Haiku Poem Analysis 17341w

Pizza Nobnom Mr. Aaron Neugeboren English 1003 January 29, 2016

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Haiku Poem Analysis Sound of a stream, Sunlight dancing on waters, Life wakes up again. This untitled Haiku poem was written by Roumiana Tsenkova in 2004. I chose this poem because I like the way the language forms, personification and alliteration, were used to depict things in the poem. The writer does not use difficult words to describe things in the poem; she uses easy understanding of words to represent the action of non-living things. This conveys the image of waking up in the middle of a peaceful place, surrounded by nature, where you can eventually hear the water in the stream, flowing in the early morning. The relaxing sound of the water in the stream, and the sunlight gives the reader a warm sensation that there’s life and freshness. This life and freshness reflects on how we can start over and ‘wake up’ to new adventures. The incidents that happened in the past that had sorrow and sadness would be left behind and flows down the ‘stream’. When life tries to bring you down, you would have to continue and move on, starting a new day and make the best out of it. The literary devices that are used in the poem are personification and alliteration. Personification is used to compare one thing to another. The writer described the action of sunlight by using the word ‘dancing’ to give the sunlight, which is non-living thing, a human characteristic. The sunlight is not actually dancing on the water, but it’s shining on the water that moves all the time. So, the writer used dancing to describe how the sunlight is moving on the curvy water. Alliteration is used between the words ‘sound, stream and sunlight.’ The use of alliteration helps the poem to be more catchy because the repetition of the consonant sound in each word makes the word stand out and thus, become more memorable to the reader.

Pizza Nobnom 1 Mr. Aaron Neugeboren English 1003 January 29, 2016 According to the explanation about how the writer uses different types of language forms to describe things in the poem in the above paragraph, I think the writer was very successful in expressing ideas and feelings to the readers. Even though, this poem is short and simple, there are still some deep meanings hiding inside each word.

Pizza Nobnom Mr. Aaron Neugeboren English 1003 January 29, 2016

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Choose one poem and write an essay (minimum two paragraphs) analyzing the poem that you have chosen… You must wait until after 6th period today, Thursday, January 28th - when there are 64 poems (one from each student in 1001/1002/1003) to look over and choose the one you want to write about... It is up to you to be as creative as possible when writing, but you must include information / analysis of the literary devices used in the poem, meaning / interpretation of the poem in your opinion-own words and why, and why you have chosen the poem/why do you like it or find it interesting…

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