2. My poetry anthology consists of three
poems:
A dream by Edgar Allan Poe
Edna St. Vincent Millay
If you forget me by Pablo Neruda
3. That holy dream- that holy dream,
A Dream While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
In visions of the dark night A lonely spirit guiding.
I have dreamed of joy departed-
But a waking dream of life and light What though that light, thro' storm
Hath left me broken-hearted. and night,
So trembled from afar-
Ah! what is not a dream by day What could there be more purely
To him whose eyes are cast bright
On things around him with a ray In Truth's day-star?
Turned back upon the past?
4. The story of a troubled soul who
wants to escape reality.
It seems as if this person wants to
hide in a dreamworld or fantasy
world so as to escape the troubles of
real life.
Rather than death, the narrator
wishes to escape from reality
through dreams and fantasies.
I chose this poem since I could feel
this person’s emotions the first time I
read it. It’s a really intense and sad
poem.
The first picture illustrates this world
of fantasy and the second picture
illustrates his other world full of
darkness.
5. Oh oh you will be sorry for that word!
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it my enemy or my friend I heard
“What a big book for such a little head!”
Come, I will show you now my newest hat!
And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink!
Oh, I shall love you still, and all of that.
I never again shall tell you what I think
I shall be sweet and crafty , soft and sly;
You will not catch me reading any more :
I shall be called a wife to pattern by;
And some day when you knock and push the door
Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy,
I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me.
6. A clever woman living an unfair situation. Her
husband underestimates her constantly.
Throughout the poem, she is warning him of the
consequences of his actions.
This poem, illustrates the situation of many women
during the 1890s.
I chose it since I sympathy with this woman and I
value her determination to seek for something better.
I chose that picture because it illustrates a lonely
woman. In my view she is extremely lonely since she
can not even be herself around her own husband.
8. I want you to know Well, now,
one thing. if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
You know how this is:
if I look If suddenly
at the crystal moon, at the red branch you forget me
of the slow autumn at my window, do not look for me,
if I touch for I shall already have forgotten
near the fire you
the impalpable ash If you think it long and mad,
or the wrinkled body of the log, the wind of banners
everything carries me to you, that passes through my life,
as if everything that exists, and you decide
aromas, light, metals, to leave me at the shore
were little boats of the heart where I have roots,
that sail remember
toward those isles of yours that wait for me. that on that day,
at that hour,
.
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.
9. But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.
10. The theme of this poem is LOVE.
This poem is about true love, that kind of love that one would make sacrifices for.
In my opinion the message of this poem is that if someone should stop loving you,
letting them go and easing their conscious by saying that you will move on is the
most honorable and unconditional kind of love
there is.
I chose this poem because it
explains how true love is supposed
to be and I actually agree with it!
I chose two pictures. Both pictures
illustrate love. The first one in a
more concrete way, and the
second in a more abstract way.
