topic of my choice

i think if clouds were edible, they'd taste like watermelon.

i was curious as to the taste of my tangerine
so i peeled it carefully
what i found was not sweet
i chewed it sourly

i love kimya dawson
i llike how her songs aren't all serious
there are some with meaning and some that have like no real structure at all
listen t o her


i decided to look up random words, i typed in arash but dictionary.com didn't have that so i just settled for..
Raash
\Raash\, n. [Cf. Ar. ra'ash trembling, tremor.] (Zo["o]l.) The electric catfish. [Written also raasch.]


if i was stranded on a desert island with nothing at all but myself and it;s natural things like bamboo trees, etc. i would first write help really big in the sand to tell planes and whoever happened to fly by that i was there and needed help. then, id find food because i'd probably be hungry. this would probably be the case because i have like a never ending hunger. which causes me to eat a lot. the food i consume the most is cereal. yesterday i ate frosted flakes... my family rarely gets sugary cereal because there against sugar so it was nice to have it around. both my parents are into organics so i eat pretty healthy. they dont buy pop or candy, stuff like that...
anyways, my favorite foods are sushi, sandwiches, pickles, olives, cereal, fruit, vegetables, anything made out of potatoes, fortune cookies, pasta
when i eat out i like going to subway, potbelly, chipotle, there's probably more..

violet

today, i am a poetry critic. tomorrow, who knows.

The Bagel

David Ignatow

I stopped to pick up the bagel
rolling away in the wind,
annoyed with myself
for having dropped it
as if it were a portent.
Faster and faster it rolled,
with me running after it
bent low, gritting my teeth,
and I found myself doubled over
and rolling down the street
head over heels, one complete somersault
after another like a bagel
and strangely happy with myself.

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/062.html

2. i intially chose this poem because of it's title. i thought it was funny and i always fall for dumb/funny things like that :]

once i read it though i came to like it and i find the last line very nice and interesting.

i also like the vocab, sweet words are always nice.

3. the title is the subject matter of the poem, it's main focus, what it revolves around.

4. the author uses comparison.. personification, kind of...to compare things. for instance, a bagel to wind in line two and a rolling human to a [rolling] bagel in line 11. they influence the poem by making it more vivid and easy for the reader to imagine. the author dosent quite put an emphasis on any particular words, they all seem to bond and flow nicely. although portent seemed to stick out to me. probably because this is the first time i've seen it. it's a neat word.
yes the author (who will be referred to now on as "the a") did focus the readers attention on a image. which was a man running, rolling, and chasing his rambunctious bagel that has accidentally rolled away. the feeling that is created through the poem is frustration at the beginning, determination through the middle and happiness at the end !

5. the tone is bittersweet. the writer succeeds in creating this tone by using serious words like 'portent" and words of frustration like "annoyed" or "gritting my teeth". he uses words like doubled, rolling, or complete somersault to create the image of motion. earlier in the poem, the part that carries a more serioous tone, the sound of the words aren't smooth. if you were to say them they dont pleasantly roll off your tongue, they kind of stumble. take "portent" for example...you have to say it in two chunks. por and tent. dosen't roll like a word like soliloquie... dont think i spelled that right.

1. What kinds of writing do you like to read? (Poetry, short stories, novels, etc.)
i like reading fiction, non-fiction about interesting things or people, and children's stuff mostly dr. suess

What kinds of writing do you like to write? (Poetry, short stories, scripts, etc.)
i like writinfg short stories, long stories and free writing

How often do you write when it is not a school assignment?What topics most intrigue you? Explain why.
i usually dont write when its not assigned but lately ive been writing songs with a friend. topics that inntrriguue me are people because its interesting that they are all different and think and act differently, places because its something new, nature because i like it and being around it its a nice place to find yourself and play, food because i like it and am interested in how its made/came to be, piercings because i find them interesting especially in odd places i think there a good invention and a good way to express yourself, tatoos because there pretty unless you get a ugly one there also a way to express yourself and set you apart, let you be and individual, musicbecause its amazing and im glad it was invented i like hear and making it, im curious about it and the people who make it...many artist are intersting people, theories there crazy and theres so many of them, religions- some of them are also crazy and everyone believes something different, wierd facts there interesting

3. fruit snacks
are awesome. they come in a billion different shapes and flavors, there colorful and there squishy. what's not to love?!
lately i have been buying hello kitty fruit snacks. there tasty and cute. if i were to rate them out of four stars id give them a three. yes, there that good.
before hello kitty i was into lego fruit snacks... those are cool because they have CRaZy FlAvOr CoMbInaTionsSs. i do wish you could actually build stuff out of them though. like real legos.
these just happen to be myu recent favorites but in the fruit snack aisle you will find tons of other kinds. like pirates of the caribbean, spiderman and dora the explora for example.