4U-PoetryDeconstruction1 by MrBeggs https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1 Made with swagger en-us 2016-09-15 14:23:10 UTC 2025-12-11 06:01:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png Post your content/structure/style analysis HERE MrBeggs https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124305483 2016-09-16 12:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124305483 Content (Group 2) https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124751964 The speaker is a women
Self conscious of body size

]]> 2016-09-19 14:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124751964 Structure (Group 2) https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124752622 9 lines
9 syllables
1 stanza
9 represents the growth in pregnancey]]> 2016-09-19 14:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124752622 "Metaphors" Group 3 https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124752785 Content:
-Speaker is self conscious of her size 
-Comparing herself to huge things (elephant, house, yeast rising, etc)
-Negative thoughts/views on pregnancy
-"Boarded the train there's no getting off" Loss of control, at the mercy of another in her own body 
- "Moneys new minted in this fat purse" new life growing in her fat stomach
- "I've eaten a bag of green apples" the sickness and bloated feeling involved with pregnancy, sour apples=her sour views towards being pregnant

Structure:
-1 stanza
-9 lines=9 months of pregnancy
- 9 syllables per line
- Each line describes her negative view on pregnancy 
-No rhyme, closed structure

Style:
- Metaphors ex: "I'm a riddle in nine syllables" 
- Imagery ex: "A melon strolling on two tendrils"
-Alliteration ex: "Money's new minted in this fat purse" Alliteration with "N" and "S".
-Symbol: "An elephant" only valuable for its ivory, ""Fat purse" valuable for the money it carries. 
]]> 2016-09-19 14:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124752785 Style (Group 2) https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124753620 -first line is a metaphor for the speakers pregnancy
-she compares her self to a slowly moving huge object, through metaphors
Personification for giving inanimate objects to things like the melon
- The bread rising symbolizes that she is growing bigger throughout her pregnancy
-The speaker shows worry with her pregnancy in the last line]]> 2016-09-19 14:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124753620 Group 4 https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124757475
Content:
-pregnant woman
-comparing pregnancy size to an elephant, a big house
-melon represents the belly, and the tendrils are the legs
-fruit= represents ovaries / womb
-timber is used in building, represents building a child
-loaf=baby, the loaf rising= baby growing
-money represents baby, shows how speaker values baby & sees it as worth more b/c she referred to herself as a “fat purse”
-“ a means, a stage, a cow in a calf” shows how she sees herself as a stage in the child’s life, calf= new, unfamiliar to motherhood
-green apples are sour, maybe regrets decision & feels anxious about baby
-the train’s destination is the baby’s birth, the train’s journey is pregnancy
-she’s already pregnant, can’t go back

Structure:
-9 lines (represents 9 months of pregnancy)
-each line has 9 syllables
-1st 5 lines are about excitement for a child
-6th line is showing how she values her child & sees them as worth more
-7-9th line shows regret, nervousness about pregnancy

Style:
-every line is a metaphor
-alliteration, “ cow in a calf”, “two tendrils”

]]> 2016-09-19 14:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124757475 Group 5 https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124757725 Content:
-Man dreaming about societal issues
-Takes place in the past 
-Busy city
-People Scared to speak against society 
- Silence growing among people
- Everyone is too scared to

 be individual
Structure:
- 4 stanza
- 7 lines 
Style:
- Personification (darkness, my old friend ~line 1)
-Metaphor "left its seed..." ~line 4
- "Flash of neon light..." (Stanza 2, line 5)
- Imagery "Silent raindrops fell" (Stanza 4, line 5)



]]> 2016-09-19 14:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124757725 Group 7 https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124760776 Content: 
  • The speaker is a person describing his dream
  • “Left its seeds while I was sleeping” –his dream being planted in his head, dream is metaphorically growing
Structure:
  • 4 stanzas
  • 7 lines in each
  • Silence is 7 letters long
  • 28 lines in total 
  • Rhyme scheme in first 2 stanzas; A, A, B, B, C, C, D
  • As the poem goes on, it loses the rhyme scheme
  • Internal rhyme in the last stanza
Style: 
  • Sound devices: rhyme, repetition 
  • Musical poem 
  • Similes, imagery, personification
  • Adds a dramatic feel to the poem  


]]> 2016-09-19 14:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124760776 Group 6 Structure: ·         4 stanzas ·         7 lines in each stanza ·         Random structure of beats per line ·         1st stanza is about darkness ·         2-4TH stanzas are about silence and a dream   Content: ·         Speaker: A person ·         The individual is waking up from a dream ·         The person’s attitude is somber and gloomy ·         “Darkness” is being addressed. ·         In prose: The person is waking up from a dream where he/she was walking on a cobblestone road. A bright light shines in the person’s eyes. In the light he sees other people having light conversation “Talking without speaking”, “Hearing without listening” ·         No one is discussing the real issues going on in the world (written in the 1960’s about issues such as civil right movement, racism, cold war, Vietnam etc.) Style: ·         Personifies darkness ·         Metaphor compares vision to a plant that leaves its seeds ·         Imagery ·         Alliteration ·         Paradox “ people talking without speaking” “hearing without listening” ·         Similie “ silence like a  cancer” https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124761730 2016-09-19 14:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/MrBeggs/PoetryDeconstruction1/wish/124761730