysis of 12 Line Poem

    Weeks ago, I started memorize a poem called “12 Line Poem”, it is written by Gordon David. He is not a famous poet, his poems are about everything in his life, he didn’t focus on one specific topic, the poem I choose is about 11 pairs of relative things in our life, but mostly people only look at one side of the 11 pairs of thing. The structure of the poem is kind of interesting, because the first 11 lines in the poem is the same, and the last line is an conclusion. The reason why I chose this poem is because the argument in the poem attracts me a lot, it uses 11 pair of things to show that behind every thing should be another things behind it, it may not as positive as the other one, but they actually exist in the world, people just afraid to look at them. 

    The meaning in the poem is very critical. It lines up 11 pairs of things which exist in the world with another thing on the opposite side of it , for example, in the poem it talks about, “For every Heaven, there is a Hell; For every moment there is a now”(12 lines poem). Many people in the world is afraid to face the things which behind the good things. I can’t deny that look at the good things in the world is a good thought, but we can’t be Blind optimism. “For every truth there is a lie”(12 lines poem), many beautiful things has somethings darkness things behind it. There may has captation behind succeed; there may has lies behind truth. There are not only positive things in the world but also many things seem negative which against the good things, we shouldn't be afraid to look those negative things, we need to accept them. When will those things appear? “When every day we face our fears.”(12 lines poem) Nothings is horrible in our life, the way to face those negative things is to give ourselves a goal to reach the positive things in our life. We would have motivation when we try to get away from the negative things. This would be the deeper meaning for this poem, the suffer meaning is the negative things would appear when we face our fear. We don’t need to be afraid of anything, we can’t let the them beat us, we need to be strong in our life, when we are not afraid of anything, we will be the strongest in the world. Many time, the things beat us is the deepest afraid in our heart. 

    There is another meaning in the poem is everythings has its reason to exist our world. “For every push, there is a pull. For every fall there is a fool”(12 lines poem). Everythings has a reason to exist, a person would never fall without a reason, he should be careless when he fall, this is same as a person would never succeed without hard work. On one side of the door people need to pull the door to open it, on the other side people should push to open it. In our life, we can’t only look at one things on a single side; we can’t learn a things without knowing the reason of why the things happen. It is very hard to do these in our life, so we need to think more, this is one of the reasons why some people can get succeed in the world. Think more; think carefully; look things carefully, sound easy but hard to do it consistently. 

    The structure of this poem is easy, the structure of the first 11 lines is the same, there are two parts in each line, which make kind of meter in the poem, the first 11 lines both start with an “For”. This is kind of a repetition in the poem, this make the poem be easy to remember and also easy to read. The emotion of this poem is dependent on different people, for me I think it kind of inspire people in the end part, I would read the last sentence harder and louder, and the last sentence is also a conclusion to the whole poem. The last sentence is the most important sentence in the poem, so it is different of the pattern for the first 11 lines. There are two relative things describe in every line of the first 11 lines, their relationship is different, some is the opposite to each other like heaven and hell; some is one exist because of the other one like pull and push. Although the poem doesn't have rhythm in his poem, the poet uses two things in each line to make a contract to help the reader easy to remember his poem. This it is the special in this poem, not only rhythm scheme make the poem be easy to read, some specific structure, and meter pattern also can do it.

             “12 Lines Poem” is a simple poem, it doesn't have complicated language, it doesn't have long or hard words, but there is two critical ideas inside the poem. There are something exist in the world which many people don't want to face, or admit their existence, because those things don't show as good as the other things, those things are inside their fear. Everything has their reason to exist, when people face their fear, those “bad” things would appear, in front of those “bad” things, we must be strong instead of scare. When we face they, they won't be scared anymore, they can be the motivation for us to get the great things in the world. Second, behind every beautiful things, there should be some things behind them, behinds every smile, there are tears; behinds succeed their are hard work and fail, everything in the world should have a hard process to show its beautiful in the world. 

Cite

Gordon David, “12 Lines Poem”.

Poem thesis statement of poem analysis

"12 Lines Poem" written by Gordon David uses 11 pairs of compare or contrast words to show that all situations and objects in the world have two sides, and people need to face both sides of them to live strong and real. 

