Powers huh?

In the poem "Song of Powers," by David Mason is a very interesting poem. I find it very complex eventhough it is only about a game of rock, paper, scissors. In this poem the structure is very interesting because he starts out with describing the rock, and it's from the rocks point of view. Mason makes the rock seem like it is a person with power, the rock has power over the scissors because it can crush the scissors. The way that the rock seems to be a person who is describing the power that is there is very intriguing, why would he give personality traits to a rock? Or to any of the items in the poem?

He gives them all personalities because at the end of the poem in the last stanza Mason this "They all end alone. As you will, you will." He uses personification for the rock paper and scissors because he is talking about humans, humans think that they have so much power but they are nothing more than scissors, rock, or paper, they all die alone, they are all alone. I mean the scissor and paper and rock all bragged about the power that they had over one another, but in the end they end up alone, they all create destructions to eachother but they end alone, that is how it is when it comes to people, no matter how much power you might have over another person there is always a rock that can crush you, scissors that will cut you, and paper that will "snuff" out your supposed power, and you will end alone.

Personal deserts

In the poem " Desert Places," by Robert Frost there is a sense of extreme loneliness. In the poem itself he says loneliness four times. And some of the places that he refers to are nothing but emptiness. Spaces that have nothing to fill them. For instance when he talks about "the empty spaces between stars" in the last stanza he then refers to himself and how none of the places that exhibit such loneliness could scare him, because he can scare himself with his own desert places. This kind of displays the whole entire meaning of this poem, or the point that Robert Frost is trying to get across, that he has very bleak, dismal places within himself, that make him feel lonely, and make him feel like "absent-spirited." He states that "the loneliness included [him] unawares," even the loneliness in the world included him, and he is so lonely that its not even a big deal that he takes his place among the unnoticed. This poem is very depressing, and in fact most of the poems in here are actually quite depressing. Thanx Mrs. White! haha

Dickenson

The poem by Emily Dickenson was very intriguing. I really like the way that she writes. I have many poems by her, actually i have an entire book of her poems along with several other famous poets. In this poem one sees the famous form that Dickenson writes with. It is a form that will leave the reader overwhelmed but also can send a reader into his or her own mind to find the answers he or she has to the poem. For instance when Dickenson talks about the chains and the society that we live in, she begs the question of what relationship do these two items have. She states that society is like a group of chains that is weighing us down and that we must sluff these chains off of us. I like that Dickenson isnt a typical writer. I like that she is intricate and doesnt just flat out say what she means in her poems. I really hope we read more of her work.