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Anacreon. "The Wish" TRANSLATED BY THOMAS STANLEY, 1651. from 2002-2010. Poetry Archive Poems. http://www.poetry-archive.com/a/the_wish.html. Website.

Anonymous. "Little Lessons" is reprinted from Poetica Erotica. Ed. T.R. Smith. New York: Crown Publishers, 1921. Poetry Archive Poems. 2002. Website.

Blackburn, Justin. "Love Yourself, Be Yourself." from pg.20 of Open Minds Quarterly.Volume XI, Issue IV, Winter 2010. a publication of Northern Initiative for Social Action.680 Kinkwood Dr., Bldg. 1 Sudbury ON, P3E 1x3 Canada. Literary Journal.

Bradstreet, Anne. "The Prologue" 100 Essential American Poems. edited by: Pockell, Leslie M. Thomas Dunne Books. St. Martin's Press. 175 Fifth Ave, NY, 10010. pg.2-4. Book.  

Bridges, Robert. "Triolet"(1876). from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.199. Textbook. Brome, Richard. "Humility." from Northern Lass stage play http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/humility.html. 2002. Website.

Brooks, Gwendolyn. "The Mother" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.401-402. Textbook.

Bryant, William Cullen. "Thanatopsis" 100 Essential American Poems. edited by: Pockell, Leslie M. Thomas Dunne Books. St. Martin's Press. 175 Fifth Ave, NY, 10010. pg.18-21. Book.

 Cope, Wendy. "Variation on Belloc's "Fatigue" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's.An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.197. Textbook.

Dickinson, Emily. "Success is counted sweetest" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's.An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.332. Textbook.

Dickinson, Emily. "When I hoped, I recollect." http://www.lovethepoem.com/famous-poems/when-i-hoped--i- recollect-by-emily-dickinson/ Dove, Rita. "Daystar" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.413-414. Textbook.

Goodman, Paul. "Birthday Cake" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.95.

 Herbert, George. "Easter Wings." from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's.An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.216. Textbook.

Hughes, Langston. "Prayer" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.352. Textbook.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed" 100 Essential American Poems. edited by: Pockell, Leslie M. Thomas Dunne Books. St. Martin's Press. 175 Fifth Ave, NY, 10010. pg. 241. Book.

Randall, Dudley. "Ballad of Birmingham" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.133. Textbook.

Whitman, Walt. "O Captain! My Captain!" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.319. Textbook.

Wilbur, Richard. "The Writer" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's.An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.470-471. Textbook.

Yeats, William Butler. "A Drunken Man's Sobriety" from pg.347; 312. of The Collected Poems of Yeats. Revised Second Edition. Edited by Finneran, Richard J. Simon & Schuster Inc. Scribner Paperback Poetry. 1996. Book.

Yeats, W B. "He wishes for the cloths of Heaven." Source from: Public Domain Poems. http://www.publicdomainpoems.com/wishesforclothesheaven.html. http://ellenolinger.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/w-b-yeats-he-wishes-for-the-cloths-of-heaven/. Google Advertisement.

Yeats, William Butler. "He wishes for the cloths of Heaven" from pg.73-74. of The Collected Poems of Yeats. Revised Second Edition. Edited by Finneran, Richard J. Simon & Schuster Inc. Scribner Paperback Poetry. 1996. Book.

Lyrics by Steele, Jeffrey; Robsin, Steve. Sung By Rascal Flatts. "My Wish" http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/my-wish-lyrics-rascal- flatts/b4d9ec29360544ce48257143000a54cd. Song. Textbook.

Anthology Conclusion!

Conclusion:

Anthology’s are good ways to discover and learn more about various poems and writing forms in which the anthologist is able to get a feel for digging in deep to distinguish between all kinds of poems and poet’s works and then taking each poem bit by bit to figure in style, structure, figurative language, design, mood, and all the various elements of poetry that separate it from others of it’s kind and from all kinds of other works of writing. Like the verse in the poem “Little Lessons,” "I may as well learn things from you As to learn from other men," and I have attained a lot of knowledge from others in their understanding of poetry and also some new stuff of my own. It is always better to be open-minded and hear from various people whether it be intelligent or intellectual people in which can allow someone to gain a better understanding of anything such as poetry in literature. I barely had any experience in reading poetry, but now am able to get by trying to read a poem and have even a little bit of knowledge for interpreting it with paying attention to what the poet is having stick out in the writing and the words that look alike or even sound alike that may be referring to a kind of figurative language such as with similes or metaphors that aid in being able to construe imagery in the readers head.


That is why from taking this poetry class and doing this project I have learned more about how to read and possibly write poetry in general and how interpreting can vary among readers of it along with appreciating poetry of all kinds from the purposed meaning the poet wants to get across to the reader to the format and what makes a poem a poem, even though poetry can be made into and come from other writings such as songs, books, etc; poetry can be just as entertaining and interesting as a movie or magazine if one gives it a chance. Poetry can provide various imagery in the mind such as seeing, hearing, touching(tactile imagery), and smelling that can also be just as emotional or even more being able to relate to poets at times and discovering different ideas and thinking of peoples’ all throughout history from Biblical, Shakespearean, and Dickinson time, to poets living in more recent years. And so I personally have gotten a lot out of this class and plan on trying my hand at trying to write some poetry some day and reading more, so like the last verse from the poem by Richard Wilbur, “I wish What I wished you before, but harder.(line 33)”, that everything turns out for those who try to do something like write and express themselves artistically or in any way in hope that “Success is …. Sweetest(Dickinson, line 1)” due to the inspiration in which is “….. …… ….. an endless supply inside you(Blackburn, line 8)” and this theme is motivational in thinking and is something that I like to live by being the reason for choosing this idea in my anthology’s theme “Past regrets and Future prayers and wishes”.

Sarah's Anthology poems #16 -21

"I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed"  
Edna St. Vincent Millay     


I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair,
and feel a certain zest
To bear your body's weight upon my breast:
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave me once again undone, possessed.
Think not for this, however, the poor treason
Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,
I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn with pity, -- let me make it plain:
I find this frenzy insufficient reason
For conversation when we meet again.


  Interpreting Millay's poem is one I find to be about meaningless sex and about womanhood and a gender-based identity poem. Millay writes of a woman who is distant to her lover who she "... Shall remember you with love, or season" (line 11) as though not to be tied down in any way to anyone in a relationship. This subject summed up in verse one "I, being born a woman... ......." identifies the speaker and how the sexes differ and how her feelings can not let blame be on her due to her being a woman and wants to not keep contact with this other person who she doesn't want their past to be brought up and not wanting this to be a "reason For conversation when we meet again(lines 13-14)." The speaker hopes to end this "propinquity" and possibly regretting now putting the idea or "notions of my kind"(line 2)" in the man's head thinking they could have more than what they did have or what she wanted. The past and the future among the two(the speaker and the apostrophe="You" and "We") is no longer existent and no need to be spoken of goes along with my theme and so I include it for my anthology. The poem consists of one 14 line stanza that's end rhyming word pattern is in a ABBAABBACDCDC(D) format. This many words rhymed can be difficult to do while still having the writing make sense and Millay pulled it off and so I liked this and chose to use it in my comparison of other poem's in my anthology.



"DayStar"
by Rita Dove
(1952)

She wanted a little room for thinking:
but she saw diapers steaming on the line,
a doll slumped behind the door.
So she lugged a chair behind the garage
to sit out the children's naps.

Sometimes there were things to watch--
the pinched armor of a vanished cricket,
a floating maple leaf. Other days
she stared until she was assured
when she closed her eyes
she'd only see her own vivid blood.

She had an hour, at best, before Liza appeared
pouting from the top of the stairs.
And just what was mother doing
out back with the field mice? Why,

building a palace. Later
that night when Thomas rolled over and
lurched into her, she would open her eyes
and think of the place that was hers
for an hour--where
she was nothing,
pure nothing, in the middle of the day.


~ Dove, Rita. "Daystar" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.413-414. Textbook.


  I think that from the first verse, Dove's poem is about wishing and hoping for something and so "She wanted a little room for thinking(line 1)" since it seems she needs to get away from all the stress that is in her life and so she finds a place to rest and a "place that was hers(line 19)" where "she was nothing, pure nothing(lines 21-22)" due to her being everything for everyone else like a mother and a wife. The roles the speaker describes is one that many people who others are dependent on may feel the same or associated stressful emotions like she feels, in which she needs to be alone and escape from at times. This is a hope that is not all that rare and is not always figured in due to only thinking about the good to come rather than the consequences and the associated downfalls that accompany one's future goals and even life's unexpected occurrences. It is, for some unknown reason, in some human's nature to have something and want more or want something different and so this can be interpreted in how the speaker feels and thinks being apart of the aesthetic and anthology's theme. The poet's structure is not of what is rhyme or rhythm, but more of a narrative of events in some woman's daily life that might be an elegy with the tone more sad and depressing feeling empathetic for the speaker; and so the structure fits in with poetry although not of a typical poem.  




