please read this poem and tell me the meaning or message of this poem. and tell me what's happening?
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This poem is basically indicating that african americans are denied rights that are talked about highly and very educatedly but that they are only for white people.
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I haven't studied this poem, but I don't see it as a love poem from a man to a woman.  It seems to me more like he is taken with awe at the touch of a baby.  At the same time, "somewhere i have never travelled..." seems to suggest death.  \n\nMaybe it is my mood, but I can find in this an understanding of how close to death we walk as living beings.  Almost flirting with death.  The rose opens.  The rose closes.\n\n"or if your wish be to close me, i and\nmy life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,\nas when the heart of this flower imagines\nthe snow carefully everywhere descending;"\n\nIt doesn't feel like a love poem, although it might be.  If your teacher is asking you to view it as such, then you should completely ignore this answer.  He/she knows MUCH more about it than I do.  If you are asked to look at the poem and gather your own opinion, I would suggest looking at the poem as a metaphor about the fragility of life.
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Hmm, which poems are they, out of curiousity? Feel free to email them to me and I may be able to write you back their explanations. I have always enjoyed the study of poetry.\n\nOr, try searching Yahoo or Google for the poem titles and explanations - like "Death Be Not Proud explanation." Also, try out wikipedia.org. Many poems are listed on that encyclopedic site (along with many other things), and you should have no trouble finding the poems on there and their meanings.\n\nBest of luck to you. :)
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Like a burning star lighting up the midnight sky.............\n\nWEll?? What do you think??  I write alot of poetry... So,, feel free to email me  TOMCAZZ65@YAHOO.COM  love to chat with you -)  Tom xoox
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the poem is really touching..i loved it,,i know u are gonna give it to ur best friend who is upset with u for some resons..am i right??all the best,i know u'll definately get the problem solved and ur best friend will come back to u if she really understands ur feelings.
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I've always liked this poem...\n\nOne night I had a dream--\nI dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord \nand across the sky flashed scenes from my life. \nFor each scene I noticed two sets of footprints, \none belonged to me and the other to the Lord. \nWhen the last scene of my life flashed before me,\nI looked back at the footprints in the sand.\nI noticed that many times along the path of my life,\nthere was only one set of footprints.\nI also noticed that it happened at the very lowest\nand saddest times in my life. \nThis really bothered me and I questioned the Lord about it. \n"Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you,\nyou would walk with me all the way,\nbut I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life\nthere is only one set of footprints. \n"I don't understand why in times when I needed you most,\nyou should leave me." \nThe Lord replied, "My precious, precious child,\nI love you and I would never, never leave you\nduring your times of trial and suffering. \n"When you saw only one set of footprints,\nit was then that I carried you."\n\nMary Stevens
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Hello, Kaleb,\n\nI was and am an English teacher. \n\nYou can start with the poem's theme. If it is about love or nature or whatever, what does it say? How does it make you feel? Does the author choose words that are happy or depressing (mood)?\n\nYou can talk about word choices, length and, if you know something of the author, you can take that approach. \n\nHere's an example:\n\nMy Beard (Shel Silverstein)\n\nMy beard grows to my toes\nI never wears no clothes\nI wraps my beard around my bare\nand down the road I goes.\n\nWhat is Silverstein doing here? He gives you an image (a naked man with a long beard) and creates humor. His words are simple as if the man is not educated. The poem is short, cute and simple--ideal for kids or those of us who love to laugh! Silverstein wrote songs, poems and all kinds of things and was a very private man. Maybe the "beard" of the speaker is Silverstein seeking privacy.\n\nThis is a short example. I wish you luck.\n\nFor further assistance, you can try owlenglish@purdue.edu. Not sure if the url is right, but I hope you get your paper done.\n\nGambatte (good luck)from Japan!
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The point of the poem is not really what it means... because what it means is basically what you read. There is no underlying deep, philosophical meaning to it. It is a simply, living poem. When you read it, its supposed to "conjure" up the images, the sounds, the tastes, etc. It's the imagery thats strong and important. The meaning of the poem is really basic, so I won't tell you specifically tell you what it is. But my answer is a hint.
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the poem is very good!!!
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it's not a sonnet. sonnets have very specific patterns.\nI'd need to see the actual poem to tell you more.
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No idea what this question means.  Can you please elaborate?
