Friday, April 10, 2015

Poetry Madness: Elite 8, Game 4!

Reread Do You Carrot All For Me and The New Suit. Your response needs to have at least 3 sentences, but you do not need to summarize the meaning of the poems. Instead, your response should include the following information:

  • Which poem's meaning is more important to you?
  • What personal connection can you make?
  • Which poet's craft do you enjoy more? Poet's craft can include repetition, personification, alliteration, imagery, rhyme, simile/metaphor, etc.

Make sure your answer is detailed and answers the three questions.

28 comments:

  1. I think, The New Suit, has more charecter traits and meaning. It describes what the tag or invite says. I think that you should choose wether or not it is funny. I think you should choose which one is more meaningful.

    Evan though, Do You Carrot All For Me, is funny, it is not very meaningful. But I do have a connection with Do You Carrot All For Me, because I love my cat Coco and I care for her.

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  2. Do You Carrot All For Me has more of the meaning besides the fact of veggie word play. It tells about a young child asking his mom or dad if they care for him.

    The New Suit I can make a connection with. I can make a T-S connection with this poem because I often have to wear something I don't like that holds me back from doing certain things.

    I think the winner should be do The New Suit because I can connect with it which helps me understand how the character feels better.

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  3. Do you carrot at all for me? is a poem that is about a man asking someone if they care at all for him. It also has good word play.
    The New Suit is about a man that wore a really nice suit to a party and he couldn't do anything he wanted to because he would get his suit dirty. So next year he said he would were old clothes so he can do the things he couldn't do.
    I choose Do you carrot at all for me? to win because I really liked it's word play for example: Weed make a swell pear. I think that Do you carrot at all for me? should win.

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  4. Do you carrot for me is more meaning full because I am hungry and It has veggies.
    I can make a connection with the New Suit because the person in the poem is a near freak and so am I.
    I like the writers craft in do you carrot for me because it has ryme sceame and is funny.

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  5. I made a connection with,The New Suit. When my dad gets new suits he does not want it to get dirty.

    Do You Carrot For Me, has more meaning to me. It has more meaning to me because it reminds me of my dog. It reminds me of my dog because my dogs is very needy for love and it seems like he is saying " Do you care at all for me?".

    I think the winner should be ,Do You Carrot For Me, because it uses good word play and it is funny.

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  6. The first poem, Do You Carrot All For Me, the poet has a lot of word play.
    The second poem, The New Suit, has lots of imagery.
    My favorite poem is, The New Suit, because I made a text to self connection that sometimes I feel like I can't eat much because I have a nut allergy. There is repitition and the meaning is more important to me.

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  7. The first poem, Do You Carrot all for Me, is about liking someone and marrying them and I think the poem is comparing those situations to fruits and vegetables. For example it uses text like My heart BEETS for you, and LETTUCE marry.

    The second poem, The New Suit, is about all different kinds of suits. for example it describes all diferent kinds of suits.

    I think Do You Carrot All For Me should win because it uses clever word play and is a very enjoyable poem due to the rythem.

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  8. For the winner I chose Do You Carrot At All for me because although it's funny, I just really enjoy it. I'm not saying that the new suit isn't enjoyable, it's just that reading Do You Carrot At All For Me was a different point of view of things, through fruit!

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  9. Do You Carrot All For Me? has lots of word play.
    The New Suit has more meaning to me because I am not allowed to do many things with a fancy suit.
    I think the winner is The New Suit because it has repetition.

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  10. Do you carrot all for me is about a guy who is taking about her wife.. the ne siut is about a guy who gets a new suit. I think the winner is the new suit,

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  11. Do you carrot all for me has the most meaning to me because that is what I ask my mom all the time.

    My personal connection is that I ask my parents that all the time.

    I got imagery because of this poem about my family and if they carrot all for me?

    I think the winner should be do you carrot all for me? Because it has the most special meaning to me.

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  12. Do You Carrot All For Me? is about someone asking someone if they care for them.

    The New Suit is about some guy getting a new suit for a party, but can't have fun or get it messy.

    I think that the winner should be Do You Carrot All For Me, because I like the puns

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  13. The story that means the most to me is The New Suit because what happened in the poem happened to me in real life.

    I have a connection with The New Suit because I wore White shoes and we did stuff in the dirt and I was really scared I was going to get something on them.

    I chose Do You Carrot All For Me because I thought it was really funny and it had a set of word play. and I thought that the author did a good ob of having a new vegetable in every sentence.

