I responded to Madison's I have Seen poem, "Lost." I like this poem because it creates happy imagery at the beginning and then at the middle it sort of interrupts your thought and sets a whole new feeling. In the first line she says, "I have seen the warm welcoming sunrise". This line includes some alliteration when she says, "warm welcoming". In the next few lines it says, "The day just beginning to start The Birds chirping filling my ears The thought of seeing my friends Driving me to continue moving". I like these lines because they create imagery and make you think of like happiness, waking up in the morning and feeling good, and sort of set's the seen as well. In the next stanza she says, "I have smelt the freshly mowed lawn The grass green as ever The blue sky shining above The clear spring water glistening Happiness filling every visible object Oh how naive I was." Again, Madison creates more imagery, she's sort of naming off happy things that make you feel joyful. She also puts some alliteration in like when she says, "green grass" and "sky shining". In the next stanza she sort of put's a brick wall in front of you by changing the mood on the feeling drastically, in it she says, " Stop!
"Just wait for me" I wanted to shout But my words never made it For I didn't say it Lost. I was lost." Then in her last stanza she says, "Lost in my own thoughts Lost in my own world Consumed by the darkness of never getting out Seeing, but not feeling Hearing, but not listening For I was to lost to ever be found." I think this is a great way to end her poem because when she says, "Consumed by the darkness of never getting out Seeing, but not feeling Hearing, but not listening, For I was to lost to ever be found." She includes repetition in this stanza which i think is a great way to end it, just because it has a great flow. And she's also kind of bringing it all together and explaining the feeling. It was hard to capture the abstract noun, but at the same time I feel like it was fantastic the way that she chose to pursue it. I think that her abstract noun was confusion because t eh beginning of her poem and was a really good flow and sort of just naming a list of familiar thing like driving to school and seeing her friends which is an everyday thing, and then suddenly she says she's lost and can't see or hear anything, and I think that that's kind of how I feel when I'm confused.
"Just wait for me" I wanted to shout But my words never made it For I didn't say it Lost. I was lost." Then in her last stanza she says, "Lost in my own thoughts Lost in my own world Consumed by the darkness of never getting out Seeing, but not feeling Hearing, but not listening For I was to lost to ever be found." I think this is a great way to end her poem because when she says, "Consumed by the darkness of never getting out Seeing, but not feeling Hearing, but not listening, For I was to lost to ever be found." She includes repetition in this stanza which i think is a great way to end it, just because it has a great flow. And she's also kind of bringing it all together and explaining the feeling. It was hard to capture the abstract noun, but at the same time I feel like it was fantastic the way that she chose to pursue it. I think that her abstract noun was confusion because t eh beginning of her poem and was a really good flow and sort of just naming a list of familiar thing like driving to school and seeing her friends which is an everyday thing, and then suddenly she says she's lost and can't see or hear anything, and I think that that's kind of how I feel when I'm confused.
