Arlana+Brown


 * "Poetry is the silent voice that is heard everywhere inside of us.."-Unknown **

 When I found out that we would be doing a poetry unit, I was very excited. I like to write to express my feelings and I knew that if it was time to get out my feelings...take advantage. Poetry to me expresses yourself through a way that others might not see or might not understand. And when I write that comes out. I never thought in a million years we would be learning about the different types of poetry.Because usually when you think of poetry you think of feelings and rhyming not ode, sonnets, etc. Everything I learned about poetry in this wonderful unit will stick for a lifetime.
 * STATEMENT ABOUT POETRY: **

 ==== These hands are used everyday  Writing to varies things  These hands are very useful don't you say  These hands are used for the death to let their heart sing

 These feet are used for walking up and down the streets  To be used by many and taking advantage by none  These feet know when and how to walk to every single beat  These feet come in handy something delightful and fun

 This ode is for the things I use everyday  To be such a delight in my life  Never taking advantage of because I use on day to day  These body parts are just oh so nice!

Sonnet : Arlana Brown **==**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">I hate lies people spread these rumors.
<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Queens:Arlana Brown

<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">I was acknowledged <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">The strong women <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">The "Good to know" <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">The never emotional <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">The cooking to fill you up <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Beautiful women.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">The brown skin <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Milky skin women <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">"Better get ya butt in the house by the time the street lights come on" <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Kind of women.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">I was raised by the <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Southern Virginia women <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">The"Betta not be nasty with those little boys" <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Dancing all over the place <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Daring women.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Long hair,don't care <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Vanilla smelling <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Beautiful skin <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Dress to impress <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">"Got to look good where ever you go" <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Educated Women.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Some UPenn women <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Cooking like it's no tomorrow <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Proud of their accomplishments <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">"Got to have a nice attitude" <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Old School <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Run DMC <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Abstract women.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">I <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">WAS <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">HONORED <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">BY <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">WOMEN

**Summer**-Arlana Brown

Can't wait for summer To jump in the pools and eat ice cream For me to be free from school To wake up to a beautiful sunny day versus cold and cloudy I just can't wait for summer

code Room after room, I hunt the house through We inhabit together. Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her, Next time, herself!—not the trouble behind her Left in the curtain, the couch's perfume! As she brushed it, the cornice-wreath blossomed anew,— Yon looking-glass gleamed at the wave of her feather.
 * <span class="TITLE" style="color: #cc6600; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">**Love in a Life** ||||  ||
 * by <span style="color: #336699; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;">[|Robert Browning] ||

Yet the day wears, And door succeeds door; I try the fresh fortune— Range the wide house from the wing to the centre. Still the same chance! she goes out as I enter. Spend my whole day in the quest,—who cares? But 'tis twilight, you see,—with such suites to explore, Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune!

code || “Love in a Life” by Robert Browning focuses on the core of Love. He sees a future of this girl he is looking for. “Room after room, I hunt the house through we inhabit together.” He paints a picture of him running from door to door looking for this special person. “Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her.” He knows that the imagery for the poem will be drawn as him looking for her and her looking for him. He uses personification “Left in the curtain, the couch’s perfume!” Knowing that a couch can’t have wear perfume he uses it very lightly. This poem seeks to let people know that love is possible and you search for the right one your whole life.

The poem length varies from line to line. He described various occasions that “the cornice-wreath blossomed anew,- yon looking-glass gleamed at the wave of her feather.” He paints a picture of him waving a feather and her magically appearing.

He seems overwhelmed by looking for her and her not appearing and not being there when he needs her. His use of his last lines “such closets to search, such alcoves to importune!” His analogy was used for gently saying that closets are searched for various things but alcoves are rooms and importune is something that is begged for or makes improper advances toward something.

code Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don't believe I'm wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone.
 * <span class="TITLE" style="color: #cc6600; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">**Alone** ||||  ||
 * by <span style="color: #336699; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;">[|Maya Angelou] ||

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

There are some millionaires With money they can't use Their wives run round like banshees Their children sing the blues They've got expensive doctors To cure their hearts of stone. But nobody No, nobody Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

Now if you listen closely I'll tell you what I know Storm clouds are gathering The wind is gonna blow The race of man is suffering And I can hear the moan, 'Cause nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone. code ||

“Alone” by Maya Angelou centers around the message that no one can make it out in the world by himself or herself. The poem argues against being solitary. The poem often repeats it self with the line “ Can make it out here alone”. She compares a soul to being alone and needing to find foundation which she refers to water as being not able to quench thirst and bread is being as hard as stone. This poem seeks to change people’s perspective about needing people by at the end of the day letting people know you cannot make it alone.

The lines alter in length going from long to short. The poem has very few commas which means it’s supposed to be read constantly without any pauses. The first lines in each of the stanzas (1,2,4,5) are complete thoughts and get right to the point. She compare millionaires that have all the money but their foundation for their family is gone. She refers to “their wives run round like banshees”. She ends that though with “to cure their hearts of stone.” The money couldn’t even make them happy she feels and they can have the biggest house but if you have no one to share it with then it means nothing. Saying that they have all the money but it can’t even replace someone being solo in the world.

code They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. Dinner is a casual affair. Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, Tin flatware.
 * <span class="TITLE" style="color: #cc6600; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">**The Bean Eaters** ||||  ||
 * by <span style="color: #336699; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;">[|Gwendolyn Brooks] ||

Two who are Mostly Good. Two who have lived their day, But keep on putting on their clothes And putting things away.

And remembering. . . Remembering, with twinklings and twinges, As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.

code || “The Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a very enthralling poem. The poem centers around the good old times and reminiscing on things that happened in the past. The conclusion of the poem is “Remembering, with twinkling and twinges, as they lean over the beans in their rented back is full of beads and receipts and dolls, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.” They describe every thing in detail and draw a picture of someone working very hard and being compared to a “plain chip ware on a plain and creaking wood, Tin flatware.” She used tin flatware very carefully knowing it meant silverware to describe someone as being nothing turning into something greater. This poem seeks to let people know what others went through to get where they are now.

The lines alter between line structure and length of the lines. She used the line “two who are mostly good. Two who have their day, but keep on putting on their clothes and putting things away.” She paints the picture of these people being hardworking and keeping perseverance through everything. She has a lot of periods and commas which means the poem is suppose to be read very slow and allowing for the reader to take everything in and draw a picture with the words.