DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Beautiful, The Dead End," by Allison Davis Originally read: March 12, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Allison Davis The poem starts off with the title reading into the poem which has the poem focus in two similar directions: 1) focusing on the physical aspect (and commentary) 2) focusing on what the "body" is.  I think what also differs with the usual "title then poem" deal is that when the title is the first word of the poem that the poem's actual focus is somewhere else and the first line is meant to compliment the focus. For example, the actual first line of the poem (which is in tercets) is "of your body.  So here, the focus is on the body and this is what the poem will be about; however, the main description is the main adjective -- the duality of beautiful, yet a dead end. Meanwhile, the "body" accumulates different descriptions like "last shards of summer," and then the ident...

Original poem reprinted online here: "No Man is an Island" by John Donne Originally read: February 21, 2013 More information about the Poet: John Donne I only remember parts of this poem -- the beginning and the end -- "No man is an island," (which was told to me when I wanted to go "solo" in group projects, or outings, or like) and "For whom the bell tolls, / It tolls for thee."  (which was told to me as a reference for Ernest Hemingway's, Whom the Bell Tolls) .   So I thought, how simple.  The poem is about no one is alone in life, and...we are close to death?  What?  Going in to decipher this poem, I tried to apply both aspects to each other.   For example, "No one is an individual, but part of a whole.  By choice of by force?).  As you can see here, I try to add a sinister undertone to the poem so I can justify the death line.  Or let's go in reverse. I note this for the last lines, "The crux of the poem is the last line. ...