The Best of Josh Comune

Sunrise, Sunset   By Josh Comune The green grass shines bright Morning dew, and a new day Hello and goodbye Pollution    By Josh Comune Wastelands flood over today’s trash is Tomorrow’s The garbageman frowns Earth Day    By Josh Comune An eco-nut’s day Tree huggers fallop away— Time to say hooray  

Recuerdo By  Edna St. Vincent Millay We were very tired, we were very merry— We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable— But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table, We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon; And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon. We were very tired, we were very merry— We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry; And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear, From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere; And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold. We were very tired, we were very merry, We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. We hailed, “Good morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head, And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read; And she wept, “God bless you!” for the apples and pears, And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.

While reading “Seize the Day” I thought a lot about how the poem pertained to me as an individual. The main message of the poem is how to live your life to the fullest. Everyday should be cherished. However, this is harder ever the case with anybody.  People usually don’t end up enjoying everyday of their lives.   I realIze in my life  I am guilty of this as well. I sometimes flow through not taking into account that the experiences I have everyday. Ultimately some of these experiences I think are insignificant today,  might be the moments I reflect on the most later in life.  The memories that you make is what makes your life meaningful. The line “Love your work, and enjoy your play. Remember” stood out to me because so many people are miserable in their jobs. This ultimately leads to that person’s unhappiness in their life. If people love what they do, it’ll reflect on their  image of themselves and their self worth. Often times whenever I am forced t...

During class time Tuesday all students were split into groups and asked to perform "Seize the Day." Our group consisted of me, Joey, Nia, and Leslie. We performed the poem by having two characters live out their daily life entirely different from the other. Both characters were assigned to their side of the stage and did not cross over until money became an object in the play.  We showed the side of a privileged person and a poor person, but both had the same morals and concept of money. Both did not take the coin for themselves because they were strictly driven by their ethnic background and let that be the defining factor of their personality. This interpretation shows the purity of both characters and the strong connection to their family roots and ancestors. Nan's group took a different approach and interpreted the play and put a musical twist on it. I really thought it flowed nice however it was very hard to hear. I got the sense that they took the poem and inte...

One Last Time Fans cheer I take the field one last time My thoughts are clear Down by two I know exactly what we need to do Alright men you know it’s time We’ve come all this way not to be denied It’s been a hell of ride I’m proud to have shared it with you For all us seniors I know time flew but we gotta job to do Indiana right Q power right If we run it correct it’ll be a beautiful sight I break in the huddle Down set hike All eyes on me The field parts as if it’s the red sea I run the ball Down to the two. Timeout! Timeout! Our kicker…. kicked the ball through   By Josh Comune

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is an American classic in poetry. Robert Frost is an extremely notable poet, and "The Road Not Taken" is one of his most famous works. His use of sound, hidden messages, deception, mystery, and visual pictures painted through his word choice in this poem are some of the many things that make his writing appealing. In furthering examination of this poem, and reading thoroughly, I've come up with some different insights for "The Road Not Taken" that I previously have not had. The rhyme scheme of this poem is ABAAB. This break up of the "B" is subtle; the overpowering repetition of the "A" back to back, makes this poem have rhythm and hides flow of the "B." However, you can feel how the second and last line of each stanza are connected because of the end rhyme. Each line has 9 syllables, and this adds to the flow of the poem.  Frost uses enjambment throughout the poem to give it a con...

1. sounds (hear)- I hear lots of soft "s" sound. consonance  and the two hard syllabus are related to each other. "icebox" and "cold" 2. picture (meaning)- I get this picture of cool, ripe plums in the first stanza. I feel discouragement in the second stanza because this person ate another persons breakfast, and a shallow feeling of regret and sorrow overridden by self indulgence in the last stanza 3. Story- The get the sense that there is something more to this poem than the words on the page. The poet refers to the plums being in an icebox in the first stanza, but the last word of the last stanza is "cold"

Prose- is printed or written within the confines of margins Poetry-written in lines that do not necessarily pay attention to margins Scansion- the dividing a line into its metrical feet and each foot into its individual parts Spondee- two stresses of equal weight can replace the iambic foot Trochee- heavy stress followed by a light stress Dactyl- one heavy stress followed by 2 light stress Anapest- 2 light stress followed by heavy stress Caesura- Structurural and logical pauses within and only within the line, and usually but not always in a metrical foot itself     Ex. Fred, where is North? North? North is there, my love. (There is an uncounted stress in this example) Iambic pentameter- widely used line in English metrical verse (Shakespeare)     Ex. Forlorn! |The ver|y word| is like| a bell Tetrameter- (four foot)   Ex. I wan|dered lone|ly as| a cloud The difference between the two is only a single foot. Tetrameter has quickness Pentam...

Alliteration- strictly speaking, is the repetition of the initial sound of words in a line or lines of verse.      Ex. The bears toughness, pink as a baby’s             Leap up, like that, like that, and land so lightly Consonance is a type of alliterations that is found in the interior sounds of words   Ex. The LITTLE boy LOST his shoe in the FIELD Assonance  is the repetition of bowel sounds within words in a line or lines of verse in effect such repetition creates a near rhyme (it is less obvious than alliteration) Onomatopeya  is the use of a word that through it sound as well as it sounds represents what it defines   Ex. Cows moo, birds chirp, thunder rumbles Words list in Memoiral to D.C that   Interlock the lines Music Chemistry Secret Spoken Ivory Golden Bird no more Language is rich, poems work in conjunction with every other part, lace, content, diction, tone, rhyme , all add into the ...

A lot of poetry has to come from the sounds of the words within the poetry. Many poets play with the hard and soft sounds of consonants and vowels to make internal connections between lines vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y w and y are consonants when it precedes a vowel ex. twine, wine, whine mute- consonant that cannot be sounded at all without a vowel I Robert Frost's Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening Frost most likely did not think about all the sounds (soft, hard noises) but he put down what sounded good to him because of his experience and knowledge for poetry He interlocks lines with each other by using rhymes and the sounds of the vowels he uses and places them in strategic spots ex. "think" has a hard k sound, "queer" echoes the k sound but it is way more mellow stanza 4, is related to stanza 1 with "the woods are lovely" The more people practice poetry the better they get at it

POETRY- patterns, rhythm origin: similar to songs, religion to chant prayers, expression of oral history and culture (wise tales this is before the reading and writing error) read poetry a a lot to understand it fully read it aloud consonance-repeated assonance- repeated alliteration- repetion of initial sound figurative language- simile, metaphor) personification onomatopoeia- word=sound rhyme scheme- how old poetry was for easier memorization Prose- paragraphs for sentence structure