Kenisha+Hood

Oh you can do what ever despite how far
====The slowest boy in class had ran real fast ====

You could call it homicide
J U N E  J O R D A N 


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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">“It’s Hard To Keep A White Shirt Clean” written by Jordan June starts off with her demonstrating the innocence of nature in the first eight lines. In the first two lines, June uses internal rhyme. She then begins to mention a young man who knocks on the door in the next three lines. The young man symbolizes the world. June uses the word “young” because it indicates that young people aren’t as wise as the old. She begins to say that the young man walks among the flowers meaning that he is crossing innocence. The young man walks among the flowers to knock on the door, which the poem says he knocks softly on the door. He knocks softly because he is unsure. He knocks on the door and begins to talk about, ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">The breaks and enjambments indicate that the young man who is talking, only talks about the problem but does not try to figure out a solution. The young man symbolizes the world; meaning that the world is more focuses and complains on problems but not the solutions that can be made. The poem then continues to say that a 7-month year old bingo jumped on his clean white shirt and left mud prints. The dog symbolizes tragedy and the mud prints on the white shirt symbolize the scars left after the tragedy hit. In the poem, June then suggests that she washes the shirt. ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">The breaks and enjambments indicate the time it takes to get the white shirt, back to itself. June then begins to say that the shirt was still marked up by the dogs paws meaning that it takes more effort then just a wash machine to do the job. So she hand washes it. ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">The breaks and enjambments show that she took more effort to wash the shirt and she ended up with a better result. June does not use any capitalization because it would interfere with the reader’s focus. She wants the reader to focus on what’s going on and she creates plenty of imagery. This poem seeks to show how something nice is ruined, and you have to really put your all into something and even if the outcome is not as perfect as it was in the beginning, still proud of what is made. The way June Jordan breaks done the line, makes the reader understand the time and effort that is put into something to make it close to perfection. ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">“What Great Grief Has Made the Empress Mute” written by June Jordan is about a woman who is mute but nobody understands her or how she feels. This poem was dedicated to The Empress Michiko. What she is dealing with does not gives her any opportunities to express herself. In this poem, June uses repetition of the word “Because” in the beginning of every stanza. She uses the word “Because” in the beginning of every sentence because she wants it to make it seem like the woman in the poem whole life is a question mark. She wants to make it like her whole life is questioned and since she is mute, she never can answer. Therefore, she lives in grief. June ends and begins the poem with, ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">She does this because it’s the least of her worries. The poem starts off with a problem that does not matter, then, goes on to bigger problems and ends of with the problem that doesn’t matter. ======

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Statement About My Own Poetry. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 180%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">When I begin to write poetry, I don’t write first. I feel first. And then I realize I don’t feel anything <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">so I write whatever comes to mind. When I write, I am more focused on the rhyme scheme because rhyme <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> scheme is what makes the poem sound right.I recite my poems in my mind and also aloud. In my poems, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> I capitalized the first letter of each line and I never use punctuation. My “I was Raised By” poem, there’s an <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">exception for the punctuation because of the quotes and I used the quotes so the reader can image what the <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> quote sounds like. The quotes come last in a stanza so the reader can get a description of what they are meant <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">to hear from the quotes. Kelly Norman Ellis inspired me on the last line of the “I was raised by” poem. The way <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> he broke down the last line effected the poem and I wanted the same effect on my poem as well. In my sonnet, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> I used the rhyme scheme of a,b,a,b. For my Ode, my rhyme scheme was a,b,c,b. No one inspired me to do it in <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">that particular way but I am not used to seeing that type so I decided to give it a try. My original poem is just <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">my thoughts. Kid Cudi is a somewhat inspiration to my Original poem because in his songs, he puts what he <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">thinks, into rhyme and that is what I tried to do there.