Ethan

__**1st original poem**__

By: Ethan Stanton My pencil, Elaborately designed, Crafted for writing with, Hands that use it, __and [e1__] create meaning. Nothing is so special, I admire so profoundly, __ Capturing readers with words[e2]  __ and create meaning. Letters from which are formed. Particularly the point, Everything comes alive, Nothing is so special, Capturing the readers with words, I admire so profoundly, Letters from which are formed.
 * //Mechanical pencil//**

[e1] The tool used here is known as Grammar. Grammar in a poem can be manipulated an way the poet writer wishes as long as it has meaning. “and” is lower cased the way it is because it tells the reader that the pencil is special because of all the rest of the uses for it, not just because it creates meaning.

[e2] This line is considered a hyperbole. A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration in a poem. Pencils don’t actually capture readers with words so it is used as a hyperbole to direct the reader’s attention towards the idea that pencils are special.

__**2ND original poem**__

//By: Ethan Stanton//
 * The killing War**

We have begun, The U.S. is not safe, __Start to stop [e1__] this, Nuclear warfare. No limited power, Or reduce of production, Makes for __destruction [e2]  __, More than we desired. Negotiations agreed, For the concepts of others, That China accepted, We have ended.

[e1] “Start to stop” is a compressed conflict. A compressed conflict is to words that don’t seem to go together in a poem. The meaning for it in my poem is for the readers to focus on the idea of nuclear warfare. “Start to stop” being the end of the war. It also adds suspense for the next line, keeping readers interested.

[e2] Destruction is consider the tone of this poem. The tone of the poem is the overall idea of the poem in one’s head. The reason for this being the tone is because the poem tells about how nuclear warfare destroys things that are undesired.


 * __Poem by another author__**

__//For whom the bell tolls by John Donne//__ __No man is an island,__ __Entire of itself,__ __Each is a piece of the continent,__ __A part of the main.[e1]__ If a clod be washed away by the sea,  Europe is the less.  As well as if a promontory were.  As well as if a manner of thine own  Or of thine friend’s were.  Each man’s __death diminishes [e2__] me,  For I am involved in mankind.  Therefore, send not to know  For whom the bell tolls,  It tolls for thee.


 * [e1] All of these lines are extended metaphors. Extended metaphors are metaphors that extend through the poem (does not always have to be all of the poem.) Its meaning in Donne’s poem is to really show the readers how no man makes up the island (or world) but that everyone is part of a whole.**
 * [e2] “death diminishes…”is considered an alliteration. An alliteration are two or more words that start with the same consonant**
 * letter. Its meaning in the poem is to focus the reader towards the idea of the poem that if one man suffers, so will the others.**

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