Entry 48, Diamante Poem Birth/Death

Birth

Beautiful, Beginning

Moving, Started, Relaxing

Carriage, Hospital, Coffin, Funeral 

Protected, Achieved,Experienced

Painful, Depressing

Death

Entry 47, Day in Your Life

  The preposterous smell of oily cafeteria food haunts my dreams as I step inside to the cafeteria for some nutritious free lunch. Students lined up like prisoners, one after the other, picking up plates and passing them to the people behind them, ready to devour some "fine" Asian cuisine. As the prisoners pushed along, our plates would be slathered with some crimson blocks of animals onto our rice. The atmosphere of the cafeteria unlike a prison, is filled with happiness. Tables gossiping, people discussing or even duplicating certain homework for the next class. We then indulge ourselves in our food and chattered on throughout lunchtime. School ends, as Tchaikovsky rattles through our ear, we knew it was time to get out of this hell like building. All of us, my friends and I would be going to the pool hall, downtown next to the ambassador hotel. Iron core balls, in the color of the rainbow, are lined up to be bullied by the cue ball. The asparagus colored table tops acts as a playground for us for the next two hours. This is the life I live, countless days spent on our playground, countless days of friends, and countless days of oily Asian food. People always asks us, don't we ever get bored? Not in a million years my friend.

Entry 46, Acrostic Poem

Beautiful in heart, Masculine in structure,
Remembered by his sense of humor and attractive looks
Awesome personality, and
No one else can be like Brandon
Dude
Only person in English class who is
Never late and turns in all the work

Loving student, person, friend, and not
Ugly at all


Chief of army in Cuban Revolution
Helps Fidel Castro achieve the Impossible,
Endless legendary stories of such great man

Guerilla warfare throughout the South America
Utilizes fire arms and maximizes the amount of supporters
Eliminates nation leaders and
Very aggressive and ambitious
An ordinary doctor who accomplished beyond his obligations
Restores communism
Angered governments and got captured in Bolivia

Entry 45, How do Images Convey Mood?

  We all use sensory details in our writing to make them seem more vivid, so we can relate to the things the author is talking about and finally realize that it actually looks like that. It helps us paint a vivid image in our mind and helps us structure them better. Colors help the writer sketch a mood in the reader's mind as certain colors to us already displays a certain mood. Blue for example would be the color of sadness and gloominess and red would be the type of color that would stimulate your appetite. These are all the things that could effect a reader's mood as you use colors in your writing. Sounds, words like onomatopoeia which are words that sounds like the action, will help the reader understand the severity of the situation. Explosion words like bang, boom, can help the reader imagine the magnitude of the explosion, or the jealousy inside a women's heart as she sees another lady holding onto her man as they paraded down the street. Both these things are great when you are describing things in real life. So how do these affect mood in real life? Colors like purple in a room could make you want to kill yourself more as you live in the room, blue can make you more sad, red can stimulate your appetite. These are all the ways it effects my life as we talk about sensory details.

Entry 44, Images, Emotion, Mood

  Some say it use to be comfortable, and some say that it is use to relax our buttocks in different countries. The L shaped, man made creation was designed to make our life better, but does it really in our classroom? The circular holes forms a triangular figure located where our trunks are located is primarily used for us to play our anal acoustics better. When it moves slightly, as it glides along the floor, the waves of pain rushes through our ears and attacks the eardrum, we then all go deaf. We all know this, after being in PAS for long enough, its our legendary blue chairs. The cheap, blue and black craftsmanship was designed to put our comfort at first, but it ends up destroying our ability to hear, and breaks our back as we indulge our brains in the interesting on going debate between the teachers and the students. These backbreaking seats are found nearly every corner of our school. Every room divided on the third floor of what we call "school", has these chairs to secure the students in place as they listen to the interesting lectures of the talented teachers of our school. These chairs do provide one positive thing though, it sure keeps most of us from falling asleep on these things. Its like sitting on sharp metal, its not very comfortable and you cannot keep using it.

