Thursday, April 2, 2015

Poetry Madness: Game 7!

Read Game 7 poems. Answer each question below. Remember to explain WHY you chose the winner based on poet's craft (rhyme, line breaks, punctuation, simile/metaphor, word choice, repetition) AND your personal connection to the meaning. Don't forget to write with M.I.N.T.S.!

Your post needs to include the following:
1. What is the meaning of the first poem? (Summarize in one sentence)

2. What is the meaning of the second poem? (Summarize in one sentence)

3. Based on the criteria, which poem did you choose and WHY?

 ***Please tell me everything you think, but use your best writing. 


Here is an example of proficient writing:

The first poem, Do You Carrot All For Me?, is about someone who wants to get married. The person keeps using his favorite foods to describe how much he loves her, and what their life is going to be like. 

The second poem, The Castle in the Fire, is  telling a story about a knight fighting a dragon to save a princess. This story is really thrilling with a lot of fighting.

I liked Do You Carrot All For Me? because even though it had no rhyme scheme, it used funny little food jokes to paint a picture in your mind. Also, it makes you smile a little bit. I also like it because the author used metaphors between foods and face features. For example, he says she has "radish" hair instead of "reddish" hair.

27 comments:

  1. Some One is about a man that lives in a wee house.Then one day he gets a knock on the door. He has never had a knock a the door so he opens it and no ones there.
    Life Doesn't Frighten Me is about a boy who is not afraid of anything.Not loins and tigers.Not bag dogs or ghosts.Not bears or sharks.
    I choose life doesn't frighten me becuase it was very interresting.

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  2. For example life doesnt frighten me is about some that is not afraid of life
    someone is about a boy that thinks he heres knocking but its really the night
    I think the winner is someone because its a cool story that i can understand its about a boy that thinks he hears knocking but its really the night!

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  3. The first poem ,Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about a person that is saying that life does not frighten them at all. For example in the poem it says shadows on the wall noises down the hall life doesn't frighten me at all.

    Some one is about a person that hears a knock on there door and they open it a no one is there.

    For the winner I choose , Life Doesn't Frighten Me, why I choose ,Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is because it has a meaning to me. The rhyme sheme is AAA BB A CC A DD A EE A ect.

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  4. Some One is about a man who thought he heard someone knocking on his front door but no one was there. He descibed a ll the things he saw and heard also.
    Life Dose'n't frighten me is about a girl who's life dose'n't scare her at all. She talks about things that might natrally frighten others but not her.
    I choose Life Dose'n't Frighten Me because I thought it was a fun poem that had a great rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme is AAABBA for the first part. I really think this was a fun rhyming poem.

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  5. The first poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about someone who thinks nothing in life frightens them. He is not scared of panthers, and loins, and strangers, but all he knows is that he isn't scared, but if he is, it would be from his dreams.
    The second poem, Some One, is about someone who is up at night and someone knocks on the door and the only things around are crickets, an owl, and a beetle.
    My favorite poem is, Life doesn't frighten me because there is lots of ryme scheme, and it is very complex about what he is scared about.

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  6. The first poem I read was Some One. I think that this poem is about a man who is hearing things (like a knock), I also think that the man might be scared.

    Life doesn't Frighten Me is about a a girl (or boy) who is strong and has courage. She/he does not think that life is scary at all.

    I think that Life doesn't frighten me should win because of the great message of bravery. I love how it flows with the rhyme scheme, AAABBACCADDA.

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  7. The first poem, Some One, is about someone hearing a knock at their door, then explains what they could have heard because no one was at their door.

    The second poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about someone giving examples om specific things that don't frighten them, and tat they aren't scared of anything.

    For the winner, I choose Some One, because I really enjoyed how it explained what she/he thought she/he heard some noises, he/she explained and reasured herself what it probably was!

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  8. I think life dosen't frighten me is about a girl who is not afraid of any thing and she wants to live her life in the present not the past or future.
    Some one is about someone who is knocking on someones door but no one ever comes.
    I choose, Life Dosen't Fritghten Me, because it has ryme sceame AAABBACCADDAEEGGHH. And I have concectiton with the girl because I am not afraid of almost anything

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  9. The first poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All, is about a little girl who doesn't get scared. They also repeat the title. In Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All the little girl says she is not frightened because she has a "magic" charm that gives her confidence. I don't think the charm is really "magic," I just think someone special gave it to her and it is sentimental to the little girl, and so she thinks it gives her the power to not be scared.

    I think Some One is about a man who lives in the woods and doesn't get many visitors. But then one day he gets a knock on his door, I also think when he opened the door no one was there because the poem said, "I listened, I opened, I looked to left to right, But not there was a stirrin in the still, dark night."

    I choose Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All because I thought it was very interesting and it shows you should have a lot of confidence. I also choose Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All because I liked all of the examples Walter De La Mare gave me in the poem, it made the poem more enjoyable and easier to understand.

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  10. Life Doesn't Frighten me At All is about a child who is saying he isn't scared of anything in life. I can assume it is a girl because it says, "That new classroom where boys pull my hair."
    Some One is about a guy who herd someone knock on his door but when he looked no one was there. I think he possibly got ding dong ditched or it could be a branch or something.
    I choose Some One because it was very descriptive and I thought that the person in the other one was kind of gloating and Some One was intriguing because you want to know what it was at the door. That is why I choose Some One.

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  11. Some One is about a person who came knocking at his door, but then disappeared. Some One has a rhyme scheme that goes ABABCDEDFGHGIGAG.

    Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All is about a person who is not afraid to take risk. Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All has a rhyme scheme that goes AAABBACCADDAEEFFGGHHIIAJJAKKALLAMNANOP.

    I think that the winner should be Life Doesn't Frighten Me, because I liked the rhyme scheme.

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  12. I think Some One is about some one who knocked on a door and the person did't know who it was and he opened the door and there was know one their.

    think Life Doesn't Frighten Me is about a kid who is not afraid of any thing and she/he will not scream or cry if something is scary and she/he will walk through the dark and not get scared.

    I think Life Doesn't Frighten Me should win because it saying that you shouldn't be scared and that God is always with you and it had some rhyme schem.

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  13. life doesnt frightend me is about a girl who says nothing is frightening to me. Some one is about a girl who opens a door to a stranger. the winner is life doesnt frighten me.

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  14. Some One is about a boy who hears someone knocking at his door and he goes to see who it is. When he opens the door no one is there.

    Life Doesn't Frighten Me is about a boy who talks about all the things that could frighten someone. But he says that none of it frightens him.

    I think that Life Doesn't Frighten Me would be the winner. Because I like how he lists all the things that are scary to some people, but how he doesn't let those things scare him.

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  15. Reese Estelle SalinasApril 2, 2015 at 7:12 AM

    The first poem I read was Some One. I think that this poem is about a man who is hearing things (like a knock), I also think that the man might be scared. It was actually a beetle tap dancing

    Life doesn't Frighten Me is about a a girl (or boy) who is strong and has courage. She/he does not think that life is scary at all.

    I think that Life doesn't frighten me should win because of the great message of bravery. I love how it flows with the rhyme scheme, AAABBACCADDA.

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  16. The first poem I read was Some One and it was about some one that doesn't get a lot of visitors. But he does get a visitor one night but when he goes to the door there is no one there.

    The second poem I read was Life Doesn't Frighten Me and it was about someone that is not afraid of anything. For example, she is not afraid of ghost or lions.

    The poem I choose is Life Does't Frighten Me because it is more interesting. For example, the rhyme scheme is A A A B B A.

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  17. The first poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about someone who is not afraid of anything.
    The second poem, Some One, is about a person who thinks he hears someone at his door.
    I think the winner is, Some One, because of its rhyme scheme.

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  18. The first poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about someone who is not afraid of anything or anyone.


    The second poem, Some One, is about someone who was sitting in his house and he heard a knock he opened the door and there wasen't anyone there.


    I like Life Doesn't Frighten Me, because I wish life did not frighten me.

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  19. The First poem,Some One, was about a person who came knocking on someones door in the middle of the night. Which is about a ding dong ditch.
    The next poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, this is about a girl who does not get scard of any thing.
    My favorite poem was, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, I liked this poem because the girl think she is so great and not scarde. the theme was to be not frightend.

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  20. The first poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about a person who is scared of nothing.
    The second poem, Some One, is about a person who hears a knock on the door but when he gets there no one is there.
    The poem I choose is Life Doesn't Frighten Me because I think it is about a brave person who is not afraid of anything. One Thing I noticed are that it rhymes.

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  21. Some one is about a man who hears some one knocking on his door but when he opens it no one is there and all he hears is insects and animals. The rhyme scheme is a b a c d e a f a g.

    life Doesn't frighten me is about a man who is not scared of any things panthers snakes lions strangers but if he was it would be in his dreams. the rhyme scheme is a a a b b a c c a d d a e e f f.

    I chose life doesn't frighten me to be the winner because I liked the rhyme scheme and the repitition life doesn't frighten me at all.

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  22. The first poem, Some One , is about a person who got ding dong diched at night time and did not know who did it. The pattern is A B C C.


    The second poem , Life Doesn't Frighten me at all , is about a girl who is fearless of life and everything around her.

    The one I choose was Life Doesn't Frighten me at all because it is an inspiring story about someone who is fearless of everything.

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  23. The first poem, Someone, is about how someone is knocking on the door but they are not their.

    The second poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about a boy and he not scared of anything.

    The poem I choose is, Someone because it's rhyme scheme ABACDEFGHGIJKJLJAJ.

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  24. The first poem, Some One, is about a person who hears some one knocking at his door, and when he peeks out his door, he sees nothing just the woods that he has always seen.

    The second poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about a man who telling everyone that 'Life just does not frighten me' for example, when he sees a ghost in a cloud he is not afraid.

    I choose Some One, to win because it is a really good mystery for a poem. This poem made me have mental movie in my head, and the other poem did not give me one. That is why I like the poem, Some One.

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  25. The first poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about a kid who isn't afraid of anything including life.

    The second poem, Some One, is about a person who doesn't find out who's knocking on his door. But it was just a tree.

    I choose Some One to win because the rhyme schme is ABACDEFEG

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  26. The first poem I read was Life Doesn't Frighten Me. This poem is about a person who is not frightened at all.

    The second poem I read was Some One. This poem is about a person who said that they knocked on the door. This poem uses ABAB rhyme schemes. It also uses personification. Example, "the cricket whistling."

    I think the winner should be Life doesn't Frighten Me. I like this poem more because it had better feelings and emotions. This poem uses AAABBA rhyme schemes.

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  27. Some one is about a person knocking on another's door and know on was there. The rhyme scheme was like A,B,A,B.

    The second poem is about a girl who isn't afraid of anything in life. The rhyme scheme was AAA,BB,CC,A,DD it was a interesting rhyme.

    I pick Life Doesn't Frighten Me to win because it will make me more brave.

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