A couple paragraphs of an essay about tone

In the poem, "My Papa's Waltz" The boy has an ironic attitude toward his father which gives the poem an ironic tone. The speaker of the poem is a grown man looking back on his childhood as a boy with his father. The poem has an ironic tone because the speaker writes this poem that in one way seems like the boy and his father are romping around and dancing together, but when you read this poem closely, you can see how the language and the way some sentences are written are telling a different story, a story of a father who was rough or even violent with his boy when he was drunk.

In "My Papas Waltz", the speaker says, "But I hung on like death, such waltzing was not easy." I can not see a reason a boy should have to hold on like death for such activities as a waltz, Waltzing is usually fun and easy and there wouldn't be a reason to hang on like death. These statements are very ironic. Even the words in this poem are dark and ironic. For example, the words death and not easy. Theres nothing in this poem that gives an impression that the boy is happy or having a good time.

F***ing Sonnets

Dad

Fathers day is such a special day
I'm so happy to share it with you
I'm so happy things worked out this way
I don't know what I'd do without you.
I know at times we had it rough
and you thought that i might be dead and gone
I'm sorry that I acted so damn tough
but things got better as our lives went on
I'm so glad you've been there for me Dad
Always there to give me the push I need
You picked me up when things were so so bad
and made my life a bit more easy
I can say that you were the best father
I'm sorry for not being the best daughter

I believe that the form did have an influence on the subject matter of the poem I wrote. I think that the form feels to me more serious. I tried to use poetic language, but I find it hard to write a poem with so many restrictions. I would have been able to use a lot more poetic language if I was writing free verse or other types of poems that are not so restricted. I find it hard to be able to say exactly what I need to say, or let the reader know exacly what I want them to know when a poem can only be 14 lines and so on.

Creative

1)Haiku

My Beauty

She is beautiful
Like the petals of a rose
The love of my life

2)Limerick

Sue

There was an old lady named Sue
Who decided to go to the zoo
She got a massive fright
from the monkey that night
and now she don't have a clue.

3) The form of my writing influcenced my content because when writing a haiku, the form has a more serious feel to it. The form of a limerick has a more sing song form, making it hard to write a serious limerick. Thats why most limericks are funny.

Critical Approaches For Interpreting Literature

English 1080                                                                                                                                                        Jan 13/13

 All the approaches MaMahan mentions seem to be appealing to me. It would be hard to pick one certain approach for all pieces of literature. I think that some poems or stories can be looked at by one approach while another story or poem would be better looked at by a different approach. With that saying reader response is the approach that I picked to analyze the poem, “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun” by William Shakespeare.  I believe that William Shakespeare is expressing his feeling for his mistress and for the relationship they share.  I believe that different readers will react to this poem in a different way, each reader can make sense of the poem in the own way., for example when Shakespeare writes,” My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;” one reader may think that Shakespeare is just telling us that his mistress has pink lips. Another reader may think that Shakespeare is using metaphors to tell the reader about how he feels about his mistress. Also different readers are going to think of the name he uses to talk about the woman differently. One reader may think  that mistress is just a word to describe a woman that you are in a sexual and emotional relationship with, another reader may think that the word mistress is used to describe a woman who a man is having an affair with, or the second woman.  Depending which way you would describe the word mistress can change the outlook on this poem tremendously. I believe the writer is describing the way he feels about his relationship with his “mistress” and I believe that is why he is describing the way she looks in an unflattering manner, for example when he writes, “ If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.”  I also believe that in spite of this he still loves her because he writes,”and yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare.” This is just what I got out of reading this poem. A different reader probably would have got a different analogy after they read it. That’s why reader response is my favorite approach for the poem, “My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun.”