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=Poet Wars: Sam's Wiki space.=

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Rhyme= _____ __=the ending word in the stanzas have the same sound at the end.__ __Personification=__ _ =Giving human qualities to inanimate objects. Repetition= _____ __= The use of the same word or words multiple times.__ __Mood=__ _ = Words or phrases that indicate how the mood is in the text. Hyperbole= _____ __= The use of like or as to compare two things.__ __Imagery=__ _ = The use of descriptive words to put a picture in the reader's mind. Satire= _____ __= Words that poke fun at humanity.__ __Point Of View ( POV)=__ _ = The words that indicate how the story is being told. Denotation= _ =The word or phrase means exactly what it says. Oxymoron= _ =Contradicting words or phrases. Symbolism= _ =Words or phrases with another meaning, not just what they say.

=Lord Alfred Tennyson= **Born on August 6,1809**, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. A very well loved **Victorian era** poets. He was the fourth in a family of 12 children, and showed talent in writing when he was **12 years old and wrote a 6000 line epic poem**. His father made sure to educate him and his brothers in classic and modern language.**Tennyson suffered from his family**, his father would have frequent mental breakdowns, while one of his brother would violently fight with his father, and another was insane and confined to an insane asylum, and another became an opium addict.In 1827 he escaped his home and ran away to Trinity College in Cambridge. While in his first year of Trinity one of Tennyson’s **brother published a book called //Poems by Two Brothers//**, and although it was thought of as “juvenilia” a literary club called the “Apostles” found Tennyson because of it. When he **joined the Apostles** he grew more confident in his poetry. While growing in his poetry he **befriended Hallam** and toured Europe with him. **Hallam’s sudden death** affected much of Tennyson’s poetry. In the 1830’s Tennyson published two books, but **reviewers criticized his writing** and he became discouraged and **did not write again for some time**. Although later in **1842 they became a huge success**, and he later wrote //Memorian// in 1850. In 1836 he got **engaged to Emily Sellwood**, but her family called off the engagement when he made a bad investment and lost inheritance. Although in **1850 he ended up marrying her**, and later on they had 2 sons. In 1850-1851 he had become the most popular poet of the Victorian era, and later in life wrote his last ** big hit in 1859 //Idylls of the Kings// **. Received a peerage and became Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1884. ** Died 1892 **.

This sexy beast of a man is Lord Alfred Tennyson. He used his life experiences to better himself in poetry and writing. Even when life got hard for him he kept on going and never stopped trying to attain his goal of being a loved poet. He wrote many poems, but the three chosen for comparison are: // Break Break Break, Tears Idle Tears, // and // The Lady of Shalott. // All of these poems were chosen because they sounded interesting and there was an interest to read them, except // The Lady of Shalott, // that was read in class and that is why it was chosen. The songs chosen to be compared to these are: // Hakuna Matata // from Lion king, // Prince Ali // from Aladdin, and // Accidentally in Love // from Shrek 2.

__**Lion King: //Hakuna Matata//**__ Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase (Rhyme) Hakuna Matata, ain't no passing craze It means no worries for the rest of your days It's our problem free philosophy, Hakuna Matata Why, when he was a young warthog When I was a young warthog Very nice, thanks He found his aroma lacked a certain appeal He could clear the Savannah after every meal I'm a sensitive soul (Personification), though I seem thick- skinned And it hurt that my friends never stood down wind And oh, the shame, he was ashamed Thoughta changin' my name, oh, what's in a name? And I got downhearted, how did you feel? Every time that I Pumbaa, not in front of the kids, oh sorry Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase Hakuna Matata, ain't no passing craze It means no worries for the rest of your days, yeah, sing it, kid It's our problem-free philosophy, Hakuna Matata Hakuna Matata (Repetition) Hakuna Matata Hakuna Matata Hakuna Matata It means no worries for the rest of your days It's our problem free philosophy, Hakuna Matata Hakuna Matata Hakuna Matata Hakuna Matata

** __Sir Alfred Tennyson: //Break Break Break//__ ** (Repetition) Break, break, break, (Repetition) On thy cold gray stones, O sea ! (Rhyme) And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! (Repetition) Break, break, break, (Repetition) At the foot of thy crags, O sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead (Personification) Will never come back to me.

** __Aladdin:__ // __Prince Ali__ //** Make way for Prince Ali Say hey! It's Prince Ali

Hey! Clear the way in the old Bazaar Hey you! Let us through! It's a bright new star! Oh Come! Be the first on your block to meet his eye!

