A Friend Is Like A...

A Friend Is Like A...

    The poem I read about is called “A Friend Is Like A...” by Adrianne Goft.  I think the poem is intended for anyone who has a good friendship with someone else.  It has a lot of similes throughout the entire poem.  The poem also has a distinct rhyme scheme.  Every other line rhymes with the next.

    The poem is broken up into seven sections of two lines of poetry.  Each section compares a friendship to something that surrounds us in our everyday life.  The first two sections compare friendship to a rose, and I think that is because roses are a simple flower that everyone can associate with.  Then it suggests friendship being a gate that “never comes unlatched” because it explains how strong the bonds of friendship can be.

    The third and fourth sections compare how a friendship can be “both beautiful and wise” just like an owl.  It, then, considers friendship being a ghost, whose “spirit never dies” just like unending friendships.

    The next section talks about friendship like “the grass you can never seem to mow”, because some friendships are unbreakable.  It also compares friendship to a heart becomes the heart is really strong and beats for a long time.  The last two lines really define friendship by just stating the fact in questioning “where would we've in this world if we didn’t have a friend?”

     I think that as a reader, you begin to think about a good friendship with someone in your life while reading this poem.  Readers can connect to such things like "you can never seem to mow" or "a brand new gate that never comes unlatched".  Personally, I can relate to the poem by relating the phrases to a friendship of my own, and seeing how the lines describe my own friendship, and I think many other readers will begin to make the same connection I did while reading the poem

     I really enjoyed this poem for various reasons.  I really liked how it rhymed, because poems are easier for me to get into if they rhyme, and they seem to understand and are catchier.  I also liked the fact that the author used so many similes.  The things that the author was comparing friendship to were just really relatable and easy to understand.  Lastly, I enjoyed how simple the poem was.  It said what it needed to in a short amount of time and expressed the right feelings in a simply way.

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“Paradise” by Kaitlyn Stone

The poem being analyzed is by Kaitlyn Stone and is called “Paradise.” This poem is about the serenity and over-all calm, relaxing feeling of the beach - total paradise.

The author wants you to be enticed by her description of this beach, wants to make you feel like you are actually there. She wants you to envision yourself sitting on this beach at sunset while all of your worries melt away. I chose to analyze this poem because I am tired of the cold, dreary weather we have been having and just wanted to imagine myself at a nice, sunny beach! And that is exactly what this poem did!

Kaitlyn chose to write this poem in free-verse, not quite any rhyme or reason to the structure of it. She uses all sorts of figurative language in “Paradise.” “The sunset on the horizon is like a painting,” Stone uses a simile here to compare the beach’s sunset to a painting. There is also personification used in this poem. “The ocean water kisses my feet.” “The shoreline stretches far and wide.” The ocean can’t really kiss, and the shoreline doesn’t actually stretch, but Kaitlyn uses these personifications to give you a better mental image of the beach. “Paradise” is a very short poem, the purpose of it being to cheer you up  and make you feel like you’re at the beach. Stone did a very good job creating a mental image of this beach in your head. She makes you want to be there.

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A Better Tomorrow by Yvonne Warren

“A Better Tomorrow” by Yvonne Warren

The poem that is being analyzed is “A Better Tomorrow” by Yvonne Warren. Yvonne puts a lot of depth into this poem and a lot of meaning towards the one she loves.

The person in the poem was really having a hard time, she was really sad and felt empty, kind of depressed. Then, someone came along into her life and made things better. This person took all of the girl’s sorrow away and filled the hole in her heart. Since that person came and made everything better, the girl is saying that she will always love him because he “showed her the light.”

Yvonne uses ending rhymes. She first starts out with the poem sounding depressed and sad and almost bitter because she didn’t think there “would be a better tomorrow”. Then it turns happy because she meets this guy and he makes her happy again because she says “My days of sadness are a thing of the past” so she had obviously been sad before he came into her life. Then it turns romantic because she says since he made her feel better, she’ll love him forever because she says “And my love for you will continue to burn bright”.

When I looked up Yvonne Warren, there wasn’t really anything about her and it seemed like this was her only poem that was out there. Even though it was her only poem, I thought it was good and expressed her feelings pretty well. I chose this poem because I thought it was really emotional and I just liked it a lot because of how she portrayed things and made a unique story out of it.