"The Prologue"
By: Anne Bradstreet

1

To sing of wars, of captains, and of kings,
Of cities founded, commonwealth begun,
For my mean pen are too superior things:
Or how they all, or each their dates have run
Let poets and historians set these forth,
My obscure lines shall not so dim their worth.

2

But when my wond'ring eyes and envious heart
Great Bartas sugared lines do but read o'er,
Fool I do grudge the Muses did not part
Twixt him and me that overfluent store;
A Bartas can do what a Bartas will
But simple I according to my skill.

3

From schoolboy's tongue no rhetoric we expect,
Nor yet a sweet consort from broken strings,
Nor perfect beauty where's a main defect;
My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so sings,
And this to mend, alas, no art is able,
"Cause nature made it so irreparable.

4

Nor can I, like that fluent sweet tongued Greek
Who lisped at first, in future times speak plain.
By art he gladly found what he did seek,
A full requital of his striving pain.
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure:
A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

5

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong,
For such despite they cast on female wits;
If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.

6

But sure the antique Greeks were far more mild
Else of our sex, why feigned they those nine
And poesy made Calliope's own child;
So 'mongst the rest they placed the arts divine;
But this weak knot they will full soon untie,
The Greeks did nought, but play the fools and lie.

7

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are
Men have precedency and still excel,
It is but vain unjustly to wage war;
Men can do best, and women know it well.
Preeminence in all and each is yours;
Yet grant some small acknowledgment of ours.

8

And oh ye high flown quills that soar the skies,
And ever with your prey still catch your praise,
If e'er you deign these lowly lines your eyes,
Give thyme or parsley wreath, I ask no bays;
This mean and unrefined ore of mine
Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine.


~"The Prologue" 100 Essential American Poems.
edited by: Pockell, Leslie M. Thomas Dunne Books.
St. Martin's Press. 175 Fifth Ave, NY, 10010. pg.2-4. Book.


Bradstreet's poem about how women who are thought to be quiet and not able to speak their mind or be strong to express opinions, so as to write “The Prologue" with an angry tone while voicing for women who are treated as inferior to men in society. Bradstreet is describing the inclined roles that are said to be for women versus roles men are believed to have in a Puritan society such as in stanza 5 "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue(line 25), Who says my hand a needle better fits(line 26);" people object to women being intelligent and creative in writing and see the female sex as almost powerless(... "weak or wounded... .... ....") and in need of a man to be the hero and protector. Bradstreet infuriated about this idea and wanting to diminish it in societies whom this role was placed upon the female gender.

Minorities in history have been treated as inferior throughout earth's existence and these times of being unequal, it being race-wise or gender-wise, are the times people wished for change and so for the future these problems would be different allowing more opportunities for all people no matter their genetic and inborn characteristics that one can not help and should not have to prove or be ashamed of, since everyone is different and similar in ways. And so with a yearning for equality I see Bradstreet's poem fits in with my Anthology's theme.



"The Writer"

In her room at the prow of the house
Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden,
My daughter is writing a story.

I pause in the stairwell, hearing
From her shut door a commotion of typewriter-keys
Like a chain hauled over a gunwale.

Young as she is, the stuff
Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy:
I wish her a lucky passage.

But now it is she who pauses,
As if to reject my thought and its easy figure.
A stillness greatens, in which

The whole house seems to be thinking,
And then she is at it again with a bunched clamor
Of strokes, and again is silent.

I remember the dazed starling
Which was trapped in that very room, two years ago;
How we stole in, lifted a sash

And retreated, not to affright it;
And how for a helpless hour, through the crack of the door,
We watched the sleek, wild, dark

And iridescent creature
Batter against the brilliance, drop like a glove
To the hard floor, or the desk-top,

And wait then, humped and bloody,
For the wits to try it again; and how our spirits
Rose when, suddenly sure,

It lifted off from a chair-back,
Beating a smooth course for the right window
And clearing the sill of the world.

It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder.

~ Wilbur, Richard. "The Writer" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's.An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.470-471. Textbook.



Wilbur's poem "The Writer" is setup in the first stanza in which he says, "My daughter is writing a story.(line 3)" and he being her father is proud and wants what pretty much all parents want for their kids, to express themselves, either it be artistically or in any way, and be able to do anything they want to that is in best interest for the child's future. The speaker is in first person point of view and seems to be checking up on the child, but ends up "pausing in the stairwell, hearing" as the daughter is writing and typing that he may encourage her to convey her thoughts and talents that she is doing in her writing and know that she needs to make it on her own through this journey called life. I don't know for sure but the dad may be even more enthusiastic about her writing since he may like that she is possibly following in his footsteps and he "wish(es) her a lucky passage(line 9)" and later on in the final stanza and last two lines wishes again and exclaims, "I wish What I wished you before, but harder(line 32-33)," that I consider part of my theme and for it's aesthetic in wishing for the future and present that his daughter's journey and the path she chooses is a good one. I like the wishing not for oneself all the time, but find the speaker to be more considerate in wishing the best for a loved one instead.

There is metaphor that Wilbur compares and looks back on the day that the room the daughter is doing her work was the same room that a bird("starling") had been trapped in before and was scared so the speaker could only open the window for the bird allowing the bird to be free but still the opening of the window to make known the path that the bird could follow through leaving the room such as the same can be said for his daughter who he can not control but help her on her way. The "window" is what opportunities await such as the quote, "Whenever a door closes, a window opens up," so there are times things don't work out, but there are also other things that could happen that can be just as good or better. The title being "The Writer" is a great metaphor and idea in which the daughter writes her own story having her own creativity in life's choices that she makes on her way through life this being why I also constituted this poem into my anthology’s theme plus it’s length that is noteworthy.



"The Mother"

Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,
The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,
The singers and workers that never handled the air.
You will never neglect or beat
Them, or silence or buy with a sweet.
You will never wind up the sucking-thumb
Or scuttle off ghosts that come.
You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh,
Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye.



I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children.
I have contracted. I have eased
My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.
I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized
Your luck
And your lives from your unfinished reach,
If I stole your births and your names,
Your straight baby tears and your games,
Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches, and your deaths,
If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths,
Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.

 
Though why should I whine,
Whine that the crime was other than mine?--
Since anyhow you are dead.
Or rather, or instead,
You were never made.
But that too, I am afraid,
Is faulty: oh, what shall I say, how is the truth to be said?
You were born, you had body, you died.
It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.
 
Believe me, I loved you all.
Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you
All.


Gwendolyn's poem "The Mother" is ironic as with the title sounding to be about a woman who has had a baby, but from the start and first quote or epigraph, "Abortions will not let you forget" being foretelling of what the poem's theme really is. The poem is concerning the controversial subject of abortion and is in a format that is an apostrophe addressing the baby from the point of view of a woman who has had an abortion or varying number of abortions before. I like how the first line is using figurative language of personification in which 'abortions' have human abilities and has quality of "not letting you forget" what took place like an abortion can talk and remind you of what you did like sometimes kids knowing of what the parents did growing up end up using these things against them in how they were raised, which can be irony.


The irony of an abortion ending a babies life and yet the so said "baby" that was not born still is known to cause uneasiness in the remembering of those events that are difficult to deal with and emotionally burdening to have to think about for many woman.


I believe this poem goes well for my aesthetic in sense that the speaker seems to be distressed over what she has done and about the idea of abortions happening, which I think can show possibly having regret or just trying to clear her conscious more hoping for the past doings and rationale of her actions to be good enough for her and letting her move on from being distraught about the concept of abortions in general and whether it being a "crime... other than mine? " that makes for more contemplation by the reader of their ideas and opinion about abortion.




"THANATOPSIS"

by: William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

O him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight
Over thy spirit, and sad images
Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall,
And breathless darkness, and the narrow house,
Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart;--
Go forth, under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings, while from all around--
Earth and her waters, and the depths of air--
Comes a still voice.--
Yet a few days, and thee
The all-beholding sun shall see no more
In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground,
Where thy pale form was laid with many tears,
Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist
Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
Thine individual being, shalt thou go
To mix for ever with the elements,
To be a brother to the insensible rock,
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould.

