2016年5月21日星期六

When I was a small child

   There are so many kinds of poem,but there was only one topic that I interested in. About mom. This poem called <When I was a small child>. When I told Ms.Gunrino I want to choose this, she said this doesn't has so much fun. I thought she was right, this poem was boring compare with others. This time I just want to keep my choice because I have confident to memorize this. Be honest, this was not a short poem, lucky Daniel found a easy way. There are many sentences that reflects my own life, when I first time read it, I felt “wow we have same experience.” This poem might be written when author was an old age, so author wrote this for expressing he misses his mom so much. This is true, the time we can hide under mom’s embrace is the happiest time.
   Two stanza build this poem, and each sentence has end rhyme, so it can actually fits any background music. And when I read aloud with expression,it sounds like singing. And two stanza use same form that both start with “When I was a small child.” This form is helpful for me to memorize.
  At the beginning of the first stanza, author told the scene that everybody in their babyhood experienced. When a baby got hurt and he is crying, mom gentley consoles baby. I remember when I was a child my mom brought me toys for stop me crying. And here author wrote “giggle me” it is a none, but in poem it can be used as a verb which I think it means tickle. This is possible mom wants to make baby laugh. After that as baby growing, they will know life is full of traps, it is necessary to “find your way” thus to achieve the goal. Meanwhile mom plays a role as guide. “Life has difficult decisions and you were my guide. You tought me how to decide. You told me that the bad should be denied.” This is happened in childhood, mom helps children to build feeling of judge which is right which is wrong.
  The second stanza is expressing the love to mom. In the first two sentences, it describes when children are growing, they will do certain things wrong,and mom carefully helps children to fix the mistakes. Author repeated two times that he has so many things to tell mom and it all about love. “there‘s a lot of thing I’ve wanted to tell you.” and “but one thing that I want to know is that” These two sentences shows children have so many things to tell mom because they know mom is the best person who takes care of them. However the part that children want to tell mom is not long sentence. It is just a simple I LOVE YOU. They might feel no matter how many fancy words cannot describe their indebted heart.
    Mom dry your eye when you cry, mom hold up you when you fell. Under mom’s protection,nothing can hurts you. This poem actually moved me, I recalled the days I spent with my mom. I love this poem because it did not using fancy words,but just these simple words built a warm poem.
     

2016年5月19日星期四

Poem video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06UaASXsP-Y


That is the link

2016年5月11日星期三


When I was a small child

by Joao De Leon

When I was a small child.
you held my hand and smiled.
When I got hurt I would cry.
you would giggle and dry my eye.
life has difficult decisions and you were my guide.
you taught me how to decide.
you told me that the bad should be denied.
and that family should never be put aside.
when I was a small child.
I was a little wild.
as I grew I've done a few wrong things and it's true.
there's a lot of things I've wanted to tell you.
and when we have problems we always make it through.
but one thing that I want you to know is that
I LOVE YOU.

2016年5月6日星期五

Homework Found Poem

The attack on the World Trade Center was one of the most observed catastrophes in history, and those who fell or jumped from the towers were, briefly, its most public victims. They emerged one or two at a time from a blanket of smoke and fire that rendered mass death virtually invisible. Nearly all the others killed that day -- whether high in the trade center, on board the hijacked airplanes or deep inside the Pentagon -- were beyond the sight of survivors and witnesses.



 9/11 is the we should remember,
 Because this attack is the most observed catastrophe.
 9/11 is the day we should remember,
 Because that day World Trade Center collapsed.
 9/11 is the day we should remember,
 Because there were plenty of people dead.

 Innocent people were killed,
 Whether high whether high in the trade center,
 on board the hijacked airplanes,
 or deep inside the Pentagon.

9/11 is the day we should all remember
We lost too much...
the world turn to white when New Year's Eve
I had never seen
so much snow
The snow keeps falling and falling
When we sleep.
That is my favorite memory
Cheshire academy is like a big family.
There are students from 17 states and 30 countries.
Living in this supportive community
We can learn many things.

2016年5月4日星期三

The fig tree


  In the very beginning of the poem, we know the Father loves figs very much. He hopes those cherry trees are fig trees. Because he thinks fig tree is the gift from heaven. This big fig tree is the first thing his father dreams and finishes. It means a lot to his father, so that is why he takes care of that tree carefully and softly. Anyway this tree is a key go through and whole poem and all the stories happened around the fig tree.