Entry 43, Elements of Poetry

  Poetry and normal everyday writing is very different. Different in the style and structure as well as many times the word choices of the two. Poetry has been very popular for a very long time and they have been passed down from generations to generations. After so many poems, I believe that not all of them have to have the exact pattern. Many of them decides to follow a certain rhythm to keep the whole poem organized. Many chooses to use rhyming in their word choices so that they will have better sounding sentences. The structure of the poem is being written in stanzas, which are short paragraphs. Also, the poem sentences are often cut off in the middle to the next line and poems aren't read with the sounds of it, they are read for the punctuation and the rhythm of it. I believe that the word choices are essential to creating a good poem. A good poem expresses sensory details through the five senses and so the author has a goal of letting the audience process the words they are given, into painted, vivid, pictures of what the author is attempting to say. Poems are different than short stories, take a comparison at the short story of Harrison Beurgeron and comparing to Robert Frost's famous poem, "The Road Not Taken". The two poems both tell stories but one uses strong word choices to help the audience visualize the poem.

Entry 42, Poetry

  Poems are not particularly my favorite type of writing. I believe that poems are just often times another very shortly written story on describing a certain thing. I myself is not a big fan of poetry as I often times do not understand the profound meaning in many of the poems. I believe that poems are different than everyday writing because they use stanzas, the format of the essay is different, as well as things like, word choices that forces you to paint a more vivid image in your head and often times words that rhymes. Many times, a song turns out to be poetry, but not all poetries are songs. Many songs use words to describe things and makes the audience get a better idea of what they are talking about. Poems are particularly great at describing a certain thing very indepth, a simple smile of a child could be written with beautiful words in a poem. Often times, poems are used in many places in the world, things like advertisements, to the slogans of certain shops could be a type of poetry. I believe that poems cannot express things more clearly than regular writing does and there are not many things regular writing can have that a poem cannot. I believe one of the only things that poems cant have other than writing is the format, as poems have stanzas and writings have paragraphs, and simple listings of objects. I do not like poems alot, I find them very boring

Entry 41, Analyzing Visuals

   I believe that the visible lines and the bold color schemes and choices are all things I notice first. The color differences are the first things I notice as I look into this photo. The surface of the dragon as well as the sea can be a bit bumpy if you look at it. The dragon has scales all over the body and the ocean waves have stripes and waves splashing. The color was the first thing I had noticed as the author had used orange for the dragon and blue and white for the ocean. The color choices have a big contrast within them therefore causing the dragon to be popped out. The only repeating patterns are the scales on the dragon's body as well as the ocean waves behind the dragon. I believe that the artist is trying to show that the vast ocean is all the same so therefore he uses the repeating patterns. The orange and blue choices of colors makes the picture stand out, makes the dragon appear before us rather than blended into the background. The stripes on the ocean waves also reveals that the ocean waves are not very smooth as it forms a triangular shape and repeats itself after again. I believe that the artist is trying to show that the ocean, after miles and miles, every single wave is still the same. One after the other, splashing against each other. The picture makes me feel slightly scared at the dragon, it seems as if it was going to pop out of the picture and eat me as I am very scared of both snakes and dragons.

Entry 40, Poetry and Imagination

 This was very well written. Sometimes I hope that I could become writers that could make words dance and appear the way they do as this author did. I believe that this was saying that he needs to read poetry, like how he  would be eating something he loves, and he would be devouring the poems with enjoyment and sparkles in his eyes. This was written to describe how much passion and how much the poetries meant to the writer. Imagine, a hot summer day and you are sitting on the curb infront of your house and you got this juicy slice of watermelon ready for you to devour and as you are eating it, the juice drips off the side of the mouth and you enjoy it more than ever. I believe that poets use these metaphors to paint a more vivid imagery in our mind as poems are suppose to paint a picture in our mind and metaphors like this can help us understand how much this meant for the writer. It is very hard to come up with something this great as Mark Strand is a professional writer. I hope I am able to come up with such strong and vivid language in near future.