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POETRY DEDICATION
  Grant’s Legacy for Mom
WHY I AM ME

Poetry is not my strong suit. I do not write it well nor do I explain what
others have written well. However, I do like to read classic poems and
epic pieces. I thoroughly enjoyed, The Summoning of Everyman which I
know is a play but encompasses poetry that I do enjoy.

I perceive here in my majesty,

How that all the creatures be to me unkind,

Living without dread in worldly prosperity:

Of ghostly sight the people be so blind,

Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God;

In worldly riches is all their mind,
They fear not my rightwiseness, the sharp rod;

My law that I shewed, when I for them died,

They forget clean, and shedding of my blood red;

I hanged between two, it cannot be denied;

To get them life I suffered to be dead.

I also enjoyed John Donne, No Man is an Island which I will
discus later my blog. Any poetry I have written will be very
simple and to the point. I do not mix words well nor do I feel
the need to be lengthy or apologetic. In this blog that I have
created and will be dedicating to my mother I want to show
her I have become a strong, independent man with a thirst
for knowledge and an unlimited future. She has given me so
many options in life that I cannot begin to thank her enough.
I am the man I am simply because she guaranteed my success
from day one.
WHY THIS WAY?


The following poems I have written over the last few months thinking entirely of the person you
molded me to be. I am strong, independent and a self – thinker. I have grown to a point where I
do not need you everyday but none the less, I want your guidance and all you can give me. I am
ready to embark on life and venture into adulthood. You have prepared me well for the future
and I am ready to fly. One of the happiest days you have had in the last fe months is holding
baby Sydney and I see the love and grace in your face you must have felt every time you held me.
Thank you mom.
POEMS FOR MOM


         Three Birds                            GRANT
     In the early morning
      Three birds arrive                   Grand and powerful
      It is the beginning              Right with God and himself
        Of feeling alive                     Always a friend
 Spring comes with a whisper
     Brightening the land                   Never an enemy
    Everyone can prosper             Tomorrow will come and he will be
  When they work and plan                         better
The three birds come each day
       Looking for food
     They scurry and play
And remind all that life is good
POEMS FOR MOM CONTINUED


          I Can
                                  Limerick about Savannah
  I can be number one
                                There was a dog named Savannah
I must simply get it done
                                 And every day she ate bananas
 I will practice and play
                                      When she was done
      Until the day
                                     She trotted off for fun
When the crowd knows
                                 And finished her day in the sun
    That I am close


 To becoming the best


  And leaving the rest


       Behind….
POEMS MORE AND MORE


       Haiku - Trees                     Race Boys
    The trees in the yard         Twenty cars on the track
Are green with envy and grace    The drivers never look back
They bloom to shade the grass     Into the turns they slide
                                    Running side by side


                                 The winner receives the glory
                                    He becomes the story
                                   Nineteen drivers retreat
                                 They will try again next week
POETRY EXPLICATIONS
  Poems I Chose for Mom
INTO MY OWN


Into My Own- Robert Frost 1913
One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

I should not be withheld but that some day
Into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.

I do not see why I should e'er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him the knew--
Only more sure of all I though was true.
EXPLANATION


This is one of Robert Frost’s earliest poems and is written in a form that Frost became known
for later in life. In this poem Frost shows great poetic form, imagery, metaphor and rhyme. For
example, imagery, the use of the trees and the building of the trees as forest with no break for
the audience to see through. Frost is building in the reader’s mind an unbreakable line that one
can disappear into and not be seen again. The trees are also a metaphor for a mask. Masks often
hide the true character of what is behind and the trees are mask of doom or maybe they are a
mask for the escape of the young boy.

          I chose this poem because I felt it was about a young boy that sees an opportunity to
change where he is in life and become who he wants to be. He sees the line of the trees as an
opportunity to enter a new stage and rid himself of his previously life. When Frost says, ―They
would not find me changed from the him they knew‖ he is saying, I won’t be changed in
appearance but I will be more sure of who I am true. This means he is changing his person and
his thoughts but on the outside he will appear the same.

           In the line, ―Fearless of ever finding open land‖ Frost is telling the audience that the
boy is not afraid to be open and to expose himself. He is willing to enter the doom to become a
better person when he emerges.
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND


'No Man is an Island'
No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
EXPLANATION


No man is an island is one of my favorite poems. I believe this poem was written by John Donne
as a message to his readers that you cannot conquer the world, your kingdom or even your life
alone. Everyone needs someone and what happens to others always has an effect on you. When
he writes in line one, ― No man is an island entire of itself ‖ he is setting the stage and mood for
the rest of this poem. He is saying that everybody needs someone. Every man is reliant on
people, places, and things outside of their own life.

