Hatzidais+Katherine

"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be aqcuired by art." -Thomas Hardy

Untitled Ode  stars twinkle in your eyes and I see galaxies  swirling in space with no sign of home  I wander aimlessly  hoping to find your face staring into my heart  with rapids pushing me forward  faster I slip under the surface  air leaves my lungs as that wonderful feeling  of wholeness takes over  suddenly I have too much  I can't bare the burden of this spirit beyond this point  I battle off the beasts that hold me back  but my strength stands inferior  the floor drops as I flail until I hit hard ground  pain fills my bones <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> an ache crunching them into bits <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> falling once more into a pillow of your soft skin <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> let me know you're here to keep this <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> this inside my heart <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> a heaven that is indescribeable <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> stealing my lungs of oxygen <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> a beastly love that tears through my being <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> but I have no fear of you <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> I'm here

<span style="color: #a800ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">No Kind of Rhyme: Sonnet <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> The rhymes I am rhyming don't even make rhymes. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> The bars I am writing are out of line. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> The paper are blank with no type of words. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Yo ma! whats a word that rhymes with words? turds. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> It runs in the family with no type of skill. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> This isn't easy like climbing a high hill. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> I try so hard but no beauty appears. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Poems of deep thought filled with I do fear. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> I prefer no rhyme and letting it flow. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> But I suppose I will learn here and grow. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Four days have passed and my pencil hit paper. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> My lines can't be absorb in air like vapor.

<span style="color: #ff9600; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Raised from Birth <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> I was raised by <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> the old country <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> blue watered, tongue speaking <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> tan skinned and big hearted <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> kinds of people

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> I was raised by <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> the bearers of burdens <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> the founders of family <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> a heart so big, unconditional love <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> kinds of people

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Tall with strength <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Short with pride <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> no shame at all <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Traditions and cultured <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> kinds of people

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Always fashionable <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> in with the style <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> hottest trends <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> always looking good kinds of people

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Never leave the house <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> never learned english <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> short as a sappling <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> strong as an ox <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> kind of people

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> aromas from across the sea <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> flavors swirling in and out <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> food passed down <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> from generations <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> kinds of people

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> curling irons and died hair <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> stomachs of steel <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> liquor can't stand <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> the kinds of people <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> who raised me

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> no failure is easy <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> every success is earend <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> stay true to yourself <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> kinds of people <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> who raised me

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> barbecues and burning hot sand <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> old fashioned, garage sales <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> brewskies on the porch <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> cause happy hour is at 5 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> kinds of people

__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Caesar __ the crash of your feet bang down on the ground but when you come near, you don't make a sound so innocent you act, tell nothing but lies with your sneaky ways, you play both sides so clever and quick, something you lack thinking you can make it, but you're plan has a crack i know who you are, i know what you do with a slash of your blade, you cut my back too rolling down hill, i can't stop you now respect is what you want, i won't even bow favors you give, are potions of witches regardless the poison i see all the glitches your work is too sloppy, you don'y have a chance to think you're a king, but i'm knocking down your stance publicity this is, you on'y want fame take another look, you no longer reign

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Personally, I know when I do write poems, I focus most on anger and love. I think I write about love because it is such and easy topic to write about and there are countless amounts analogies that can be compared to love. I like to write about anger because I'm an extremely angry person and then when I put that into a poem it works well. Sometimes when I am writing I get angry because I can't figure out the right concoction to write a great poem so the poem turns out to be more angry than about love or whatever the topic is. So I guess my inspiration is things that come from my life or things that make me angry.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> I like using line breaks because they actually can make a poem they can make a poem very creative and even give it another connotation. I also try to rhyme when I can but I find rhyming extremely hard. When I do write a successful poem that rhymes, I do feel very accomplished. Something that I am very conscious of when writing poems is syllables. I like to keep the syllables in each line about the same.

=<span style="color: #0059ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Stéphane Mallarmé =

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #f269f2; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Distress = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In your foul tresses a mournful tempest <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Under curtains alien to remorse, I ask of your bed, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">You who know more of Nothingness than the dead.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For Vice, gnawing this inborn nobleness of mine <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Marked me, like you, with its sterility, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">But shroud-haunted, pale, destroyed, I flee

