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Names: Kristanna Jean, Carolina Rodriguez, Dazzirae Chumbley, Tori Mckinney

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Names: Kristanna Jean, Carolina Rodriguez, Dazzirae Chumbley, Tori Mckinney

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Arthur L. Wood is the UK poet which wrote "Poems for Susan" which he released in 2020. He is from Hampshire in England. He studied drama at the University of Winchester. He uses his youtube account, "Poetry from the Shires" to post videos of himself reciting classic poetry as well as his own poetry.

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Theme/Message: Journey with the one you love.
Figurative Language: The poem uses anaphora because a lot of the lines start with 'and'. The poem also uses a lot of imagery, such as the 'whitethorn tree', 'fields of hay', 'buzzards block the sun', 'pantheons of stars allure', 'sheep beside us bleats', and more.
Poem's Structure: The poem’s rhyme scheme is ABAB. The poem has 3 stanzas and 8 lines each stanza.
Tone: The tone is flirtatious and lighthearted.
Mood: The mood is simplistic and happy.
What stood out/How does it relate:
The way the author described his surroundings and the setting helped to convey his emotions and to make his poem feel surreal.

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Names: Prem Patel, Giselle Mendoza, Destiny E, Trinity Wilkinson 

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Names: Prem Patel, Giselle Mendoza, Destiny E, Trinity Wilkinson 

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Names: Chloe Carter, Kathleen Favela, Ethan Trang

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Names: Chloe Carter, Kathleen Favela, Ethan Trang

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Names: Amera, Carolina V, Deborah, Soliyana, Stephanie 

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Names: Amera, Carolina V, Deborah, Soliyana, Stephanie 

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Names: Sarah, Harmony, Devany, Hailey, Angela

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Names: Sarah, Harmony, Devany, Hailey, Angela

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UK self published poet Arthur L Wood, wrote his first book "Poems For Susan" in 2020.

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Message/Theme: In this Poem Aruthur is conveying the love he has for susan. He describes how he wants her to be with him through anything and anything they go through Giving different senarios or thoughts of them being together. Basically stating that He wants her to be with him from start to finish through thick and thin.

Figurative Language: The figurative language used is when he desribes the different places they'll go and be at. for example, Dive deep into the ancient realms with me, fly to me with my woodland spites, Take life with me in the forest's crystal air. and others describing how He wants her to be apart of his life.

Poem Structure: The structure is pretty normal it repeats words and phrases such as "sail away" and "absorb my love" to further emphizes his love for susan and his and his want for her to be with him.

Tone/Mood: The tone of this is Loving aswell as the Mood, maybe slightly bitter sweet but overall loving because it describes How he wants to "sail" away with her and how he wants to love her.

What stood out the most? the repitition of "Sail away" beacause he uses that phrase many times almost like describing how he wants her to run away from problems with him and go or move on to better places which is why he also says "sail away from me with me" almost like he may be unhappy with himself or past self but still wants to be with her as a new person.

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About the poet: Arthur L. Wood is a contemporary poet from Winchester in the UK. He is heavily inspired by previous forms of poems, and he published his first book of poetry, "Poems for Susan" in 2020. 

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About the poet: Arthur L. Wood is a contemporary poet from Winchester in the UK. He is heavily inspired by previous forms of poems, and he published his first book of poetry, "Poems for Susan" in 2020. 

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Arthur L. Wood is a poet from the UK and he released his first book “Poems for Susan” in 2020. In his childhood he would spend his time composing a poem. He draws inspiration from observing creative energies in the world as well as from the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats.

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Arthur L Wood is a poet from Hampshire in England. He studies drama at the University of Winchester and then decided to focus on writing poetry. Currently, he has a Youtube platform, where he uploads recordings of classic poems and his original work.

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Arthur L. Wood is a 21 year old ,UK-based poet from Hampshire . He published his first book ¨Poems for Susan¨ in 2020. He was inspired by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.

