Drue+Boccuti


 * Introduction!**

My poems that are on my wikispace have a bunch of variety, no two poems are alike. The memory I choose for my memory poem is when I went to the Jonas brothers mall concert and this is one of the memories that I remember extremely well. Something that I did new in my poems was played around with punctuation, every single time I wrote a poem it was just a period right after the last word. I never thought that something so simple could make any poem that much more interesting along with the words that I am saying. Another poetic strategy that I played around with was for one poem I used lower case for a whole poem. I chose to do this because in class when we read a couple poems by e.e. cummings, I thought it was interesting how all his poems and his name were in lower case. One of my favorite poems that I wrote on this wikispace was the found poem. I thought it was such a interesting way to write a poem and it was also funny. This was new to me, I have never even heard of it. However, I think it could have been way better if the words that I wrote down went with each other more because then it would have not only been funny or serious but it would have had more meaning. Another thing that I enjoyed doing on this wiki is my piece of artwork. I made collage of my I was raised by. This is kinda like my whole life in a poem. Hope you enjoy all my poems and the rest of my wiki!

1. "Poetry is the universal language.." - William Hazlitt


 * Memory poem-**

December 17th 2007.
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my iPod important to me music changes my mood especially my favorite song listen to it whenever I can i run my finger over the touch screen to find the perfect song louder the volume block out the rest of the world the day i got it in 8th grade, i bought it myself i was proud of myself for that i was so eager to put on my brand new pink case all of my favorite songs the adding of songs and deleting never stops never will, i love my ipod important to me.

Found poem-

A day in the life.
This week of school is gonna suck. I can't wait to go down the shore. Her house smells like mac and cheese. That's awkward. I love one direction! you might as well get some cats and call it quits. I dont know why he said that. Fantasy Factory comes on tonight! Is that real weave? someone else is wearing that shirt. That's awkward. my eye twitches when I sneeze. That's awkward.

I was raised by.

I was raised by learning from my mistakes. "No ones perfect thats why there is erasers on pencils." Learned that lesson very early in life. I was raised by my computer, caring school teachers. "Wake up for school, study for your test, do your homework." Learned that school is important early in life. I was raised by spending so much time with family and following Italian traditions tasting the gravy meatballs every sunday at 3. "All you need is your family, thats all you'll have in the end." I was raised by going to the shore all summer,every summer and smelling the ocean air, hearing the seagulls watching the waves crash. "I love to feel the sand in my toes!" I was raised by learning not trust everyone. "Remember not everyone is who they say they are."

Piece of artwork for my I was raised by poem!



RIff poem.
I see my beauty in you. - Coleman Barks.

I see my beauty in you But I see my imperfections in my self. I hear your laughter all the time. But I only hear my laughter around you. I see you're fearless all the time. But I feel like a coward. You see all these things in me. But I see all these things in you.

An imagist poem.
The door in my room brown, broken handle, made of wood. keeps everything of mines locked inside, my childhood. My clothes hang on the rack on top of it. this is what keeps me from the rest of my house, like we're split.


 * The poems that I marked up and read were written by Pablo Neruda and since he writes them in spanish they were translated by Alastair Reid. All of the poems that I read were about either love and/ or nature. The ones I read are called: "Cats Dream", "I Remember You As You Were", "If You Forget Me", Don't Go Far Off", and last but not least "The Old Women Of The Ocean." My personal favorite out of the five is "If You Forget Me." I liked this one the most because I felt like I connected to this one and understood it the most. One of my favorite lines from this was "Everything carries me to you." Which I thought was really powerful and it was such a true line because when you're in love with someone and you're not with them, they're all you think about. Even if the object or person or animal you're looking at doesn't have anything to do with the person somehow someway it brings you back to them. Or in my case it doesn’t have to be in love but if someone in your family that you lost and you miss everyday and think about them all the time. **


 * Something that stands out from any other poet is that he uses different punctuation. For example, all of the poems that I analyzed except for one, had only a period at the last line of the stanza. Which at first I thought that was strange because I wasn't used to it, but I actually liked that and put it in one of my poems! He also uses a lot of little dashed lines. In one of the poems that I read was called Cats Dream, I noticed that in the first stanza is about how the cat sleeps and the second paragraph is about how he wishes he could sleep like a cat and then the third stanza goes back to the cat. But what is different about the third is that he goes in more depth with it which I think is really smart to do. When I first started this poetry unit I wasn't really sure how to write a great Ode, until I went on this website to look at all of Pablo Neruda's poems. On this website I found fourteen of them! After reading them and bring so inspired when I wrote my ode it wasn’t as hard as I thought! One thing that I was shocked to find out about him was that when he published his first poem, he had to change his name because his family didn't approve of his love for literature. I don't see how someone could disapprove of his beautiful poems because they are in my opinion some of the best poems that I have ever read! Researching him so much I started to really love all of his poems and excited to learn about his life, I was heartbroken to learn that he had cancer and was hospitalized for it but he didn't even get a chance to fight it because he died of heart failure shortly after. However even though he isn’t living physically anymore he lives through his poems and he will never die. **