―If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less‖ I think John was stating that if your
neighbors are hurting or their life is diminished in any way you will feel the impact. Life occurs
outside of you and your individual world but ultimately you feel the difference. I believe the poet
is describing the theory that there are just six degrees of separation between any two people.
Those at any given time events occurring to others will eventually get back to you and connect to
you.

The last phrase, ―And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee‖ is
probably one of the most telling lines ever written. When your time comes to experience a
change or your life is ending the exact moment is not known until it occurs. When a life departs
this earth the impact of that loss of life reaches further than many may ever know.
I AM NOBODY


   I am Nobody- Emily Dickenson


     I'm Nobody! Who are you?
       Are you – Nobody – too?
       Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!


   How dreary – to be – Somebody!
       How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
          To an admiring Bog!
EXPLANATION


 I’m nobody by Emily Dickenson is one of my favorite poems. Although it is
short I find it to be so telling of the life the author lived. During her time, she was
an unknown. She did not gain popularity and success until well after her death.
She was basically a nobody. Emily had a very surprising way of writing, she liked
to shock her readers. For instance, she writes‖ How public like a frog‖ normally
frogs are not considered to be public so reading it at first is very comical but in the
end makes so much sense.

             The author is saying to the addressee‖ who are you?‖ Are you a nobody
too? If the addresses sys yes, then the two are pair of nobodies. The author liked
to live her life is private and keep her name to herself. She did not wish to put her
name out there like the frog croaking in the bog. What she is saying is that frogs
are very public and the constantly croak their identity to the rest of the swamp.
They must be known at all times. This is a poem about a person that wishes to live
their life in simplicity and remain hidden and very much happy in their private life.
DO NOT GO GENTLE


Do not go gentle into that good night,                Wild men who caught and sang the sun in
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;         flight,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.            And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
                                                      Do not go gentle into that good night.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,      Grave men, near death, who see with blinding
Because their words had forked no lightning they      sight
Do not go gentle into that good night.                Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
                                                      Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,   And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
                                                      Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I
                                                      pray.
                                                      Do not go gentle into that good night.
                                                      Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
EXPLANATION


 ―Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night‖ a poem written by Dylan Thomas is written about death and the
exploration of how it must feel to be dying. This poem has six stanzas and a very simple rhyming scheme. The poem is
written by the author to his father and tells him to fight against death. To, ―Rage, Rage against the dying of the light‖
The light symbolizes life and as long as one sees and feels the light, life is continuing.

          Dylan goes on in his second stanza to talk about wise men and knowing when their dark or death is near.
Death is natural and everyone must face it eventually but the Dylan is telling his father to hold out, fight a little longer
to remain alive.

In the third stanza, Dylan continues to described man and how often they missed the opportunity to live life to its
fullest. He says, ―And learned, too late, they grieved it on its way.‖ He is saying that too many times man is not taking
advantage of life and only when death is near does he realize what he has missed.

            Finally, he tells his father that his end is near and he knows he is leaving but he wants him to face it with
fierceness and he did life and not to give up easily but to fight. He means for him to continue to fight and rage as he
did in life during these final moments of life.

            This poem has been summarized and characterized by many people over the years and I chose it because I
do believe that all humans will face death and when that day comes they will two choices, to look back and grieve what
they did not do, or to look back at their life and say I did it all, I lived to my fullest and I am proud. Death although
the last chapter is not final and my legacy will grow and live without me.
ROAD NOT TAKEN


       The Road Not Taken                   And both that morning equally lay
          By Robert Frost                  In leaves no step had trodden black.
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
                                           Oh, I kept the first for another day!
  And sorry I could not travel both
  And be one traveler, long I stood       Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
And looked down one as far as I could     I doubted if I should ever come back.
 To where it bent in the undergrowth;
                                             I shall be telling this with a sigh
  Then took the other, as just as fair,
                                            Somewhere ages and ages hence:
 And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
 Though as for that the passing there         I took the one less traveled by,
Had worn them really about the same,       And that has made all the difference.
EXPLANATION




I believe this poem was written by Frost at a time where he was trying to make a decision in
his life. He using many metaphors in this poem such as imagery and personificatios. Imagery -
"two roads diverged in a yellow wood" Figuratitive roads and mental roads
―And both that morning equally lay‖ Both identical, neither had more or less than the other.
―In leaves no step had trodden black." The leaves were fresh and not pushed down by the
steps of another person.. The tone is gloomy and expresses guilt over whatever decision he
makes. He is indecisive in his decision and he states with a sigh that he will not return to the
other road.
I relate to this poem because I too am making a decision. What will I do in life? Where will I
go and how it will all end. Whatever I decide today shapes what will occur tomorrow and I
know that will return to pick another road.
IN CLOSING


 I hope the poems I have selected and published convey what I want to say to you Mom. I have
grown to be an independent young man with dreams and aspirations that you have nourished. I
 am embarking on a new life in a few months and I will take with me everything I have learned
from you. I can only hope I make you proud and that my life mirrors what you have anticipated.
  You have been a mentor, a teacher, a friend, a teammate and the best mom I could ever have.