Poem Peer review (Betty's analysis)

        The analysis I read about is from Betty, her poem is called "Once Upon An Autumn Day". The poem is about the life of leaves, and it mainly focus on autumn when the leaves fall to the ground and end their life. Her thesis statement is "Some of the poems can be understood by people who are not good at analyzing poems, the reason is the feelings and the atmosphere of the poem can bring readers into the world that it describes.", she did explain her thesis in her body paragraphs which is really good. This poem is simple but their are many figurative language in the poem and that is what Betty mainly focus on in her analysis. In her analysis she wrote a lot about what kind of figurative language did the poet use in specific lines. She did very well on this part that she had a deep analysis on almost every sentences in the poem. She also wrote about the structure of the poem, the rhythm scheme. She did a really good job on the structure analysis, it is specific, it is accurate, except for some little grammar mistake. 

         There are some grammar mistake in her analysis, for example, "Poem is beautiful and when you read it, it sounds more like a song than a prose." In here she needs to use rather "poem are beautiful" or a "poem is beautiful". Also her word in some sentence is not accurate, for example  "How can author’s emotions when he wrote the poem be understandable by reading the poem?" in here I think she needs to use "poet's" instead of "author's", author can be a person who writes anything, but poet is the person who writes poems, so poet is a better word to use in here. Be careful on the words you use in your analysis. There are few more little mistake in the analysis but everyone would makes mistakes, so I think she needs to correct those mistakes, and her analysis would improve for a grade. The biggest problem I feel like in her analysis is she talks a lot about structure and the figurative language a lot, but she didn't talk much about the meaning of the poem. In the second paragraph she mention the outer meaning of the poem which is the poem show a peaceful atmosphere. But I think she can talk more about the truth inside the poem. In my opinion, I think the poem is about every things has a cycle, old leaves would fall but new leave would grow, and died is not a horrible thing, it also mean rest. So I hope she can talk more about the meaning of the poem to make her analysis be balance, not only focus on one side of the poem. An analysis is more like your understand of the poem, it should include some of your opinion in the what, what you think of the poem. This is what Betty need to work more on her analysis. 

            After all, her analysis is pretty good. She already did well on the structure analysis, what is the poem looks like, but she needs more inside understand of the poem, she needs to add some analysis about what did the poet try to show and the meaning of the poem.  

Theater Review

         A new theater was showed in black box this Friday and Saturday. The new theater is a comedy show, called "Comedy Tonight". In this show, all the shows were directed by student and Mr.Porter, this is really amazing, because before the theater was most directed by Mrs. Guarino, but this time, students are going to take charge of the show by themselves, it should be a big challenge to them but they did a really great job. As we know from the title for this show, it is a show with fun and laughs. When I was watching the show this Friday, I can heard the laugh in every scenes in the show, this is enough to prove that it is a successful comedy show. 

          What did the great things about this show is it include not only comedy story show but also dance and comedy musical show. One of my favorite shows is actually a comedy musical show call "John Jiang, the Latte Boy", it is about a love story happen between a Starbucks shop woken and a customer. I love the way Sam and John present in this show,  they sing out the poem they wrote for each other, and there are a lot of humor element in the poems. They are not only stand and sing on the stage, they also do some actions to show their feeling and have some props to help them to show the scene. My another favorite show is the morning meeting one, and this is the show I heard the most laugh and clap during the show. It just describes a thing that happen in our life in Cheshire Academy, so everyone can fully understand what they are trying to explain. But it is also hard to act something that everybody know, because the actor need to observe the people they are going to act and find some specific characteristics about that character. All the actor do a good job on their acting, I felt like all the audiences can know who they are acting when they start speaking, this is very hard, but they just do it. Some teachers they act can be realize on their out looking like Ms. Minahan, and Ms. Anderson, some can realize when they start talking like Mr. Dykemen, and Mrs. Monahan. 

            In this whole show, the best actor I like is William An, he did a lot in this show, he dressed himself as a lady, every time I saw he fall I can heard the voice that he make when he fall is all real, I think that should be hurt, but he did it every time. His emotion during the acting are also great, this point especially shows in "Well, That's Unfortunate...". He can brings happy to the audience and I think this is the most essential quality for an comedian. At that time I just feel like he is the Mr.Bean in CA. I love the way he act, he just like a person who born to be a comedian. 