Yet not to thine eternal resting-place
Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world--with kings,
The powerful of the earth--the wise, the good,
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,--the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between;
The venerable woods; rivers that move
In majesty, and the complaining brooks
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--
Are but the solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun,
The planets, all the infinite host of heaven,
Are shining on the sad abodes of death,
Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom.--Take the wings
Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness,
Or lose thyself in the continuous woods
Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound
Save his own dashings--yet the dead are there:
And millions in those solitudes, since first
The flight of years began, have laid them down
In their last sleep--the dead reign there alone.
So shalt thou rest: and what if thou withdraw
In silence from the living, and no friend
Take note of thy departure? All that breathe
Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh
When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care
Plod on, and each one as before will chase
His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave
Their mirth and their employments, and shall come
And make their bed with thee. As the long train
Of ages glides away, the sons of men,
The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes
In the full strength of years, matron and maid,
The speechless babe, and the gray-headed man--
Shall one by one be gathered to thy side
By those who in their turn shall follow them.

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged by his dungeon; but, sustain'd and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams

~ Bryant, William Cullen. "Thanatopsis" 100 Essential American Poems.
edited by: Pockell, Leslie M. Thomas Dunne Books.
St. Martin's Press. 175 Fifth Ave, NY, 10010. pg.18-21. Book.


  The poem I chose for my anthology by Bryant is one quite lengthy being 82 lines long, but the speaker's idea tends to fit in with mine and the poem's setup and format is dissimilar in ways to those of other poems I have chosen. "Thanatopsis" means "mediation upon death" and so Bryant writes about death and looks at the aspects of it that makes it so the reader can take in mind that death should not be feared or represented as being terrible, but is what everyone faces and Bryant's view of what happens when we die is more of joining in an afterlife as souls. Death is sometimes unexpected and not always easy to experience, but one can only hope for death to be painless and so thinking of death as is if to "lie down to pleasant dreams(line 82)" and so life and then death are both normal and inevitable to occur, and with all the inequality in the world "death is the great equalizer" and all who die are not alone but end up together in death with others so it is not so frightening when considering it this way. The imagery and the symbolization's for death and life are amazingly represented throughout Bryant's poem and the overall notion about dying is fulfilled the various kinds of figurative language used that is even better for analyzing this poem and comparing it to others.

Anthology Introduction!

1000 Word Anthology Introduction & Conclusion:
Theme: "Past regrets and Future prayers and wishes"

An anthology is a good way to learn and compare different writing styles by putting poems together into a collection based on a particular theme or topic in which then the person becomes like an apprenticed expert by using the knowledge gained of what a poem is and what makes a poem a good poem that may be opinionated, but can let others try to understand why this is believed by the person who is editing the poems in their collection. To edit an anthology there has to be some obtained knowledge behind what elements and substances are included in works of poetry and how they are used in getting the reader to try and interpret the meaning or figure the words and style to be considered a poem and many poets try to find their poetry worth reading, whether it being more complex such as Dickinson’s “When I hoped, I recollect” or simple to interpret such as Cope’s “Variation of Belloc’s “Fatigue”. A poet can keep these characteristics in mind to use in writing their poem(s) along with various poetic fundaments like poem structure; figurative language(metaphors, personification, apostrophe, pun, metonymy); sound effects; rime; spacing and format; stanza's; meter; stressors, and various imagery all of which make quite an impact for the reader that the poet may intend to do in order to help the reader understand the mood of the poem, speech, and background knowledge that the poet wants to come off through the poem.

My theme for my anthology is about life in general in it's contents that people make mistakes and do things that they may not like but can learn from. Then usually when something from the past does not end in a desired result these people tend to wish or pray for things to get better, so that is why I title my anthology and make the poems in it part of the theme, "Past Regrets and Future Prayer & Wishes." In this theme I think that I can find many different interesting and entertaining poems that could fall under this category also being useful in distinguishing various elements of poetry in editing poet's poems and then analyzing what makes a poem better in my opinion and whose poem can the reader see great imagery and saying who does it better in showing more of a certain poetic characteristic by comparing poems looking into these particular fundamentals of poetry.
I tried to choose and put poems in my anthology that were very diverse in format and in poet's lifetimes in history and showing how poems have developed, are similar, and dissimilar than other poems from around the same times, more recent, or later time periods. I like how sometimes knowing what events are going on in that poets lifetime can help the reader interpret and understand their poems better. No matter the poem being interpreted or understood in the same way as another reading it or by the poet who wrote the poem, it does not make a person bad at reading poetry and with that in mind it is a good idea to learn about poetry and everything that makes up the many diverse types of poems to at least give someone a start on why poetry can be hard to get through and yet knowing more about it can give the reader confidence even in attempting it.

There are many poem’s named for the exact structure they are created in and the structure of a poem is based on the number of lines, number of stanzas, the patterns of words or rhyming scheme’s, and the overall lyric length and genre in a poem. Some various kinds of poems whose structures make them what they are include sonnets, epigram, haiku, limerick, cinquain, quatrain, terza rima, sestet, villanelle, triolet, and sestina(“song of the sixes”), which some poem formats such as these kinds of poems is important to distinguish between, so that being a reason for choosing some for my anthology.
A certain poem with one of these particular structures and fitting in with the theme of my anthology is “Triolet” by Bridges that I included for comparison and editing along with Cope’s epigram poem. A “Triolet” is a short lyric where 2 opening lines repeated at the end 2 lines of the poem. The poem has 8 rhymed lines in which Bridges makes somewhat of a short poem that still tells so much in a dramatic story behind the speakers experiences. The end rhyming words Bridges uses are did not "guess" and "distress" and that goes along in meaning with the other rhymed words being "disaster" and "hard to master" that also correlate. These exact rhymed words in order can associate in interpretation of the poem better when "guess" goes to "disaster" that represents an event that was unseen and turned out bad while the result being "distress" due to a love relationship that was "hard to master" and difficult to make it work out. Although the lines are repetitive which I think can sometimes seem more like fillers in a poem and really wanting to stand out by the poet may be the primary purpose for doing is one style that I tend to not like as much, Bridges poem I don't think looks too excessive by doing this repetition of lines. the lines repeated are in some word order, but punctuation makes quite a difference in my opinion and this repetition I think is crucial in what I like most about Bridges poem "Triolet". The first line being a statement is later made into a question that still very much stands out both ways of writing it.   Other than the 2 repeated lines there are two lines of the six that are different and add more to the poem's understanding which would normally not be as good a reading in my opinion but this poem I find to be one of my favorites and a good example of a poem.


Another poem that is categorized due to it’s specific length and the tone is an epigram that is only two lines long that is also like a transformation of an existing poem that agrees with the original poet, but has a wit to it that makes it comedic. An epigram like the one I am referring to "Variation on Belloc's "Fatigue“ by Cope is found to be quite entertaining although very short that looks like it could just be a quote but is a couplet poem but can be made as a quatrain by definition of what an epigram is. Cope’s poem like Bridges has end rhyming words such as “rhyme” and “time”, and have one complete idea in a single sentence although made into two lines. The short length and what is stated in them makes for a good conversation piece about a class society and so I find it to still be thought out and meaningful also being good reading. I can see many who can relate to either one of these poems in one way or another and they are not too complex in their meanings or in reading.

There are two major categories of poems that are directed towards there being a particular format that the poem was made to follow or not and these two groups are open form(ex. free verse) versus closed form poems. Open form verse are put into groups like prose(paragraph), visual, and concrete(visual without much sentence structure rather more picture or image of visual objects that make up the page not being very literally meaningful). Most of the poems in my anthology are closed formed since they are created in a preexisting pattern or closed structure, but I included at least one open form poem to look at. “Easter wings” is an open form poem of visual poetry that is unique in showing an image, while still considered a poem due to the content and the rime, rhythm, and precise placement in which the words that are in the poem more than once are in or around the same part of the line and in a line of similar length that looks to be in the same portion of the whole silhouette too. The words “Most poor; with thee(lines 5-6)” and “Most thin. With thee(15-16)” are in the skinny middle part of the wings and the words “… .. … .. … … flight in me.(lines 10 and 20)” are both the end words of the last lines of in the stanzas, which Herbert must have done on purpose. I also see the indentation and word spacing of “As larks, harmoniously,(line 8)” that were put so to make the image symmetrical in shape. The open form poetry can be hard to create and perfect, but when it is done well it can make for a very entertaining and still be meaningful for the reader.

