Michelle+Torelli

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= "A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense." - Thomas Harrison =

**Table Of Contents** ** 1-Memory Poem ** ** 2-Ode Poem ** ** 3-Riff Poem ** ** 4-Raised Poem **
 * 5-Sonnet Poem **
 * 6-Detailed Analysis of Poet Chosen **
 * 7-Detailed Analysis of own Poetry **

**__1)A Day in Santa Teresita__**
Soy Natalia y Vos? She questioned

Family and friends the beach

everyday you see the boys saying Pan dulce, dulce de leche, churros

stop in silence, things bought peace young and happy

hot sand between your toes sweat down our face

we lay and stay

for a necklace to behold

given from a mother to a daughter and still has

as six years passed as the purple rock glistens

of Santa Teresita

**__2)Mesita (Little Table)__**
everyday i wake up i see you there

of the present of now but all from before

Descansen en paz (R.I.P) the pictures I see

the pictures the memories?

none that i have of you but what has been told to me

how now become a part of me for a year or so

looking at each item it holds of the past, past.

retold of stories fills with joy

honoring you, of who i am i stand here with a smile

and behold each of which lays upon

**__3)RIFF POEM__**
song (Angelito) from (Don Omar) Amaneció bajo las alas de la muerte Angelito vuela tampoco te quedan muchas horas del vida marque tu partido angelito

Translation dawned down from the wings of the dead angel fly, neither to stay, many hours of life mark you're game angel

Black..speechless and silence rain darkness, lightness which to choose, your journey has begun

as i see you for the last time i look around and remind myself you are loved, alive where?

lifeless i see but you become our tears and now a scar confuse i look at you, yet asking why dawned down from the wings of the dead, our angel flys

it was your time, so short, we stand love is to let go....and as you go down rain down and down you come, harder

still to think as if nightmare i look into your closed eyes

as ours fill with tears, pour now to the tree who stands tall yet as i look is at your grasp he sways as

Father, says you will start your new life

**__4)RAISED__**
I've been raise from North Philly down to South

Raise from the roots of Argentina South America

To my Mom, Abuela, Uncles, Cousin

Raise from the Hispanic Music in which lies in my family my blood

i dance, eat

Raised from an American father

Since i was little from my cousin, Steve who may now rest in peace

To my Papi Joe, who may also rest in peace

To my friends, and sisters....you all know who you are and now to the struggles of my life in which i stand upon

**__5)SO__** **__NNET__**


oh how i like to dance to my reggaeton for all to a stance you never alone with all the beat hear hear to the parties you will never seat all are very hearty everyone move to all who wake make sure to groove and don't forget to shake enjoy and last just have a blast

__ 6)Detailed Analysis of Poet Chosen __
My poet was Deborah Ager. Through my research of her poems and of her life it really helped me to understand more about her and how she writes her poems in a certain style in which is very unique and different compared to other poet. She is strong, wise, creative and shy all at the same time. As for describing styles of poems, for an example, some poets have different format styles in which the context and/or words are placed differently, having capital or lower case letters, extra spacing, etc. Deborah Ager’s poems consisted of several paragraph based, four short line stanzas in each of the poems I chose.

The poems I chose from Deborah Ager were Summer Nights, The Lake, Alone, Night in Iowa, and Santa Fe in Winter. All have imagery, description, and depth into the words in which you can see beyond the word and have a deeper meaning of what you are really reading. Though overall it depends on the person when it comes to reading poetry because people have different perspectives, connections, and experiences when reading different material.

In Summer Nights she is describing the country-side of rural areas during the summer, and just experiencing the normal life, peaceful rather than city, loud life. In the poem she repeats the word siren in the beginning describing in the city when at the end she just exclaims it just as “The siren” as a warning. In this poem she also describes love and how she doesn’t really love someone but yet she moves on with it, then it also deepens with when the truth will come out because she feels like she is living a lie and within the poems she reclaims that by each step she takes she feels caved in but yet moves on and describes nights as a refreshment and new start.

In comparison, of which caught my eye is that the poems of Summer Nights and Night In Iowa both use the word Cows and they both use the word “cows” once. Also Night In Iowa was the shortest poem out of all of them but the most difficult to read and understand, which I suggest like I did, read it several times. Once I got the understanding of the poem it is really explaining life up above once someone looks into the stars (dreams) “Nimbus clouds erasing stars above” and then look backs to earth (reality) “whose sad voices storm the plains with longing”.

Furthermore, in another comparison now between Alone and Night In Iowa they are both describing a husband, love-figure. In Alone is describing stress in life overall and what people do to release it. Some drink, in which is described in this poem but at the end of the day, when all is done and is back to reality you actually hurt yourself more than what you do then to just face the problem. The solution you think to help your problem in the poem is “a beer bottle sweats in your hand” and in the end of the poem of reality is “your thoughts then turn to whether butter will last you the week”.

**__7)Detailed Analysis of Own Poetry__**
My poems are about my life, my experiences, my losses and my strengths throughout my poems. I would like to discuss different aspects of my poems for example, the format, style, different aspects of my culture and descriptive language, which throughout all come together to show my strengths and who I am today.

First, the formats of most of my poems were two to three line based with multiple small individual stanzas. I used repetition of different words and I just to be plain yet descriptive leaving some questioning for the reading to ask once examining my poems.

Second throughout my poems I decided to use memories of the past and represent them in the present because what has happened in the past has now made me who I am today. For an example, in my poem “A Day in Santa Teresita” and in “Raised” both describe my culture of being Hispanic in both America and in Argentina and how both places connect with me describing for the past and now to the present by using descriptive language about different foods and locations. Furthermore, I dedicated some of my poems to items that I honor and to my family members of who I recently lost. In my riff poem I describe the viewing, funeral, and burial of my cousin describing my feelings and using descriptive words such as “now to the tree who stands tall yet as i look is at your grasp” demonstrating how when we were burying him the rain was pouring down hard and the tree was swaying while father was saying our prayers.