Make way! Here he comes! Ring bells! Bang the drums! Are you gonna love this guy! (Mood)

Prince Ali! Fabulous he! Ali Ababwa Genuflect, show some respect Down on one knee! Now, try your best to stay calm Brush up your sunday salaam The come and meet his spectacular coterie

Prince Ali! Mighty is he! Ali Ababwa (Hyperbole) Strong as ten regular men, definitely! He faced the galloping hordes A hundred bad guys with swords Who sent those goons to their lords? Why, Prince Ali

He's got seventy-five golden camels (Imagry) (don't they look lovley june) Purple peacocks He's got fifty-three (fabulous harry, i love the feathers) When it comes to exotic-type mammals Has he got a zoo ? I'm telling you, it's a world-class menagerie

Prince Ali! Handsome is he, Ali Ababwa That physique! How can I speak Weak at the knee Well, get on out in that square Adjust your veil and prepare To gawk and grovel and stare at Prince Ali!

There's no question this Ali's alluring Never ordinary, never boring Everything about the man just plain impresses (Mood) He's a winner, he's a whiz, a wonder! He's about to pull my heart asunder! And I absolutely love the way he dresses!

He's got ninety-five white Persian monkeys (He's got the monkeys, let's see the monkeys) And to view them he charges no fee (He's generous, so generous) He's got slaves, he's got servants and flunkies (Proud to work for him) They bow to his whim love serving him They're just lousy with loyalty to Ali! Prince Ali!

Prince Ali! Amorous he! Ali Ababwa Heard your princess was a sight lovely to see And that, good people, is why he got dolled up and dropped by With sixty elephants, llamas galore With his bears and lions A brass band and more With his forty fakirs, his cooks, his bakers His birds that warble on key Make way for prince Ali!

** __Sir Alfred Tennyson:__ // __Tears, Idle Tears__ //** Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair (Mood) Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields (Imagry) , And thinking of the days that are no more.

(Hyperbole) Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail , That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns(Imagry) The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.

Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; (Mood) O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

** __Shrek 2:__ // __Accidentally in Love__ //** So she said what's the problem baby What's the problem I don't know Well maybe I'm in love (love) Think about it every time I think about it Can't stop thinking 'bout it

How much longer will it take to cure this (Imagry) Just to cure it cause I can't ignore it if it's love (love) Makes me wanna turn around and face me but I don't know nothing 'bout love

Come on, come on Turn a little faster (Rhyme) Come on, come on The world will follow after Come on, come on Cause everybody's after love

So I said I'm a snowball running Running down into the spring that's coming all this love Melting under blue skies Belting out sunlight Shimmering love

Well baby I surrender To the strawberry ice cream Never ever end of all this love Well I didn't mean to do it But there's no escaping your love

These lines of lightning Mean we're never alone, Never alone, no, no

Come on, Come on Move a little closer (Rhyme scheme) Come on, Come on I want to hear you whisper Come on, Come on Settle down inside my love

Come on, come on Jump a little higher Come on, come on If you feel a little lighter Come on, come on We were once Upon a time in love

We're accidentally in love (Repetition) Accidentally in love [x7]

Accidentally

I'm In Love, I'm in Love, (Repetition) I'm in Love, I'm in Love, I'm in Love, I'm in Love, Accidentally [x2]

Come on, come on Spin a little tighter Come on, come on And the world's a little brighter Come on, come on Just get yourself inside her

Love ...I'm in love

** __Lord Alfred Tennyson:__ // __The Lady Of Shalott__ //** On either side the river lie (Rhyme scheme) Long fields of barley (Imagry) and of rye , That clothe the wold and meet the sky ; And through the field the road runs by To many-towered Camelot ; And up and down the people go , Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below , The island of Shalott.

Willows whiten, aspens quiver , Little breezes dusk and shiver Through the wave that runs for ever By the island  in the river ] Flowing down to Camelot. Four grey walls, and four grey towers , Overlook a space of flowers , And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott. (Repetition)

By the margin, willow- veiled , Slide the heavy barges  trailed By slow horses; and unhailed The shallop flitteth silken- sailed Skimming down to Camelot: But who hath seen her wave her hand ? Or at the casement seen her stand ? Or is she known in all the land , The Lady of Shalott?

Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley , Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly , Down to towered Camelot: And by the moon the reaper weary , Piling sheaves in uplands airy , Listening, whispers "'Tis the fairy   Lady of Shalott. "

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=Gerard Manley Hopkins= Known as **one of the Victorian era’s greatest poets**. **Born** in England on **July 28, 1844**, and educated at Balliol College. Rose in a fancy home where he was well taken care of and **taught arts and literature**. Decided to **become a priest**, in which profession he was not able to write any more poems. **Once he committed to never writing again, unless asked to** he **burnt all his previous poetry** and devoted his life to Catholicism. **He wrote** **again** in **1875 about a German ship** that got wrecked during a storm, **five nuns died**, which is most likely why he wrote the poem. In 1877 he was ordained and **sent the next 7 years preaching** in various places. **After preaching he became a professor of Greek in 1884**. He thought of his poetry as on a border of oddness. He also **created a new type of syllable usage** in his poems. **He died in 1889** due to typhoid fever. And even though **he never published the poems** he had written, a **friend** of his **Robert Bridges** **started showing** them to the world in **1918**.

The man to the right if this text is Gerard Manley Hopkins, and his middle name says it all because he is a very manly man (because of the legit beard and mustache). He is quite a rare poet, because instead of writing from dark scars from his past he found religion and wrote about a variety of topics that were not centered around pain. He had found religion at a young age, and grew in his faith throughout the years. Although this temporarily stopped him from writing poetry he later picked it up again, and then his works eventually got published. The poems that i wanted to analyze are the following: //The child is father to the man, Peace,// and //The times are nightfall, look, their light grows// less. All of these poems are different, and all can be interpreted in various ways, and all give and entertaining but strong message. For the songs to compare to these poems i chose: Little Mermaid: //Under the Sea//, Toy Story: //You got a friend in me//, and Mulan: //Make a Man out of You.//

** __The Little Mermaid://Under the Sea//__ ** Beyond the Sea by Somewhere, beyond the sea (Rhyme Scheme) Somewhere waiting for me My lover stands on golden sands And watches the ships that go sailing

Somewhere, beyond the sea She's there watching for me If I could fly like birds on high Then straight to her arms I'd go sailing

It's far beyond a star, it's near beyond the <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">moon <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I know beyond a doubt <span style="background-color: #a4c2f4; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Personification) My heart will lead me <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> there <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">soon

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">We'll meet beyond the <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">shore <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">We'll kiss just like <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">before <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Happy we'll be beyond the sea And never again I'll go sailing Some sailing

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I know beyond a doubt <span style="background-color: #a4c2f4; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">My heart will lead me <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> there soon We'll meet I know we'll meet Beyond the sure We'll kiss just like before Happy we'll be beyond the sea And never again I'll go sailing No more sailing So long sailing Goodbye farewell, my friend, No more Sailing....

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">The seaweed is always greener (Satire) In somebody else's <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">lake <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">You dream about going up there But that is a big <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">mistake <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just look at the world around you Right here on the ocean floor Such wonderful things surround you What more is you lookin' for?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under the sea Under the sea Darling it's <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">better <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Down where it's <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">wetter <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Take it from me <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Up on the shore they work all <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">day <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Out in the sun they slave <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">away <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">While we <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">devotin' <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Full time to <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">floatin' <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under the sea

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Down here all the fish is happy As off through the waves they <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">roll <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fish on the land ain't happy They sad 'cause they in their <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">bowl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">But fish in the bowl is lucky They in for a worser <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">fate <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">One day when the boss get hungry Guess who's gon' be on the <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">plate

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under the sea Under the sea Nobody beat us Fry us and eat us In fricassee We what the land folks loves to <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">cook <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under the sea we off the <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">hook <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">We got no <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">troubles <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Life is the <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">bubbles <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under the sea Under the sea Since life is sweet here We got the beat here Naturally Even the sturgeon an' the <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">ray <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">They get the urge 'n' start to <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">play <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">We got the spirit You got to hear it Under the sea

<span style="background-color: #a4c2f4; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">The newt play the flute The carp play the <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">harp <span style="background-color: #a4c2f4; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">The plaice play the bass <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">And they soundin' <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">sharp <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">The bass play the brass The chub play the tub The fluke is the duke of soul (Yeah) The ray he can play The lings on the <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">strings <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">The trout rockin' out The blackfish she <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">sings <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">The smelt and the sprat They know where it's at An' oh that blowfish blow

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under the sea Under the sea When the <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">sardine <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Begin the <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">beguine <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">It's music to me What do they got? A lot of <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">sand <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">We got a hot crustacean <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">band <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Each little clam here know how to jam here Under the sea Each little slug here Cuttin' a rug here Under the sea Each little snail here Know how to wail here That's why it's <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">hotter <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under the <span style="background-color: #a61c00; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">water <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ya we in luck here Down in the muck here Under the sea ** __G. M. Hopkins: //The child is father to the man//__ ** ' (Satire) The child is father to the man .' How can he be? The words are wild (Personification). Suck any sense from that who can : 'The child is father to the man .' No; what the poet did write ran , 'The man is father to the child .' ' The child is father to the man !' How can he be? The words are wild !

