The New Baby
By Demitrius Hilerio Class 810
A new baby cousin was on the way
It scared, it scared us deep inside
My aunt told us that she is due in may
We did not know if she would be a bride
Inside of her a tiny baby slept
She would be born around a lot of love
The baby was not too hard to accept
We think she was sent to us from above.
The baby girl looked like her mother
The grin she made was huge, free of
worry
Her dad and her look just like each
other
When she told us those times are now blurry
We’ll help, we’ll help because we truly
care
It makes my aunt happy that we’ll be
there.
The Man Screaming By Demitrius Hilerio
The man looks at us in
Awe
The sunset behind him is obviously the most beautiful thing
he has ever
seen
It’s a warm sunset in
the
Distance
So beautiful no one will ever look at it with
Resistance
The warm sun reflects off of the
Smooth waves
Something no one will ever see any other day.
Orange skies and beaches a great
Mixture
It looks artificial, almost like a
Picture
Almost like you can turn the background on and off like a
Fixture
The breeze is smooth and cool on your skin like you’re
Flying
So beautiful it you would want to start
Crying
The man is still in front of the sky that is
Gleaming
But he’s not looking at it because he’s too busy
Screaming.
The theme is positive. The inspiration of this poem is the painting “The
Scream” by Edvard Munch. The idea was to illustrate and kind of exaggerate what
was in the painting with words. I also wanted to display my interpretation of
the painting in my poem as well. Some literary devices I used were enjambment
line breaks, rhyme, a smooth rhythm, and similes. I really wanted to describe
how I felt looking at the painting and I also wanted to use similes to give
each thing in the painting a deeper description.
Can I get it Pleaseeee? By Demitrius
Hilerio
Demitrius: Mom the new DS came out.
Can I get it?
Pleaseeee
But Edwin’s parents bought it for him.
Yeah, but if he can get it so can I.
But it has a camera and there are so many games being made
for it already.
But…
Fine…..
Mother:Cool.
I’m sorry buddy,
but now is not the right time.
I’m sorry, but I
can’t afford it right now.
Yes they did,
but it was a gift for his birthday.
Yes you can but,
not right now. You’re going to have to wait.
I’m still not
going to buy it until I get some more money.
Demitrius no
means no!
This
poem has a playful and childish theme to it. This poem was inspired by an
argument I had as a small kid with my mother about getting a portable game
console that my cousin had and it was mainly about how bad I wanted it and how
simple I thought things were as a kid. I used line ending line breaks and free
verse literary devices to write this poem
Starry
Night by Tupac Shakur Reading Response
My first encounter with this poem was during
English class. I first read this poem my poetry packet that was given to me. As
I was turning through the pages of the packet I noticed this poem. What really drew
me into reading this poem is because it was written by Tupac Shakur, which is
one of my favorite rappers. So I figured the poem would be interesting. After
reading the poem I noticed the deep meaning of the poem. I chose this poem as
my heart poem because it read it with confusion, which encouraged me to analyze
the poem and figure out how it could relate to real life.
The message of the poem is not to try and
impress others with your own work. This poem is about someone who is trying to
impress other people with his/her own work and they do not appreciate his the
work. I think this because in the poem it says “A Creative heart, obsessed with
satisfying\this dormant and uncaring society…” what the poet means by “A
Creative heart” is a person who uses creativity, which automatically indicates
a person that is some sort of artist. This “Creative heart” also as mentioned
in the text is obsessed with satisfying people who do not care. Later in the
poem the poet hints that the “dormant and uncaring” society that this person is
trying to impress actually does not appreciate this person’s work. “…u have
given them\Beautiful Bouquets of Sunflowers\ but 4 u there is only contempt\and
though u pour yourself into that fame\and present it proudly this world\ could
not accept your masterpieces from the heart…” This shows how he gave put his
hard work and effort into his “masterpieces”, but the world didn’t appreciate
his work. At the end I think the “Creative heart” that the poet is referring to
commits suicide. “So on that starry night u gave to us\and u took away from
us\the one thing that we never acknowledged/your life.” This shows after he had committed suicide on
that night people actually started to appreciate this person’s work because it
says “..u gave to us\and u took away from us…” this possibly means that though
he died and his life was gone he still gave them something to acknowledge,
which is his work.
I think there is a serious tone and mood in
this poem. The rhythm contributes to this mood because the poem has a slow
rhythm and it’s told like a story. For example one part is explaining the story
behind the “creative heart” that the poet is referring to and then the next
part after the line break is explaining how much effort he put into his work
just for others and to satisfy them, though they didn’t care. Then after that
the last part of the poem is explaining how the main character has taken their
life away, but in a way gave it to them. This is written like a serious story.
Another example of this is that the poet uses words that are somewhat
sophisticated to really emphasize serious and important parts in the poem. One
example from the poem is “Bountiful Bouquets of Sunflowers\but 4 u there is
only contempt.” Words and phrases like Bountiful Bouquets of Sunflowers and
contempt emphasize what the main character in the poem is struggling with and
what the main conflict is in the poem. This contributes to the poem’s serious
tone and mood.
Before reading this poem I thought, since
Tupac is a rapper that usually is rapping about the hardships and gangs in
California. I thought maybe his poem would be about the same topics. To my
surprise this poem taught me some lessons and affected me in both a negative
and positive way. This poem affects me in a both positive and negative way.
This poem teaches me not let other people’s opinions of my hard work to bother
me and affect me negatively. This poem can also teach how harsh people can be
in the world towards thing that you’ve put a lot of effort and time into. When
reading the poem it does inspire me to go and actually write more serious poems
that could relate to real world issues and relatable/common issues. This poem also
inspires me to treat other people’s work with respect and also to appreciate
the work that they’re presenting to me.