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Theme: Even through tough times, you can always prevail and look toward the future. It's important to keep going forward and to persevere.
Figurative Language: "I journey on and pad my soul with hope", "And dance despite the ken the daring telescope Can reach- and yet infinity is so ******* long", "And first on Pleasure feed and carve my glorious way!" - All of these are representing the speaker's trying effort to tackle life's dilemmas. By doing so, he speaks about surrounding his soul with hope, to continue "dancing" (endeavor) about even though he will have to for a very long time, and "carving" (striving) through existence.
Tone: Bittersweet, sentimental, nostalgic
Mood: Determination, tragicomic, poignant
What stood out: To me, what stood out the most was at the start of the poem, the speaker admits to being in a state of melancholy, even almost miserable. I like that it was included because the way he builds up from a gloomy to hopeful, promising attitude
Connection: I especially resonate with this poem because sometimes, really all you can do in life is try to just look beyond the past, and try to just endeavor through.

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4) The overall message of this poem is his fascination, and how he feels about a woman.
5) [Imagery] My lust never poisoned my sight - Despite the fact that he keeps thinking about her, he is keeping his distance.
[Imagery] She stung me back to the light to realms of love to explore - To emphasize how she brings out the best in him, the author uses the phrase "realms of love."
The spirit I seek to adore - He expresses how he is excited to move forward with her.
6) A rhythm I found is in lines 4-6
So pure and so sweet and so white
Through ready to burn or entwine
My lust never poisoned my sight

7) "The spirit I seek to adore" was the line in the last one that resonated with me the most. I appreciate how optimistic the author is about the future with her.

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Theme: A person is capable of having more diverse experiences in the world around them, rather than them learning everything from just a school or university.

Figurative Language: Diction consisted of old words, there was repetition of first and last lines, lots of imagery, and metaphor when describing school to Hell.

Word Choices and Style: The author chose to repeat the first and last line in each stanza of the poem, creating an emphasis on the poem's overall message.The poem uses an A-B-A-B-A-B-A-B rhyme scheme, and the author's choice of words are very old.

Tone: Aggressive and Defiant

Mood: It leaves the reader reflective of their own experiences and also leaves them feeling empowered.

What stood out the most to you: The constant repetition of the first line and last line in each stanza stood out to us, as well as the usage of metaphor to compare school to Hell.

What connection(s) can you make: As a student, school at times feels very chaotic and we feel the need to rebel against the system.

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Theme: Yearning for someone can be overwhelming but there is beauty in the struggle.
Figurative Language: "Tidal in the growing eyes, and the protean change of size," "Gorgeous on the groaning land moaning for a sweet demise," " Above your touch my swelling chest fills the space between the sky." These all go to show the author's longing for a woman and how the emotions that are brought out of him entirely fulfill him till the point of overwhelms. The author uses personification and hyperbole to demonstrate his emotions.
Tone: Adoration and contentment
Mood: Infatuated
What stood out: The main thing that stood out to me was how one person can make us feel so fulfilled to the point we tend to lose ourselves in them. It's good to be in love with someone but we should never let it get to a point where we make them the center of our lives and don't make time for ourselves. That can have a major impact on our mental state.
Connection: A lot of people in the world go through a phase like this in their live and for some it can be tough to somewhat overcome but with time you can. I myself have went through a mini stage like this but it took me seeing what it was doing to my mental state to focus on myself and better my own being, before I want to add someone to it.

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Theme: Love, Hate, and Heartbreak
Figurative language: Metaphors such as ¨twilight fall to the rushes¨ and ¨day times of misery melt.¨ The metaphors brought insight on the authors emotions during a time of heartaches.
Diction, structure, tone, mood:
diction/ classical word usage
What stood out the most?: to me the words used stood out the most, the words were very classical .

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Poem 2 has a futuristic theme. His words repeat, "could we.. .?". Creating a wishful tone, the poet describes how he envisions his life with Susan. He tells us that his love for her is eternal, and often uses sweet foods and the beauty of nature to metaphorically speak of their ideal relationship. This combination of food and nature resembles a picnic, which can symbolize their bond as well- fresh or peaceful.

