Ruben+Burenstein

"Poetry is the doorway to the soul." - Floria

Four friends

on the playground first day of real life Friends, None.

to play in the soft, cold ground. no intention of doing anything else Friends, One.

to chase other kids, unimaginable fun second day of real life Friends, four.

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Ode to blankets

So soft and fuzzy On every bed, Covering every sheet Bringing dreams all around the world. Warming the hearts of everyone as they sleep No matter how soft, warm, or moldy they all create dreams. one layer, two? It doesn't matter as long as it wraps you in it's warm loving arms grabbing you tighter until you slip into sleep.

Riff poem (With a line from Taylor Stover)

Aquarium filled with marine life Let's go to the jellyfish! I'm a fish! I'll eat the happy fish for 50 dollars. Bringing fun to all kids there Cages keeping in the misery, but keeping out the joy.

I was raised by men

I was raised by Sport loving Soccer playing Tv watching Kind of man

Some movie loving Always wrestling Never controlled Girl crazy Kind of man

The always encouraging Constantly Annoying Music loving "get your homework done" Kind of man

The sometimes masculine sometimes feminine Always funny Kind of man

The cube

Twisting turning in many directions Six colors mixed all around every way Sitting at home in many collections Everyone hoping to complete one day Intriguing people since it was devised red, blue, green, white, orange, yellow, unite Algorithms and patterns memorized It is only those things, not a rare sight the gift comes with stares and many questions My name, endless jokes, hear them every time disassembling, cheating, accusations Less confusing than thinking of a rhyme ah, Completion, everyone wonders how Everyone wants me to do it again now.

Analysis on my poetry

I tried to use all different types of figurative techniques throughout my poetry, but not a lot of it showed through in the ending. One of the biggest ones is repetition in the memory poem. I said Friends ___ to express that this was the most important part of the poem. I also had Friends, and the number after it as the only capitalized letters in the poem to draw more attention to them. I used personification in my ode to blankets when i said that they wrap you in their warm loving arms. This is to make the blankets seem like a more loving object. This poem has a lot of lines that aren't as direct as the other poems, like the use of personification. The riff poem is similar to my other poems because it doesn't have a lot of deeper meaning, except for the last line. I used made the last line the one that was the most hard hitting because it makes the rest of the poem seem like it doesn't matter. It shows the bad things that go on in aquariums, it brings to light that the animals are trapped there and probably having a miserable time. The sonnet was one of the hardest to make, and it is by far the last straight to the point. It doesn't tell you what it is directly which adds some mystery and grabs the attention so that you have to read more to figure out what the sonnet is about. Overall I think that there isn't a main style that appears in all of my poems, except for that not much is hidden. In conclusion I think that there isn't a trend that follows in all of my poems which makes them unique from most of the poets that we read in class.__

__Poet: Ogden Nash__

__Deeper analysis__

__ Ogden Nash writes mostly comedic poems. He has a whole series that is just comedic, very short poems about animals. He tells poems like a story, where it there is not a lot of hidden meaning, but a sort of moral at the end of it. He uses made up words like realio and trulio in Custard the Dragon for emphasis on the comedy. He doesn't use a lot of made up words in many poems, because most of them are too short to need made up words. Most of the shorter poems have every first word capitalized, and a lot of them have commas at the end. One of the most unique things about his poetry is that he puts it kind of like how a kid would see it. Everything is put in a more simple way than in many other poems. Even though kids might not understand some of the words, they are usually very simple or short enough to be seen like a child's point of view. This is one of the most unique things about him besides what he chooses to write the poems on. The series of poems about animals has many poems, but each one is extremely short and rhyming. He also has a few poems called reflection on __, where he writes a small poem about what he thinks about on that subject. These poems are about the same length as the animal poems, but sometimes shorter. Many of the shorter poems like the animal ones use word play to add a comedic effect, or say point out funny things about the animals. One example is in the poem The Shrimp, he says the line “could catch no glimpse, not even a glimp.” This made up word Is used somewhat as a hyperbole in order to show that he couldn’t see the other thing at all. I think that made up words add a lot to expressing a quantity of something, because it makes it seem much more important or exaggerated than it is. A few of him poems are different than the others, where they have some hidden meaning and are not very funny at first sight. One of the poems that is not like his others is Pretty Halcyon Days. It is about lying on the beach, and having freedom. This poem is not as directly to the point as his others, but it is still not very indirect. It talks about what happens when on the beach, and only a few lines per stanza have some sort of deeper meaning. Like all of his other poems, this one rhymes similarly to the other poems. At mentioned earlier, the most unique thing about his poems are that it helps you view things in the point of view of a child. Everything seems much simpler, and funny when put into words like the ones he uses. The only poet that I would compare this sort of style is to is Dr. Seuss, because he uses made up words and other child like things to express the topic at hand. In conclusion, Ogden Nash is unique because of the view that his poetry gives by providing different styles of expressing words.