English Poems- 37 Thomas Ray Gonzalez

19th Century

Emily Dickenson- I’m nobody

1. What phrases are repeated?


Yes, nobody

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)?


There’s a pair of us, how public, like a frog

3. Explain metaphors.

Frog:knowable,standout

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?

Choppy and it affects it by making people capture the meaning of the poem

5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.

The poem means that its sometimes good to be a nobody because nobody is referring
To somebody and somebody is referring to nobody.



Emily Dickinson- a drop fall

1. What phrases are repeated?
None

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)?
apple tree, roof, sea, pearls, necklaces

3. Explain metaphors.
a drop: problems

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?

the rhyme in this poem like pa pa pa pa and it helps by keeping the poem rolling.

5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
Everything we do in life affects others, for example the Poem says a drop helps the brook which helps the sea.



Emily Dickinson- Heaven is what

1. what phrases are repeated?

HEAVEN

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)?

HEAVEN, APLLE TREE, CLOUD,

3. Explain metaphors.

hill, house- obstacles in our lives

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?

rhyme goes like horsy type which affects the poem by making a rythem which the reader can follow


5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.

Don’t set goals that you know you can’t reach




Emily Dickinson- chariot

1. What phrases are repeated?
none

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)?

School, death, eternity

3. Explain metaphors.

school, house- memory

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?

choppy/rhyme, affects the poem by making a hook for the readers.

5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.

When deaths comes it shows what you’ve been through and basically it shows your life past by.




Emily Dickinson- Dropped like flakes 1. What phrases are repeated?
none

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)?

flakes, stars, fingers,

3. Explain metaphors.

Fingers- people who help us in life

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?

kind straight out and affects it by being understandable

5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.

even if you try to hide from GOD because of a sin GOD can still find you.

found poem
heaven is to me, the color on the crusing cloud,behind the house the paradised is found.

20th Century

Langston Hughes

1. What phrases are repeated?
dream,

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?

bright like a sun, wall

3. Explain metaphors.

wall- obstacles

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?

The rhythm in this poem is choppy, it affects it by getting the
meaning.

5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.

Treat people with equality.


Langston Hughes

1. What phrases are repeated?

when company comes

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)?

kitchen,

3. Explain metaphors.

send me eat in the kitchen- no identity

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?

no rhythm

5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.

That African Americans also exist in the world but Yet we don’t include them as Americans and Langston Hughes wrote this poem as a response to Walt Whitman’s poem I HEAR AMERICA SINGING which didn’t Include African Americans.

Langston Hughes

1.What phrases are repeated?

none

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)? shoes

3. Explain metaphors.

shoes mismated- frustration

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?

no rhyme, it dosent

5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.

Sometimes in life little things makes us upset


Langston Hughes- dream

1. What phrases are repeated?

dreams

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)?

bird

3. Explain metaphors.

broken winged bird- useless

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?

every two sentences- makes the poem catchy

5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.

Don’t let your dreams die or your life is useless

Langston Hughes- dream keeper

1. What phrases are repeated?

dreams

2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory)?

cloud

3. Explain metaphors.

dreams- believes?

4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect
meaning?
no rhyme, makes you think

5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.

Keep your believes untouchable from people

same style:

We Americans are the heart of America,
The land of hope,
and United we are "Brothers in Arms"
we win together or loose together.