Free verse does not make a poem any less of a good poem just because it doesn’t always follow any of the basic poem features such as rime scheme, meter, or line and stanza particulates; it just can make it a bit harder for the reader in determining if some lyric or writing is a form of poetry.
Many poems have been created by people who are well-known as being poets, but others are created by people who are not known and don’t necessarily have a career in writing poetry. Some of those who do write for meaning or just for fun have been known to make great poems. One poem by an anonymous poet had language that they used in it that I don’t think they were even alive in the time period basing their characters speech in this manner, yet I still found the poem to be a good one. That is why I made my fourth poem “Little Lessons” which at times someone may try to write a poem and it not turn out to be one, but this one in it’s form and various poetry elements makes it a poem still. In this poem there is a story with two main characters and intends to be like a moral lesson or entertaining, which normally doesn’t always make a poem that great, but I see some rhymes and assonance in the second and fourth lines of each stanza and the sixth and eighth end words rhyming together in each of the three stanzas containing eight lines each. There is some repetition of the summed up refrain of the poem about “learning from other men” in lines 8, 16, and 24. “Little Lessons” being like the same language in the following poem by Anacreon who was actually from the times of this speech does not have the same rhyming scheme that fulfills each line of the poem like Anacreon’s does; that gives a distinction of poets from the past to some more recent in decades.

Going in order of poems in my anthology, the fifth poem is by Anacreon who lived in the early biblical times which I figure telling what people from early period’s in history had written for poetry would be great to look at also. I chose the poem “The Wish” by Anacreon, since I like to vary in my anthology and this poem I find to be more complex in reading for me not knowing the words, especially with the language and speaking during that time period, but reminding me of Shakespeare and I wanting to try to figure this poem out in English and ways I understand and then afterward decide if I think it is a good poem having much meaning and what qualities I see it contains in it after-all, such as figure’s of speech and so on. The rhyming of the words that are not all heard in our everyday language goes together really well with the poem’s main idea. Anacreon did all end rhyming in this particular poem’s structure being AABBCCDDEEFFJJCC, so rhyme scheme sounds while reading it tend to be used quite a lot back then like it is with some poets nowadays. I can see a bunch of figures of wanting to be something else than what he is and is like a backward personification in which he doesn’t long to be human but a thing instead, which is interesting to do. The poem is appealing in this way and can arouse feelings and there is plenty of imagery there that makes it possible for the reader to put themselves in his place when reading it or try to understand his feelings of what he means. Now that I know the conversion I do think this is a good poem and think Anacreon’s poem did mean a lot to him and that there are people who can relate to this in life longing for things that may never be possible or get the chance to have happen and that is a good and common occurrence in some people’s lives wishing for some goal and great accomplishment and so interpreting Anacreon in this way makes this poem even more relatable for people that were from his time and all throughout history making it a good poem in my opinion.

My sixth and seventh poem choices are by the same poet and since some poet’s have a certain style and others don’t always make poems according to some specific trait of theirs like with Dickinson’s spacing technique, I thought that including a few poems by the same poet would be interesting to do. Yeats was one poet I chose to look at two different poems of his and compare them. Yeat’s poems I look at are “He wishes for the cloths of Heaven” and “A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety.” These poems I chose to compare to each other and to poems by other poets and I discovered that the poems are similar in that both Yeats’s poems are only two stanzas and about the same length. I find quite a few differences in them both though since in the poem “A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety” there is a rhyming scheme and in “He wishes for the cloths of Heaven” there are not any rhyming words that I see but just repeated words like as the last word in each line is at least said one more time at the end of another line and repeated words some stated twice in one line, so all these words must be really meaningful to him and he wants the readers to notice them making them stand out over again. Another thing I see different is that the first poem “A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety” has spelling that doesn’t look to be spelled wrong, but in “He wishes for the cloths of heaven” there is a certain word that is spelled differently than what comes up in the dictionary which is the word “Enwrought” but yet again it might be like a British spelling or something like that. I also found that both are quite sad with an elegy kind of mood from my interpreting, but the second more depressing which might be a popular style in Yeats’s poems bringing up so many feelings and yet is unique for my theme since both fitting in to having wishes and regrets that I hope is not what is seen in all his writings, since I don’t find it good to always fret and keep stressing about the past, but rather better to try to change these and grow on or move forward from them. Yeats’s poems are both useful for my anthology and I do like them both, but would also like to hopefully get some more hopeful and happier poems that don’t always have a regret in order for the wishes that are said to be made. I also noticed that the word tread was used in Yeats and Anacreon’s poems and both being sad so this helps make a distinguishable feature of similarity in two of the poems by different poets I have included works by in my anthology.

Comparing Yeats’ poems to Anacreon’s poem I really don’t find too much difference in their setup and styles besides the language due to time periods, but otherwise the stanzas and there being some rhyming words at the end of some lines in both poems like Anacreon’s rhyming “anoint-joint” and “deck-neck” and in Yeats’s “A Drunken Man’s Sobriety” poem there are rhyming words such as “still- fill” and “punk-drunk,” so these are both great aspects of poetry. There is even as much imagery in both poems that can be figured in every line although Yeats might be more of a single or few scenes rather than in Anacreon’s that has more of completely different ideas during the instances in time than the dancing and graveyard, but I still think both are really good poems and they both are very emotional from whoever is speaking’s point of view being able to also place yourself in the drunken man’s body or the person he is dancing with, so both have great emotional appeal.
Many of the poems I’ve chosen that do rhyme have a common trait of rhyming lines of even numbers together like two and four with six and eight and sometimes ten and twelve that can be seen in “A Drunken Man’s Sobriety” and the same two with four and six with eight in “Little Lessons” so the stanza would have a ABCB scheme. Other poems have end rhyming that are in lines counted off by two’s and Brome’s “Humility” follows this pattern similar to Anacreon’s but is AABBCCDD in each of the two stanzas which shows conformity in the closed form structure of poetry.
Then my ninth and tenth poems are two more poems that are by a single poet that lived around the same time as Yeats, but both poets are different in their poetic structure and ideas. This poet I also took two poems from for my anthology is Dickinson and the poems of hers are “When I hoped, I recollect” and “Success is counted sweetest” that both contain her trademark spacing using the – symbol to represent a stop or pause for the reader. The poetry term for a pause being cesura(e), so I picked “When I hoped, I recollect” of her many others due to it's content and format that is three stanzas of mainly iambic trimeter except for the first two lines of the second stanza that adds a fourth stress at the end of the line. Dickinson's style has end rhyming of the second and fourth lines in each stanza and the structure is set up according to an ABCB scheme that makes it unique. I noticed in all of her poems she has spacing using (---) throughout her poems that is a good trait describing her style in writing, but this poem has the least spacing caesura where the reader is supposed to pause within the line of verse. The only cesura I see with the (---) to separate words is in the first line of the last stanza around the word "-dying-" that makes it stand out along with the end exclamation point. I see more punctuation in this than in "When I hoped, I recollect" and more rhyming, but I still find that both poems are good in the structure and format that just sets them apart more as being uncommon.  

I chose my eleventh poem that is by someone who had a poem published in a literary journal and is not particularly a known poet in history who writes many poems but this possibly being his only poem written. The poem is called “Love yourself, be yourself” by Blackburn and he makes it out to be a sweet emotional poem with the speaker asking a person who he directly addresses(apostrophe) “Why.” The poem’s words and format goes well and is unique in being centered in five stanzas and the last line made specifically to be the only a few lines in that stanza to stand out since I think it is the main point that the poem was to endure; “Why would you want to be yourself If you do not love yourself?(lines 26-27)”. Blackburn does it differently in not being a story, but there being something that gives the reader background thinking of what the speaker is trying to express feeling-wise to another who must not be happy about them self. There are some related ideas and representations that are put in a line that don’t go normally go together and these metaphors like telling someone to “Open the window that stops the lovebirds from flying music into your heart(lines 13-14), which is not a quality we are capable of doing but it makes a it is strong statement that has an idea of emotional appeal along with the “Sweat out your self-doubt (line 9)” that is interesting wording that we as human’s sweat but not part of our views and thinking, so it is put in words another way than get rid of you self-doubt that would just not be as good of poem in my opinion without the metaphoric figurative language in it. “Love yourself, be yourself” is a poem that I can relate to feeling and is appealing, so even someone who is not experienced can write really impressive stuff like Blackburn has.