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Poetry Analysis

“The Nightmare Before Christmas” By Logan Hornback

The Nightmare Before Christmas by Logan Hornback is the poem under analysis. Logan Hornback is just a teenage boy who is unknown by the world and just likes to write poems. He said “I always loved to write deep, dark and beautiful stories; so I guess this poem brings out a funnier yet still disturbing side of me.” He just seems to have made it up for no apparent reason; no experiences or true stories.The poem is about a person who was visited by Santa on Christmas night, as all kids are, and instead of getting a present, he just got coal. Ever since then, they have hated Santa. You can tell by the last stanza: “I’ll never forget the obese man in red; I’ll hate him forever, until the day I am dead.”

    The Nightmare Before Christmas is mostly made of couplets, although there is a point where there are 2 rhyming stanzas instead of lines. The first stanza is a couplet. The author uses personification when he says that the walls shake. He uses imagery when he says “Big, fat Santa bounded through my halls,” and gives us a clear image of what is happening. The mood seems sort of spiteful because of the name-calling. It was overall a pretty good start to the poem to set the mood. The second and third stanzas change up the rhyme scheme of the poem a little bit because instead of the AA rhyme scheme the rest of the poem has, they are in an ABCB rhyme scheme. The second stanza seems like it is still a spiteful tone, because of the way he says “He ate all my cookies, drank all my milk.” You can tell that the narrator wouldn’t want Santa to do that again. He uses imagery in the whole third stanza, giving us an image of what Santa is dressed in, which enhances the image we get in our minds when reading it. The mood is still kind of spiteful, although it doesn’t seem as intense as before. The rest of the stanzas are all couplets. The author uses personification in the fourth stanza when he says the toys make noise. The mood seems the same as before still, although it seems to be growing a little more intense, because the story is starting to actually take place now. The fifth stanza has a simile: “He smelled like fresh tobacco smoke.” Again, the putting down makes it easier to tell that he doesn’t like Santa. The author also uses imagery in the fifth stanza when he says an “irritated poke” because it describes the action better and tells how it was done. The mood is still getting more intense, almost hateful now. The sixth stanza uses imagery with the line “A grumpy look came upon his face,” because it tells that Santa is unhappy with the situation. The mood is still getting more intense, and it now seems like not only the narrator is unhappy, but Santa also is. The seventh stanza has a disappointing tone. The narrator thinks they will be getting a present, but ends up only getting coal. They are on the naughty list. The seventh stanza may be the most important stanza, because it gives the reason why the narrator is so hateful of Santa. The author uses imagery in the eighth stanza when he says “With an angry look, he set it down with ease,” because it gives us an image of what Santa is doing and it also helps tell the mood of Santa. He also uses imagery in the second line, “Then walked up to my chimney, and gave his nose a squeeze,” because it gives an image of what is going on. The mood is hard to tell in this stanza, because of the way it is worded. The ninth stanza does a very good job of ending the poem. It finally shows how intense the mood really was. You can tell by how he says “I’ll hate him forever, until the day I am dead.”

I think that it is a good, well-written poem. It is a simple poem, yet the author uses poetic tools to give us a better image of what is going on. The author also managed to put some humor into it, too, which is always guaranteed to make it a good read. I also think that putting it in and AA rhyme scheme made it easier to understand, because it feels like it was easier to read.

Poetry Analysis

“You’ve Got To” by Unknown

The poem under analysis is by an unknown author and is an inspirational poem from The Poetry Pad online and it is called “You’ve Got To”. The poet uses mostly metaphors to get the image and emotion that is in his poem.

Regarding “You’ve Got To” it is a motivational poem. You can tell this by how each stanza includes the words keep going and some quotes showing this are: “you’ve got to move”, “And I’ll be there, be right there to help you.”, “You’ve got to fly, I’ll be right there to fly with you”, and “And I’ll be there to break your fall”. The quotes give the feeling of comfort in knowing you have someone through everything. The author established this emotion of comfort by repeating the line piece of I’ll be there like in “I’ll be there for you when you (fall, fly, climb mountains, or are walking). It seems as if the author has shared some of the struggles as the lines “I know just how it feels to spread your wings only to never fly”, “I know just how it feels to face the world alone only to realize you were wrong”. Throughout the poem it refers to, in the metaphors, of hurdles in life and the fear of going it alone and failing or not overcoming them and the feeling of not being able to do it. The poem also does a great job of after the metaphors talking about struggles and fear, and etc then it provides the comfort that they will be there throughout everything no matter what the hurdle is.