** __Toy Story://You got a Friend in Me//__ ** <span style="background-color: #f1c232; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">You've got a friend in me (repetition) You've got a friend in me <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">When the road looks rough ahead And you're miles and miles From your nice warm bed You just remember what your old pal said Boy, you've got a friend in <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">me (POV) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yeah, you've got a friend in <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">me

<span style="background-color: #f1c232; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">You've got a friend in me You've got a friend in me <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you've got troubles,I've got 'em too There isn't anything <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">wouldn't do for you We stick together and can see it through Cause you've got a friend in <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">me <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">You've got a friend in <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">me

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some other folks might be A little bit smarter than <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> am Bigger and stronger too Maybe But none of them will ever love you The way <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">do, it's <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">me <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and you Boy, and as the years go by <span style="background-color: #a4c2f4; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our friendship will never die (Personification) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">You're gonna see it's our destiny <span style="background-color: #f1c232; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">You've got a friend in me You've got a friend in me You've got a friend in me

** __G. M. Hopkins: //Peace//__ ** When will you ever, (Repetition) Peace, wild wood dove, shy wings (Personification) shut, Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs? When, when, Peace, will you, Peace ? I'll (POV) not play hypocrite To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it? O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite, That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo, He comes to brood and sit.

** __Mulan: //Make a Man out of You//__ ** <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">(POV) I'll <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Make a Man Out of <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">You <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> by Let's get down to business To defeat the Huns Did <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">they <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> send me daughters When <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> asked for sons? You're the saddest bunch <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> ever met But <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">you <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> can bet Before we're through Mister, I'll make a man out of you

<span style="background-color: #ff9900; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tranquil as a forest (Hyperbole) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">But on fire within Once you find <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">your <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> center you are sure to win You're a spineless, pale pathetic lot And you haven't got a clue Somehow I'll make a man out of you

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm never gonna catch my breath Say good-bye to those who knew me Boy, was <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a fool in school for cutting gym This guy's got 'em scared to death Hope he doesn't see right through me Now <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> really wish that <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">knew how to swim

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">( <span style="background-color: #38761d; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be a man <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">) <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">We <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> must be <span style="background-color: #ff9900; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">swift as the coursing river <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Be a man) With all the force of a great typhoon ( <span style="background-color: #38761d; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be a man <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">) With all the strength of a raging fire <span style="background-color: #ff9900; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mysterious as the dark side of the moon

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Time is racing toward us till the Huns arrive Heed my every order and you might survive <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">You're <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> unsuited for the rage of war So pack up, go home you're through How could <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> make a man out of <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">you <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">( <span style="background-color: #38761d; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be a man <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">) <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">We <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> must be <span style="background-color: #ff9900; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">swift as the coursing river <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Be a man) With all the force of a great typhoon ( <span style="background-color: #38761d; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be a man <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">) With all the strength of a raging fire <span style="background-color: #ff9900; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mysterious as the dark side of the moon

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">( <span style="background-color: #38761d; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be a man <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">) <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">We <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> must be <span style="background-color: #ff9900; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">swift as the Coursing river <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Be a man) With all the force of a great typhoon ( <span style="background-color: #38761d; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be a man <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">) With all the strength of a raging fire <span style="background-color: #ff9900; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mysterious as the dark side of the moon

** __G. M. Hopkins: //The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less//__ ** (Denotation) The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less; The times are winter, watch, a world undone: They waste, they wither worse; they as they run Or bring more or more blazon man's distress. And I (POV) not help. Nor word now of success: All is from wreck, here, there, to rescue one— (Hyperbole) Work which to see scarce so much as begun Makes welcome death, does dear forgetfulness. Or what is else? There is your world within. There rid the dragons, root out there the sin. Your will is law in that small commonweal...

