Wednesday, February 22, 2012

9 Elements

1.       The speaker of the poem is a single person, talking about what no one has thought or cared to talk about.
2.       The structure of the poem is lines 1 – 3, 4 – 7, and 8 – 11.
3.       The theme of the poem is to expect the unexpected. The poem starts off by saying what you are expecting, and gives you something completely different.
4.       There is no usage of commas or semicolons to indicate a pause in thought. Possibly to keep with the poem’s tone.
5.       Three important images are “ A chameleon who blends in.” “A golden dove in a sea of white doves.” “ A red tulip among the white tulips.” These three images show something that stands  out from the rest of the crowd, which is what the poem itself is trying to do.
6.       The important words in this poem are “ No one cares to write about,” it’s showing the thoughts that nobody has cared to write about.
7.       The tone of the poem is unenthusiastic, the speaker seems like he/she could care less about what they are writing about.
8.        A literary device that helps convey the meaning of the poem is imagery. The speaker creates a couple different images that help show what the poem is trying to do, which is stand out from everybody else, do what no one has done before.
9.       The structure and flow of the text help convey the author’s meaning by being written in a simple language and having it easy to understand. There is no complexity within the poem.