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Booker T. Washington Middle School at 108th between Amsterdam & Columbus is a place I grew up, from the...
I love to go to Bay Plaza Mall. It’s my favorite place in the Bronx. The mall has good stores...
What Is Sex Without Love?
, , , Love, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
I wonder if I am the only person who disagrees with people having sexual intercourse with no strings attached. Sharon Olds’ poem...
Do I look at myself the same way Blake looks at his Tyger?
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Poetry is a form of expression portrayed through art. This is proven by many, many, many different poems. Every...
Sonnet 129
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Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured,...
The poem “Changes” by Tupac Shakur makes me ask myself the same question. Will we ever truly have a...
What makes a good parent? What types of things can hurt a relationship between a father and daughter? These...
Hard worker, when focused
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Hi my name is Sapphire and uhh I am 16 years old in the tenth grade. I was born...
My Portfolio
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Where I’m From
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Where I am from Spring comes under the skin of trees Opened the veins and filled them with...
LRNG Portfolio
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The Hustle
, , , Poetry, Portraits, Showcase, Summer 2019, 2
My first impressions of this poem, “Changes” by Tupac Shakur, which was written in the 1990s, is that I...
I think of Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up I Blue” as a real-life situation. It makes me feel inquisitive, yet...
In the poem “There is a garden in her face” Thomas Campion talk about a lady that he is...
On the surface, Housman’s poem, “To an Athlete Dying Young” is about an athlete dying at a young age....
How do people perceive you? Can you know their perspective on you?
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Clifton introduces the poem, “Lorena” with a headline: “Woman cuts off husband’s penis, later throws it from car window....
My first impressions of the poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” were how Anne Bradstreet wrote this poem...
Am I the only person that disagrees with people having sexual intercourse without any strings attached? The poem answers...
Poetry is a form of expression portrayed through art. This is proven many, many, many different poems. Every poem...
When is there gonna be change in our society? Don’t we all wonder that at some point of our...
Do you believe that it’s possible to change poverty and racism?
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Tyler Vivas Spring 2019 Kiran Power Of Poetry “Changes” by Tupac Shakur Is it possible to change poverty and...
Ariel Liz Spring 2019 Kiran The Power Of Poetry Gateway Draft My poem is “Immigrants In Our Own Land”...
What were these people going through that they had to give up their instruments in order to get money?...
What I know about the situation is that the people in the poem are having their whole life being...
Why are humans destroying nature instead of honoring it?
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What is so special about nature? What are humans doing to it? This topic of nature has been...
Are people actually going to help you in the bad times?
, , , Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Poetry, Politics, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, War, 0
Bruce Springsteen’s song, “Born In the USA” makes me ask: Are people actually going to help you in the...
Is the effort of love worth the pain of an inevitable breakup?
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George Gordon Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824), who was known simply as Lord Byron, explored this...
Looking for the real meaning of “A Birthday” by Christina Rossetti
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 1
A reader’s first impression of “A Birthday” by “Christina Rossetti” might be that she is celebrating her birthday with...
“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe What makes someone insane? What does it take to be sane? “The Raven”...
Can people change from violence? Can violence change anything?
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Can people change from violence? Can violence change anything? “Changes” by Tupac Shakur provokes these questions. On the surface,...
A Deeper Understanding of “To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman
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A.E. Housman’s 1896 poem, “To An Athlete Dying Young”, seems to be about an athlete taking on the obstacles...
The Obsession of Her
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What does it mean to talk about a lover as an anonymous person? Does it mean being afraid of...
What is heartbreak?
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In the poem “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, written in 1920, it speaks...
My first impression of this poem was that it was eye opening, and inspiring. Everything the poem “Changes” says...
In the 15th line of the last stanza, Olds in this line was basically just comparing how people love...
Two questions that this poem raises for me are: Do I look at myself as bright as this Tyger?...
First Analysis of “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
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One of the first things I noticed in this poem was of the phrase, “The art of losing isn’t...
Can time heal an abortion?
, , , Abortion, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
The poem “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks on the outside is about an abortion but when you look deeper...
Questions about the poem “So We’ll Go No More A-roving” by Lord Byron
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One most intriguing comment out of six above was” Why does he need to pause to breathe? Why do...
Negative Familial Relationships in “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath
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What does it mean to have a bad family relationship? How does such hatred originate? This topic is addressed...
When is there gonna be change in our society? In the poem changes by Tupac Shakur, it demonstrates with...
My Questions About “There is a garden in her face” by Thomas Campion
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Do men go based off of what’s on the outside? To answer this question from what I’ve read in...
My Questions About “Lorena” by Lucille Clifton
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Clifton introduces the poem with a headline: “Woman cuts off husband’s penis, later throws it from car window. —News...
A Close Reading of “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
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My first impression of Byron’s poem was that it had a very sweet and calm tone to it and...
Close Reading of “You Fit into Me” by Margaret Atwood
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My first impression of this poem was that it was really interesting. The poem intrigued me, yet, at the...
A Close Reading of “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” By Edna St. Vincent Millay
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My first impression of this poem was that it was a well-written poem with lots of imagery. It makes...
The poem “Changes” by Tupac Shakur makes me ask myself the same question. Will we ever truly have a...
