I am... I can... I know...
I am...
I am Sarah Yaisomanang and i'm short
I am Asian, Laos & Thai to be exact
I am openminded
I am confident, smart and clean
I am a young lady who loves food
I am a great friend
I am loyal and Trustworthy
I am a high school student
I am respectful to those who deserves it
I am a loving person with a huge heart
I can...
I can text fast
I can dress
I can play volleyball
I can use a phone, computer, tablet and etc.
I can eat
I can cook
I can shop
I can work
I can sleep
I can drive
I know...
I know that I love my family
I know now a days "friends" don't exist
I know my boyfriend is supportive of me than anyone I know
I know I will graduate high school in 2 years, which is my goal
I know i'll get a job soon, which is another one of my goals
I know i'll make it to college
I know you gotta go through hell to get to heaven
I knows there's more to life than struggles
I know i'm always ready for what tomorrow brings
I know i'm happy to waking up to another day
I am Sarah Yaisomanang and i'm short
I am Asian, Laos & Thai to be exact
I am openminded
I am confident, smart and clean
I am a young lady who loves food
I am a great friend
I am loyal and Trustworthy
I am a high school student
I am respectful to those who deserves it
I am a loving person with a huge heart
I can...
I can text fast
I can dress
I can play volleyball
I can use a phone, computer, tablet and etc.
I can eat
I can cook
I can shop
I can work
I can sleep
I can drive
I know...
I know that I love my family
I know now a days "friends" don't exist
I know my boyfriend is supportive of me than anyone I know
I know I will graduate high school in 2 years, which is my goal
I know i'll get a job soon, which is another one of my goals
I know i'll make it to college
I know you gotta go through hell to get to heaven
I knows there's more to life than struggles
I know i'm always ready for what tomorrow brings
I know i'm happy to waking up to another day
My Big 10 Poetic Devices
1. Alliteration:
- Creative Carry combines colors to make new colors on paper.
- Pretty Patricia painted peaches for people on paper.
2. Allusion:
- Lunch at West Jeff are okay, but my mom's food is better.
3. Figurative Language:
- Ms.Burton get so mad in class, her voice throws knives.
- Relationships are like tears of rain.
4. Metaphor:
- Love is like a brain malfunctioning on purpose.
5. Extended Metaphor:
- My personality is like a river, sometimes rough and fast, but also calm and soothing. My personality is like a river, with smooth waters and typhoons.
6. Onomatopoeia:
- The ducks went quack-quack in annoyance.
- My teeth chattered in the freezing cold.
7, Personification:
- The plush carpet massaged my aching feet
- The cool AC cooled me sincerely.
8. Rhyme:
- My favorite place is Olive Garden, yes! Before you judge it, put it to the test. I assure you the best.
9. Repetition:
- Just do it, you know you want a sip. Just do it, you know you need a thirsty drink. Just do it, it's in you.
10. Simile:
- My boyfriend's anger is worse than a raging bull.
- Creative Carry combines colors to make new colors on paper.
- Pretty Patricia painted peaches for people on paper.
2. Allusion:
- Lunch at West Jeff are okay, but my mom's food is better.
3. Figurative Language:
- Ms.Burton get so mad in class, her voice throws knives.
- Relationships are like tears of rain.
4. Metaphor:
- Love is like a brain malfunctioning on purpose.
5. Extended Metaphor:
- My personality is like a river, sometimes rough and fast, but also calm and soothing. My personality is like a river, with smooth waters and typhoons.
6. Onomatopoeia:
- The ducks went quack-quack in annoyance.
- My teeth chattered in the freezing cold.
7, Personification:
- The plush carpet massaged my aching feet
- The cool AC cooled me sincerely.
8. Rhyme:
- My favorite place is Olive Garden, yes! Before you judge it, put it to the test. I assure you the best.
9. Repetition:
- Just do it, you know you want a sip. Just do it, you know you need a thirsty drink. Just do it, it's in you.
10. Simile:
- My boyfriend's anger is worse than a raging bull.
Sympathy
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Sympathy" is a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's use of figurative language and extended metaphor here is breathtaking. He is comparing a bird trapped in a cage to slavery and the pain of no freedom. Dunbar is a son of slaves. Dunbar often wrote about slavery and life in the South.
This poem is arranged in stanzas. Dunbar uses a ABAABCC. The poem consists 7 lines each. Each stanza how the cage or slavery caused the people pain & their desire to be free. Sympathy is a poem not only about a caged bird but about our lives in general; the way we desire for freedom, the way no living being can ever dwell peacefully in captivity. The background of this poem is the trails and struggle of slavery.