                    May you enjoy your empty nest and the next fifty years!


                                         Love Always,


                                    Grant Patric Robosson
BIBLIOGRAPHY


                  Bibliography



          http://www.bartleby.com/117/1.html
    http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-am-nobody
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-man-is-an-island
 http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377

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Poetry dedication

  • 1. POETRY DEDICATION Grant’s Legacy for Mom
  • 2. WHY I AM ME Poetry is not my strong suit. I do not write it well nor do I explain what others have written well. However, I do like to read classic poems and epic pieces. I thoroughly enjoyed, The Summoning of Everyman which I know is a play but encompasses poetry that I do enjoy. I perceive here in my majesty, How that all the creatures be to me unkind, Living without dread in worldly prosperity: Of ghostly sight the people be so blind, Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God; In worldly riches is all their mind,
  • 3. They fear not my rightwiseness, the sharp rod; My law that I shewed, when I for them died, They forget clean, and shedding of my blood red; I hanged between two, it cannot be denied; To get them life I suffered to be dead. I also enjoyed John Donne, No Man is an Island which I will discus later my blog. Any poetry I have written will be very simple and to the point. I do not mix words well nor do I feel the need to be lengthy or apologetic. In this blog that I have created and will be dedicating to my mother I want to show her I have become a strong, independent man with a thirst for knowledge and an unlimited future. She has given me so many options in life that I cannot begin to thank her enough. I am the man I am simply because she guaranteed my success from day one.
  • 4. WHY THIS WAY? The following poems I have written over the last few months thinking entirely of the person you molded me to be. I am strong, independent and a self – thinker. I have grown to a point where I do not need you everyday but none the less, I want your guidance and all you can give me. I am ready to embark on life and venture into adulthood. You have prepared me well for the future and I am ready to fly. One of the happiest days you have had in the last fe months is holding baby Sydney and I see the love and grace in your face you must have felt every time you held me. Thank you mom.
  • 5. POEMS FOR MOM Three Birds GRANT In the early morning Three birds arrive Grand and powerful It is the beginning Right with God and himself Of feeling alive Always a friend Spring comes with a whisper Brightening the land Never an enemy Everyone can prosper Tomorrow will come and he will be When they work and plan better The three birds come each day Looking for food They scurry and play And remind all that life is good
  • 6. POEMS FOR MOM CONTINUED I Can Limerick about Savannah I can be number one There was a dog named Savannah I must simply get it done And every day she ate bananas I will practice and play When she was done Until the day She trotted off for fun When the crowd knows And finished her day in the sun That I am close To becoming the best And leaving the rest Behind….
  • 7. POEMS MORE AND MORE Haiku - Trees Race Boys The trees in the yard Twenty cars on the track Are green with envy and grace The drivers never look back They bloom to shade the grass Into the turns they slide Running side by side The winner receives the glory He becomes the story Nineteen drivers retreat They will try again next week
  • 8. POETRY EXPLICATIONS Poems I Chose for Mom
  • 9. INTO MY OWN Into My Own- Robert Frost 1913 One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him the knew-- Only more sure of all I though was true.
  • 10. EXPLANATION This is one of Robert Frost’s earliest poems and is written in a form that Frost became known for later in life. In this poem Frost shows great poetic form, imagery, metaphor and rhyme. For example, imagery, the use of the trees and the building of the trees as forest with no break for the audience to see through. Frost is building in the reader’s mind an unbreakable line that one can disappear into and not be seen again. The trees are also a metaphor for a mask. Masks often hide the true character of what is behind and the trees are mask of doom or maybe they are a mask for the escape of the young boy. I chose this poem because I felt it was about a young boy that sees an opportunity to change where he is in life and become who he wants to be. He sees the line of the trees as an opportunity to enter a new stage and rid himself of his previously life. When Frost says, ―They would not find me changed from the him they knew‖ he is saying, I won’t be changed in appearance but I will be more sure of who I am true. This means he is changing his person and his thoughts but on the outside he will appear the same. In the line, ―Fearless of ever finding open land‖ Frost is telling the audience that the boy is not afraid to be open and to expose himself. He is willing to enter the doom to become a better person when he emerges.
  • 11. NO MAN IS AN ISLAND 'No Man is an Island' No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
  • 12. EXPLANATION No man is an island is one of my favorite poems. I believe this poem was written by John Donne as a message to his readers that you cannot conquer the world, your kingdom or even your life alone. Everyone needs someone and what happens to others always has an effect on you. When he writes in line one, ― No man is an island entire of itself ‖ he is setting the stage and mood for the rest of this poem. He is saying that everybody needs someone. Every man is reliant on people, places, and things outside of their own life. ―If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less‖ I think John was stating that if your neighbors are hurting or their life is diminished in any way you will feel the impact. Life occurs outside of you and your individual world but ultimately you feel the difference. I believe the poet is describing the theory that there are just six degrees of separation between any two people. Those at any given time events occurring to others will eventually get back to you and connect to you. The last phrase, ―And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee‖ is probably one of the most telling lines ever written. When your time comes to experience a change or your life is ending the exact moment is not known until it occurs. When a life departs this earth the impact of that loss of life reaches further than many may ever know.