           After all, I should say " Comedy Tonight" is such a great show that I can watch it for serval times and not get bored. The show get my attention during the whole show, it bring me a wonderful night and a happy mood for the whole weekend. I should thanks for every people who wors on this show that they bring me a lot of laugh and happy. I can tell every one work really hard in this show, although there are some little mistakes in the show, but they didn't affect "Comedy Tonight" to be a great comedy show, it is a show that I recommend my friends to watch it, and it can be the show that can show on the theatre in all over the world.  

Revise Poem analysis

Johnny Liu

5/19/2016

                                                       Meaning of things in the world

     There is always a "how" and a "why" for a thing to exist in the world. Weeks ago, I started to memorize a poem called “12 Line Poem”, it is written by Gordon David. He is not a famous poet, his poems are about everything in his life, and he didn’t focus on one specific topic, the poem I choose is about 11 pairs of relative things in our life, but most people only look at one side of the 11 pairs of thing. The structure of the poem is kind of interesting, because the first 11 lines in the poem are the same, and the last line is a conclusion. "12 Lines Poem" written by David uses 11 pairs of compare or contrast words to show that all situations and objects in the world have two sides, and people need to face both sides of them to live strong and real. 

    The meanings of the poem are very critical. It lines up 11 pairs of things which exist in the world with another thing on the opposite side of it , for example, the poem talks about, “For every Heaven, there is a Hell; For every moment there is a now”(12 lines poem). Many people in the world are afraid to face the things which behind the good things. I can’t deny that look at the good things in the world is a good thought, but we can’t be Blind optimism. “For every truth there is a lie”(12 lines poem), many beautiful things has something darkness things behind it. There may have capitation behind succeed; there may have lies behind the truth. There are not only positive things in the world but also many things seem negative which against the good things, we shouldn't be afraid to look those negative things, we need to accept them. When will those things appear? “When every day we face our fears.”(12 lines poem) Nothing is horrible in our life, the way to face those negative things is to give ourselves a goal to reach the positive things in our life. We would have motivation when we try to get away from the negative things. This would be the deeper meaning of this poem, the suffer meaning is the negative things would appear when we face our fear. We don’t need to be afraid of anything, we can’t let the them beat us, we need to be strong in our life, when we are not afraid of anything, we will be the strongest in the world. Many time, the things beat us is the deepest afraid in our heart. 

    There is another meaning in the poem is everything has its reason to exist our world. “For every push, there is a pull. For every fall there is a fool”(12 lines poem). Everything has a reason to exist, a person would never fall without a reason, he should be careless when he fall, this is same as a person would never succeed without hard work. On one side of the door, people need to pull the door to open it, on the other side people should push to open it. In our life, we can’t only look at one thing on a single side; we can’t learn a thing without knowing the reason of why the things happen. It is very hard to do these in our life, so we need to think more, this is one of the reasons why some people can get succeed in the world. Think more; think carefully; look things carefully, sound easy but hard to do it consistently. 

    The structure of this poem is easy, the structure of the first 11 lines is the same, there are two parts in each line, which makes kind of meter in the poem, the first 11 lines both start with a “For”. This is kind of a repetition in the poem, this makes the poem be easy to remember and also easy to read. The emotion of this poem can be different dependent on different people, for me I think it kind of inspires people in the end part, I would read the last sentence harder and louder, and the last sentence is also a conclusion to the whole poem. There are two relative things describe in every line of the first 11 lines, their relationship is different, some are the opposite to each other like heaven and hell; some is one exist because of the other one like pull and push. The poet uses two things compare each other in each line to make a contract to help the reader easy to remember his poem. This it is the special in this poem, not only rhythm scheme make the poem be easy to read, some specific structure, and meter pattern also can do it.

     There is also a ryhmth scheme in this poem, which is ABAB,CDCD,EFEF. This give a poem a feel of clear and strict. The number 1 line and the number 5 line in the poem is questions, and I found out that the follow lines of those two questions line are the answers to those two question. So I think the two questions in this poem separate the poem into two parts, and the answer kind of lead out the finally conclusion sentence of the poem. The first part of the poem portraies that everything in the world has a why, and the sencond part of the poem pritraies that everything in the world has a how. 