In the 1st line of the first stanza, Byron starts off his poem by repeating his title and then...
“like a hook into an eye”, “you fit into me” comes before it and “a fish hook” comes after...
My Questions About “What lips my lips have kissed” by Edna St Vincent Millay
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How do you describe heartbreak? Edna St. Vincent Millay answers this question in her poem, “What lips my lips...
A Close Reading on “To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E Housman
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My first impression of this poem was that is was confusing. It makes me feel interested, yet, at the...
I think that The poem “So We’ll Go No More A-roving” is all about love. More specifically, it is...
How do you express your love for someone? This song shows how Dylan expresses his love for this person...
In the four lines of the first stanza, Bradstreet writes: If ever two were one, then surely we.If ever...
My main question for this poem is Do you believe that it’s possible to change poverty and racism? .The...
Trivium
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In my neighborhood, there’s this place called “The Trivium”. It is also referred to as “the triangle”, “the paterno”...
The big question is why is there police brutality? The poem answers this question by saying, “pull a trigger...
What does love really mean? This poem of W. H. Auden’s answers this question with a deep explanation from...
One of the most interesting lines in Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven” is in stanza 15, line 1....
Born In the USA
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Bruce Springsteen’s song, “Born In the USA” makes me ask: Are people actually going to help you in the...
In the seventh line, Tupac describes a cop being called a hero even though the cop just killed someone...
Questions about the poem “Latin Night at the Pawnshop” by Martin Espada
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What were these people going through that they had to give up their instruments in order to get money?...
In line one, paragraph one, Sylvia Plath repeats the phrase “you do not do” twice. She does this to...
In the third line of the fourth stanza, Housman Basically saying that when it comes to a sport or...
The first lines that I’m choosing to comment on are the first stanza of the poem: “Because I could...
A close reading of “To an Athlete Dying Young “
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My first impressions of this poem were of confused. It makes me feel sad, yet, at the same time,...
In the first four lines of the first stanza, Auden introduces the poem by repeating it’s title and goes...
My questions about “Immigrants in Our Own Land” by Jimmy Santiago Baca
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The biggest personal life question for me is how do people cope with this mentally having to leave their...
The way that Blake starts the poem with the last line of the first stanza with, “Could frame thy...
Analysis of “the mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks
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“The mother” starts out with this line which basically summarizes what this poem is mostly going to be about...
Thomas Campion (1567-1620) was an English composer, poet and physician. He lived during the Renaissance, just like William Shakespeare....
The author started her poem with “My heart is like a singing bird” to show the reader how excited...
My first impression of this poem was that the author is celebrating her birthday with the love of her...
This poem brings up multiple questions for me. One question that seems to keep infiltrating my mind is, how...
One of the most intriguing lines I’ve selected from this poem is line 40: “But it’s no different here.”...
In the second line of the second stanza, Plath expresses her hatred for her father. She writes, “You died...
In the poem “ Harlem” by Langston Hughes he talks about a dream deferred and the negative outcomes of...
When I was little, I would sit out on my balcony with my feet up on the railing at...
Sand Dollar
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Just in my hand, Rounded lobes on four cuts, Soft on top just like wet sand, And ruff on...
My favorite place that i like to talk about is my block , the park and riding my bike...
The Touch of a Shell
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When I put it against my ear it makes a sound A sound of wind and waves of the...
BOOKER T!
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My favorite place is a building and also a park located at 103 W 107th St, new york, NY...
These pictures of Central Park are important to me because it adds a great amount of diversity when compared...
Times Square
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The first time I saw the billboardsI felt excited I was two hours in AmericaWith my family reunited. I...
My dream on Pristina
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I will wake up now, and, I will go to Pristina,I will walk to Mother Teresa Boulevard from morning...
My first impressions of this poem is how can a guy love this person so much and means the...
Nights!
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Writing & Communication, 2
The slow steady water hits the rocksDistance buildings not really noticed unless it’s nightKids’ yelling filling the airAdults moving...
Favorite Place
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The place I chose was my neighborhood. It has 4 parks, my middle school, and about 12 buildings. It’s...
Playing the Game of Life
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, 4
Bounce from left to right, then pass.Can’t play unless you talk trash.Went to jump and got knocked down.Need to...
“Seems I’m Full of Rage”
, , , Bio, Showcase, Spring 2019, 2
So- My name’s Omar Ramirez, hopefully, soon-to-be Omar Xavier Dominguez. I’m Dominican and Jamaican, but I was born in...
Jaylins’ Special Place
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I have lived near the East River for about 9-10 years. Depending on what building and window you are...
Close Reading of “Immigrants In Our Own Land” by Jimmy Santiago Baca
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
My first impression of this poem was that it was so interesting. The poem fascinated me, yet, at the...
Life of a Teen
, , , Bio, Showcase, Spring 2019, 3
I was born on October 17, 2003, and have lived in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. I’m a...
Pelham Bay Park
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, 4
1,2,3,4 then run fastHurry before they catch upChasing you for what you areRun with the ball and pass itThey...
Making Decisions
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I was born and raised in mid-Manhattan. I’m good at soccer and I play most days. I also like...
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