Poetry Reflection Michael Hoover

Poetry Reflection
Michael Hoover


   The effect or importance that poetry has on my life is it is fun to do and when I'm happy I like to do a happy poem that reminds me of Arkansas because that is were I like to be the most and wish I could  live there. In my opinion I do think that poetry has an affect or belongs to everybody, the reason that I think this is because I think that poetry can me anything to anyone for example if I were to read a poem and then give it to a friend we might both have different interpretations of it. Each reason
is unique to us so we could each think of a different message that the poem is trying to release or portray.

   The life and experiences of a poet affects their writing because of the way they might think about politics or nature or how they were treated as they were a kid. A good example of this is say a poet that is older expresses how he feels about the world and maybe he tries to express that he thinks that the world is really corrupt. This shows that he was probably raised in a family that was always talking about politics and how bad they were. Another great example is say there is a poet that always talks about how beautiful nature is and that there is unlimited things to do in a forrest. Well that is probably because when he was a kid he went camping or traveling with his parents and siblings. That is why I think that the experiences of a poet effects the way that they write their poems.

  "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words" - Robert Frost

 Before we started poetry the thought that I had was that this is going to be really strict and boring "theres going to be limits on the thoughts we have" or "were just going to be sitting in class frantically thinking of rhyming with the next line of words" but an important thing that I learned was that there really is not a limit or boundaries with poetry. Another important thing that I learned was that there were different types of poetry and not just what we usually see when we search up poetry or read a Shell Silverstein book. I really enjoyed this experience of being able to learn more about poetry and the way people use it in everyday life.

Extended Metaphor Poem

Bio-Poem of a Literary Character

Were Im from Poem

Two-Voice Poem

Spine poem

Found Poem

Nonsense Poem

Picture Poem

"The Ominous Creature Vertoy" - Nonsense poem

Spine Poem Michael Hoover

The spine poem "The Hero" is a thinking poem which makes you want to think about it and what it means because it can puritan to a lot of things but it really stands for this. The lost hero stands for a hero that went to fight for freedom. Great expectations stands for everyone is counting on him to win the battle for them. The dead of night stands for the people that are counting on the hero and want him to win but they are in the dark on the news if he had won or lost the battle. First light stands for they find out that they had won the battle against the enemy and they are happy. And peace like a river stands for the people are not scared or nervous that they might lose the battle but now that they know that they won they are finally able to relax.

Found poem Michael Hoover

 "Beautiful Nature" This is my found poem and it represents nature and if you can't see what is says it says. "Scented mesmerizing fields another world with a far horizon of stark mountains so clean and stimulating a feeling of beauty that asked for brilliant desert mornings no scrub scrape with clouds along each morning." The reason that I drew the flower and the tree and also the sun is because it represents the beauty of the wilderness and the dessert the blue shows that the nature can be dangerous it is kind of like the yin yang symbol.

Michael Hoover Two Voice Poem

Michael Hoover
Book: Found
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Characters: Jonah (Blue) Jonah's sister (Red) Both (Light Green)


I'm adopted from
 an orphanage                                      
                                                                                                                 You gave much
                                                                                                                 more performance 
                                 
                                           We are brother and sister by love 

I'm from the
 past not the present 

                                                                                                                         We still share 
                                                                                                                          the same parents 
                                
                                           But not by any sort of blood 
                                          
You will never 
really comprehend 

                                                                                                                                No I will always 
                                                                                                                            remember to the highest                                                                                                                                                    e                                                                                                                           extent 
                                                                         
                                         Remember all the moments of truth 

Time travel is to 
save the condemned 
        
                                                                                                                       Jonah you just have to
                                                                                                                      act or at least pretend

                                  We both act like nothing happened 

I was kidnapped 
and thrown in the future 

                                                                                                       just remember you went through it 
                                                                                                       like a trooper 

                                 It was all just so much to take in 

I want to know 
who I really am 

                                                                                                                             you are Jonah my big 
                                                                                                                                    brother that I love 
           
                                 We will both stand together as one 

There is a lot of things 
that I don't know about myself

                                                                                                                               Than I can help you             with that in stead of you weeping 

 like that all the time you 

just have to except it

                                 We will stick together to the end 

They want to take 

me back to the past 

were I belong 

                 