  • 13. I AM NOBODY I am Nobody- Emily Dickenson I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
  • 14. EXPLANATION I’m nobody by Emily Dickenson is one of my favorite poems. Although it is short I find it to be so telling of the life the author lived. During her time, she was an unknown. She did not gain popularity and success until well after her death. She was basically a nobody. Emily had a very surprising way of writing, she liked to shock her readers. For instance, she writes‖ How public like a frog‖ normally frogs are not considered to be public so reading it at first is very comical but in the end makes so much sense. The author is saying to the addressee‖ who are you?‖ Are you a nobody too? If the addresses sys yes, then the two are pair of nobodies. The author liked to live her life is private and keep her name to herself. She did not wish to put her name out there like the frog croaking in the bog. What she is saying is that frogs are very public and the constantly croak their identity to the rest of the swamp. They must be known at all times. This is a poem about a person that wishes to live their life in simplicity and remain hidden and very much happy in their private life.
  • 15. DO NOT GO GENTLE Do not go gentle into that good night, Wild men who caught and sang the sun in Old age should burn and rave at close of day; flight, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Grave men, near death, who see with blinding Because their words had forked no lightning they sight Do not go gentle into that good night. Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, And you, my father, there on the sad height, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
  • 16. EXPLANATION ―Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night‖ a poem written by Dylan Thomas is written about death and the exploration of how it must feel to be dying. This poem has six stanzas and a very simple rhyming scheme. The poem is written by the author to his father and tells him to fight against death. To, ―Rage, Rage against the dying of the light‖ The light symbolizes life and as long as one sees and feels the light, life is continuing. Dylan goes on in his second stanza to talk about wise men and knowing when their dark or death is near. Death is natural and everyone must face it eventually but the Dylan is telling his father to hold out, fight a little longer to remain alive. In the third stanza, Dylan continues to described man and how often they missed the opportunity to live life to its fullest. He says, ―And learned, too late, they grieved it on its way.‖ He is saying that too many times man is not taking advantage of life and only when death is near does he realize what he has missed. Finally, he tells his father that his end is near and he knows he is leaving but he wants him to face it with fierceness and he did life and not to give up easily but to fight. He means for him to continue to fight and rage as he did in life during these final moments of life. This poem has been summarized and characterized by many people over the years and I chose it because I do believe that all humans will face death and when that day comes they will two choices, to look back and grieve what they did not do, or to look back at their life and say I did it all, I lived to my fullest and I am proud. Death although the last chapter is not final and my legacy will grow and live without me.
  • 17. ROAD NOT TAKEN The Road Not Taken And both that morning equally lay By Robert Frost In leaves no step had trodden black. TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, Oh, I kept the first for another day! And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood Yet knowing how way leads on to way, And looked down one as far as I could I doubted if I should ever come back. To where it bent in the undergrowth; I shall be telling this with a sigh Then took the other, as just as fair, Somewhere ages and ages hence: And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— Though as for that the passing there I took the one less traveled by, Had worn them really about the same, And that has made all the difference.
  • 18. EXPLANATION I believe this poem was written by Frost at a time where he was trying to make a decision in his life. He using many metaphors in this poem such as imagery and personificatios. Imagery - "two roads diverged in a yellow wood" Figuratitive roads and mental roads ―And both that morning equally lay‖ Both identical, neither had more or less than the other. ―In leaves no step had trodden black." The leaves were fresh and not pushed down by the steps of another person.. The tone is gloomy and expresses guilt over whatever decision he makes. He is indecisive in his decision and he states with a sigh that he will not return to the other road. I relate to this poem because I too am making a decision. What will I do in life? Where will I go and how it will all end. Whatever I decide today shapes what will occur tomorrow and I know that will return to pick another road.
  • 19. IN CLOSING I hope the poems I have selected and published convey what I want to say to you Mom. I have grown to be an independent young man with dreams and aspirations that you have nourished. I am embarking on a new life in a few months and I will take with me everything I have learned from you. I can only hope I make you proud and that my life mirrors what you have anticipated. You have been a mentor, a teacher, a friend, a teammate and the best mom I could ever have. May you enjoy your empty nest and the next fifty years! Love Always, Grant Patric Robosson
  • 20. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bibliography http://www.bartleby.com/117/1.html http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-am-nobody http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-man-is-an-island http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377