“O Captain My Captain” is twelfth in my collection and has a formatted structure that each line is to be around the same length within the stanza making them be a certain shape throughout the poem. There are figures of speech that have end rhyming in lines 6 and 8 of each stanza; these rhymed words being “red(stanza 1, line 6)” and “dead(stanza 1, line 8,” “head(stanza 2, line 6)” and “dead(stanza 2, line 8),” and “tread(stanza 3, line 6)” and “dead(stanza 3, line 8)” that are useful in their denotation but also for connotation since these ideas are all related to the perceived concept of death. Again the word “tread” is a familiar symbol when the poem is sad like in Anacreon’s and Yeats’s that I had included earlier. Whitman did this poem well in symbolism and representation of a captain dying metaphor for the president dying both being people who are important to the main objective which the captaon who is boss in sailing the ship and the president is the boss in running the country. The poem’s tone is one of sorrow and worry for what to happen due to loss of someone that had control and kept things together among those among the ship or the citizens of the country. That is why I find “O Captain My Captain” to be such a great poem in it’s structure and appeal.
The thirteenth poem I chose is “Birthday Cake” that does not contain the ordinary rhyming scheme, but is made into three set stanzas of six lines(sestet) and the words Goodman uses are so vivid for the imagining such as sight and touch from the lines, “ to eat the fire and not the cake and drip the fires from my teeth,(lines 5-6)”. These elements needing to notice can be vital to making a good poem and so I included it too in my anthology for reading various poems.

My next poem in my anthology is “Ballad of Birmingham” by Randall is one full of conversation among two characters like that of “Little Lessons” that could be made into a small skit. Looking at poems like this one is similar to Shakespeare’s poems that he had formulated for his screen plays which makes it a diverse form of poetry, but just as moving. From the beginning quote,
“Mother dear, may I go downtown
Instead of out to play, And march the streets of Birmingham In a Freedom March today?”
the reader can get an idea of the relationship of the two characters and what events are occurring so the poem has a setting during a specific historic time that gives more input and emotional impact for the reader to try and relate to. Randall describes life and death that the he must see as inevitable and unstoppable; when the time comes dying happens no matter how hard someone tries to prevent it. The format that a poet makes their poem out to be and the language that is used can easily show their opinions and views about life through their writings and this poem by Randall I see does this and a reason for having this be the fourteenth poem in my anthology collection plus it makes for an exceptional poem.

“Prayer” by Hughes is also a poem the reader can tell what the times were and what the poet’s feelings about their views in life are, especially in Hughes poem what stands out is that it is one of ethnicity and personal identity. It is a shorter but the speech and repetition of words “Gather up” results in passion being heard by the speaker who wants people to “Gather up…. In the arms of your pity(and love)” . The end rhyming of words in lines being “city” with “pity” and “love” with “above” that can then be linked in meaning being that he feels the city is in pity and there is a need for love from above, so word choice helps make Hughes poem great.
Other poems are important due to the poet being not just ethnically identified but also gender identity can make a difference in expressing certain aspects of life and feelings towards mis/treatment of their kind and inequality is a common appealing subject for high emotions in writing, so after Hughes identity poem I admitted two poems by women poets that talk of gender-roles in their societies through history.
My fifteenth and sixteenth poems are Millay’s “I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed” and Dove’s “Daystar.” Sometimes have more stress placed on them due to their inborn characteristics that throughout history has made many be seen and treated as inferior or a minority, which provides for very emotion evoking times and experiences that the poets speak of. Millay accumulates her poem from the first two lines
“I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind”
and goes on to talk about her being treated according to what society had made distinctions about the qualities a woman should have. In Dove’s poem she goes into an actual scene of what takes place in her life being a woman who is a wife and a mother. The poem setup without any rhyme or usual poem elements, but more of a chapter taken out of story that is narrated so this is another example of an open form poem that could be from or made into a whole story that poetry is impressive to be changed from one kind of literature form to another.


I looked at many short poems, but it is important to have long poems too being that there are many that have made great poems in their significance and overall poetic elements. The last few poems I included in my anthology are quite lengthy and some kind of heavy in reading. The first being a poem by Bradstreet called “The Prologue” is defined as an opening to a story or writing, that I wanted to go in the beginning being the first of the longer poems I thought my anthology should be organized in this way and it still goes along with gender identity themed poems that I had just talked about. Bradstreet wrote “The Prologue” and I think the whole form of this poem being greater in length; a sestet poem of 6 lines in each stanza, which many poems being shorter makes including this poem for editing better to conceit and compare to those of smaller length and informality in structure to. Bradstreet being so long has really good word choice with end rhymes, exact rhymes(“plain,” “pain” and “sure,” “cure”), eye rhymes(such as “able” and “irreparable”, assonances, and consonaces(slant rhyme like “forth” and “worth”) in all the lines of every stanza. This can be hard to do with the poem and not making sense, so this being such a long poem and being interpretable and apprehensible by the reader makes it really impressive and an excellent piece of writing. I also chose this poem, since the subject that Bradstreet brings up is very emotional for her and telling of the times and so the theme full gender-related responsibilities and her trying to stand up for her beliefs and a cause in writing this poem is riveting to me and a reason I like it, although I normally do not like to read too long of poems, the purpose of “The Prologue" I think makes this poem very worth reading.

“The Writer” by Wilbur is also very lengthy, but different with there being an amazing metaphor and not much rhyming as was in “The Prologue” that makes it different, but very good in my opinion. Wilbur's poem's structure is stanza's of three lines or a tercet and is blank verse without rhyming, but yet it still has an emotional tone and attitude by the speaker with closed form poem format. The tone is like wonder by the father and quiet being "silent" and just "hearing" the daughter instead of interrupting her, he stands aside letting her do her own thing and not sure what she has in mind. This attitude I think many parents can relate to and is fairly easy to try to feel how the speaker feels. There is very much imagery and symbolism within the poem of life's journey and obstacles being compared to a "ship carrying cargo" and a "starling(bird) being helpless stuck in the room" almost being stranded and trying to survive there although given a chance to get out just waiting for it to notice and try to reach the window. The visual imagery is grand and the hearing the "commotion of the typewriter(line 5)," "starling chirping and dropping to the floor(line 24)," and "the chain hauled over a gunwale(line 6)" are vivid in my imagination. There can also be figured the tactile imagery also of the "clamor of strokes(lines 14-15)" of the "typewriter-keys(line 5);" and the reader can put themself in the daughter's shoes or at least I can remember being off in a room trying to do my homework or just writing for my own reasons, so that can make for even tactile imagery by the reader. The idea of being open to the world and that outside of one's present reach is a great concept that I like to believe that trying for something gives anyone a chance to achieve anything, even if thought to be impossible or improbable it is always better to look for a glimmer of hope that can be concluded among the poems in my anthology theme.

“The Mother” is really emotional and has a mix of similarity to the other two long poems in which it contains metaphors and some rhyming so I chose it next. I chose to include "The Mother" for my being able to compare the format and style used, especially with the many kinds of figurative language in Gwendolyn's poem that gives a strong feeling in stressing "You“, who is the apostrophe she is addressing, as if the unborn fetus or baby could hear the reasoning and the woman's speech. The thirty-three line poem is full of rhyming words like most end rhymed words and assonances‘ along with a hint of alliteration like in line 14 with the reiteration of the consonant ‘s’, “I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized”. The repetitive use of the word "never" concluding that due to not being born there are many things among the principle of human life that the baby normally does have, but in this case the nonexistent life means that they don't even have a chance for the ability and "never" will. Gwendolyn's precise word choice is memorable in it pulling the poem together even more along with the symbols of having a baby and what goes with it such as "thumb-sucking, crying baby tears, and having little or no hair" provides a lot of imagery. There is visible imagery, sound imagery, and some tactile imagery(touch) too. Imagery being hard to master in all the senses, but Gwendolyn pulls much of it off in this poem of hers.


Comparing those various poems to the longest by Bryant that is 82 lines in length. This poem named “Thanatopsis” that I have as my last poem in my collection to leave it on an optimistic note even with it being very long in lyric I think the general idea the poet has about life and death is a more calming one, so I decided to end my anthology with this being the last poem in it. “Thanatopsis” has an interesting word choice with much alliteration in the first words of a verse and some in the end words beginning with a specific consonant. This poem of all the poems has the most imagery for sight I noticed like with “golden sun, ” “heaven,” “woods,” “wilderness,” and again I noticed when talking of “death” the poet uses the word “tread” a few lines later, so particular ideas must bring up the same words and figures in mind even by quite diverse poets. What makes this poem so great I think is the topic of death and how people should think about it differently than the typical sad and scary occurrence, but more of what comes next that is more positive since in Bryant’s view it isn’t necessarily the end that everyone is alone in, but something that all get to be with others again. So the poet’s overall idea and the words and structure of the poem for description into this idea makes “Thanatopsis” one of my favorite poems although really long.


