The Guitarist Tunes Up Frances Cornford

With what attentive courtesy he bent
Over his instrument;
Not as lordly conqueror who could
Command both wire and wood,
But as a man with a loved woman might,
Inquiring with delight
What slight essential things she had to say
Before they started, he and she, to play.

This poem is passionate. The author compairs the quitarists passion for his instrument just the same as a passionate and loving relationship should be. The man is not bent over his instrument with power and greed but with love and compassion just as a man should do the same for a woman he loves. This love and compassion can be reflected into anyone's passions. A person who is passionate for reading, writing, singing, playing, composing, making, anything; these things a person is passionate about shoud be with love and care not with cruelty and power. The poem has a continued sentence with only a period at the very end. The rhyme scheme is a, a, b, b. This adds to the flow of the poem. It is almost as if the guitarist is playing this poem in his song. Also from the flow the reader can imagine the guitarist playing for his lover and his sweet music is compassionate and caring just as his feelings for his loved one is. This is a fun love poem.

A Poison Tree William Blake

In this poem, A Poison Tree by William Blake there is a lot to comment about structure and meaning of the poem. To start off with meaning I see this as the common Friend vs Foe cliche. The author is writing about how he pents up his anger agianst his foe and uses it to actually kill him. Figuratively speaking I see this poem as meaning that it could have been a friendship if the problems were compromized and talked about but instead a secret war was started between these two people and the relationship between them was completely ruined. The author also uses a biblical allusion in some aspects of the poem. The entire poem is about a tree growing in a garden, a poison, or forbidden tree that obviously should not  be eaten  from if it is poisonous. His foe stole the apple from the tree and was found dead lying in its shadows. The biblical allusion aligns with the story of Adam and Eve in the secret garden. God's foe is sin or the devil. Adam and Eve commit a sin by eating from the forbidden tree and people are destroyed of being pure and sinless and original sin was born.
The structure of this poem is using an A,A,B,B rhyme scheme. There are four lines in every stanza and four stanzas. The structure of the poem adds to the impact it sets on the reader. It makes it easier to understand the situation that the character and his foe are in and the relationship between them. The character is "glad to see [his] foe outstretched beneath the tree" lines 15,16. The rhyme and the consistant stanza and line matching helps make the poem and the words flow together. When reading the poem out loud it is almost as if its a song.

you fit into me Margaret Atwood

My mom is a big sewer. When I was little all my St. John's skirts she sewed by hand. It's weird to talk about that but that how I saw the first two lines of the poem. "you fit into me/ like a hook into an eye". There are pictures down below that would maybe help a reader understand what it looks like. The most common hook and eye would be at the very bottom, ladies would probably see this to button a bra.  Atwood uses symbols to describe the speaker's relationship. She uses a common hook and eye, like what you would find on a dress, to illustrate compatibility. Two human beings fit together like a hook and eye, peanut butter and jelly, macaroni and cheese, a fat kid and cake- there are many others.  But then there is an enjambment, and then an explanation: this is not the hook and eye first imagined, it is painful. The lines "a fish hook/ An open eye"show how this would be a helpless relationship where the partners injured one another. The first line makes me think positively upon the situation, but then ends hopelessly. The couple has manajed to not fit together anymore but actually hurt one another.

Writing Jan Dean

and then i saw it
saw it all         all the mess
and blood and everythink
and mam agenst the kichin dor
the flor all stiky
and the wall all wet
and red an dad besid the kichen draw
i saw it saw it all
an wrot it down an ever word of it is tru

In this poem I see the state of a human mind during a traumatizing experience. All these mistakes on the page with things written wrong and with spelling errors, short incoherent sentences, I see this coming from the actual experience the author went through. From what I can gather this is a child of a couple- a disfunctional couple, and this child watched or was there when the male seriously injured or even killed his spouse. The author uses the mispelled words to put a message into the reader's mind and make an impact. His small but discrpitive words allow the reader to capture glimpses of what happened and there is no mistaking what actually happened. For example "all the mess/and blood and everythink" this shows to the reader that this experience was violent and obviously someone was hurt, it was a blood bath. Only five words and the reader is already impacted in this poem, the author does a great job of leaving impact with a small amount of words with very little discrpition.