     “12 Lines Poem” is a simple poem, it doesn't have complicated language, it doesn't have long or hard words, but it use it special to show there are two critical ideas. There are something exist in the world which many people don't want to face, or admit their existence because those things don't show as good as the other things, those things are inside their fear. Everything has their reason to exist, when people face their fear, those “bad” things would appear, in front of those “bad” things, we must be strong instead of the scare. When we face them, they won't be scared anymore, they can be the motivation for us to get the great things in the world. Second, behind every beautiful thing, there should be some things behind them, behinds every smile, there are tears; behinds succeed their are hard work and fail, everything in the world should have a hard process to show its beautiful in the world. 

Cite

Gordon David, “12 Lines Poem”.

Recitation of poem youtube link

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXkzXD2STyQ

Memorize poem

12 Lines by Gordon David (Date Unknown)

For every When? There is a Why? 

For every push, there is a pull

For every truth there is a lie

For every fall there is a fool

For every Where? There is a How? 

For every Heaven, there is a Hell

For every moment there is a now

For every nose there is a smell

For every foe there is a friend

For every smile there are many tears

For every start there is an end

When every day we face our fears 

CA found poem

Cheshire academy,

made up by boarding students

17 states, and 30 countries 

Student grow and learn in here

Five different dorm

Different design, but full of warm

Single room, double room, triple room

Relax Atmosphere in the room

Unwind, study, talk to friends

listen to music, play games and find time to be alone

Friendships built in the school

Awesome people in the school 

Found poem

Paragraph:

For the past week, several dozen men have circled a site in Nairobi National Park, unloading elephant tusks from shipping containers -- many of them so big it takes two men to carry one tusk -- and building them into towers of ivory up to 10 feet tall and 20 feet across.It forms something like a graveyard for some of the world's iconic endangered species.
On Saturday, the graveyard will turn into a crematorium.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will light a match to 105 tons of elephant ivory, 1.35 tons of rhino horn, exotic animal skins and other products such as sandalwood and medicinal bark.
This destruction of illicit wildlife goods dwarfs anything similar that has been done before.The tusks alone -- from about 8,000 elephants -- would be worth more than $105 million on the black market, according to wildlife trade expert Esmond Bradley Martin.The rhino horn, from 343 animals, would be worth more than $67 million. Together, it's more than $172 million worth of illicit wildlife goods going up in smoke.That's one and a half times more than Kenya spends on its environmental and natural resources agency every year.But the Kenyans say that the stockpile is not valuable -- it's worthless."From a Kenyan perspective, we're not watching any money go up in smoke," Kenya Wildlife Service Director General Kitili Mbathi said. "The only value of the ivory is tusks on a live elephant."

Poem:

Past few weeks,(A)

Nairobi(A)

unloading tusks from truck(B)

ready to be fire(B)

Hundred tons, hundred million dollar(A)

A lot of ivory, and lot of money(A)

Tusks in the fire, (C)

painful in the heart.(C)

Ivory stockpile is worthless(A)

no money show in the smoke(A)

the real value for ivory(D)

is on a live elephant(D)

Shape poem

In class writing May 4

          Fig is one of the most important things to father in the poem; It is father's dream. From the poem we know that when father is telling stories to author, father always links fig with the stories, he kind of want author to like fig. But when author first tastes the dry fig, father argues that this is not the fig he is talking about, fig is like the "gift from Allah". So his father thinks fig is the gift from the god, this line also shows the family religion. Fig is valuable to father, and father's dream is to plan a fig tree. Although they move their home a lot of time, they never have a chance to plan one, so when father get old, the last time they move home, father plan a big fig tree. Father doesn't like planing things, many things he plan before he doesn't pay much attention on them, but on fig tree, father takes a lot of care on them and plan it well. The figs on the fig tree are like the whole world to father. So fig is father's dream, and the figs on his fig tree are just like his son, every fig, he will take a good care of them and let them grow well. 

         Fig in the whole poem is like a key, it link the whole poem, and the poem is all about fig. The fig also represent father's dream, and their religion. Maybe because their home country is not that peaceful, so father can't plan fig tree in their, but in America, which a country with freedom, his father can do what ever he wants, and in America father finish his dream. So I would say fig symbolize a many things in the poem, it is father's dream; it is father's son; it represent the father's religion; and it represent the peaceful and freedom.