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">While that heart no tooth of any crime <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Can wound lives in your breast of stone, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Frightened of dying while I sleep alone.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This poem addresses a women. The topic of this poem I believe is definitely about sex.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">There are 4 lines in the first two stanzas and then in the ending two there are only three. In the first two stanzas, the rhyming scheme is ABCB. The first line of both the third and fourth stanza rhyme. Then the last two lines rhyme in the fourth stanza.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In the last line of the second stanza, ‘Nothingness’ is capitalized.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The majority of this poem are enjambments. There is no pattern with the syllables. The line breaks I feel don’t change the poem too much because each is a complete thought.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I think the language is casual yet formal at the same time. This affects the reader because some of the words are arranged differently compared to how we would speak so in that sense it makes it old fashioned.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The tone of this poem is melancholy but still you can feel a little bit of hope, maybe even lost hope. But there is definitely a sad tone to it.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">“You who know more of Nothingness than the dead.” This is a metaphor because obviously dead people don’t know anything so there is that comparison between her intelligence or whatever and the dead. It makes me imagine a cold, heartless person.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Those who are not accepting of other people can not be accepting of themselves.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> The reader can notice that in the poem Distress, that the it addresses a woman and how he wants to be with her but she is too cold of a person to accept love. Mallarmé uses dark tones throughout this poem. He uses these tones to assist the reader to his dark emotions and even emptiness. The poet has a certain temptation for the woman. The reader can tell this by the first few lines of the poem. “In your foul tresses a mournful tempest.” Mallarmé uses words like ‘dark deceits’ that gives the reader the impression that he doesn’t want to want the girl. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Throughout this poem you notice enjambments. The poet finishes the idea at the end of the second stanza and the end of the fourth. The reader can notice that ‘Nothingness’ is capitalized because it shows a certain importance. By capitalizing the word, the poet gives the word human characteristics.

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> = = All summarised, the soul, = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">When slowly we breathe it out <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In several rings of smoke <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">By other rings wiped out

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bears witness to some cigar <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Burning skilfully while <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The ash is separated far <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">From its bright kiss of fire

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Should the choir of romantic art <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Fly so towards your lips <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Exclude from it if you start <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The real because it’s cheap

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Meaning too precise is sure <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">To void your dreamy literature.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In several rings of smoke <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">By other rings wiped out <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 8.The poet uses metaphorical language to compare the reader and their actions by using analogies.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This poem is about the reader but its definitely more metaphorical and has more analogies than him really speaking specifically about the reader. It’s like a code.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The two lines in the fourth stanza rhyme. The first three stanzas have four lines each. There actually is a rhyming pattern in this poem. ABAB. There are about 6-7 syllables in each line.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">There are many visuals in this poem. “The ash is separated far From its bright kiss of fire.” There is barely any punctuation. There are two commas and one period at the absolute end of the poem.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The line lengths are very short. They aren’t long at all. The entire poem is filled with enjambments. This affects it because it changes the meaning of the thoughts.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The language is just casual but it is also a little different.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The tone is dark and it has lingering feel to it. It seems as though the feeling there just lasts but in a subtle way.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Here obviously, you would imagine yourself or someone else, smoking and blowing smoke in different ways with a certain concentration. When slowly we breathe it out

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The poet uses metaphorical language to compare the reader and their actions by using analogies. He uses analogies so that the reader can understand what he trying to say exactly. He uses a unique visualization of a cigar burning slowly as an analogy. “The ash is separated far From its bright kiss of fire”

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Each line is about 6-7 syllables long so they are not very long. The line breaks in the poem ass much emphasis to the actual poem. Line breaks definitely add to the mood to the poem. Since they are shorter the poem gives off that mellow but dark kind of feeling. They are short and use casual language but also a little more formal as well.

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">O so dear =

= = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">O so dear from far and near and white all <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">So deliciously you, Méry, that I dream <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Do you know it, yes! For me, for years, here, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Forever, your dazzling smile prolongs <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The one rose with its perfect summer gone <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Into times past, yet then on into the future.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">My heart that sometimes at night tries to confer, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Or name you most tender with whatever last word <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Rejoices in that which whispers none but sister –

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">That you teach me a sweetness, quite other, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Soft through the kiss murmured only in your hair.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">you teach me a sweetness, quite other, Soft through the kiss murmured only in your hair. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 7. Yes there is a metaphor. I think it adds to the poem because you can feel the kind of care he has for the girl. The image is of a rose in the summer time but once winter comes its no longer there. It represents the women he is talking about. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 8. The overall effect of the poem is how you feel two emotions at once and the language especially. I feel the language is rich in fact. The poem takes you to different places. Homey places I would say.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The poem addresses a women that I suppose he loves. The topic is about his feelings for her and how he feels about his feelings or how he feels when he is with her.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In the first two stanza’s there 4 lines and then the third and fourth there are only three lines. I believe this is an ode because he is admiring a lady. There is a range of syllables between 9-12 in each line.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">“For me, for years, here...” Here there is repetition to give a certain feeling to the reader. Méry is capitalized. There is the opposites “far and near.” The beginning of each line is capitalized.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The line length is pretty short. I feel as though the idea never ends. Enjambments are throughout the poem.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The language sounds formal and old fashioned.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This poem is thoughtful and sensitive.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> The author uses both metaphorical and literal imagery to describe the admiration he has for this women. In the third line of the second stanza, Mallarmé describes her smile as a rose lasting throughout the summer and even past its time. This creates an analogy about the girls smile. It represents how her smile is unforgettable because it is ‘dazzling.’ Its beauty makes it impossible to forget the beautiful smile.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Later in the poem, in the third stanza, Mallarmé uses literal imagery to describe the woman’s hair. The reader can imagine a woman and a man nuzzling together. He describes her hair as a treasure because it is beautiful and full of sweetness. Even though it is just her hair, his feelings for her rage because of the smell and feel of it. The difference between this imagery and the imagery of the rose is that this is realistic and the rose is merely a metaphor to describe the smile of the girl.