"When the first bird sings and the first bud opes"
Dunbar uses this line in his poem to say that the birds are singing songs of spring and that the flowers were blooming.
"I know why the caged bird beats his wing/Till it's blood is red on the cruel bars."
Dunbar uses this line in his poem to engage our senses. The speaker understands the birds frustration. The bird knows that escaping is impossible but still tries to stay strong and beats its wings against the caged bar trying to get away. The way it beats its wings against the caged bar it starts to bleed. This makes me feel sympathy for the bird and all the others that has been locked up and locked away. Dunbar seems to be able to understand and write this because he probably have went through the struggle of feeling/being locked up and locked away and felt the pain.
"It is not a carol of joy or glee/But a prayer that he sends from his hearts deep core."
Dunbar uses this line in his poem to describe the songs that the bird is singing are not happy ones; they are sad pleading for freedom.
According to my opinion, this poem is very much interesting. I believe Dunbar was talking about slavery and life in general we face things in our lives that scar us for life, and I believe he was talking to us today as well as tomorrow. At first when you read it, it's rarely confusing but as you read it over you start to catch the drift of the poem's background. The poem was easy to read. The poet was saying that he seems to be comparing a 'caged bird' to a human slave. The mood reading this poem was sad in some parts, & angry in others. The author repeats the phrase "I know why the caged bird" because he wants the reader to know that he too has felt this way. Connecting to the poem, i felt confused & trapped, then sadness, then sympathy. I felt this because once i figured out that 'birds' was a metaphor for slaves, it was sad to think about how they wanted to get away but couldn't. The speaker thinks slavery is terrible. Both of them are locked up & desperate to get away.
Some of the literally devices in this poem are
Alliteration - Birds singing songs of spring & flowers blooming
Simile - The river flows like a stream of glass
Metaphor - Caged bird = Slaves or African Americans who are NOT FREE
Rhyme - Alas, grass & glass
Imagery - First bird sings (hearing) & the first bud opes (sight), and the faint perfume from (smell).
Repetition - I know what the caged bird feelsAlliteration - Birds singing songs of spring & flowers blooming
This poem is arranged in stanzas. Dunbar uses a ABAABCC. The poem consists 7 lines each. Each stanza how the cage or slavery caused the people pain & their desire to be free. Sympathy is a poem not only about a caged bird but about our lives in general; the way we desire for freedom, the way no living being can ever dwell peacefully in captivity. The background of this poem is the trails and struggle of slavery.
"When the first bird sings and the first bud opes"
Dunbar uses this line in his poem to say that the birds are singing songs of spring and that the flowers were blooming.
"I know why the caged bird beats his wing/Till it's blood is red on the cruel bars."
Dunbar uses this line in his poem to engage our senses. The speaker understands the birds frustration. The bird knows that escaping is impossible but still tries to stay strong and beats its wings against the caged bar trying to get away. The way it beats its wings against the caged bar it starts to bleed. This makes me feel sympathy for the bird and all the others that has been locked up and locked away. Dunbar seems to be able to understand and write this because he probably have went through the struggle of feeling/being locked up and locked away and felt the pain.
"It is not a carol of joy or glee/But a prayer that he sends from his hearts deep core."
Dunbar uses this line in his poem to describe the songs that the bird is singing are not happy ones; they are sad pleading for freedom.
According to my opinion, this poem is very much interesting. I believe Dunbar was talking about slavery and life in general we face things in our lives that scar us for life, and I believe he was talking to us today as well as tomorrow. At first when you read it, it's rarely confusing but as you read it over you start to catch the drift of the poem's background. The poem was easy to read. The poet was saying that he seems to be comparing a 'caged bird' to a human slave. The mood reading this poem was sad in some parts, & angry in others. The author repeats the phrase "I know why the caged bird" because he wants the reader to know that he too has felt this way. Connecting to the poem, i felt confused & trapped, then sadness, then sympathy. I felt this because once i figured out that 'birds' was a metaphor for slaves, it was sad to think about how they wanted to get away but couldn't. The speaker thinks slavery is terrible. Both of them are locked up & desperate to get away.
Some of the literally devices in this poem are
Alliteration - Birds singing songs of spring & flowers blooming
Simile - The river flows like a stream of glass
Metaphor - Caged bird = Slaves or African Americans who are NOT FREE
Rhyme - Alas, grass & glass
Imagery - First bird sings (hearing) & the first bud opes (sight), and the faint perfume from (smell).
Repetition - I know what the caged bird feelsAlliteration - Birds singing songs of spring & flowers blooming
