World Poetry 1st period

   INTRODUCTION ~ By: Cecilia Meireles ~ 1 Here is my life: 2  This sand so clear 3 With drawing that walk 4 Dedicated to the wind…              5 Here is my voice: 6 This empty shell 7 The shadow of a sound 8 Preserving its own lament… 9 Here is my grief: 10 This broken coral 11 Surviving its pathetic moment… 12 Here is my heritage: 13 This solitary sea — 14 On one side it was love 15 A nd  on the other forgetfulness. ~http://www.antoniomiranda.com.br/poesia_ingles/cecilia_meireles.html              ~Cecilia Meireles~    Born November 7th 1907 Poet, teacher, and journalist, whose lyrical  and highly personal poetry, often simple in form yet containing complex symbolism and imagery, earned her an important position in 20th century Brazilian literature. Began to write poetry at the age of nine. Her poetry is considered by mos...

She complains of her lot, suggesting her aversion       Quejase de la suerte: insinúa su aversion a los to vice and justifying her resort to the Muses               vicios, y justifica su divertimiento a las musas                                                                                             In hounding me, world, what do you gain?                     En perseguirme, mundo, ¿que interesas?  In what do I offend you, if I only seek                            ¿En que te ofendo, cuando solo intento  To put things of beauty in my understanding    ...

My poem that I have chosen is Echo by Alexander Pushkin ... If beasts within a silent forest moan, If trumpets sound, if thunder rolls and cracks, Or young girls sing almost inaudibly- For each initial tone The atmosphere resounds quite suddenly With a response, your own. You listen to the peal of distant thunder, The rumbling voice of violent waves and storm, And hear the village shepherd's lonely cry- And then you send your answer, But hear no echo, there is no reply... This also, poet, is your nature. Source : https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=116&issue=5&page=76 My image reasoning : In this poem there are a lot of references to sound, and how it travels throughout different places and to different people. So this made me think of headphones and sound waves, hint the picture. Biographical information on Alexander Pushkin : Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on the 26th of May, 1799 in Moscow in the noble family. Lik...

I Am Mad With Love by Mirabai I am mad with love  And no one understands my plight.  Only the wounded  Understand the agonies of the wounded,  When the fire rages in the heart.  Only the jeweller knows the value of the jewel,  Not the one who lets it go.  In pain I wander from door to door,  But could not find a doctor.  Says Mira: Harken, my Master,  Mira's pain will subside  When Shyam comes as the doctor.  Biographical Information Mirabai was born around the start of the sixteenth century in the village of Chaukori located in Merta, Rajasthan. She was faithfully devoted to Sri Krishna, a religious figure for Hindus .  At a young age her family had arranged for her to marry prince Bhoj Raj. Marrying a prince would advance her social status and provide a “better life” for her. Conflict between Mirabai and her husband’s family arose because they worshiped the deity Durga and didn’t support Mirabai’s dev...

Meeting a Cab Driver in New York The yellow cab runs on roads ripped open by earthquakes and never sealed skyscrapers jut overhead Nguyen Van B. has lived in New York for 28 years he’s still not fluent in English his French is better Robbed three times at gunpoint, B. says: “Anything worth losing I’ve already lost, country, youth, dreams Back in Saigon my family had two servants and one chauffeur now I am the chauffeur of millions of people In this city you catch a cab by whistling just wave your hand I’ll run right up to you like a yellow dog called Taxi… …don’t worry, no need to tip me, after all, we’re both Vietnamese.” -- Phan Nhiên Hạo Retrieved from: http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/vietnamese/poems-by-phan-nhien-h%E1%BA%A1o  Retrieved from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Single_yellow_tulip_in_a_field_of_red_tulips.JPG The picture of a single yellow tulip surrounded by fields of red tulips signifies the alienation of the taxi driver...

Author's Biography:       Liz Lochhead was born on December 26, 1947 in a small mining village right outside of Motherwell, Lanarkshire in Scotland. She is a poet, as well as a play writer, translator, and broadcaster, and from 2011-2016 she was the Makar, or National Poet of Scotland.  The primary school she attended was where she gathered memories to incorporate into some of her poems about childhood. Her teachers always encouraged her to study English, but she was determined to go to the Glasgow School of Art where she ended up studying for 5 years and wrote her first poem, 'The Visit'. After graduating, she taught art at a couple high schools, which was a career that she did not enjoy.  Liz was also involved in the national Children's Panel system, which inspired her to write some poetry in the eyes of a child. https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/liz-lochhead Poem: Trouble is not my middle name Trouble is not my middle name. It is no...

Juana Ines de la Cruz                           Poem:   This that you see, the false presentment planned With finest art and all the colored shadows  And reasoning's of shade, doth but disclosed The poor deceits by earthly senses fanned! Here where in constant flattery expand  Excuses for the stains that old age knows, pretexts against the years' advancing the snows, The footprints of old seasons to withstand; 'Tis but vain artifice of scheming minds; 'Tis but a flower fading on the winds; 'Tis but a useless protest against fate; 'Tis but stupidity without a thought, A lifeless shadow, if we meditate; 'Tis death, tis dust, tis shadow, yea, 'tis nought. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-her-portrait/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/angrylambie/18632770096/in/photostream/ Biography: Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz was born on November 12, 1651 in San Miguel Neplanta, Mexi...