In my opinion this poem is the story of life. It talks about “to climb a mountain”, “to fly”, and “to walk”. These are all representing the types of challenges in life the difficult ones represented by climbing mountains, the normal daily ones shown by walking and to fly is representing using talents you have because you are afraid and letting go and taking the chance. In life we all feel alone and like no one els is in the same situation or struggle but knowing that we have someone makes it easier to continue on and keep going. In life there are ups and downs. The downs are the hurdles and fears from the metaphors and the ups or highs are from the comfort after each metaphor reminding you they are there. Therefore, the poem is truly a complicated piece of art with a deep meaning and sense of comfort and the story of life. It is an inspirational, relatable, and clever piece to incorporate so much under the surface. Click here to read the poem

"To a Friend"

The poem I'm analyzing was written by Robert Eager. To me this poem is not just written to a frien. I feel as if he is in love wit whoever he wrote this to. As it says "Your smile alone can light a room. Your touch could melt a stone. A hug from you is like a drug". To me it seems as if this girl does everything to make him love her, without knowing. Just by smiling he thinks she lights the room. Her hugs are like drugs, it's like he's addicted to being around her or to touching her. And as he goes on to talk about how important heir friendship is to him, he says something about paying a mound of gold for her friendship/ This seems like he is willing to pay a lot to assure that he doesn't lose her. "A thousand words and a thousand words more still the story would not be told". I think it's saying that no matter how he tries to explain or however long it would take for him to explain there's no way he can fully explain their friendship. "A friendship never sold". It's always going to be there, he never wants to get rid of what they have, their connection. "And so I give you in return. What you gave me. Friendship flowing form the heart. Like a river to sea". It seems as if he's saying that whatever feelings she has for him, he will also have for her. And since it's flowing from the heart I think that he loves her but is scared to tell her. The river is small, like his feelings when he first met her but now it's becoming a sea, his feelings have flourished as wide as a sea. I also feel as though this poem was written  because no matter how much he actually likes this girl he doesn't want to tell her. It's a huge risk to tell somebody you like them and have that chance that they don't feel the same way and end up losing that person all together.

I enjoyed this poem quite a bit. I think the way the author phrases his words together makes the poem that much better. It kept me wanting to read more to find out more about what else he would do for this friendship.


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Poem Analysis-My Hero-By Keri

My poem analysis of "My Hero" by Keri starts at a dark time.  Everybody has gone, or will go, through some sort of dark time in their life.  I believe the hero in this poem had helped the author get through a struggle and now holds a special place in the author's heart.

As it says,

"You helped me see the light.
When I had no eyes,
You saved me, and you were my sight."

Also, with that being said, it is clear that the hero in this poem made an impact on the author's life as well.  To prove this opinion, a stanza was written that says,

"But friend, I tell you, you are a hero."

There was a little blurp above the poem that mentioned what the poem was described as for the author and to whom she dedicated the poem to, and what the purpose of creating this poem was all about.  It says the author wrote the poem "describing how I feel about certain people in my life.  This poem is dedicated to all those unsung heroes out there who don't consider themselves a hero, yet people in their life do."

I chose this poem because while I was reading it, someone special, who also doesn't consider herself to be a hero, came acrossed my mind. That was my mom.

My family and I, two months ago, went through what we were all wishing would be a terrible nightmare-but it wasn't.  That was a DARK time in our life.  Even though I had lost my dad, my mom lost her best friend, her soulmate, her husband.  During the time my mom should have been grieving the loss, she was busy doing business with our landlords and making plans for a farm sale, as well as meeting with her lawyer.  We were living in a whirlwind, and even though I was blessed to face the fact that it would be a while before I see my dad, she couldn't.  She was given no time to grieve.  Instead she would wipe my eyes, and give me comfort, but I don't think she ever felt what I felt.  She was just so strong through it all!  That to me, is being a hero-having someone go though the same situation as you, but while you're crying, they're wiping your tears and giving you strength.  My mom is definitely considered to be "My Hero."



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