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  14. Caroline M. WelbornApril 12, 2015 at 2:31 PM

    The poem that has the most meaning to me is Do you Carrot all for Me?, because I think that it is funny. I can make a connection with The New Suit. One time that story actually happened to me! I choose Do you Carrot all for Me, because I think that using play on words is true poet's craft.

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  15. The first poem I read was Do you Carrot all for Me. It is about somebody who is asking if that other person cares at all for him. It uses different feelings about fruits in it. It uses ABCDA rhyme schemes.

    The second poem I read was The new Suit. It is about a man who is describing his new suit. He does not want to get it dirty, but he also said next year it will be different because he said I need to get ready to get dirty next year. It uses ABAC rhyme schemes.


    I think the winner should be the new suit because it inspired me more than do you carrot all for me. I liked the rhymes more because it used outfit kind of clothes.

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  16. The poem that means the most to me is Do You Carrot All For Me? Because even though it is funny the person is still asking if the person cares at all for him.
    The poem I can make a connection with is The New Suit. Because I don't like being in dress clothes and I would rather be in regular clothes and have fun.
    The poem I choose is Do You Carrot All For Me? Because I think it is a funny poem. Some things I noticed are that it has word play and doesn't rhyme.

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  17. I think that the winner is Do you Carrot all For me because it has lots of love and Kindness wile The new Suit is gust confusing so if I new what I am thinking I am still choosing Do you Carrot all For me.

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  18. Do you carrot all for me has more meaning because it is about a man asking his wife if she cares for him.

    I can make a connection with the new suit because my parents make me wear nice stuff to parties.

    I chose do you carrot all for me to be the winner because I liked the word play.

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  19. Do You Carrot All For Me has a better meaning because the person is asking his or her lover if he or she cares at all for him.
    I think the poem is sweet because it is a funny vegetable poem that has a very serious meaning.
    I choose do you carrot all for me because it was sweet

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  20. Reese Estelle SalinasApril 13, 2015 at 8:16 AM

    Do you carrot all for me because it is funny and it rhymes

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  21. The new suit is more important to me because I love wearing new suits but I do like veggies. My personal connection is I like new suits a lot because I look good when I wear it for the first time. I has a wonderful rhyme scheme, alliteration, and Imagery.

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  22. I think Do You Carrot all for Me means more to me because I think it is a sweet poem about a boy who asks a girl if she cares about him.

    I can make a connection with The New Suit because I never try to get new clothes dirty.

    I choose Do you Carrot all for Me as the winner because I think it is a funny and sweet poem.

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  23. I think Do you carrot for me is a sweet story about a boy asking asking a girl if she cares for him
    New suit is about a guy that gets a new suit and gets stuff on his shirt at the party and learns to not where a new suit to a party
    I think do you carrot for me should win because its a funny cute story i can relate to

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  24. The first poem I read was "The New Suit," and it was about a boy who wears a tight suit that he cant stand because he cant drink juice and he cant eat ice cream or chocolate.

    The second poem I read was "Do you carrot all for me," is about a man telling a girl that he loves her but he tells her with fruits.

    The poem I like the best is "The New Suit" because I can relate to it.

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  25. Do you carrot all for me has a meaning of food/love because someone is telling there wife about the things he likes in food form. I have a text to world connection because a lot of people are creative like that. The writers craft in this poem is similies , for example pear and pair.

    The New Suit has a meaning of tighty because he is trying his hardest to keep his suit clean at the birthday party. I have a text to self connection because when I git a
    new dress I want to keep it tighty. The writers craft in this poem is imagery because it paints a picture in my mind of the suit.

    I choose Do You Carrot All For Me because it is a cute story about food and love.

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  26. The meaning of do you carrot for me is food/love.
    my conection is text to world because a lot of people are creative like that.
    My favrtie part was the poets craft

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  27. The meaning of do you carrot for me is food/love.
    my conection is text to world because a lot of people are creative like that.
    My favrtie part was the poets craft

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  28. The meaning to mother to son is that when the mom is saying to her son all about what happened to her she told her son my connection is text-self because when my mom tells me about stuff that happened back then it's a lot like this.

    Do yo carrot all for me is about love/food and the meaning is that someone is telling a story about how much they love someone and my connection is text to text because my mom and dad tell each other how much they love each other.

    I think mother to son should win because it tells a good story and is meaningful

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