The document contains summaries of several poems including The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe, Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh, and The Lamb by William Blake. It also includes the writer's original poems Fear, Cliché, and Pride. The document analyzes the themes, imagery, tone, and meaning of each poem in 1-2 concise sentences.

1. DEDICATION TO MOM
By Alexandra Williams

2. REASON FOR DEDICATION
 For everything she’d done for me since I was born
she’s been nothing, but inspirational. There were a
lot of times I wished I’ve given up on something just
because I couldn’t do it the first few tries, but she
never let me and I was able to see what great
potential I have. Everything I’ve been through in life
has made me a stronger person today and it
wouldn’t had happened if it weren’t for her.

3. THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE BY
CHRISTOPHER MERLOWE
 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love  The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is a love
Christopher Marlowe
poem by Christopher Marlowe. The poem is

Come live with me and be my love, about a male courting to his love to live with
And we will all the pleasures prove him so he could show her that being with him
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields. will be the greatest thing in her life. The poem
uses imagery to explain how living with him will
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, be like for example, he says everyday will be
By shallow rivers to whose falls springtime year around meaning she’ll never
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
find a reason to unhappy and things will be
And I will make thee beds of roses perfect. He explains how she will find
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle happiness if she stays and lives with him. He
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle; explains how living with him he’ll make her a
A gown made of the finest wool bed of roses and how swains will sing and
Which from our pretty lambs we pull; dance for her. The poem's is composed of 24
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold; stanzas in the four lines with a rhyme that goes
ABAB, but either the rhyme doesn't hold up for
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs: the duration of the poem or the rhyme itself
And if these pleasures may thee move, wasn’t intended. The first stanza is repeated in
Come live with me and be my love.
the 20th stanza because it emphasize how
The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing determined and persuasive the speaker is so
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move, his love could live with him. The title
Then live with me and be my love. symbolism for the poem shows the speaker
wants to guide or tend the woman he's courting
to his love like how a shepherd tends or guides
to a sheep. He explains how he loves her
enough that he’ll do anything to make sure
she’s happy. The tone and the diction of the
poem are both very sentimental so the speaker

4. SONNET 18 BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day  “Sonnet 18” also known as “Shall I compare
Sonnet 18 thee to a summer’s day” was written by William
William Shakespeare Shakespeare, it’s a 12 line stanza poem. The
sonnet’s about more than likely a man courting

to a beautiful woman; though not explain why
 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? the most reasonable answer could be for
marriage. There’s a lot of imagery in this
 Thou art more lovely and more temperate. sonnet, like how the winds are rough, the buds
 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, of May are darling, the sun’s complexion is
golden and dimmed, how hot the sun gets
 And summer's lease hath all too short a date. when it shines, the changes nature makes, and
 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, how heaven shines. He explains how she’s
lovely and well mannered. While in the sonnet
 And often is his gold complexion dimmed; the speaker says how everything else will lose
 And every fair from fair sometime declines, it beauty in time or by accident the woman he’s
courting never will. He explains even though
 By chance, or nature's changing course summer will end eventually, for her, her eternal
untrimmed. summer beauty won’t ever end and how she
 But thy eternal summer shall not fade won’t end up wondering the plains of the
underworld just as long as living eyes could
 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; see the poem. There is a bit of a rhyme
 Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his scheme in the sonnet that goes like ABAB until
shade, the last two stanzas which has its own rhyme
scheme. There isn’t much of a title symbolism
 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, as it’s widely known just as “Sonnet 18”. The
 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, theme of the sonnet explains how the speaker
feels strongly about the person he’s courting.
 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Both the tone and diction of the sonnet sounds
very light and sentimental and it shows how the
like the speaker really cares deeply about the
person he’s courting.

5. THE NYMPHS REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD BY
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
 The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd  Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of
 By Sir Walter Raleigh roses,
 If all the world and love were young,  Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies
 And truth in every shepherd's tongue,  Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten
 These pretty pleasures might me move  In folly ripe, in season rotten.

 To live with thee and be thy love.

 Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
 Time drives the flocks from field to fold  Thy coral clasps and amber studs,
 When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,  All these in me no means can move
 And Philomel becometh dumb;  To come to thee and be thy love.

 The rest complains of cares to come.

 But could youth last and love still breed,
 The flowers do fade, and wanton fields  Had joys no date nor age no need,
 To wayward winter reckoning yields;  Then these delights my mind might
move
 A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
 To live with thee and be thy love.
 Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.


