Poem Response #3

Poem Response

Finn Clark

4/25/13

Poems by H.D.

The poem “Heat” by H.D. is a poem about, well heat. It describes heat as being so thick that you can cut through it. That if a pear was to fall into the heat it would be dried to such as a grape. “ Fruit cannot fall into this heat that presses up and blunts” I think by this she means that the heat is so harsh that it is dangerous. As in blunt. Like a dull knife it can be dangerous. Towards the end of the poem it says something along the lines of plowing through the heat so it is on either side of your path. This could be a metaphor for cutting something or trudging on through something unbearable and hard to get through, but doing it anyways and somewhere, maybe, beyond that heat is a place that is cool and lush. Much more extravagant than where you were before. That might be what the meaning of this poem is. That even if other things or people, can’t get through it and might burn up, that if you try and trudge or plow through then you will be rewarded.

The poem “Sea Rose” by H.D. gave off the title to me feeling that it is like beauty in a sea of darkness. In the beginning it feels like the poet is saying like the rose is thin and easy to fall, without flaw, and in this case a flaw is a leaf. The next part says that it is more precious that a wet rose, and it is caught in the drift. This makes me think of the head of a petal floating down a river, easy to run into things but still goes along, and sometimes it will be stopped but will slowly make its way through it. Like life, sometimes you hit bumps and they slow you down, but slowly but surely you make it through it. Then it says that it is in the crisp sand, that drives in the wind. This makes me think it has hit land and then much like the sand it carried by the wind, the flower is picked up by this same wind and then fly’s through the air undisturbed only by the wind’s force. Then it talks about acrid fragrances caught in the spice-rose. So maybe this is the part where it is leaving all the bad parts of the rose behind and carrying in a new shell of its former self. This could relate to life a lot. Like sometimes you have to move on and leave the bad things behind. Like the rose did with it’s acrid fragrances. H.D. has become quickly become one of my favorite poets for such deep poems that she has created.

Nature, Season, and Media Haiku's

Otter is swimming
The fog is rolling in now
The kelp is shining

Sun is shining bright
Hydrant is spraying water
Children playing, fun

People walking fast
On phones or calling taxi's
Honks in the background

Poem Response #2

The poem "Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand" by e.e. cummings kind of gives off the idea that you should feel tension while reading it. Like you should be careful reading it or taking care of it. Some of these lines sound like it could be something out of like cleaning a house. That is what at least the first half. The second half sounds like it is narrating a person with lots of power and it is switching old things to new things and placing an "inch of air here", to me sounds like he or she is making something float or decorating. The last line, without breaking anything, felt like it should receive the most tension. I'm not sure why he would choose a title with a perhaps hand. I am not too sure what he means by this. It talks of a window so maybe it is a window to two worlds, one with human capability or changing, and one with god- like capabilities and people from both sides are looking into the window.

The poem Pear Tree by H.D. is a poem that sounds like it is about the growth of a tree from the beginning. Or maybe of a pear. In the beginning it talks about silver dust lifting from earth. I thought this was like pollen beginning the first phases of having a pear grow. Maybe she is just giving everyday things more enthusiasm by adding new and interesting colors to it. Like pollen is silver, a staunch white leaf that parted silver, a white pear, and the purple hearts of them. She is making everything interesting by taking simple things and making them more exciting by making them futuristic colors. She talked about how you cannot get such a rare silver of that from a flower parting. I could see this resemblance because seeing something grow into something more beautiful is an event, but having something already be there and the smelting it to see it beautiful is different. I like how she made nature more interesting by taking the beauty of it and expanding on that.

The Way of Life

The Way of Life

Finn

4/18/13

Quiet is a black snake swimming through swampy sunken grasses

Dreams are blurry trees, speeding past as I fly

Happiness is red planets floating freely through time and space interrupted by gravity

Joy is white clouds dancing in the ocean of space

Pain is a red, white, and blue flag surrounded by black clothing

Success is a white suit visible on the space needle

Quiet is black stillness floating alone

Poem Response

In "Anyone Lived In a Pretty How Town" by e.e. cummings, he talks about what you might go through in life. He talks of the seasons, and the weather that passes whenever he is noting it. He talks about how children forget what they know when they are growing up. He talks of marriage and death, arrogance and annoyance. I think he might be talking about how the time fly's by through 9 verses of descriptive feedback on what we go through in life. I enjoyed the part towards the middle when he is talking about someones married their everyones, laughed their cryings and did their dance. That part is like when your half way through your life and he or someone else is getting married. He repeats the lines summer, autumn, winter spring, and sun, moon, stars, rain twice in the poem and the if the seasons and nights go by as fast as you can same them and they just keep going. I really like this poem because it talks about life and love and e.e. cummings is a great poet.

The next poem is "Why Must Itself Up Every of a Park" by e.e. cummings and at the beginning it seems like it talks about statues and how they have had to be jerks to others and a hero in someones perspective. The line That a hero equals any jerk kind of gives away that clue and another is a quote of Generalissimo E. and it was "Nothing" in 1944 AD "Can stand against the argument of military necessity" but there is a space between mil and itary for some reason maybe it means that if the the military gets too large and out of control it should split itself in half or maybe it means something else. Towards the end it sounds like he is talking of paying taxes and how, you pays your money and you doesn't take your choice, that we don't have a choice on what we want but what the government wants or wants us to do and we supply it with money so they can. The last sentence, Ain't freedom grand, says something like even though we are free we really aren't. A poem that relates to it I think is Why the Caged Bird Sings, where we can see all around us but we really can't go there, we force ourselves to thinking that we are free but in true reality we aren't.

Moon Landing

America vs. Russia

Time vs. launch time

Explosion vs. Human

Space vs. Mankind

Happiness vs. Depression

Metal vs. Moon

Atmosphere vs. rocket

Pod vs. Ocean

Moon Landing vs. Earth Landing

Irratating Sounds

Alarm clocks
Siblings yelling
Horns honking
Classmates gossiping
Cafeteria cluster
School bells ringing
Computers beeps
Pencil scratching paper
Forks grinding dinner plates
The loud sound of
popular Nick shows
The nagging thoughts of having
to repeat it tomorrow.