A Toddler's Journey

                                                                         A Toddler's Journey


                                                                           By Sarah Oliver


Today, looked into your dreams


Notice yourself full of tears


But desire runs your screams


Fear have looked into your anger


We set in the cafe` eating ice cream

Bird By Bird

"Bird By Bird" by Anne Lamott, this book has four parts.  Each part is broken down into ways a writer can



 write a good story.  She goes from first drafts to publication. of your novel.  She doesn't explain how to write a fantasy novel, or mystery just the novel parts in all its parts.  The first few chapters are devoted to her family and her history of how she herself began a writer in the book trade business. But it shows her work in the field of writing.   She also explains her relationship with her literary agent  and publisher.  There we get insights in what to expect if we desire to be published  She tells it like it is and what we need to know from the inside out.  How to get there if you dare to publish your writing as a novel.  With all this advice in her book she does also offer that writing takes talents and skills that have be learned.    She explains by doing writing daily  and continuously we acquire the ability to write well.  These writing done daily will give us something worth publishing.   They will sell.  "Bird By Bird", I wanted to get it done out of the way of my other reading  and when I first began read the book  After reading the book the title I recall long after reading the novel in its entirety.    This novel lights the way to good writing and forming a great foundation of the writing trades.

Poetry Packet Assignment # 1

Poetry Packet Assignment # 1
  
  For example, Shakespeare's Sonnet's the poem is a classic poem.  A lot of rhetoric views customary of

its time and era. Each verse explains love.  From, the poems we know about that time marriages of the

wealthy were all arranged by the bride and groom families.  So this is a poem invented by Shakespeare. 

His great imagination expresses the love bestowed of a man and woman.  It's very poetic.

     In contrast, Dim Lady by Harryette Mullen expresses the same poetic thoughts as Shakespeare

Sonnet's, but in a more Modern slang version poem.  The greater details used more prepositional phases of

many adjectives.  More words is used to make us feel the real scenes and emotions of the verse.  Dream 

Cycle also written by her, we have a poem the child eye dream a ice cream truck on a long hot summer

day.  All so familiar to the early childhood when we enjoy summers as children. Great comparisons and

insights written from her childhood memories; the author poem capture the essence moments then and long

ago.  Noon by Cole Swenson does the same poem style as Harryette Mullen in his poems.  It uses more

style creatively.  When reading Langston Hughes we sense the oppression of the Slavery aftermath.  The

view of racism expressed by a black man of that historical era before Civil Rights took effect.  A different

style of poem than Shakespeare Sonnet's.  In Dream Boogie by Langston Hughes this poem expresses a

man ahead of his time because boogie-woogie originated in Blacks during the time of the Great Depression

era of American history shortly before that; it was better known in and around Harlem New York City

about World War I.  The sound of jazz was felt everywhere in the boogie-woogie, and lead by the

interpretations if the listener.  A very popular culture during that era.. 

     Of all the poems in the poetry packet I personally prefer Preference by Langston Hughes.  It shows

depth of thinking about the subject of the poem, the social climate of that era invented.   It came before the

Civil Rights Movement in America.  Then, the black woman was not a protected class like as of today.  The

poem is a statement of fact what happening in the  everyday lives of black woman back during colored

women suffrage.