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Theme: Regret felt because of harm inflicted on a loved one.

Figurative Language: The author uses a metaphor as a way to  compare his Love to an angel.

Word Choices and Style: There is an A-B-A-B-C-D-C-D rhyme scheme. Capitalized a word to put emphasis on it.

Tone: Regret and Sorrow

Mood: Pity and Compassion

What stood out the most to you: The poem was short, but held deep meaning about regret and love.

What connection(s) can you make: The feeling of wanting to hide yourself from shame and regret is relatable, as well as the feeling of regret after harming a loved one.

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Theme/Message: There is beauty in ever relationship
Figurative language: The author uses imagery throughout the poem to present how beautiful of a relationship he is in. For example, "I may have been in paradise" "...your sunlit hair" "And something even gorgeous in spells of midnight air" are all forms of imagery shown to give the reader more insight on how the author feels about Susan. Wood also uses repetition such as "...feeling feeling I was feeling",  "...calling I was calling", and "hoping hoping I was hoping" for the same reason.
Tone: Affectionate and romantic
Mood: Hopeful and sentimental
What stood out: The author seemed to notice the small things about Susan such as the way her hair lit up in the sun, her midday spirit, and also the energy she had in the morning. This shows how much Arthur loved Susan and how hopeful he is to continue his relationship with her.
Connections: It is very common for people to go through the phase the Arthur is going through in this poem. He was so in love that he was hoping he would never have to let go of her.

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Theme: Eternal love.
Figurative Language: ¨the sweet expressions of the heart¨, ¨thy warrior in the face of death¨, and ¨with precious air in gentlest Act¨ , these signs of figurative language add emotions to items that don´t have emotion,  and also allows you to imagine the poem yourself.
Diction, Structure, and Tone Mood:
diction/ words of love and compassion
structure/ stanzas
tone and mood/ in love, wanting something more
What stood out the most?: To me what stood out the most was the word usage, and how expressive he was towards her.

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Message/Theme: Love, Heartbreak, Emotion. Love is a powerful emotion.
Figurative Language: "Her glory is my art" - The author is using his significant other as a reason to create his art.  "I welcome all these gushing songs, Yet rip my life apart." It's almost like he's listening to emotional music that tears into him that amplify his emotions.
Poem Structure: The poem is structured in a chronological order I think. I presume he's either dealing with the loss or breakup of a loved one. He feels like his life is being ripped apart without the one he's writing about.
Tone/Mood: Dark tone, makes the reader question what the situation is.
What stood out the most?
The line "I sacrifice my heart to love" is what stood out to me. The author puts all that he can into loving this girl.

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Message/Theme: Love, Awareness
Figurative Language: Allusion to the Trojan war, metaphors like "And gentle readers may with prying tongues", "thou and  are free to fly into each other's dreams and play", and "now distance can be a thought". Rhymes like "name/shame", "crime/rhyme", and more.
Poem Structure: At the beginning of the poem he starts talking about the Trojan prince and Leda and sets a comparison between them and him and his lover and then starts talking about her solely. Then he ends the poem by describing that he finally understands why the Trojan war took place by thinking of his lover. He also used old english language throughout the poem.
Tone/Mood: Happy, Smitten
What stood out the most?: What stood out the most in the poem was the final lines when he realized it was desire that started wars and understood why when he thought of his lover. "Until I thought of thee and knew the cause. Desire takes the Gods and conjures wars."

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Theme/Message: just be in the moment, excitement of love
Figurative Language: personification, imagery, rhymes,
Poem's Structure:
Tone: light and fun
Mood: light and fun
What stood out/How does it relate: the poet starts off with a light fun mood as he goes into detail about the excitement of first love. the poet uses lots of rhymes, imagery, and personification to convey how deeply he feels for said person.