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I wanted to help so badly, but I can't find it. I searched for about 30 minutes. I Found a great site though. It tranlates poems into English. I will tell you if I find it.  P.S. when I originally searched the poem and went to the site a poem came up but it was blurry and it was in the Greece catagory.\n\nGood Luck,\n          Chelsea\n\n\n\nI updated my comment so that I could give you the English translation to singlesockcollectors poem: here it is\n\n\n\nLeaf turns brown fall, you have just flown away yourself, branch patronizes, you want to separate yourself.  This life source, that\nformerly nourished you, Asserted, embellished, nevertheless is not dried up!  \n\nAs a burning love, in violent pushed, This velvets nectar knew to stuff you.  This tree, that has you it does?  You in has you it too given?  Of a too perfect love would have you it flooded?  \n\nThe life that climbs in him, and cannot flow itself, NEEDS this puit, where she can s’épancher itself.  The vigor of the summer,\nwhere you puisas the joy OF A delighted happiness, the abandons without you.  \n\nSmall leaf turns brown, where go you to put yourself?  Will rejoin you foam it and his cold dew?  Do not go you to take mourning, in the frozen earth, With of other feuillées, that already are\nwithered.  \n\nDauphine 30/08/2004\n\nCheck the site
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I've just been to a great poetry site. I was reading the different love poems. I've been in a relationship for the past few months that has been exquisitely painful. This beautiful poem describes my feelings exactly.\n\n http://www.netpoets.com/poems/sadlove/1503001.htm \n\nI'm pretty much addicted to him. The joy has been indescribable, and the separation is heartbreaking. I will never be the same.
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a poem about life --- from birth to death...\n\nbut when i read it it sounded much like a song...probably because of the repetitive lines that appear at the end of each verse... honestly I understand the verses except the lines about his ways/ his days... and I don't understand why those two lines need to be repeated so much and then it's not even the title.. sorry\n\noh I think "With desperate fire, his gray will sets to blaze" should be "With desperate fire, his gray will set to blaze"\n\ncontinue writing...much luck!
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In this liquid crystal haze I wait,\nbreathe, feel the tautness of \nmy need.\nI scan, exhale, and scan again\nthe pixilated emptiness\nthat will not reorder itself\ninto an adequate display\nof love.\nWill I fall headlong into a deep\nchasm, that buries hopes\nof you in the corpse of me?\nYour eternal distance\nI cannot recover.\nI need your warm breath, the\nmagic \nof your laugh\nthe very goodness of you.\nWill me back to sense.\n\n(Copyright reserved.)\n\nI did get that you were using a computer motif (the headache!), and I realize that I strayed from that and went with the feeling of emptiness experienced by the end user that can only be resolved with the presence of another.  (Unfortunate, that!)\n\nSpecific changes, and why I made them:\n1.  "Of every expectant squirm" didn't convey serious intensity, it was more childlike excitement over something sure to happen, but from your poem I didn't get the feeling that the user would ever get the message he desired.  I changed it to a very serious "my need".\n\n2.  Changed sigh to exhale.  Sigh seemed to indicate frustration, and as I changed the level of intensity above, exhale conveyed a more physical withholding of the very act of breathing.\n\n3.  "Will not resolve itself into sufficient love" I changed to "reorder itself" as I pictured the letters on the screen actually shuffling around to say what he wanted them to say (I think you were going with a computer resolution becoming less blurry?); "sufficient" which seemed to ask for a quantity of love -- I changed to "adequate" as I was going with the quality of what was being communicated was not meeting the need.  Not sure if you meant quantity or quality, or maybe both.\n\n4.  Theme of chill/splinters/shards - I just couldn't make that work for me as a reader.  You lost me there because it was so physical rather than emotional.  I went with chasm/corpse/eternal to convey emptiness and despair.  \n\n5.  Changed the final question to a plea.  Changed Charm to Magic (the power needed to bring back life).  \n\n6.  The boiled down message\nMy need\nof love.\nI cannot recover.\nWill me back to sense.\n\nYour poem is cool as it is.  I'm guessing from reading some of your other Q&A that you actually did want people to rewrite/comment.  As you know, some people don't -- they just say they do.\n\nAnyway, yours stands well on its own.  It's different from my version, not better or worse.  Perhaps I put too much feminine drama into it and totally changed the character?  I'd be interested to know if I took it further in the direction you wanted to go, or went way off in a direction you hadn't wanted.\n\nThis was fun!  Thanks.
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well its good that u are putting ur emotions into poetry. its good karthasis.\nthe point of the poem seems to go a little askew in terms of imagery. in one sense u seem to be talking about nobody, then u jump to falling down. the transition isnt subtle enough.\ni also think u need to work on the rhthym of your poem. it's hard to get the right mood when reading it, if u've left this major component in poetry writing out. \nhope u dont get offended, i am simply trying to offer constructive criticism. i'd would have also like to have known, the title of your poem :)
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Well, I tried but I need to know more about the lines in the poem.   Maybe you'll have better luck with these sites.\n\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/\n\nhttp://www.allexperts.com/user.cgi?m=4&expID=50938&catID=678\n\nhttp://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12717\n\nhttp://www.thent.com/poetry.htm\n\nhttp://lii.org/search/file/poetry