To the top Sylvia Plath Sylvia was an **American poet born in Boston on October 27, 1932.** When she was about **8 years old her father died** and that was a **major influence on her poetry**. In **her poetry** writings she would **explore the conflicts in herself** and put them on a page. After her father died her **family had financial issues** and had to move to Wellesley, Massachusetts. While there she was **educated at Boston University**. She was an excellent student. While still **in her teens her poetry** would **end up in national magazines**. Went to **Smith College** and continued to excel **winning a writing contest**, and worked hard enough to earn an **internship of a magazine** the following summer. Had a problem with **deep depression her undergraduate years**. Thought to suffer from **bipolar** disorder, She **attempted suicide** by swallowing sleeping pills, but she survived and was put into treatment. Was **married to Ted Hughes until he left her** and she **committed suicide** around a year later. Her **two major works were //The Bell Jar// and //The Colossus//**. Her poetry is known for being violent or disturbing.

Although Sylvia did not have an epic beard she was an astounding woman. Suffering from painful emotional scars from early life she was able to channel her pain into poetry for awhile. But eventually her emotions overtook her. The poems i chose from her are: //Daddy, Lady Lazarus,// and //Morning Star.// These poems just stood out, and that is why they were chosen. The songs that go along with the poems will be: Cars: //Life is a highway//, Tarzan: //Strangers like me,// and Anastasia: //At the beginning.//

** __Cars: //Life is a Highway//__ ** (Hyperbole) Life's like a road that you travel on There's one day here and the next day gone(Symbolism) Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand Sometimes you turn your back to the wind There's a world outside every darkened door Where blues won't haunt you anymore For the brave are free and lovers soar Come ride with me to the distant shore We won't hesitate To break down the garden gate There's not much time left today, yeah Life is a highway, I wanna ride it All night long If you're going my way, I wanna drive it All night long Through all these cities and all these towns It's in my blood and it's all around I love you now like I loved you then This is the road and these are the hands From Mozambique to those Memphis nights The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights They knock me down and back up again You're in my blood, I'm not a lonely man There's no load I can't hold The road's so rough this I know I'll be there when the light comes in Just tell 'em we're survivors Life is a highway, I wanna ride it All night long If your going my way, I wanna drive it All night long (Repetition) Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, yeah Life is a highway, I wanna ride it All night long (mmmm yeah)If your going my way, I wanna drive it All night long There was a distance between you and I(between you and I)A misunderstanding once But now, we look it in the eye Ooooo...Yeah gimme some mowah! There ain't no load that I can't hold The road's so rough this I know I'll be there when the light comes in Just tell 'em we're survivors Life is a highway, I wanna ride it All night long (all night long, yeah hey)If your going my way, I wanna drive it All night long Life is a highway, I wanna ride it All night long If your going my way, I wanna drive it All night long Life is a highway, I wanna ride it All night long If your going my way, I wanna drive it All night long Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme some more, yeah

** __Sylvia Palth: //Daddy//__ ** You do not do, you do not do (Repetition) Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot (Hyperbole) For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you (Symbloism). You died before I had time-- Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover you. Ach, du.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars. But the name of the town is common. My Polack friend

Says there are a dozen or two. So I never could tell where you Put your foot, your root, I never could talk to you. The tongue stuck in my jaw.

It stuck in a barb wire snare. Ich, ich, ich, ich, I could hardly speak. I thought every German was you. And the language obscene

An engine, an engine Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen. I began to talk like a Jew. I think I may well be a Jew.

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna Are not very pure or true. With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack I may be a bit of a Jew.

I have always been scared of you, With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygook. And your neat mustache And your Aryan eye, bright blue. Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You--

Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

You stand at the blackboard, daddy, In the picture I have of you, A cleft in your chin instead of your foot But no less a devil for that, no not Any less the black man who

Bit my pretty red heart in two. I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

But they pulled me out of the sack, And they stuck me together with glue. And then I knew what to do. I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw. And I said I do, I do. So daddy, I'm finally through. The black telephone's off at the root, The voices just can't worm through.

If I've killed one man, I've killed two-- The vampire who said he was you And drank my blood for a year, Seven years, if you want to know. Daddy, you can lie back now.

There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__//At the Beginning// by Richard Marx and Donna Lewis__ **

<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">(POV) We <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> were strangers Starting out on a journey Never dreaming What <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">we'd <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> have to go through Now here <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">we <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> are <span style="background-color: #6d37c3; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">And I'm suddenly standing (Symbolism) At the beginning with you

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">No one told <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">me I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> was going to find you Unexpected <span style="background-color: #6d37c3; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">What you did to my heart <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">When <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> lost hope You were there to remind <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">me <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the start

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">And...