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Theme: The struggles of time differences in a long distance relationship.
Figurative Language : The writer uses repetition in lines 10-12 ( To trial..., To die..., To wake...,) to list the things he desires to experience with his lover. When the author uses a simile in the line, "Away from one another, as the sands" , he refers to dial hands on a clock mentioned in line 17, being separate from one another as sand separates from itself inside of an hourglass.
Tone: dreamlike, fantasizing, longing
Mood: romantic
What stood out most to me was that the rhyme pattern kept changing. The first stanza has a pattern of A B A B while the last stanza has a pattern of A B B A. Additionally, the second and longest stanza also has an inconsistent rhyme scheme.

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Theme: After a heartbreak, it is difficult to find trust in love again.

Figurative Language: The author uses metaphors to describe his love and how he became cautious when it comes to love and trusting someone with his.

Word Choices and Style: The author uses early modern English words. The rhyme scheme is A-B-C-B-D-E-D-E.

Tone: Saddened and Cautious

Mood: Sympathetic and Hopeful

What stood out the most to you: What stood out was he usage of the old English in his poem.

What connection(s) can you make: When someone hurts you, emotional or not, it makes it hard to trust them again.

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Theme/Message: Its okay to walk onto new ventures in life even without having a clue or have the tools to tackle the reality in front of you.

Figurative Language:  Personification -'Waking thoughts '

Poem's Structure: ABABC
Tone: enlightened
Mood: Skeptical but hopeful - he shows that he only knows love as this set in stone idea but starts to realize his thoughts are probably holding him back from truly experiencing love from this " muse" he speaks about .

What stood out/How does it relate: ' Its unknown territory , love, .... Yet I am quite bewitched by every sight" . Showing that he has probably never really dealt with love in this way and he is more confused on how to keep this muse in his life pleased because he can't remove the thought of her without feeling lonely knowing this feeling of love that he is feeling is something that he truly is starting to cherish .

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Theme: There is hope out in the world. There is hope for better times and for normalcy.
Figurative Language: The author used personification when he said "Dust returns to Time". Also, used personification for " Joy invades the moan" and " Glory walks in gold."
Tone: hopeful, glee, optimistic
Mood: joyful, promising, assured
What stood out: The author believes God's return to Earth will bring good things. Everything will turn back to normal and everything will be good.
Connection: Religious people can relate to this poem because of the promise of God returning to Earth to make it into a better place.

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Theme: wrath.
Figurative Language: repitition, the line "drive to the farthest reach of the road" is utilized twice to emphasize how much anger is within him.
Tone/structure/mood: fury or envy
What stood out the most?: When he kept saying "at the ground" first going from rage to spit, it showed how his anger had grown from the first to the second, and almost reveals loathing/pity.

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Theme/Message- Love

Figurative language - The poet uses figurative language to describe the beauty of the woman in the poem, describing her lips as “cherry red” and her skin as “pure as Alpine Air”. The beauty of the woman is the cause of the poet's lack of comprehension of the woman's words as she is so beautiful it is distracting.

Diction/tone- The tone in the poem at first seems reminiscent with a hint of sadness because you can tell from the past tense word choice that she is no longer with him for one reason or another . “Her skin was as pure as Alpine Air”.

What stands out- What stands out the most in this poem is how he use a hyperbole to say that because of her beauty he was never able to comprehend a single word that she said. “And I could never comprehend, A single word she had said”

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Theme: Love is uncertain, but people will follow love blindly anyways.

Figurative Language: The author used a lot of metaphors do describe his ideas and to help the reader visualize his intentions.

Word Choices and Style: The poem had a A-B-C-B-C-B rhyme scheme. Poem contained some old English words and has some complex words as well.

Tone: Passionate and Yearning

Mood: Heartening and Moving
What stood out the most to you: The use of old English was noticeable and the use of a lot of metaphors helped visualize what the author intends to say.

What connection(s) can you make: Love is an uncertain factor, and a lot of the time it is just a lot of trust in the other.

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Theme: The world is broken, but it can still be saved.

Figurative Language: The author uses metaphors to describe the conflicts and the need to take care of the Earth.

Word Choices and Style: The poem has a rhyme scheme of A-B-A-B-C-D-C-D. The author has a couple of ole English words, but the poem primarily included a lot of names in it.

