Inspiration

This Poem was made by me because it was an assignment of our English teacher. Another reason was because I didn't know what to write and my inspiration was missing. As an artist I got pissed at myself and thought if I cannot feel any inspiration, then I will write about inspiration. Immediately I began writing and what I was trying to create was a type of guide how be inspired and how to create phrases for lyrics or poems. I am trying to challenge people to use all there creativity and emotions. I provide a goal that you can try to achieve when you do what the guide provides.
The form of this poem is a Villanelle and it has a rhyme scheme that goes: A B A A B A.
Enjoy this poem:
Inspiration

The source of inspiration is devotion
working day and night to drink and think
enjoy what you do when its the perfect portion

love to relax, floating on the ocean
Don't be wasting your time with a drink
The source of inspiration is devotion

Writing down thoughts and emotions
Challenging and hoping, get your mind to think
Create an impact and a flowing motion

Go a direction, write down some notions
try make some sense out of this ink
The source of inspiration is devotion

I want you too, in motion,
Be critical and find the missing link
It’s a gift, include your emotion

Meaning on paper, like skin and lotion
Line to line, word to word your able to link
The source of inspiration is devotion
enjoy what you do when its the perfect portion

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W.H. Auden
My analysis:
I like this poem because it provides a really sad feeling. It is a mix between missing someone, regret, fear of change and sadness due to loss of a lover. There is a little bit of imagery in phrases like, "he was my north, my south, my east and west, my working week and my Sunday rest, …" These are set in the poem to show a picture of how things were and why now it is different it’s the human fear of change. Some objects and colors are used to set a feeling of silence, sadness and fear. This is seen in stanzas like the first one that has phrases like "stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone"
And silence the pianos and with muffed drums" or in the second stanza "let the policemen wear black cotton gloves." This poem has a lot of great examples of all kind of features of poetry.

The Eagle

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson

My analysis:

I enjoy this poem because of the picture it sets in your head. It is very beautifully written. The imagery of the eagle is amazing, when you think about phrases like "he watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls." There is no special message that challenges you to become a better self but that is also not always necessary. Imagery can be very powerful too, giving you a picture setting you in exactly that moment the writer wants you to be. This is what this poem does to me. It is written so clear that I can see the eagle on the crag in exactly that scene.

'Totally like whatever, you know?' analysis

I like this poem because Tailor Mali wants to get us thinking about what has happened with society. This poem makes you think, it gives you a critical perspective on the society of today. How we are not able to form real sentences and we seem to be inarticulate. How we can not be cool by being smart but by not expressing your thoughts. He wants us to speak without 'Instant messenger language' with repeatedly using words like, like, whatever, you know after each sentence and totally. These words have no real meaning to Taylor Mali because they have no weight and no backup. Taylor wants, well actually challenge, you to speak with meaningful words, to say your thoughts and speak up because with what has happened to us and the world around us we need more people with meaningful speeches and meaningful ideas.

In our blog

I think that there is no problem in sharing our outlines because it gives us the opportunity to see "live" other student models for us to compare and reflect. On the other hand I think that some people might use that to their advantage in an other way, and copy or just rewrite someone else outline and show it as their own. Just that if their is any similarity that the teacher should notice then the person that had the outline up first that gets the credit so actually their is no point of not setting it onto our blog for our benefit. I think the teacher wants us to put them on so we can help ourselves instead of cheating ourselves to some rewritten outline. I am not dying to write anything except a new song and personally I would love to not do anything.

My Protagonist

My Protagonist is called Jimmy. This hero wears his clothes depending on his feelings but he prefers to wear black. He loves to eat, eat anything and is thankful for what he has. His hobbies are karate, archery, fighting and writing music. The hero is defined as a special person with great generous qualities, is this hero a hero? One who wants to save the world, one who does barely care about his own life but if he could he would save the world. This hero is different from superman he has no super power he saves no one beautiful girl but he wants to save the world, he wants to heal all wounds and fix all places. He loves to hang out with his friends and is very popular, he loves to drink and have fun with women, and he has a love for motorbikes and fights. He believes that musicians have so much influence that they can save the world. That is what he wants to do, as many have tried. He is a musician and wants to spread his music all over the world, and influence people to learn from his words to stop racism stop prejudice and stop all hate and conflict. However, before he gets to that point he needs to save himself, break out of his cage, solve his own conflicts with himself.
The call: The call is when the protagonist gets the opportunity to start his journey into the unknown. My character is introduced into a world of music and producers unknown to what he has done in the past, and needs to develop new skills to get through this separation from his own familiar world.
The threshold: Now he is fully over an imaginary wall separated from family and friends, his skills are now needed to get him through without the help from friends and family. He is now under pressure not to do any wrong step and do what is asked from him but at the same time use his own ideas. Not to lose himself. The threshold guardians are his band members to secure his behaving and steps.
The Challenges: Challenges come up like inner and outer conflicts that keep him from succeeding in some tasks and he now has to work up what was lost which brings more pressure.
Into the Abyss: The abyss he reaches here is different, then a giant three headed monster that’s not to die. But it is a fight for friendship, a fight not to lose him and reach his goal.
Transformation and Revelation: My Protagonist has now reached his goal made up his work and not gotten rid of his problems but learnt to work them out.
The Atonement: He has now found out that no one can change the whole world but with his efforts he can be a good influence for part of the people and send messages out in his own artistic ways.
The Return: Well this character does not fully return from his journey, because this journey has now become part of his life. The unknown is not unknown anymore and his is on his way to greater levels within this now known world.

What about the world you live in makes you uncomfortable?

In the world today there are many social, economic and environmental problems. Each problem has its impact on the future. How we resolve, if we can, these problems makes the future, if we oppress or ignore the problems they get worse.

This leads to my first problem, how we change our mistakes, problems and miscommunication and our be able to without ruining something else. One of our biggest problems today is our dependency on oil and energy. We still use oil to crate energy although our oil supplies are about to "run out of fuel". However there are many other ways to create energy such as wind, water and light. These are all supplies that will never run out, and they will not damage the earth, even if we need more it will secure our energy with no harm. More power supplies will give more jobs which would be very fortunate because parts of the world are starting to overpopulate.
It makes me feel uncomfortable to see miscommunication or unreasonable hate such as racism, and miscommunication in business, private life, the world outside your four walls and politics.
Racism is everywhere; this is a deal of miscommunication, a lack of correct education and prejudice. Bad vibrations are seen everywhere, it is a tension formed when someone’s shoulder bumps into yours at the train station, or when your parents don't allow you something that might be fun and is new to you because of prejudice. It might be a miscommunication verbal, physical, mental or through eye contact. It might not seem that bad but sometimes many little things add up to one huge problem.
There is so much more that bothers me these days but I don't want to bore you with a whole novel.