Life is a road (Imagry) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">And <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">want to keep going Love is a river <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">wanna keep flowing Life is a road Now and forever Wonderful journey

<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I'll <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> be there When the world stops turning <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I'll <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> be there When the storm is through <span style="background-color: #6d37c3; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the end <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #6d37c3; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">wanna be standing At the beginning with you

<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">We <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> were strangers On a crazy adventure <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Never dreaming How our dreams would come true

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now here <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">we <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> stand Unafraid of the future At the beginning with you

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">And...

<span style="background-color: #6d37c3; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Life is a road <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">And <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">want to keep going Love is a river <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">wanna keep flowing Life is a road Now and forever Wonderful journey

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I'll be there <span style="background-color: #6d37c3; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">When the world stops turning <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I'll be there <span style="background-color: #6d37c3; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">When the storm is through <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the end <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> wanna be standing At the beginning with you

<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> knew there was somebody somewhere Like <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">me alone in the dark <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> know my dream will live on I've been waiting so long Nothing's gonna tear us apart

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">And...

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Life is a road And <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> want to keep going Love is a river <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">wanna keep flowing

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Life is a road Now and forever Wonderful journey

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I'll be there <span style="background-color: #6d37c3; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">When the world stops turning <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">I'll be there <span style="background-color: #6d37c3; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">When the storm is through <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the end I wanna be standing At the beginning with you

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Life is a road and <span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">wanna keep going Love is a river I wanna keep going on....

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Starting out on a journey

Life is a road and I wanna keep going Love is river I wanna keep flowing In the end I wanna be standing At the beginning with you.

** __Sylvia Plath: //Lady Lazarus//__ ** (POV) I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it--

(Symbolism) A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade(Imagry) , My right foot

A paperweight , My face a featureless, fine Jew linen.

Peel off the napkin O my enemy. Do I terrify?--

The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day.

Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me

And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

This is Number Three. What a trash To annihilate each decade.

What a million filaments. The peanut-crunching crowd Shoves in to see

Them unwrap me hand and foot-- The big strip tease. Gentlemen, ladies

These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone ,

Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. The first time it happened I was ten. It was an accident.

The second time I meant To last it out and not come back at all. I rocked shut

As a seashell. They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

It's easy enough to do it in a cell. It's easy enough to do it and stay put. It's the theatrical

Comeback in broad day To the same place, the same face, the same brute Amused shout:

'A miracle!' That knocks me out. There is a charge

For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart-- It really goes.

And there is a charge, a very large charge For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood

Or a piece of my hair or my clothes. So, so, Herr Doktor. So, Herr Enemy.

I am your opus, I am your valuable, The pure gold baby

That melts to a shriek. I turn and burn. Do not think I underestimate your great concern.

Ash, ash -- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there--

A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling.

Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware.

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.

**__Tarzan://Strangers like Me//__** Whatever you do, I'll do it too (Mood) Show me everything and tell me how It all means something (Oxymoron) And yet nothing to me I can see there's so much to learn It's all so close and yet so far I see myself as people see me (Hyperbole) Oh, I just know there's something bigger out there I wanna know, can you show me I wanna know about these strangers like me  Tell me more, please show me Something's familiar about these strang ers like me  Every gesture, every move that she makes Makes me feel like never before Why do I have This growing need to be beside her

Ooo, these emotions I never knew Of some other world far beyond this place Beyond the trees, above the clouds I see before me a new horizon Come with me now to see my world Where there's beauty beyond your dreams Can you feel the things I feel Right now, with you Take my hand There's a world I need to know I wanna know, can you show me I wanna know about these strangers like me Tell me more, please show me  Something's familiar about these strangers like me

** __Sylvia Plath: //Morning Song//__ ** (Hyperbole) Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your foot soles, and your bald cry (Mood) Took its place among the elements.

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue. In a drafty museum, your nakedness Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

I'm no more your mother (Oxymoron) Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow Effacement at the wind's hand.

All night your moth-breath Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen: A far sea moves in my ear.

One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral In my Victorian nightgown. Your mouth opens clean as a cat's.    The window square Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Sylvia Plath." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">- Poets.org //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2013

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Sylvia Plath." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">: The Poetry Foundation //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2013.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Gerard Manley Hopkins." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">- Poets.org //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 May 2013.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Lord Alfred Tennyson." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">- Poets.org //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2013.