6. THE NYMPHS REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD
ESSAY
 The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd was written by Sir Walter Raleigh.
The poem has 24 paragraphs with 4 stanzas in each of them. The
speaker of the poem is a woman, who’s answering to a man that’s been
courting her to live with him. She explains how spring is going to end
eventually and the bitterness of fall and winter are going to come along.
Imagery is used in this poem for example, the brisk cold the rivers and
rocks become, the bitterness of winter, how the season of fall is
sorrowful, and how flowers will fade and wither away. She explains not
every day is going to be perfect like he claims it is, even though it’ll be
spring and time for romance one day it’s not going to last forever and the
other seasons fall and winter are going to come sooner or later. The
rhyme scheme in the poem goes AABB throughout most of the poem.
The theme of poem is how the woman being courted tells the man who
loves her that basically he’s a fool for thinking spring’s never going to end
and how she’ll find eternal happiness with him, but she’ll live with him for
awhile and if he could prove to her that what he’s saying is true she’ll
stay with him forever. There’s no symbolism in the title since it’s very
straightforward. The tone and diction of the poem is very
skeptical, explaining how she won’t be persuade to live with him since
she believes what he’s saying is not true, but willing to be proved wrong.

7. IMMORALITY BY LISEL MULLER
 In Sleeping Beauty's castle
 the clock strikes one hundred years  As a child I had a book
 and the girl in the tower returns to the  with a picture of that scene.
 world.  I was too young to notice
 how fear persists, and how
 So do the servants in the kitchen,  the anger that causes fear persists,
 who don't even rub their eyes.  that its trajectory can't be changed
 The cook's right hand, lifted  or broken, only interrupted.
 an exact century ago,  My attention was on the fly;
 completes its downward arc  that this slight body
 to the kitchen boy's left ear;  with its transparent wings
 the boy's tensed vocal cords  and lifespan of one human day
 finally let go  still craved its particular share
 the trapped, enduring whimper,  of sweetness, a century later.
 and the fly, arrested mid-plunge
 above the strawberry pie,
 fulfills its abiding mission
 and dives into the sweet, red glaze.

8. IMMORALITY ESSAY
 Immortality was written by Lisel Mueller, it has two paragraphs
twenty-nine stanzas altogether. The speaker is more than likely
the writer who’s telling the audience how she thinks what
happened when time became unfrozen in Sleeping Beauty.
There’s a bit of imagery in the poem for example, she explains
the glaze on the strawberry pie as sweet, a boy’s vocals being
tensed, the fly’s wings as transparent, the boy’s trapped
whimper, time in the tower returning back to the world, and the
sounds of a fly. There’s no rhyme scheme in the poem, but the
title symbolizes how things never change even if they’ve been
interrupted for over a century. She explains how feelings and
taste can’t be broken or altered in any way as with the example
she gave with the fly, even if the fly was interrupted from its
pursuit a century ago its longing for the pie wasn’t changed once
time became unfrozen again. The theme of the poem is how
even though something or someone could be interrupted of doing
something for a long period of time, its need of doing it can’t be
broken. The tone and diction of the poem is shown as light.

9. THE LAMB BY WILLIAM BLAKE
 The Lamb  The Lamb was written by William Blake during the
Victorian era. The poem has two paragraphs with
 William Blake ten stanzas in each of them. The speaker is more
than likely a man who’s addressing who made such
a loving creature as the lamb and if whoever made
 Little Lamb, who made thee the lamb created the tyger too. The imagery that’s
 Does thou know who made thee
used in this is how the lamb is called mild and
meek and compares the lamb to a child. The
 Gave thee life & bid thee feed. speaker explains how the lamb’s voice is tender
and its woolly fur is bright, the softest, and
 By the stream & o'er the mead; delightful. The speaker explains how the lamb to
 Gave thee clothing of delight, be a gentle, kind creature. The lamb is compared
to as a child since most children are defenseless
 Softest clothing woolly bright; and the speaker basically says how the lamb is
 Gave thee such a tender voice. meek and mild, one could also guess that lamb is
also a defenseless creature of a pacifist. There’s a
 Making all the vales rejoice: bit of a rhyme scheme in the poem, in the first
paragraph the rhyme scheme could be seen from
 Little Lamb who made thee
stanzas three thru eight and in the second
 Does thou know who made thee paragraph the rhyme scheme is seen from stanzas
fifteen and sixteen. The theme of the poem is how
the lamb is a delightful creature and wonders that
 Little Lamb I'll tell thee, whoever made the lamb make the tyger too and if
he or she did could they also made a creature
 Little Lamb I'll tell thee; that’s even more powerful than the two combined.
 He is called by thy name,
There’s no symbolism in the title since it’s
straightforward. The tone and diction of the poem
 For he calls himself a Lamb: is very light, happy, and also curious.
 He is meek & he is mild,
 He became a little child
 I a child & thou a lamb,
 We are called by His name,
 Little Lamb God bless thee,
 Little Lamb God bless thee.

