Response Stance
Choose at least one poem to discuss.
Reflect on:
•What is the the effect of the repeated phrase on how you read the poem?
•What was the poet's purpose for including repetition?
Monday, May 17, 2010
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Hi Its Hailey Again.....
ReplyDeleteI'm writing about the poem I Wish I Knew. I think I Wish I Knew is about how she wishes that she knew everything about winter, like how it makes new snowflakes and every new design
I think the poem I WISH I KNEW repeated phrase's effect is he wish he knew how winter made the snow flakes shape.
ReplyDeleteHi it is Sierra.S.I am responding to Can I,Can I Catch the Wind.I think the poet used repetition because so he can make a point that nobody can catch the wind.He or she can explain everything that he was writing about.
ReplyDeleteI am blogging on the poem Who has seen the wind. I think that the poet was saying that you cannot see the wind but you can feel it like the leaves that were blowing
ReplyDeleteHi this is me Thon W. again, and what I think of the poem Can i catch the wind, and it's repetition is that he really does want to get that the point through that he's trying to catch the wind. He always is repeating the same line to begin with, and end with. He is also always naming how he has to use lots of thing to try to catch the wind. So goodnight, and this has been Thon
ReplyDelete"Can I, catch the wind" is like a song. The words repeat like a song does. The words have rhythm! I sing the song, like a bird.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Dominik.H I am doing a poem called Calico Ban. the Grasshopper,ButterFly Beetle And Bee. that is when it was winter. He problaby thinks that their not the insects dont come in winter and he said NEVEER COME BACK NEVVERCOME BACK NEVVERCOME BACK.
ReplyDeleteHi Blake here Who Has Seen the Wind has lots of repetition. The effect of repeating the phrase is has anyone seen the wind thats what hes trying to get throw your head. The purpose of including repetition is because no poems are stuck in your head.
ReplyDeleteHi this is Brittany
ReplyDeleteWho Has Seen the Wind? By Christina Rossetti, tells us that no one has seen the wind neither you nor I has seen the wind, and makes a point that the only way you can tell the wind is there by felling it
The name of the poem I am working on is called "I wish I knew." That kind of gives you an idea of what the poem is about. The author named Beverly McLoughland is writing about how she wanted to know how winter made every snowflake different in its own way. She is wondering its secret to knowing what to do. There are so many snowflakes most likely more than 1 billion snowflakes to make 1 inch! Imagine making a different design for each and every snow flake just to make an inch! That’s why Beverly wants to know the secrets of how winter can do that. She wishes she knew. But she can't.
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Hi my name is Kassidy.G
ReplyDeleteI like the poem who has seen the wind?
is nice because it is about wind and if you can see the wind. but you can't see wind but you can feel wind and see evedence that the wind is there.
Hi i am Luke m. and i am commenting about who has seen the wind? the repetition of this poem is interesting because how he seen the wind but he didnt.I Think that the poem is very interesting because he sees the trees bowing thire leaves but he still dose not see the wind
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Melissa E.
ReplyDeleterepetition is wherword over e the writer uses the same again. I read the poem, Who Has Seen The Wind. repetitios in this poem is who has seen the wind, who has seen the wind. i like repetition in this poem because it reminds you and so you get the idea.
nobody can see the wind but you can feel it.
I have decided to blog on Calico Pie. The effect is you get the sense of what is going to happen next. I believe the purpose of repetition in this poem is to make his sadness clear."They never came back to me."
ReplyDeleteI think that the author of the poem Calico Pie wanted the people that read his poems to know that he was suffering from a loss, and he wanted everyone to understand. So he emphasized it by repeating it.
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ReplyDeleteI read the poem I Wish I Knew. In this poem, the poet, Beverly Mcloughland, repeated the lines 'I wish I knew'. I think she did this because she wanted to make the point that she really wanted to know how to make snowflakes.. She thought that the snowflakes were so amazing, and wanted to know how anyone could ever make something so beautiful. When she repeated that line again, it made me think of how I wish I knew too, how the snowflakes are so beautiful. I think it is good to repeat some lines, because it tells me the point of the poem right away, how she wanted to know about snowflakes, and it also sounds good. But if you repeat a line to much, I think it gets a little bit boring.
Who Has Seen the Wind
ReplyDeleteI think that the "?" in the line "Who has seen the wind?" gets the reader thinking more. I also think that the abbrieviation of the word through into thro' gets the reader thinking too. The reapeating lines remind me of a musical term, "rondo" which is a song where the chorus is repeated. Only the first and second lines are really reapeated, and the third and fourth ones are different. It's also sorta like a job. Every day you do some of the same things and some things different.
I Wish I Knew
Like Emily Dickenson, she uses a dash to punctuate her line. I think a dash keeps you interested and thinking. I think the author wrote the lines, "Winter I wish I knew" because she didn't want her readers straying from the original idea of winter and the secret of winter's mysterious thoughts. It also gets you interested in the lines that are different.