I also included a song in as a piece at the very end of my anthology, since I think it is important to distinguish various writing’s from others even though all forms are seen to be artistic forms of expression.

Poems can be difficult to spot since they can also look or sound to be some other types of written works like a story for a book, or a quote, and even a song. In order to help someone point out a poem from another literary work I am including a song as the last piece in my anthology and comparing that with it's traits that separate it from a poem, although there are times that written works can be considered both a song and a poem, but I will go into depth on why some songs that seem to be poems a lot of the time are not. Don't think that a poem can't be made to be a song though, because some poets have used verses and ideas from poems to create a song. This specific order being how my anthology is organized for reading alike poems that are also different making it easier for comparison being by each other in my anthology’s collection of poems.

Sarah' Anthology Poems #11-15

Love Yourself, Be Yourself
By: Justin Blackburn


Why do you dream of being someone else,
When you are so beautiful
When you are filled to the furthest galaxy
With the endless amazing ability to change and
create yourself
Into the beautiful person you hide inside


Why are you so searching so far and wide for love,
When there is an endless supply inside you


Sweat out your self-doubt
Under the shining safety of the stars burning
Buy your fears a new car
Send them driving happy down the road listening
to love songs
Open the window that stops the lovebirds from
flying music into your heart

Feel eternal youth by staying up all night
Let the earth cover you in morning dew
Chase a butterfly through the pasture of human
emotion
When you come to the ocean
Bathe in the soothing natural noise of sweet reality
Dry off in the sun
Choose the moment's deepest divinity for yourself,
For everyone

Love yourself so you can be yourself
Why would you want to be yourself
If you do not love yourself?

~Blackburn, Justin. "Love Yourself, Be Yourself." from pg.20 of Open Minds Quarterly.
Volume XI, Issue IV, Winter 2010. a publication of Northern Initiative for Social Action.680 Kinkwood Dr., Bldg. 1 Sudbury ON, P3E 1x3 Canada. Literary Journal.


The poem "Love Yourself, Be Yourself" is one poem that many may relate to which is one I find to have really good powerful quotes behind it such as "have faith in yourself," and "how can anyone else love you if you don't love yourself?"

Everyone is different and with perfection not being a realistic thing to achieve, one should know what they do and don't have a go on from that instead of always longing for being something else which can be hard to do in a world that tends to focus on appearance that reminds me of the quote "beauty is only skin deep" and do think this is a statement that is completely true. Everyone's idea of what beauty is differs and self-conscious is human nature and does no good, especially in trying to be something else that I believe the poem may also be referring to also. Overall the poem has a great message in my opinion one I can personally can associate to feeling of wanting to try to be in another's shoes or change something about myself.

This poem is about encouraging those to stop wishing to be something else but instead adapt and find oneself which could help to not end up in regretting that also goes with my theme of wishes and regret, but is trying to prevent past regrets and future wishing that only solely bring one down, so it goes opposite of many of the other poems I chose in which Blackburn is trying to aim for not wishing for so much and finding the potential one has inside instead, but still see it as fitting into my theme. I decided to go with this poem, since it is by a person who is more of an amateur poet that’s poem I think is just as good as those more experienced.



"O Captain! My Captain!"
By: Walt Whitman
(p.319)

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

~ Whitman, Walt. "O Captain! My Captain!" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.319. Textbook.

I like this poem by Whitman since the "Captain" is a representation of Abraham Lincoln and the events during his assassination and I found the visual setup for this poem to be really unique going at a slant along with the poem having much meaning and bringing up many emotions by reading it if one were to know the background being based on the real events that took place.

Whitman made it full of imagery and great rhyming scheme putting exclamations for showing more of the surprise by the people who knew him and were around to see this happen. It is a bit long telling a story of Lincoln's death as if he were a captain of the ship although he was the president which I think is a good metaphor since people look up to the captain and he is very important to the ship like the president is to the country, so it is a great idea that Whitman used when he wrote this poem.


"Birthday Cake"
By: Paul Goodman


Now isn’t it time
when the candles on the icing
are one two too many
too many to blow out
too many to count too many
isn’t it time to give up this ritual?

although the fiery crown
fluttering in the chocolate
and through the darkened room advancing
is still the most loveliest sight
among the savage folk
that have few festivals.

But the thicket is too hot and thick
and isn’t it time, isn’t it time
when the fires are too many
to eat the fire and not the cake
and drip the fires from my teeth
as once I had in my hot hot youth.

~ Goodman, Paul. "Birthday Cake" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.95. Textbook.

This poem by Goodman I found to be about a guy who is getting older and wishes to be young again and stop aging, not wanting to celebrate his birthday any longer due to the missing his youthful years. "Birthday Cake" is supposed to be good and what one looks forward to, but in his mind he would rather "eat the fire and not the cake." I imagine the speaker being a grumpy man or at least sad wanting to be younger in age like before. Goodman’s tone of the speaker is that of a questioning angry mood towards aging and the whole birthday ritual from his verse “isn’t it time to give up this ritual?(line 6)” and so this poem goes with my anthology's theme; the speaker wanting the birthday ritual to stop happening at some point like he wishes to stay at one age and not have to deal with the impacts on the body that come with. Goodman’s figurative language is one to recognize, so I chose to use this poem for comparison in my anthology.



"Ballad of Birmingham"
By: Dudley Randall
(pg.133)

"Mother dear, may I go downtown
Instead of out to play,


And march the streets of Birmingham
In a Freedom March today?"

"No, baby, no, you may not go,
For the dogs are fierce and wild,
And clubs and hoses, guns and jails
Aren't good for a little child."

"But, mother, I won't be alone.
Other children will go with me,
And march the streets of Birmingham
To make our country free."
"No, baby, no, you may not go,
For I fear those guns will fire.

But you may go to church instead
And sing in the children's choir."

She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair,
And bathed rose petal sweet,
And drawn white gloves on her small brown hands,
And white shoes on her feet.

The mother smiled to know that her child
Was in the sacred place,
But that smile was the last smile
To come upon her face.

For when she heard the explosion,
Her eyes grew wet and wild.
She raced through the streets of Birmingham
Calling for her child.

She clawed through bits of glass and brick,
Then lifted out a shoe.
"O, here's the shoe my baby wore,
But, baby, where are you?"


~ Randall, Dudley. "Ballad of Birmingham" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.133. Textbook.


This poem by Dudley is one in which it seems that even the slightest change in decisions such as allowing the child to go or not to go to march in the streets of Birmingham, even if for a cause the child was not knowing of the danger that could go on, so "Ballad of Birmingham" I see as a regret for the child's decision and a wish that her baby was alright and safe instead of killed by the explosion that occurred. It is a horrible occurrence and time in history, especially for children to be in unsecured places. Seeing that this poem can be included in my anthology due to the mom regretting making the decision to tell the child to go to church instead and brings up the concept of the idea that destiny and what is meant to happen will happen no matter the place it is hard to protect and plan out and being cautious as to the consequences since bad outcomes can come about from any decision made. Sometimes it is just about whether or not paths are made for good intentions, but still can end up disastrous and that is one part of life that anyone can go through and have to live with although it seems quite extraordinarily tragic, so wishing for the best and for safety of loved ones is what is the only option people have at times.



"Prayer"
By: Langston Hughes

Gather up
In the arms of your pity
The sick, the depraved,
The desperate, the tired,
All the scum
Of our weary city
Gather up
In the arms of your pity.
Gather up
In the arms of your love-
Those who expect
No love from above.


~ Hughes, Langston. "Prayer" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's. An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.352. Textbook.


Langston's poem is about the gathering of the tired, sickly, and criminal of a city all be brought together-united with love from the pity felt for them. It also talks about God from there being "No love from above." I chose this poem because I like how it is of personal identity and I like how it is set up like a speech and Hughes's style that contains some rhyming and talks about a strong topic expressing his emotions through his writing which in this case is a prayer-like poem. Hughes repetitively exclaims to the reader's to "Gather up" which stands out within the poem. I included Hughes poem in my anthology since it still goes along with my theme wishing or praying for the world to change.

Sarah's Anthology ( poems #6- 10 )

"A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety"
by William Butler Yeats
(1865 - 1939) Timeline


Come swish around, my pretty punk,
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill.

