My Poem

Inside my memory

Lies images so many

So many of them exist

It's almost uncanny.

Most vivid of which

The one above all

Is the time we played soccer

Torturing the ball

Johnny gave a kick

And the ball went up high

Down on Clement's head

He began to cry

We crowded around him

Checking his head

In case there's a mountain

And he can't go to bed

All seems to be fine

He's just a crybaby

After 5 minutes

He was still sobbing

Term 2 Home Learning Lesson 1

This is the poem that I have chosen.

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Figurative language is used in the poem in the form of a:

Hyperbole

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore

We know that surfs of water break upon the shore, but it does not hurt the shore. This however, implies that the shore is hurt by it. This might be exaggerating it a bit.

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Personification

Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep

Grains of sand cannot 'creep' - it is something that animals like snakes do. Or people can too. Thus, this is personification, as it makes it sound like the sand can do something that we can do.

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Metaphor

Yet if hope has flown away

Hope has been compared to flying away. It means that your hope was gone, as if it had flown away.

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Simile

There us no simile in the whole poem.

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Symbolism

Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!

To me, I feel that the author of the poem had used the sand to represent the tears. The sand fell down from the hand, while the tears fell down from the eye.

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I like this poem because it, to me, seems to be describing that all we are experiencing now, all the grief and hardships and everything in life, is all a dream inside a bigger dream, with the dream being the things we experience and the bigger dream representing life itself. I do think that this poem is quite meaningful, as many things happen in life that we wish that it was all a dream, like failing our exams and such. Also, another reason we I think that the poem is good is because sometimes, life seems so unreal, and time passes so fast, as if we are in a dream. That is why I like this poem.

Books

World Book Day is celebrated by countries throughout the world. It is aimed to commemerate books and their importance. I personally feel that books are one of the most brilliant things in the world. They are one of the best souces of knowledge. We can learn a lot from the different types of books. From textbooks, we can learn all that we need to know for the exams. From non-fiction books, we can enhance our knowledge that we learned from textbooks. From fiction books, we can use our imagination more.

I like fiction stories. They mostly describe a character's life story or just part of it. The character normally has a very exciting life, journeying to places beyond your imagination. Otherwise, they do things normal people cannot do. All the different story plots are fascinating, and it all goes to show the powers of the human brain. We can all think of fantastic stories. It is just whether we want to or not.

I borrow a lot of fiction books every weeekend to read. I always borrow a minimum of 4 books every time I go to the library. I read through them very fast. I can finish a book with 400 pages in 4 hours. Thus, I always have time to go through all the books that I have borrowed, and so I always maximise the use of my card.

Urbanisation

From reading through some websites given to me, I feel that urbanisation on a whole, is only good for the economic growth of a country. For the people, there are effects that will be harmful to them. Urbanisation will naturally result factories being built. The factories will spew out all sorts of harmful gases and waste products. It will pollute the air around the factory, and cause all sorts of implications, from acid rain to health problems. However, even though the factories are harming the people, but they are still being built at a frightening rate.

Acid rain will damage buildings and kill plant and animal life. Buildings could have their paint ruined, or even metal pipes corroded. This could cause structural problems in the building, making it unsafe. The rain could also get into ponds and rivers, poisoning the water, and the water in turn poisoning the plants and animals. With plants and animals poisoned, we will suffer from a lack of food if the poisoning was on a large scale.

Urbanisation will definitely bring in a large number of immigrants. Those immigrants need a place to live. if the country cannot cope with the demand for hosing, then slums will be built. Slums have poor living conditions, which will 'promote' the spreading of diseases. If the spread is uncontrolled, then a pandemic could occur.

Of course, there are many other effects that urbanisation could bring, but this are just some if them. Urbanisation is good for the country, but if left to spread at will, will endanger everyone in the city.