Setting The Stage
According to Atwell (2006), a metaphor takes two things and claims they are the same. The success of a metaphor depends on two things. First, is it fresh? Surprising? There is a difference between a metaphor and a cliché. Phrases such as snow white or ice cold, have been used exhaustively and therefore no longer give rise to a mental image. Secondly, a good metaphor conveys tone: it shows how the poet or speaker feels about a topic.
In his poetry, Langston Hughes often uses metaphor to reveal the role of dreams in life.
Response Stance
Review one of Hughes' poems and record your feelings and mental images derived from its metaphors. Share your reflections with your blogging partner.
Reflect upon as a writer of poetry, how what you choose to compare something to in your poems will reveal your feelings about your subject. Share your insights with your blogging partner.
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hi my name is zachery.b I like robert frost poem the two road it is like you cant lice to lolipops at once.
ReplyDeleteI liked the way Robert Frost choosed 2 roads for his poem
ReplyDeletehi my name is Justin L. I thought that the two roads was a good poam it was awosome. there was a decision for the two road I wouldgo to the good road.
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Julia G.
ReplyDeletei liked that poem becausei made a hard choice in life before.
The roads were choices that you make there is an easy road and a hard road. i would take the road less traveled. (The hard road)
hi my name Danica S I like the way Robert Frost made the poem called The Two Road
ReplyDeletehi my my name is kieran d i like the poem it is good. to get a game that i wanted. to calgary or saskatoon.
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Patrick G.I think Robert Frost's two roads poem is good because he choose a road.
ReplyDeleteHi my name Jordan E. I think of the two roads as two lollipops.You can only lick one lolipop at one time. One time I had to talk one road if I wonted to do my home work and my friend asked me if I wonted to play after schooland I had a choice to do my home work our play with my friend I picked the hard way I said no I have to do my home work first thin I can play with you after.
ReplyDeleteHuges poem,
ReplyDeleteI like this peom because it shows emotions and
feelings that can be sad or happy.
if your dreams go away dont let go just keep beleaving and they may come true.
What think of hughe's poems is that he was awesome and i really think that the message he ggot out therre was easy to know that he came from one of the worst places in america. I also really wish i could go back in time, and stop them.
ReplyDeleteHughes' poem made me feel like I have to accomplish my dreams and don't let anything get in the way of it so I won't be a broken winged bird.
ReplyDeleteMy family will help me with my dreams that I want to accomplish so now I know I have more of a chance to get my dreams.
Hi I'm Casey.S
ReplyDeleteI like the poem Dreams by Huges because it has a message in it.
hi i am kaseyb i think that his poems shows kids that you sould alway follow your dreams no matter what people say
ReplyDeletehi im austin a, I think his poems show that dreams are important
ReplyDeletehi my name is brittany.I think hughe's poems are helpful
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Hailey!
ReplyDeleteI like Dreams because it tells you if you let go of dreams and let them die life is a bird with a broken wing that cannot fly.
I like Harlem because it helps you imagine what happens to dreams if you let them die and fade away from your thoughts. like it could float away on an empty sky.
Hi my name is Tristan.
ReplyDeleteI like this peom dreams because it has a message in it
huges poem,
ReplyDeleteI did not like this poem because it makes me feel bad.
Hughes's peoms where good to me because they make me feal good inside because i like dreams
ReplyDeleteHi my namne is Sierra.S. My favourite poem out of the two is called Dreams.When I read this poem it made me feel that everything that you think or look at you could have dreams about everything that you think about. I think that this poem shows me that you can think about anything or dream about anything you want to dream about.
ReplyDeleteTo me it ment that it was about freedom and the challenges in life that some people had to go to. To me freedom is the right to talk to people and have the same rights as them , we all deserve the same rights as other and should not be beittle by out apperance or mental ability. I say just because your a diffrent colour gives people no right to judge them on there personlality.
ReplyDeleteHI MY NAME IS ALEX.J
ReplyDeleteI FEEL SORY ABOUT THIS GUYS LIFE!
I like this poem because it was sad, challenging to them.With there challenging. They need to follow there dream.
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Shelby.
ReplyDeleteThe poem i wandered lonely as a cloud is a beutiful poem it is roamantic and sweet.I also think it has interesting words in it.
hi i'm zania s.w,well i think that these shows that it should be a free country for people that have different skin than other people
ReplyDeleteHI MY NAME IS Chloe.d I like the poems because there are inspiering to me.The poem dreams and harlem are a good way to express your fellins!
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Kiley andfor when I like the poem dreams because it is sad for when dreams go
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Carson. Hughes' peom made me feel good because I know I can hold on to my dreams so my life isnt like a barren field with frozen snow.