Sobriety is a jewel
That I do much adore;
And therefore keep me dancing
Though drunkards lie and snore.
O mind your feet, O mind your feet,
Keep dancing like a wave,
And under every dancer
A dead man in his grave.
No ups and downs, my pretty,
A mermaid, not a punk;
A drunkard is a dead man,
And all dead men are drunk.

~Yeats, William Butler. "A Drunken Man's Sobriety" from pg.347; 312. of The Collected Poems of Yeats. Revised Second Edition. Edited by Finneran, Richard J. Simon & Schuster Inc. Scribner Paperback Poetry. 1996. Book.


Yeats talks about something that can become such a problem for people and has been causing trouble all throughout time in deaths and addiction and this addicting substance is alcohol. The speaker is known to be an alcoholic before and wants to change this by being sober and abstinent represented in the line “sobriety is a jewel.” Alcohol affects the body but also results in others deaths so it is just not a good habit and the speaker fears or worries it being the death of him. Starting an addiction is usually one thing people tend to regret doing, so that is why I chose this poem as being a past regret in even starting to drink for the speaker. My theme being regret and wishes for the future both can be fulfilled and seen in this poem since the regretful thing of drinking is now leading him to wish and make a goal of stopping, so I think it fits well with my theme.

Another reason this poem is good for my anthology is that it can be a more recent poem in which I can compare to some of the older ones like Anacreon’s and even other poets around his time.



“He wishes for the cloths of Heaven”

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

By: W B Yeats

*Enwrought= worked or woven into material, especially decoratively

~Yeats, W B. "He wishes for the cloths of Heaven." Source from: Public Domain Poems. http://www.publicdomainpoems.com/wishesforclothesheaven.html.
http://ellenolinger.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/w-b-yeats-he-wishes-for-the-cloths-of-heaven/. Google Advertisement.
~Yeats, William Butler. "He wishes for the cloths of Heaven" from pg.73-74. of The Collected Poems of Yeats. Revised Second Edition. Edited by Finneran, Richard J. Simon & Schuster Inc. Scribner Paperback Poetry. 1996. Book.

I think it is good not just to compare one poet to another's poetry, but also the same poet and two different poems by them, so that is why I chose to do another one of Yeats’s poems, but this one is called “He wishes for the cloths of Heaven,” that is quite similar, but also different when written. “He wishes for the cloths of Heaven” is what I think is about a person being regretful and wishing that they had gone through in trying to or being able to try and carry out their dreams that are now being tread on and in so he wishes for the cloths of heaven since he being poor either in judgment and possibly literally did not have light and his hopes of “golden light” were only “dark light and night,” so they did not work out. This is a good teaching of when making goals carry them out and it may make quite a difference in one’s life rather than just continuing on miserable without anything that would be important to the person. This poem if made after “A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety” could be a continuation in his life in which he wanted to become sober and quit his addiction but failed at doing so, which would be a sad instance for him or anyone I think. I compared two of Yeats’s poems for analyzing among the same poet and editing can show different styles and forms poets like to try and vary in.


"HUMILITY"
(from "Northern Lass," 1632)
by: Richard Brome (c. 1590-1652)


NOR Love nor Fate dare I accuse
For that my love did me refuse,
But oh! mine own unworthiness
That durst presume so mickle bliss.
It was too much for me to love
A man so like the gods above:
An angel's shape, a saint-like voice,
Are too divine for human choice.

Oh had I wisely given my heart
For to have loved him but in part;
Sought only to enjoy his face,
Or any one peculiar grace
Of foot, of hand, of lip, or eye,--
I might have lived where now I die:
But I, presuming all to choose,
Am now condemned all to lose.

~ Brome, Richard. "Humility." from Northern Lass stage play http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/humility.html. 2002. Website.
VOCAB:
·mickle= great or abundant
·humility= The quality or condition of being humble or modest


This poem by Brome is in another time period (1590-1652) that is diverse from the other poets I have done so far and so this is another good poet to try and edit their poem and compare to others. “Humility” is a poem that after looking up the poet’s background he was a servant, so this can let the reader imagine much in the background story of the poem written. I decided on using this poem for my anthology since it is different in the other poets I have chosen so far and I thought was more of a happier set poem than some of the others, but ends up being just as bad with the speaker dying or being dead.

Brome has a style of rhyming each of the lines to another one such as to be the last word going with the last word to the following line being an AABBCCDD pattern in each stanza which makes it similar as continuous rhyme schemes are in some songs and yet this has a meaning that is imaginative in statements not having much of a story in the literal words, but behind it probably more and knowing the title being “Humility” of having personality traits of being humble or modest and in so this does seem like it would be a good way to stay out of the middle not getting involved in fights, but then this quality turning around on him in the end “now condemning all to lose” since not choosing a side and this could be good or bad but I think matters what is the story and how important the choosing may have made a difference or had an effect that may have prevented an even worse outcome. It does not really say and leaves kind of a cliff hanger, which many poems can do but I am thinking that this did not end well for them along with him since in the last few lines he exclaims that “he might have lived where now he is dying.” Since he is now dead I think that there is much regret or hopes of having done something differently so that being a reason for including it in my anthology.


“When I hoped, I recollect” by Emily Dickinson

When I hoped, I recollect
Just the place I stood --
At a Window facing West --
Roughest Air -- was good --

Not a Sleet could bite me --
Not a frost could cool --
Hope it was that kept me warm --
Not Merino shawl --

When I feared -- I recollect
Just the Day it was --
Worlds were lying out to Sun --
Yet how Nature froze --

Icicles upon my soul
Prickled Blue and Cool --
Bird went praising everywhere --
Only Me -- was still --

And the Day that I despaired --
This -- if I forget
Nature will -- that it be Night
After Sun has set --
Darkness intersect her face --
And put out her eye --
Nature hesitate -- before
Memory and I --


Emily Dickinson



~Dickinson, Emily. "When I hoped, I recollect." http://www.lovethepoem.com/famous-poems/when-i-hoped--i-recollect-by-emily-dickinson/

“When I hoped, I recollect” is one of many poems by Emily Dickinson that I think shows much in her style and yet can still be compared to other's poems and other poems' of by her that make it different. I chose this poem since it is of a poet that I have found to be really good and meaningful in many of her writings and she is one of my favorite. I chose this poem to go along with my theme since it is about the speaker that hopes for something more rather than the events that already occurred that seem to be bad and he/she may have regrets toward. The speaker reminisces about times in his/her life and doesn't recall other times that may be intentionally forgotten about such as in the "Day that I despaired(line 17)" in which many people don't like to think about the bad times in their lives. The speaker even during bad times does know say that "Hope it was that kept me warm--(line 7)," so looking for the future and thinking positive helped during those ".... ... ..... ...... cool(line 6)" times that's denotation being chilly and later ".... .... ....Cool(line 14)" possibly meaning frigid whose connotation being that of the dark and horrible times in one's life. I like the caesuras' and format of the poem being quatrain stanzas but the last stanza that could be seen as the last two stanzas joined to make one or just a way that Dickinson wanted to put it so that is showed that these verses end and conclude her poem. There is not much for rhyme schemes in this poem, but it still has the components of poetry so I included in my anthology for a varying in aesthetics.  


"Success is counted sweetest"

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory

As he defeated—dying—
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!

~ Dickinson, Emily. "Success is counted sweetest" from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's.An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.332. Textbook.



The idea behind Dickinson's “Success is counted sweetest” poem is that those who don't and "who ne'er succeed(line 2)" are those who long and wish to, while those who do accomplish their goals or wins in any sense, does not tend to think about it as much. It is like the idea that longing for something is when someone cares and ponders on a goal, especially if unattainable or so close to reaching it seems so much more important than if someone actually does reach their goals they are glad but don't have to stride as long since they know it was attainable and are more confident about their "Victory" and "triumph." The idea is that people who wish for something and have a desire to win continue to want and find it greater of an accomplishment, while those who had wanted to win and do usually are not always putting all their energy and time into succeeding as often, so hoping to succeed by those who never do can be connected to my anthology's theme of praying and wishing for things to go a certain way in the future. I chose this poem by a poet I already had chosen a poem from to be used in my anthology, to be able to compare and contrast another poet's work to that of their own, so I can compare the style in this poem with that of "When I hoped, I recollect" also by Dickinson.

Sarah's Anthology #1-5

Theme: "Past regrets and Future prayers and wishes"


"Triolet"
By: Robert Bridges(1876)     

When first we met, we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master;
Of more than common friendliness
When first we met we did not guess.
Who could foretell the sore distress,
This irretrievable disaster,
When first we met?—We did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.



