Comments Assignment
May 16, 2008
My World
May 8, 2008
By Francine Pucillo
That hate will be no more
Each nation joined together
Dove’s wings of peace now soar
No ignorance be found
Within each heart of stranger
Just love and life abound
Hands of every color
Reach across the world
Joining with each other
Defining love unfurled
Finding peace in helping
With tenderness and care
Hearts and souls all reaching
In silence love is there
Universal language
We each can understand
Hearts that touch so softly
Will fall upon each land
I hope one day this happens
I pray that this be so
With love and gentle kindness
World’s crown is soft rainbow.
SOAPSTONE
S- The subject is about how the world should be a better place
O-
A- The audience is everyone who do not care about the earth
P- The purpose of this poem is because the poet believes in a better world
S- The speaker is the poet
TONE- loving and caring
Poetic Devices- The poem is divided into six quatrains. The first line, “At times my heart imagines”, is a personification. It is giving a heart the ability to imagine. The last line is a metaphor. It compares the world with a rainbow. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL.
The Marigold
May 8, 2008
Have you ever looked back and compared who you were then with whom you are now? In “The Marigold”, Lizabeth looks back at the memory that turned her into a woman. Lizabeth, being an immature, creative leader, lead her to crush Miss Lottie’s marigolds – the only thing beautiful in their town. In the end, she learns a life lesson and plants marigolds.
In the memory, Lizabeth is immature. When her brother, Joey, accused Lizabeth of being scared, she cursed and spat on the floor saying, “Y’all children get the stones, I’ll show you how to use ‘em”. It shows immaturity because she cares about what other people think of her. Seeing Miss Lottie in so much rage, went to Lizabeth’s head. She ran up to Miss Lottie and chanted: “Old witch, fell in a ditch, picked up a penny, and thought she was rich.” Her being immature, lead to her hurting Miss Lottie emotionally. Her immaturity caused her to be blinded and not see that what shat she was doing was wrong. After destroying Miss Lottie’s Marigold’s, she understood why she grew them in the first place. That was when Lizabeth “became a woman.”
All the kids following Lizabeth makes her a leader. Lizabeth threw the first pebble at Miss Lottie’s marigolds. Shortly after Lizabeth started the chant: “Old witch, fell in a ditch, picked up a penny and thought she was rich”, everyone else “swarmed around Miss Lottie like Bees”. If Lizabeth wasn’t a leader, the other kids wouldn’t have been tagging along in the teasement of Miss Lottie. All the pranks make Lizabeth Creative. The older Lizabeth said “We children made a game of thinking of ways to disturb John Burke and then to elude his violent retribution.” They have nothing to do all day and make up games to have fun. A game the kids think is always fun, unfortunately, involves emotionally hurting Miss Lottie. If Lizabeth wasn’t creative, the kid’s games wouldn’t have been as harsh as it was.
Lizabeth is immature, creative, and a leader. Her personality lead to Miss Lottie’s marigolds to be forever destroyed. Learning her lesson, she planted Marigolds herself. She is no longer immature, but a “woman”.