                                                                                                                            but you belong here                                                       with me and our parents

Interactive Thinglink Michael Hoover

3rd Quarter reflection's

Of the books that I have read this far during the quarter would be "Ghost Boy" and no it is not a fiction book it is a non fiction book. There is a boy that is twelve years of age that starts feeling week and he can't walk or move and after a little bit he is a prisoner in his own body. What I mean by this is that he can't move at all not his lips not even his eyelids nothing, this is not a spoiler because it tells you this on literally the first page.  Usually when this occurs the person is brain dead which means they are like a new born baby and know nothing but he was still there he was gust stuck in his mind thinking for over 15 years. The reason that this was my favorite book was because it is one of those stories that really makes you think. The kinds of questions I thought of were, will he ever come back to his normal self? How much has he learned because he can still hear? Will they put him down because the family can't take care of him any more? What will happen if there is a bad fire at the hospital? Will anyone I know throughout my life obtain this?

         Some things that I have learned about the world is that sometimes things will be difficult and that you have to go through them or try to find a way to go around them what I mean is that if you have troubles at home or at somewhere else you should deal with them instead of trying to leave them. Do this  because if you don't it will bring you down and you won't want to do anything and it will get pressuring and depressing. I also learned about the world that if you just smile even a fake smile after a while it will be real and feel good and make you happy.

      The way that my research skills have improved is I no longer just go to google I also go to cnn and world new or aol.com. Another way that my research skills have improved is I don't grab the first piece of evidence that I see just because I think that it is sufficient. I like to look throughout the whole website for a good piece of evidence. Another way that my research skill's have become better is because I go to different websites and stories than most of the other students such as aol.com.

Bio-Poem for a literaly character Blog for The Boy on The Wooden Box

Michael Hoover
Book: "The Boy on The Wooden Box" Memoir
Author: Lyon Leyson
Bio Poem



Lyon Leyson
Intelligent, resourceful,creative, kind
A character in lyon leyson's story
Lover of stories, family, food, water
who notices nazis, Hiding places, death, and refuge
who feels pain, depression, adrenaline, and freedom
who learns kindness, hate, survival, chance
who says "Is this the worst that can happen"
who used to think about survival but now love and family
major character in the book "The Boy on The Wooden Box"
A book that made me sad.

Blog for the week of march 2-3

By: Michael H.
Author of book: Leon Lyson
Book: The boy on the wooden box
Prompt: Think of a problem that a character had to face. Write the problem and how the

character solved it or is working to solve it. If you were that character, what

would you do differently?

        One of the problems that the main character Leon Leyson encountered in the story was that there was no food for them, they literally had to look around and hopefully find a piece of dried bread. The way that he solved the problem of not having that much food was he would be friends with a lot of people and he would do a lot of chores for his neighbors. If I was that character I honestly don't know how I would get food except for working for different people around that neighborhood. I think that it could be kind of dangerous because what happens if you accidentally stay out to late because the nazi's walk around every night and shoot people that are up past their curfew. So what I would do differently would be probably killing rats and eating them if you can because I don't know if you can get diseases from eating them.

 2nd prompt: If you could ask the author any question, what question and why?

   If I could ask the author Leyon Lyson  any question about the book "The Boy on The Wooden Box" I would ask him what he would have done if he was alone and he did not have is parents or siblings with him. The main reason that I would ask this question would be because a lot of the choices that he made were influenced by his family being with him. An example of this would be when he was going to go to a different camp than his family but then he decided to take the chance to jump in line to the work place were his family was going. 

Another reason that I would ask that question would be because if he did not have is family with him would he have just given up or keep trying to live after every day because some of the nazis that were running the camp were really crazy because they would just shoot people for fun. For example one time he thought of giving up after he go whipped with glass but right before he made a decision he thought of his mother father sister and brother.

Picture Poem

 A breeze

the old creaky wood held by poles dark and frail

clouds bright and majestic as the sun that will never fail

the dark corral beneath the sea

the exact opposite of a tree

this is where you flee from the cold and chilly

warm inside with some skilly

feel the soothing breeze

blow away a sneeze  

The wonderful creek through the wood

the wonderful sound sounds good  

in the wind you stood

just because you could

in a little hut

where the wood gives you a cut

when its time to go

there will be no more flow