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ReplyDeleteThe poem I'm working on is Can I, Can I catch the wind. I think that the author is trying to say that he can't catch the wind. So he uses different items, but he can't catch the wind. So he leaves the wind alone and says to play with himself.
I am writing about the poem Who Has Seen the Wind. The effect the repeated phrase has when I read this poem is that it makes me hear and feel the wind while trying to see it in my imagination. I think the poet repeated these lines because the wind was what she was focusing on in her mind. Maybe she likes the wind and wishes she could see it and that is why she wrote a poem about it. I think Christina Rossetti imagined herself in the wind when she wrote this poem and she could feel and hear it's repeating patterns and wished she could see it aswell and that is why she repeated that line just like the wind repeates itself.
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ReplyDeleteI think because of the repitition it has a ryhming effect.
I think the poet thinks there is a real power in the wind, and was wondering if anything can truely contol or contain the force of it.
I'm going to talk about I Wish I Knew. Well, Alisha R, I agree with you, mainly, but I think that she meant why is the world different, why can't it be the same? I think that she meant snowflakes are like people, they are all different in some way or another. Now, onto the repetitions. She said these repetitions to make you note that people are like snowflakes.
ReplyDeleteHi. This is Shay. I'm here to talk to you about Calico Pie.I think the author repeated those lines because he wanted to show the sense of loss.The exclaimation points helped too. The repeatition also made me feel sad, almost. I think the author wants me to feel longing for something or you had something for a short time and you didn't enjoy it while it was there and now you want it back. To me it talks about the enviroment and saving the animals and insects. The setting seems to be a few years after the world is destroyed by pollution and garbage and all the animals left earth and the people on earth are sad because the animals didn't come back to earth. Maybe the animals don't trust the humans any more. So, that's my opinion. What's yours?
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ReplyDeleteToday I want to talk about the poem "I WISH I KNEW" by Beverly McLoughland. It is a very. . . sweet poem. I don't mean, sweet as in candy but sweet as in nice. It has a rhythm to it that makes it sound like a song. I can picture Beverly (well, not Beverly but someone else) sing this poem. I even think I sang it once in choir or something.
Any who. . . The repitition words are "winter" and "I wish I knew."
"WINTER"
I think Beverly reapeted the word Winter so that the reader would get the idea. So that they could think of and remember Winter.
"I WISH I KNEW"
I think she reapeted those words so, again, the reader would get the point. She is saying that she wishes that she would know more about winter and how it was made. Also the snowflakes. Can you imagin trying to make all those snowflakes look different? You would have to make millions and millions. Hard work right?
So I think Beverly McLoughland was trying to get our atention. To really make us think. How or how was winter made?
Any who. . .
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Can I, can I catch the wind?
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"Can I, can I catch the wind, in ******, catch the wind?" is repeated 7 times in this poem. I think he repeated those lines because he wanted to express the person wanting to catch the wind.It relly stuck in my head.
I read the poem called Calico Pie, and I think that the author used repetition to say that he lost something like a family member, a pet, or maybe a favorite posession. It seems like the animals he has lost were really close to him and he didn't want them to leave, almost like they were a thing of life and death. I know that when I lose something, I want them even more, and I realise that I take some things for granted.
ReplyDeleteI'm responding to the poem I Wish I Knew. Beverly McLoughland repeated "Winter, I wish I Knew." I think she repeated those words because their are so many secrets of Winter like how each snowflake is unique. I think that poem is about her trying to tell the reader that their are secrets of Winter. Her repeating that made me think why each snowflake
ReplyDeleteis unique. It also made me read it more like a song.
I'm responding to the poem I Wish I knew by Beverly Mcloughland. I think she reapeted the words Winter, I wish I knew because she is trying to get the point across that there is lots she and other people don't know about winter, Like snowflakes. She wants know everything about snowflakes and how each of them are different and unique. Snowflakes are kind of like people. Everyone is different and unique. This poem is almost read like a song.
ReplyDeleteI am writing about Calico Pie and I think that the author repeated so that you could get the image in your head or make a point. "He never came back to me" was repeated to make a point I think.
ReplyDeleteI'm responding to the poem I wish I knew by Beverly McLoughland. She repeated "Winter, I wish I Knew to tell how every little snowflake has a different design. And that a little girl is trying to find the secret of the snowflake.
ReplyDeleteI am blogging on the poem Can I Can I Catch The Wind. I think the poet reapeted that title in the poem so that all the time you could ask yourself if he could catch the wwwiiinnnddd.
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I am going to respond to the poem I Wish I Knew, by Beverly McLoughland.
ReplyDeleteI think she used repetition to help the reader understand the main message of the poem. I also think she used repetition to help the reader remember the poem.