Poems

Poems
By: Daniel Davis
Period D
May [17] 11
Comments by Pamela Flint, August, 2012.

This is a collection of poems Daniel made for an assignment in 7^th Grade. He was not fond of poetry and did not want and did not enjoy doing this assignment. He did ask some questions while he was working on it but usually insisted that the work needed to be done at school so for the most part, it was. I do know that most of the poems he did not write, he found online; most of those he copied and pasted. I looked up each of the poems he used mainly to make sure he’d gotten the spelling and punctuation right according to the poet (we all know how they are!). Any differences, I’ve noted after each poem. It is interesting to me the poems he used.

Originally, I was going to post Daniel's poems in their entirety. However, that has turned into a project that is too unwieldy for me at the moment so I've decided to post it in parts. The first one will be the Title Page, Contents, and Literary Terms. Pretty exciting, I know, but manageable. Each post following will contain one or two poems; also manageable.

Table of Contents

1. Literary Terms

2. Literary Terms

3. Dewdrops dancing Down Daisies

4. Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers’ Day

5. Eye Rhyme

6. A Question

7. KABOOM!

8. Simile

9. Death sets a thing

10. dying is fine) but Death

11. The City Dead-House

12. One Inch Tall

13. Death

14. Murder Me

15. Terrorism

16. Warning

17. murderer

18. Murder Or Be Murdered

19. Leave me be

20. The Fly

21. A Poison Tree

22. A Coffin-is a small Domain

23. It can’t be

24. The Tiger

25. I Do Not Know

26. My Other Poem

Literary Terms 

1. Rhyme—A Question / Robert Frost

A voice said, Look me in the stars

And tell me truly, men of earth,

If all the soul-and-body scars

Were not too much to pay for birth.

2. Stanza—A Question / Robert Frost

A voice said, Look me in the stars

And tell me truly, men of earth,

If all the soul-and-body scars

Were not too much to pay for birth.

3. Simile—Simile / Lexi Balla

What could possibly

Have been said

To make us like two fighting

Dogs.

4. Metaphor—Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day / William Shakespeare

Shall I compare the to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all to short a date.

5. Onomatopoeia—KABOOM! / Denise Rogers

Kaboom!

Ka-blast

Way in the past

The miners mined for ore.

They searched for copper, iron, and salt,

For that and much, much more.

6. Alliteration—Dewdrops dancing Down Daisies / Paul McCann

Don’t delay dawns disarming display.

Dusk demands daylight. 

7. Personification—KABOOM! / Denise Rogers

It was a sight, the dynamite

That made the mountains fly. 

8. Eye rhyme—EYE RHYME / Vincent van Mechelen

A waste of words is an abomination,

Publish or Perish is not your situation 

9. Dialect—Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day / William Shakespeare

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wad’rest in his shade