The Sneaky Sonnet

My favorite type of poem is the sonnet. Even though they are hard to write, it is worth it to try and write one. Sonnets speak from the heart and tell the world what you are feeling or going through. That is in any kind of poem, but the best poem to use for expression is the sonnet. Most people know that a sonnet has to follow specific rules. It needs to be in iambic pentameter, which means that each line has to have 10 syllables in it and go to a certain beat. So I think that a sonnet is the best poem for me. It can be the best poem for anyone, as long as you take the time and effort to try and write one. What I learned about poetry from when my peers (classmates), I learned that you can write poetry based on anything. It can be about what you're feeling or going through. It can also be based on anything you want (RaNdOmNeSs)

I Shall Not Live in Vain~ Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain

If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain

Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in Vain.



          I think that this poem is a model of my own writing because I also use an ABAB rhyme scheme. My poems sometimes include a moral, theme, or message. This could help me expand my writing because all the lines fit in with each other. I would also like to learn how to make all of my lines in my poetry fit in and make sense with each other. I would love to adopt Emily Dickinson's writing style. She always finds a way to have her poetry deliver a message to adults AND children. Her poetry inspires many people, no matter what age! Emily Dickinson just has a way of grouping her words. I want to learn how to write like her and be able to group words correctly.

A Dream Within a Dream~ Edgar Allen Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

                                                                                                  

I think that the poem is talking about how much he misses a close friend or his wife. It sounds like he is going to cry. I notice that the poem asks many questions and uses many question marks. It shows extreme emotion by the use of words and punctuation. It is like many couplet poems clustered together because the rhyme scheme is AABBCC...etc.

All About Me

Hi. My name is Gabriella, but most people call me Gabi. I like to read poetry books and fictional novels. I think poetry is a combination of humor, emotion, and religion to tell a story about your life, or to just make people laugh. I think that poetry can be almost anything you want it to be. It is a way to express yourself and your true feeings.

My favorite authors are Charlotte Brontë, Mark Twain, Emily Brontë, and Louisa May Alcott. They all write wonderful stories that enspire me to write more.Louisa May Alcott is famous for writing Little Women. Mark Twain's real name is Samuel Clemens, and he wrote many famous stories like Tom Sawyer, Prince and the Pauper, and Huckleberry Finn. Charlotte and Emily Brontë were sisters. Charlotte Brontë is most famous for her novel, Jane Eyre, and Emily Brontë is famous for her only novel, Wuthering Heights.