  I see this poem by Bridges as being about a relationship that turned out to be an "irretrievable disaster" and "love as being hard to master" so she wishes to take back the day these two had met resulting in a miserable relationship. The relationship only left distress and bad memories, so she regrets the day they had met which is why I included it as part of my anthology. Bridges or the speaker must have had a very bad experience in the past that she wants to take back. I for one know that some relationships are hard to deal with and can go wrong, but I never want to have to have one that causes heart broken people or hate in the end. I'd prefer ending on good terms and still be able to be friends, but sometimes one discovers more about a person in this case the other in their relationship that was not known before and is a deal breaker or both can drift apart which hopefully can be tried to work on, but does not tend to open and change a lot. Life is unexpected and surprising in some ways. Bridge's "Triolet" being part of my anthology because I like the type of poem format being a triolet poem which is different and can be compared to the other poems I chose to edit in whether I like this poem structure better and reasons for this.  


"Variation on Belloc's "Fatigue"
Wendy Cope (1992)  

I hardly ever tire of love or rhyme --
That's why I'm poor and have a rotten time.


Cope's poem is only two lines long being a couplet, but I like how it is a variation of another poem in which makes it a funny short poem with a sharp turn of comedic wit and meaning. Cope's poem "Fatigue" is a variation of "Fatigue" by Hilaire Belloc that is also a couplet poem but her lines are:  

I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.  

These poems both support the same idea of choosing between "Money" and career versus "Love" and family that is difficult to pick and prioritize at times, but usually has to be done and so one is paid more attention to while the other is set aside a bit and sometimes completely depending on the person. Cope's poem has a witty turn in the end, which I like about it since it is like a comedic poem that many poems being more serious makes for a twist for including in my anthology. The poem is short, so it does make it harder to compare with word choice and figurative language, but I think is important to see differences in all forms of poem's and their structure's so this being why I chose an epigram to try and edit for my anthology. Plus the idea I think can fit into my theme since the speaker sounds like they may have regret and know the consequences of their decisions and so he/she is less fortunate and has a "rotten time," not "tiring of love or rhyme," so Cope agrees with Belloc's main point's and yet doesn't learn or quite get why she chooses love over money. Many times people may hope to have one thing like "money and having pleasure" but still having their heart set on putting more time and effort into "finding love" so this not allowing the the other to come true. I know I have always thought love is more important to me than money and that may also be why I am not very fortunate in money although now having the chance to try and accomplish goals to make more money is one of my priorities at this point in time, but I try to keep close with those who I have relationships with since I don't want to lose those knowing that it can happen quite easily, so maybe Cope is thinking over her priorities and whether or not she should create more options in which she won't be "poor" or "have a rotten time." The contemplating over what was chosen and what one wants is a different idea and so is another reason for liking this poem and admitting it in my anthology.


"Easter wings"
By: George Herbert


Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,
Though foolishly he lost the same,
Decaying more and more
Till he became
Most poore;
With thee
Oh, let me rise
As larks, harmoniously,
And sing this day thy victories;
Then shall the fall further the flight in me.

My tender age in sorrow did begin;
And still with sicknesses and shame
Thou didst so punish sin,
That I became
Most thin.
With thee
Let me combine,
And feel this day thy victorie;
For, if I imp my wing on thine,
Affliction shall advance the flight in me.


~Herbert, George. "Easter Wings." from Kennedy; Gloia, Dana's.An Introduction to Poetry Thirteenth Edition. pg.216. Textbook.


Many see that Herbert's poem is about God from the lines about repairing our wings by grafting them to God's such as to afflict pain will allow closer communication with the Lord. I also interpret it in this way but also get that the poet writes that the speaker wants or wishes to try to get closer to God and their maker, possibly trying to see what it would have been like in his place or how that could have felt to be in his position saving others by giving up much and having died for a cause that may be considered quite "victorious." In this interpretation I include it into my anthology being a wish for the future in meeting God someday.

This poem is different than others in form being a visual poem and a verbal silhouette poem that is both unique in it's entertaining the ears but also the eyes as someone reads it. The visual image is that the poem's structure is set up to look like wings and is a conventional symbol of the title "Easter Wings" in which wings are symbols of saints and angels and metaphor comparison of these to birds that are archetype creatures seen in mythical times and so these tying together the idea of the "Lord". The times also link the language during the biblical times using "thee" and "thine" so understanding the speaker more including the background knowledge would help for interpreting as to relate with the speaker even if the reader's beliefs are different, it is good to be open- minded and try to relate no matter the topic. In differences the poet can be influenced by their ethnicity, gender, and beliefs and this poem can be seen as having an religious distinction by Herbert that makes it even stronger in religious stance in emotions for some readers and this makes it more fascinating and different this way. I personally really like this free verse/open form poem type, and when the poet can pull it off well it makes it even more appealing to read, I think.



"LITTLE LESSONS"
An anonymous poem

THE love I bear you, dearest,
Would make the sweetest tale,
We'd sail upon a sea of bliss,
And I would lift the sail.
Our happiness would be sublime,
Surpassing tongue or pen.
You may as well learn things from me,
As to learn from other men.

"Oh! you have touched me--deeply--"
The young thing whispered low.
He pleaded: "Come! oh! come with me."
She could not answer: "No."
She said: "I'll be your pupil."
And softly added then:
"I may as well learn things from you
As to learn from other men."

They dined alone that evening,
And the young man got his wish.
They even broke the unwritten law
Of: "Nevaire before zee feesh."
At half-past three, next morning,
He staggered home again.
She had taught him tricks he never knew,
That she'd learned from other men.


*Anonymous. "Little Lessons" is reprinted from Poetica Erotica. Ed. T.R. Smith. New York: Crown Publishers, 1921. Poetry Archive Poems. 2002.
~http://www.poetry-archive.com/a/little_lessons.html. Website.

“Little Lessons” is a poem that I think has the component of being ironic and not too difficult to understand. It seems to be based on or intended to be thought of as written in the past time with the language of the characters being of the past spoken form. It seems to be about two people meeting and trying to hook up in a sense or a guy hitting on a girl who may have been somewhat of a pervert or in it for physical relations and so the girl goes along with it and fibs or acts in a way she thinks will impress him or get him to think he can take advantage fulfilling his wish, but in the end she is more advanced in her knowledge than he is learning from her and maybe being better off before being with her or the same afterward if she had ditched him, but it doesn’t necessarily say that she left, but he seems to be drunk and alone, so that is why I’m thinking so.

I chose this piece of poetry to be included in my anthology since it goes along with the theme of his wish or more of short-term want in this case that he wishes for something to be more just for himself in interests and I think a bit greedy in doing so. It is a twist to the poem’s story that I tend to like most and another reason why I chose it. It is a good poem for my anthology being about fulfilling his wish or fantasy and this ending up possibly being a regret later since the girl did not tell him but made it seem like this man was her first learning from and like she was inexperienced in life, but in the end it seems that she has all along had been with other men in which she then ended up teaching him a thing or so. This poem not being more of a wish from making mistakes beforehand but wishing first for something that turned around on the person and I liked that idea in the poem.
 


"THE WISH"
by: Anacreon (c.572-488 BC)

NIOBE on Phrygian sands
Turn'd a weeping statue stands,
And the Pandionian Maid
In a swallow's wings array'd;
But a mirror I would be,
To be look'd on still by thee;
Or the gown wherein thou'rt drest,
That I might thy limbs invest;
Or a crystal spring, wherein
Thou might'st bathe thy purer skin;
Or sweet unguents, to anoint
And make supple every joint;
Or a knot, thy breast to deck;
Or a chain, to clasp thy neck;
Or thy shoe I wish to be,
That thou might'st but tread on me.

Anacreon. "The Wish" TRANSLATED BY THOMAS STANLEY, 1651. from 2002-2010. Poetry Archive Poems. http://www.poetry-archive.com/a/the_wish.html. Website.
VOCAB:
· unguents= ointment or salve for healing
· tread= walk on like tire tracks


  Anacreon is very late poet from BC times and I like to see the difference and how over time and the years poetry has changed but yet all can have great meaning. This poem I find to be about a guy that is longing or hoping just to be acknowledged in the woman’s life or even an inanimate object that touches the woman and it seems like he is desperate and would do anything for her, since would want to be a necklace, bathe water, an ointment for her wound, a shoe, or the ground that she walks on. It is pretty well written with rhyming words and still making his point very clear and seems romantic in a sense, but may come off as creepy depending on her and his situation, which sounds like she won’t give him a chance. If this being so then this is his wish in hopes of any of these things happening is why this is a good poem for my collection.