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This is one of my many senior photos I got done in August down in downtown Waukesha

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Hi, my name is Taylor Hanson! I’m senior here at Waukesha North High School.

I have an older sister who goes to Carroll University and a younger brother who goes to Meadow Brooke Elementary School. I have 2 dogs and 2 cats that are absolutely adorable 🥹

I do some extra curricular activities here at north. I have been in the drama club for 4 years and have been a stage manager form3 of those years. I was in the color guard for our marching band for 3 years (I unfortunately couldn’t do it my freshman year because of COVID 😭), and I was a color guard captain for 2 of those years!

My plan for next year is going to UW-Oshkosh to major in Kinesiology (Kinesiology) and hopefully later continue into a Pre-Physical Therapist track for graduate school either there or hopefully at Carroll!

The purpose of this blog is to journal this English the rest of the year as I finish off my last year in high school.

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This is Lance! He is the first cat we have and we adopted him at HAWS

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This is Bucky! My sister recently found her outside of her workplace, and we ended up keeping her! We originally thought she was a boy until my sister took her to the vet…

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This is Ripley! She is the second dog we got! She is a husky, akita, wolf-dog mix!

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This is Diesel, and he is the first dog we got! He is a french bulldog, Boston terrier mix!

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In class we read the poem “After Second Shift” by Lowell Jaeger.

This poem talks about a woman helping about an elderly man who seems to be lost (possibly has dementia). It brings out imagery and strong words to tell the empathetic story.

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In class we read the poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop.

In this poem, it talks about losing thing but the items being loss get progressively bigger and bigger (not literally). It goes from losing something simple like the keys to your house, to then losing somebody.

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In class we read the poem “Voodoo Mood” by Lowell Jaeger.

The poem “Voodoo Mood” is about three men that are grilling steaks. The first man talks about shooting animals for fun, and then each man shares a memory of when they went hunting. The poem is structured in three-lined stanzas. The central idea of the poem seems to be that our actions may not lead to the best income.

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In class we read/watched poems and stories about parents and symbolism.

The poem I’ll be talking about is “Negative Space.” In the poem, the writer recalls the moments he has had with his father and how his father taught him how to pack a suitcase. This was due to the father always being gone.

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I read the poem “A Poem to Emily” by Miller Williams. The poem is about a grandfather writing this poem about his newly born granddaughter. The poem begins with him talking about her being just born, describing her petite features and their age gap. In the middle of the poem he talks about her future—being an adult and having her own life and her own kids. Finally, the poem ends with him talking about her sharing the poem and how she can read the message he stated when he is gone. The underlying message of this poem is that although someone might not always be there physically, they will always be there emotionally and mentally there (with love).

I found many poetic techniques in the poem. For instance, one line that stood out was “… I know you will have read them this so they will know I love them and say so and love their mother.” This line is important because the writer is pushing out the message of loving his family. I also found an interesting image in line “a day I watched awhile beside your bed, I wrote this down, a thing that might be kept awhile…” The image gives the poem an emotional effect of seeing this grandfather writing about his new granddaughter right on her bedside. Finally, the sound of the poem is characterized by its reminiscing tone. It gives the poem the feeling of reflecting into the future, being able to image something so cherishing.

I can find connections to this memory poem because I’ve had many things given to me to show my family members love even when they’re gone. For example, my grandmother gave me her mom’s old diamond rings to remember not only her, but to make them into something in the future to always keep her around.