Pitcher: Claire Barbour

"Pitcher" by Robert Francis, other than the obvious repetition tone doesn't focus to much on a specific literary technique but instead it focuses more on uncovering the techniques and goal of a pitcher in baseball. This poem also compares the goals of a baseball pitcher to maybe a quarterback who instead would try to throw the ball, with intentions of it being understood and easily "read". This poem openly expresses the "hidden methods" that may not be seen or understood my a member of the audience.

Francis uses repetition on tone and "line meaning", in order to allow the reader to understand what exactly he is explaining. He also breaks the description of the pitch up into small sections to show the actual importance and thought behind what the pitcher is actually trying to accomplish.

Claire Barbour: Immigrants by Pat Mora

-In order to capture the true "American Life" Pat Mora uses stereotypical phrases dealing with the American way of life such as" Blonde dolls that blink blue", "hot dogs and apple pie." By doing this he captures the ideas that immigrants have about America, and also their desires to be one of Americas citizens. He creates a stressful tone by conveying their everyday stresses for their children to be looked at as every day American children.

-Mora conveys the immigrants desires by putting us in their head and showing wat they see when they think of America. Therefore stereotypes concerning this topic, allowed the reader to feel what exactly it was that the immigrants expected when they moved to America.

-This poem by Louise Gluck "Life is a nice Place", has a very ironic tone. Gluck describes this lovely place knows as life and describes the music, people and love. He has the reader believing that this would indeed be a nice place to be, but when the reader discovers how the the first and final lines of the poem fit together they automatically realize his sarcasm. "Life is a nice place.../ to visit. But I wouldn't live there." The reader then can tell that for Gluck live is more suitable as a vacation rather that a lifestyle.

-Gluck creates irony in the poem by placing certain lines in strategic places. So therefore in order to mock the strategy he uses I would place the lines in my poem in a place that would create irony (or whatever other tone I was trying to create) without actually making the diction ironic, but instead almost disputing what I had said earlier in the poem.

On the Death of Friends in Childhood- Claire Barbour

- When reading this poem the literary aspects of it seem to have very little influence of my opinion and analysis of it. Instead what stood out to me was the strong emotion that this poem evoked from me. This poem hits the reader at a very personal level whether or not they have ever lost a young person in their life or not. Donald Justice uses religious ties and strong ideas to provoke emotions from the reader.

-I believe in order to replicate the tone of this poem, one would need to choose a topic that would automatically draw emotions from the reader, and then try to reach a personal level with them so that it would seem as though the speaker was speaking directly to them.

Why I Went to College- Claire Barbour

"you better learn

to eat soup

through a straw"

- Why I Went to College, written by Martin Espada, has a humorous a rhythmical tone. Due to the rhymes Espada uses throughout the poem, the reader is pleasantly surprised by the humorous lines that the rhymes create. I believe that the bluntness of the rhymes is why they are humorous, as well as the obviously humorous diction used to create the rhymes.

- In order to replicate the humor in this poem, I would first find the words that would used as the base of the humor and create more or less humor depending on how blunt or in-depth I decided to make the lines . Blunt being more humorous than in-depth.