journal 30 free write

So today is May 14 and it is exactly one month away from Graduation, which sounds like it is very far away but in reality it is not. We have only a few days left of classes and it is beginning to hit me that I am graduating this year. I have been here since 7^th grade and I have grown closer and closer with my fellow peers in my AP Lit class mostly over the 6 or 4 years I have been with them. Last Friday while we were sitting outside eating our lunch we realized that was going to be out last Friday lunch at BK  EVER. Then yesterday after our AP Government test a group of us went to red robin after the test and realized it was out last AP exam, which is a good thing but it is sad that I have to say out last this or our last that. Its depressing to finally realize this year is coming to an end and after the summer we are all going to part our ways to our different schools, yet we will meet up next year over breaks or whenever we are felling distant. I honestly can say I have no idea where this year went. While I am writing this blog post I remember sitting in this seat in September thinking about how far away graduation is and how long we have with each other to make memories we will never forget , but truly we only have a few more days. It  is rapidly coming to an end and I would like to thank everyone for being there for me. Thanks to my friends for having my back when I need it the most. Thanks to my parents for sending me to a wonderful school that gave me the best education. An last but not least THANKS to the teachers, I would be no where without you guys, you have put up with everything from my class from late assignments to rude attitudes and you did not deserve any of it. Thanks for always being there when any of us need it or just being there when we want to talk to someone.  I am going to miss being able to go into a class room and sit down and having an entertaining conversation with a teacher and actually connect to them. I know I will always have the ability to come back and talk to the best teachers in the world. I know I will always have a home at BK. Thanks again for everything you do. Thanks Mrs. Hoffman for putting up with us for three years, we enjoyed every minute with you and I hope you enjoyed us too. We will all miss you and we will never forget Sophomore English Honors II, AP Language or AP Literature. We will always have the memories we made from memorizing "Friends, Romans, Countrymen", to quarterly slam poems. Thanks again.

Journal 29

A villanelle is a nineteen line poemt hat contains five tercets and a quatrain. There are two different rhymes schemes throughout the poem.  The first and third lines of the first terect repeat and alternate and the end of each other terects and in the quatrain they both repeat.
A terza rima is a poem with tercets with iambs that contain rhyme scheme of something similar to ABA BCB CDC.
A sestina is a poem with six sestets and a tercet. Each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, in different orders throughout the poem.

This an example of a Villanelle

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night,

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, 
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, 
Do not go gentle into that good night,

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.




This villanelle is expressing his belief that old man should resist death , they should not take death lightly.  He believes they should leave this world making a scene , meaning they should kick, scream and do whatever they need to in order to not just fall into death' hands and make it easy for death. The end of the poem the speaker tells us that his own father is dying that is why he does not want old people to give up, he wants them to fight as long as they possible can. He does not to lose his father.  This poem is a villanelle which is easy to notice because of the constant repetition of the lines "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "Rage, rage against the dying light". This poem is a great example of a Villanelle.

Journal 28 Poetry/Poem

The Bee

There once was bee

Who was the size of a flee

He only crossed the sea

To get to a the tree

He also went on a shopping spree

 To find the best tea

Once he found it he felt free

One day he landed on a person’s knee

The next day  there was a plea

A plea for the bee

-Victoria Shaughnessy

I feel that poetry is and expression of yourself. In poetry you are able to express what you feel without limitations. There are rules in poetry , yet it is not necessary that you necessarily follow them. Poetry includes, end rhyme, internal rhyme and slant rhyme. A poem that rhymes is my favorite type of poem because I the beat and rhythm the poem has because of the end rhyme.  Poetry is a very interesting topic because everyone has their own opinion on it, it all depends on how you perceive it. Poetry is entertaining, enjoyable and fun.