Tone: Encouraging and Discouraged.

Mood: Disheartened and Motivated.

What stood out the most to you: The thing that stood out the most to us was the fact that it included Covid in it, and it was kind of surprising that the poem was new enough to include Covid in it.

What connection(s) can you make: The poem primarily talks about how the world is going into shambles, with all the conflicts and Covid, etc. and we have seen what these conflicts have done. The damages cause by Covid and all these conflicts are all around us.

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The message of this poem is about wanting to run away from life's daily grind and pass the days with your loved ones.

In stanza 1, Wood uses the phrases "where pheasants fill the soul with glee, and buzzards block out the blazing Sun." The pheasants and buzzards could represent what other people could consider as empty practices that do not make your life better and may make it worse, while the author does not think so, and the Sun may represent life's responsibilities and the pressure it brings. These buzzards and pheasants of distractions bring bliss by blocking out these distractions.

The poem is structured like a typical day, where the time passes through dawn and midnight. I believe he uses this structure in order to represent his wishes for his "day", or rather the rest of his life.

The tone of the poem is strong wanting, hopeful, but resigned. I feel like he wants this to be his life with his lover, but he knows that that can never happen, no matter how much he wants it.

What stood out the most to me was the metaphor about the buzzards and the pheasants, because unless I completely misunderstood it, it really resonates with me as a teenager with wanting the things that are not necessarily good for me.

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This poem seems sad. Author seems to be depressed. He has got his heart broken by a girl. The theme is sacrificing his love for this girl. The author says "Her glory is my Art", symbolizing she is beautiful and pure. He explains that he gave his heart, everything he had to her, to love. He portrays this girl as ‘art’.  But he got hurt. The way he fell in love with this girl and ended up with a broken heart. His word choice seems very firm and concrete. He uses a lot of strong words to really get his point of him being sad across to the reader. At the end, he mentions songs. He explains that he is listening to sad songs while he enjoys them, they remind him of the break up.

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Theme/Message: With the world going through hard times, it's important to try to stop the anger and change the world.

Figurative Language:  "The world is rich, the world is poor" is an example of figurative language because two extremes are describing the same thing (the world).
"A Hermit I a Hermit she" is a metaphor comparing the author and Susan to a Hermit (a person living in solitude as a religious discipline).
“I listen to the voice of earth” is a personification because they are giving the human characteristic ‘voice’ to the earth.

Poem's Structure: The diction uses old English terms, such as “yeats” and “hermit” and also uses current terms such as “covid”. The poem uses the rhyme scheme ABAB. The structure of the poem is 4 stanzas with 8 lines in each stanza.
Tone: The tone is angry and hopeful for redemption.
Mood: The mood is regretful and also slightly altruistic.

What stood out/How does it relate: The term “Covid” makes the poem relative to recent years and makes the poem more emotional. The lines “Today I wondered will I die to policy or men in arms?” stood out a lot and evoked emotions.

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Theme: Moving on to find something unexpected/ better.
Figurative Language: Such as "Like the heat of the day, surrenders to night."
Diction, Structure, and Tone Mood:
Diction- The words used in the poem would be described with a negative connotation.
Structure- The structure has foreshadowing and hints to you about the the situation without telling you the full story.
Tone- It is Pessimistic
Mood- the poem make the reader feel uneasy about the nuances of love.
What stood out the most?:
That the poem does not turn out the way you expect it to.

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Theme: love
Figurative Language: synecdoche, "wealth" can mean rich or much of something.
Poem Structure: 1 stanza
Tone: Reminiscing
What Stood Out the Most: Poets from all around are starstruck by writing, they admire what he has written and have the ability to feel what he feels.

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Message/Theme: Love
Figurative Language: The author uses metaphors, and personification to show his never ending love for Susan.
Poem Structure: In the beginning of the poem the author starts out by describing how much he loves Susan using descriptive words, he then lovingly talks about their moments together, and finally ends the poem by talking about their future together.
Tone/Mood:
What stood out the most?