dumbo

Dumb

stupid,slow,pea brain,miss spell

some brains just do not work well

humboldtonian

There once was a man from Humboldt

every time he tried to talk he just mumbled

so he started to sing

people thought "what does this mean"

that mumbling man from Humboldt

west africa dog

There once was a midget form west Africa

all the while it wanted to be a hermaphrodite so it got some food from the fridge

and jumped off a bridge

that small midget from west Africa

why the caged bird sings responce

           ''know why the caged bird sings'', Maya Angelou is a poem about how different it is to be a caged bird that is tied up or to be a free bird that can do as it pleases. The poet is conveying the message that even though the bird is caged up it still has hope to be freed into the wild and fulfill its dream of having freedom.  The person reading this poem is a narrator for example it says ''The free bird leaps on the back of the wind'' and it didn't say I leap but instead it is in third person.
          
           The poet uses the element of repetition in this poem for example when it repeats ''The caged bird sings'' about every other paragraph. Another element used is rhyme for instance when Maya Angelou says '' with fear full trill,of the things unknown, but longed for still.'' This helps the rhythm of the poem which is a key element to all poems. One of the most important elements is imagery and imagery helps you to get an image in your head of what is happening in the poem an a perfect example of that imagery is ''But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams this shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing''

           I like the imagery in the poem because it helps me understand the full meaning of the poem.I can relate this poem to slavery because the bird in the poem is caged up and they want to live their life free just like the slaves did for example ''The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.''

poem responce

We real cool by Gwendolyn Brooks is to me a poem about life and how soon it ends and how you need to enjoy it before it does. I think that this poem is really great because it has a lot of meaning to it and i can relate to this poem because i want to live to the fullest because it will end soon and you really have to make that time count. It also has the message that things can start off fine and be okay but it can get way out of hand quickly and you don't want that to happen. when he talks about thinning gin I think that relates to the man Jon because after ''we thin gin'' it quickly went to ''we die soon'' and the gin stands for the drugs in Boston. My favorite line in the poem is ''we lurk late we strike straight'' and i like that line because it reminds me of a group of friends that have each other's backs.

abstract poem dog

Happy is when a lion kills a zebra after a long hunt

 and he gets the satisfaction of eating things he likes 

with his whole lion family

VS.

Sad is when you are not having hamburgers for dinner but instead

you have to go to your grandparents house

which is really boring because they don't want

to do anything and you end up eating

their beef stew which is okay

but you have it every time you go to their house

anger is the wind pulling tree roots out of their soil

karma is a bird dying because it ate a poisonous frog

laughter is the a rainbow flowing through your brain

revenge is winters way of getting back at summer

slavery... it sucks

Right to whip any slave

we are told lies every day

why i wanted to escape

tired

i am a slave to someone else

it is hard to tell you what i felt

working in the field all day

brainwashing

phsyically demanding

constant fear

slave master

run away

to a free state

free world

black and white

confusing to me

working all my life.