The Rose That Grew From Concrete (Blog # 19)

I decided I don't want to procrastinate on my poetry blog for this week so I'm writing it today.(:

Anyway, so I know I totally don't seem like the type to listen to Tupac, but I do...and I really like this poem he wrote!

The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac:

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

The whole poem is a metaphor, and the metaphor is pretty easy to detect. Basically, this is an autobiographical poem Tupac wrote about himself. He is the rose, and he learned to find his way by himself.

The poem is about Tupac having a hard upbringing by being poor and he got out of poverty himself because he followed his dreams. No one helped him through and against the odds he succeeded by getting out of poverty...at least that is what I took out of it.

The thing I like about this poem is that it is so simple, but very powerful.

Anyone can relate to this poem because it can be about overcoming a hardship and believing in yourself. I think that is why so many people like Tupac's music because the things he sings about are universal, everyone has struggles.

Alone (Blog #18)

This week I chose to write my blog on "Alone" by Edgar Allen Poe. This is the poem Taylor and I are presenting to the class.

This poem is very dark and has a depressing undertone. The poem is straightforward, but the description is very detailed and metaphorical. A think that "Alone" is a glimpse into Poe's actual feelings and it helps you understand how he wrote such dark, but cool stories.

In the first couple of lines, Poe describes how he sees the world differently than others, how he never fit in and basically, was alone. The feeling the poem generated for me was that Poe was so consumed and overtaken with being alone and never fitting in, that he turned to darkness because it was the only thing that accepted him. The last half of the poem made me think this when he described the cloud that formed like a demon.

Desert Places (Blog #17)

I picked Desert Places by Robert Frost as my first poem for the new semester because I really love his work. Despite the depressing mood of the poem I thought that is was enjoyable because of the comparison of nature to emotion is always very beautiful.(:

Frost describes the snow as something desolate and in a way, lonely. I really related to this because...winter is not my season and snow is not my thing; I am a summer person. Anyway, I think Frost's metaphor of his loneliness and the lonely feeling winter brings is brilliant. Even if someones favorite season is winter, they have to admit that it is the most lonely season of all.

I noticed the stanzas were rhymed verses and the rhyme scheme of the poem was:
A
A
B
A
The majority of the rhymes were masculine rhymes
and there was 4 lines in each stanza. There was a total of 4 stanzas.
The tone was reflective and melancholy.