10. ORIGINAL POEM: FEAR
 Fear
Unknowing, unwilling
 This poem is a poem I’ve
Scared to try written myself that explains
Something new, something unique how people fear certain
Or is that the truth?
Fear of death, loneliness things. Why I’ve included
Change, sudden doom perhaps?
this poem is because of its
 Fear of dark skies and rustling winds
Cackling laughter or booming thunder seriousness in tone and it
Streaks of lightning and monsters under explains many fears from
children's beds
Skeleton bones, howling dogs frightening fears to
Utter darkness somewhat sillier ones. This
 Or maybe some silly things like balloons
Certain foods like hot dogs
poem’s supposed to
Cats, dogs, or many other animals indicate fear and horror to
The fear consumes you
You could overcome it
people, questioning why a
Or maybe you can't person fears a certain thing.
 Don't let fear
Overtake your life
You might just miss out
On the things that matter most

11. ORIGINAL POEM: CLICHÉ
 Cliché  Why this poem was included was
Roses are red because it makes fun of some of
Violets are blue the clichés that are found in
This is cliché stories, books, poems, and other
And it makes me gloom things. The poem is written first
 Don't you know with a romantic feeling, but
Its been overdone? around the third and fourth
Words of love stanzas the poem turns from
Isn't so new romantic to comical. A rhyme
scheme was supposed to be
 But I must admit included, but only the second
That words of love and fourth stanza of the entire
Really isn't my type of work poem rhyme.
Because words of love to me
Are sappy and soft
 Now I could end this
About a rant of love
But instead I will go
Back to my time
And end this crazy rhyme

12. ORIGINAL POEM: PRIDE
 Pride  This poem explains how the
You know it from the heart feeling of pride is just strong
A feeling so powerful or maybe an even stronger
It takes over your mind feeling the feeling of being
No, I don't mean love in love. This poem was
Though I must admit included because it explains
The feeling itself is strong how someone’s ego starts
 What I mean is a pride to get enlarged after a
The feeling of being right period of time and
Knowing you’re better than compares an egotistical
the rest person to someone who’s
Having people cheer you on deeply, and sometimes
Knowing they’re inflaming blindly, in love with
Your already enlarged ego someone.

13. ORIGINAL POEM: SLOTH
 Sloth  Why this poem was
You sit, you watch included is because it
You’re like a cat explains the laziness of a
Watching its prey person, it shows how they
A lazy cat that is really don’t care what
 You don’t leave your spot happens to someone as
You don’t see the point long as they don’t have to
No one’s in harm’s way move from their spot to help
So why should you care unless they’re forced to
help. The lazy person is
 You’re like a rock compared to a large
Stiff and unmoving unmoving cat or a rock just
Unless someone else laying around, stiff and
Does it for you unmoving, not willing to get
up unless someone picks
them up themselves.

14. ORIGINAL POEM: GREED
 Greed  The poem “Greed” explains how
Gold, silver, platinum much a person wants an
Money, jewelry, you want it all unnecessary thing and even
You’re not looking though they don’t need it, they
For a specific thing want it anyway. This was
 You want it just included because it explains
To complete a collection what goes through the mind of a
Because you feel entitled to it person who’s consumed with
You never rest till you have it greed, how they handle
situations, and why they look
 They call you spoiled, a down on people who can’t get
princess, a prima donna the things that person is getting.
You know they don’t understand
immense wealth
You believe they’re all are
jealous of you
And you keep asking for more
things

15. CITATIONS
 The poems “The Lamb”, “The Nymphs Reply to the
Shepherd”, “The Passionate Shepherd to His
Love”, and “Sonnet 18” were all found on
http://www.poetry-online.org
 The poem “Immortality” was found on
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/173.html