My favourite poet

The poems which I would be most interested read would be ones written by this poet, Lorine Niedecker. Based on my information, she have worked as a library assistant before, as well as a stenographer and proofreader for Hoard's Dairyman, and a cleaning woman. She married at the age of 25, but broke up and later remarried at the age of 60. She was also a rather shy lady I would say as her relatives and neighbours did not even know that she was writing poems.

Based on the above facts, we can see that she has experienced many things in her life and I personally feel that her poems would be very different and unique from other poems. Her poems were not very good at first, but they improved at the later part of her life. Critics have even said that she has good ,vivid imagery, and spare language. Some of her poems include Blue Chicory (1976), From This Condensery: The Complete Writings of Lorine Niedecker (1985), and The Granite Pail: The Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker (1985).

Favourite poem

I found this poem on the internet:

A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

The poem uses various techniques of figurative language in it. They used hyperbole by stating that the sand was golden, emphasising the importance of it. The poem also used personification on the sand stating how they "creep" through his fingers.

I like this poem because it is very mysterious and says many things about a dream and how everything might just be a dream. It is also very interesting as it uses many literary skills in it too. I think the poem is about him trying to save someone or something. He is trying to stop something from going away, but it just slips through his hands, like the sand.

4th book review

The 4th book I have read in the school holidays is " Slumdog millionaire". The book is about how an indian boy from the slums, Ram Mohammad Thomas enters a game show and won 1ooo,ooo,ooo rupees even though he did not had any education before. He was then suspected for cheating in the game show.

The story starts off with him getting arrested for winning the game show and being tortured to make him " confess" what he has done. Later, a lawyer called Smita came to bail him out and wants to help him. The story then starts when Smita plays the video of him in the game show answering a question. After that, she would pause it and Ram mohammad Thomas would tell her a part of his life that made him know the answer to the questions.

I find this story very interesting as Ram had experienced many things despite being boy from the slums. The story's structure is also a refreshing change as it jumps from different part of his life.

3rd book review

My third book is a fantasy book, called " the city of bones". The protagonist, Clary, was seemingly an ordinary girl but she found out at the age of eighteen that she could actually see shadowhunters, a group of people who kills demons, and nobody else can. She soon also finds out that her mother was also a shadow hunter and have gone into hiding when a monster came to attack her. She was then send to an institute for shadowhunters.

Later, in the institute, she meets and befriends many people, and recover part of her lost memory from a warlock. She helps the institute retrieve a very important cup, but soon finds out that it was stolen again.

2nd book review

The second book that I have read over the holidays is " Adrian Mole, The Cappuccino Years". It is of the same series as the book of my previous book review. Adrian Mole is now aged 30 and is the father of a kid. However, problems arise for him as well. He gets divorced, and he seeks jobs as a celebrity offal chef. His parents have problems with their marriage and got divorced as well. His show on offal is not going very well but his childhood friend got to become a minister. And at the end of the story, even his whole house got burnt down. However, there are good events that happened in the story. His book on offal did pretty well although it was actually written by his mother.

I find this book a refreshing change from the previous one as the diary is now written in the point of view as an adult and not a teenager.

Book review on ' The growing pains of Adrian Mole'

I have read this book over the school holidays and this is a review on it. This book is written in the format of a diary of Adrian Mole, very much like the format of ' Nothing but the truth' . It does not seem to have a specific plot, but the events which are taking place are indeed the pains of Adrian as the slowly matures.

He starts to experience different changes within his body. His parents also broke up, leaving him very worried. Next, his parents gave birth to another child, named rosie, and starts to neglet him. He feels surprised that Rosie gats applauses for doing someting very little. Finally, he could not tolerate it any more and he ran from home. However, even when he is away from home, he desperately seeks attention by reporting to the police that ' a boy named Adrian Mole was missing'.
He is also a boy who loves poems and wants his poems to be known.

I feel that this book is very interesting as it is purely written in a diary form and the story goes only from Adrian's point of view.I look foward to reading more books of this series.