ReplyDeleteMy video games remind me of dreams because it gets me to the place I need to be. I need to accomplish my dreams so I can be at the place I need to be.
The voice of the poem called Richard Cory was a person on the street selling items for the money for their families. This person said that everyone liked him because he was slim and very rich. They said when he talked he sounded human!
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hello my name is melissa e
ReplyDeletei like this poem because it reminds me i have to be thankful of what i have and to respect it.
the people on the street forgot what they had and thought somebody else had it all so they did have any but the man did not have any thing he wanted so he put a bulit threw his head. by.Melissa E
i like An Aftnoon In The Stacks because it explains what a good book is
ReplyDeleteI think the poem an afternoon in the stacks was if you were right in the middle of the book and its getting good so you can't put it down and now your suposed to and you really want to read it but now you can't so the book is haunting you. Thats what I think it means.
ReplyDeletein Richard Cory i like how the people on the pavement look up to the rich guy and that the rich guy is nice to them but i didn't like it when he killed himself
ReplyDeleteHi chloe.d. the voice of Riched Cory is wiead becuas of the end when he puts a bulluet through his head oh haft to go.
ReplyDeleteThe poem grass hopper is like unscrambleing words.I also like poem books.We do poetry at school.My name is Spencer and I like poetry cause you can break all the spelling rules and that is why I like writeing poetry.It is fun to break all the spelling rules and write poems.
ReplyDeleteI like the poem Can ,can i catch the wind.
ReplyDeleteI like how the poet expresses himself by repeating Can I Catch The Wind. The poet wants the reader to remember that the wind is everywhere but you cannot catch it. He sess if he can catch the wind with different things, but he cannot.
I like Depression before Spring
ReplyDeletei like how he expresses all of the different sounds around him and onomatopoeia and uses the words more than one time so you get the word stuck in youre head.
I like the poem dreams because it does a good job on giving you an image of what is about. i like the words that are used to describe dreams. the way he used metaphors is good cause it gives me a clear picture like a normal book would.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the poem 'Harlem' By Langston Hughes. I find it interesting how he explores the subject of dreams. In 'Harlem' he talks about how dreams can either prosper or die, and how dreams may seem sweet at the time, but can turn bitter, and become a burden. It really makes you think about yourself, and the question that is 'What is a dream?'
well..it's kind of sad, about the whole dieing dream thing. the bird is symbolic of life, which is sort of depressing, if you think about it, because a "broken winged bid that can not fly" will probily get eaten by a cat, or something, which kind of is like your life die's so, ya. goodbye.
ReplyDeleteIn Langston Hughes's poem "Dreams" I find it positive that it talks about having dreams, and how it gives you something to look forward to, and without dreams it seems to say how you are not really going anywhere. With the metaphors "Life is a broken-wing bird that cannot fly" and "Life is a barren field, frozen snow" I find really depressing and some negative, but I think it has a good meaning.
ReplyDeleteI liked Langston Hughes poem "Dreams", because I feel like I can relate.
ReplyDeleteI think it could come off as a negative poem, but once you read it a few times you can see the positive side of it. What I get from this poem is that dreams are something that you really need to follow and believe in, because if you don't, then you may have missed a chance you may never get again.
He uses the metaphor "For if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." I think this means that dreams are meant to be followed through, or else they were pointless to begin with.
I guess this poem is kind of depressing, but in a happy way. If that makes sense.
I like robert frost's poem the poem made me think of making choices and it made me think of autumn and the leaves flying every where.
ReplyDeleteI really like how Robert Frost uses descriptive
ReplyDeletewords in his poems.
like in his poem
"The Road Not Taken
when he uses "Because it was grassy and
wanted wear;
I realy like all the description that made me have a clear picture in my mind.
ReplyDeleteI think Robert Frost means that at first he was sad then at the end he knew that he chose the right.
ReplyDeleteI think the author is writing about how the poem is similar to making choices in life,and making the right choices.
ReplyDeleteI like how robert frost said that there is a difference between those two paths.
ReplyDeleteI think that he is talking about the decisions in life and you should thing about it first and make sure it is the right one
ReplyDeleteI like how he was comparing it to his life
ReplyDeleteand choices he makes because of the two paths he was talking about.
I like Robert Frost's poem "The road not taken" because he is comparing his life to the two paths and he chose "The path less taken"
ReplyDeleteThe race track because I have a decision between the left and the right.The right is bumpy and the left you have to turn on to the other side.
ReplyDeletewhy did mrs.frost compar the two paths to his life. why dident he compar somthing eles.
ReplyDeleteThe poem Mr.frost wrote is talking about making choices in life.
ReplyDeleteThe poem about the sunflowers is pretty cool because it shows the sunflowers having a conversation about the weather so that kind of also makes it funny
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