"Once Upon a Time"
By Rebekah Shephard
I see a child crying, a waterfall of tears, boo-hoo, boo-hoo!
I watch everyone walk by, trying to look away.
How sad it is that today we can stand by and let another person cry!
Perhaps there was once a world where we would not let another person get hurt!
Perhaps it was a fantasy world like Narnia,
or perhaps it wasn't so far out of our reach.
Perhaps it was with us and we only outgrew it,
like a child losing teeth.
Perhaps it was a world where people were
more kind to one another, like a little girl's soap opera.
Perhaps manners were common and hatred was frowned upon,
because I don't think Elizabeth Bennett had this problem.
But that world of perfect perfection is not my own,
I think as a car screams behind me.
And I cannot bring myself to believe
That my own hateful world was meant to be.
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2544319/Once_Upon_a_Time
1) I like your poem because it is about how cruel our world is becoming; how cruel it is. I feel that I have to agree with you on that one.
ReplyDelete2) One question I have for a particular line of the poem is in stanza 3, line 4: my question is who is Elizabeth Bennett?
3) One question I have about a particular stanza of the poem is in stanza 3 (mostly line 2) what is a little girl's soap opera?
4) One question I have about the entire poem is...what are you going to do to change the world?
4 examples of similes or metaphors: 1) fantasty world like Narnia 2) like a child losing teeth 3) like a little girl's soap opera
Fantasy- happiness, perfect, dreams, movies, celebrities (live fantasy lives) imagination
Moriah Davis' comment above ^
ReplyDelete1)The poem is about how evil the world is today.
ReplyDelete2)One question i have about line 12 is who is Elizabeth Bennett?
3)One question I have about stanza 2 is why are the manners frowned upon and how Elizabeth Bennett didn't have this problem?
4)One question I have about the entire poem is how will the world be changed when the hatefulness is gone?
examples of simile and metaphor are like a child losing teeth, a fantasy world like Narnia, and like a little girls soap opera.
Manners-proper, pompous, silverware,set table
Caroline Shamberger
Moriah: - Elizabeth Bennett is the main character from Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice". Pride and Prejudice was a novel in which everyone was perfectly nice to one another, kindness was valued greatly, and pride was hated. (:
ReplyDelete- A little girl's sopa opera is pretty much a Barbie movie.
- I will change the world by just being nice to people, because I can change someone's world by just being kind to them and maybe even making their day.
Ze Rebekah Shephard
Caroline:
ReplyDelete- Like I told Moriah, Elizabeth Bennett is the main character from Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice". Pride and Prejudice was a novel in which everyone was perfectly nice to one another, kindness was valued greatly, and pride was hated. (:
- In that stanza, I meant that manners were used by everyone and that /hatred/ was frowned upon. Manners were definetely not frowned upon, but perhaps I should have made that more clear in the poem.
Elizabeth Bennet didn't have the problem of the mean, angry, uncivilized people that are way too common today because manners and curtousy were regular day occurences in her time, which was the 1800s. If you were rude or mean or snide back then, people would automatically dislike you, unlike today when someone is mean people go along with the bully. It's a pretty dramatic and sad change. :/
- When the hatefulness is gone there would be world peaces.
Above comment by ze Rebekah Shephard (:
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