Senioritis

Senioritis

When seniors in high school,
No longer think it's cool,
To have lots of homework,
And feel overworked.

This time of the year is very stressful,
And can be a handful,
For those who just want to be done,
With this so called "fun".

Seniors, though many may think they have it easy,
It is not and is far from breezy.
From chemistry, to math, to history, and more,
There is much knowledge to explore.

But in the end,
Around the final bend,
When seniors finally graduate,
They are not going to care that they learned about acetates.

What is of much importance,
As long as everything goes to accordance,
Is what the senior learns and can apply to their futures throughout high school,
That is what they will feel is really cool.

Explication of "Eating Poetry" by Mark Strand

To me, this poem has two very different meanings. The first being that maybe this poem is written from a dog's point of view. This poem could be about a dog who managed to get into a library and munch on some poetry. This is hinted when the narrator says that he got down on his knees to lick the librarians hand and it is also referred to when they narrator says that he snarled and barked at the librarian. Also, in the first like of the poem, it says "Ink runs from the corners of my mouth", this could also refer to  dog because dogs tend to eat in a messy way, unlike humans.

The second meaning that this poem may be depicting is a man who absolutely loves poetry. He loves it so much that he would just devour it as described in this poem. This entire poem could be just a metaphor that the author uses to compare poetry with something that the narrator loves to eat. This meaning is displayed to the reader when the reader does not pay attention to the very obvious references to a dog.

"To His Coy Mistress"

"To His Coy Mistress" or "To His Shy Girlfriend" in today's terms, is a poem about a man wanting a woman who is very shy and still a virgin. The man tries to convince this woman to have him by telling her that if they had an eternity he would treat her right. But, since life is not an eternity, the man just wants to get with her. The man also uses the woman's virginity against her by saying that if she doesn't have sex with him, then she's going to die and the worms are going to get her; "Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try." This part of the poem is basically saying, your beauty will not last forever and if you wait forever to lose your virginity, then you will die and the worms will try to take it. When translated into modern terms, this poem can be seen as very comical and also displays a man whom nowadays would be considered a "player".

Explication of "Talking to Grief" by Denise Levertov

This poem by Denise Levertov is personifying the human emotion grief and addressing it as a dog. The poem starts out by trying to coax in a homeless dog and by the end of the poem the dog is accepted into the household and the author says that it is her own dog. This comparison of grief and a dog is displaying how grief must be trusted and not put aside before it's too late; "before winter comes." When the author says "before winter comes" this can be inferred to represent death. If grief is never accepted into a person or a homeless dog is not accepted into a household, then death is expected. This poem is told in the first person. This poem can be a way in which the author is healing herself and allowing herself to cope with grief by comparing it to something that everyone can relate to. The homeless dog being brought into the narrator's home and eventually becoming apart of the household symbolizes the author coming to terms with her own grief.