Poetry Journal 3&4

Title: Community
Author: John Donne
Style of Journal: Comparative Critic

S: a contemplator
O: Noticing what is good and evil in this world
A: The normal community
P: State what is good or evil
S: Good and Evil
Tone: serious

One style that is easily seen in the poem called “Community” by John Donne was the end rhymes. It seems like the end rhyme that Donne decides to use in the poem are very simple. The beauty of his simple end rhymes is mostly the fact that they add a deeper meaning to the stanza. He starts talking about the goods and sometimes good things are loved. Then he goes off into the next stanza to talk about something in the world that are good but necessarily not loved. For example he places the question where women are good and evil. In his other poem called “The Triple Fool” he also uses end rhymes to tell a story of how his foolishness is making his lover love him. In a way he is not a fool, because he talks about the foolishness things that he is doing is going to make his partner marry him in the long run and when that happens he would not be seen as a fool. Now with “Community” he continue to talk about knowledge in the sensing what is good an evil. He chose women as one aspect of being good because we need them to keep on reproducing. He talks about good things are easily seen and bad things are just waste.


Title: I love you much (most beautiful darling)
Author: E.E Cumming
Style of Journal: Literary Critic

S: Man in love
O: Expressing how much he love his girl
A: The man’s lover
P: To reveal to the girl how much he loves her
S: Female
Tone: Love, happy


The author in this poem uses internal rhyming in the beginning part of the poem. In the poem the author decides to make the end words rhyme with another word that is in the middle of that same word that is on the end. An example of the internal rhyming would have to be, “…singing welcome your coming.” Another material that I notice on the poem was multiple usage of nature. The author uses nature as a to convey the message how much he loves his partner. He even says that sunlight welcomes her and the he loves her “than anyone on the earth”. He goes on to say that she looks better than anything that is place in the sky. Nature is another style that poetics use to express their feeling to the love ones. So it does not surprise me when this author achieves the goal of making his love one love then by using nature. I have yet to see author use nature in a negative way in a poem. One reason why nature is commonly used by poets is because nature expresses love to plants and animals that seems loving. For example whenever birds or light is ever referred in poems they convey an image that is so positive that it makes the author’s audience fall in love with them.





Title: it may not always be so: and I say
Author: E.E Cumming
Style of Journal: Personal Response

S: Man
O: His girl has been cheating on him.
A: The girl that was his girlfriend
P: To express how hurt he is inside, but he does not show it.
S: Cheating of a women
Tone: sad

One style that I notice this author uses on this poem is end rhyme. All of his end rhyme seems to have a physical meaning. Much like “touch…clutch”. It seems like he chose those words to describe in action his girlfriend has been cheating with another man. One factor in this world that is hard for people that are in love to do is to accept the man or women who is dating their partner behind their back. In the poem, the main character accepts the man that was making love to his girlfriend. On his face he may not express how broken his heart his, but the author uses the bird has to show how hurt may be in the inside. In our society there have been many people that has been cheated on. In that group of people some are able to walk away peacefully, knowing that there heart is broken and there is no way it could be fixed. Once a person a person finds out that their partner has been cheating on them they start to think about the possible things their lover was doing with the other person. Imaging his lover holding hands with another person or kissing them are things that the author uses to express to his girlfriends to what he gives consent to. Even though all those actions with another man brakes his heart.