Songs & Poetry
Javier Prado AgustĂn Sedes
Table of contents 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………...2 2. Our poems…………………………………………………………………….3-9 a. Acrostics i. ii.
Fight …………………………………………………………………..3 Poem………………………………………………………….4
b. Haikus…………………………………………………………….4-7
3. Poem analysis a. If………………………………………………………….……………8 i.
Rudyard Kipling
ii.
Analysis
iii.
My object
b. Communism…………………………………………………….12 i.
Franco Fortini
ii.
Analysis
iii.
My object
4. Conclusion……………………………………………………………….15 5. Bibliographical references………………………………………………………..……….16
INTRODUCTION: In this 4 years we worked about the different kinds of art, like when we analyzed canvas and urban street art. We worked analysing novels, newspaper texts and all types of narrative In our last term, we are going to analyse poetry and how we worked doing our own haikus and acrostics.
ACROSTICS
F urious and I mpulsive G uilty of a H ealth T rouble
P ut three words O n each line E asy if you M ake it rhythm
HaikusÂ
Freedom, we need it, an open window to sky you will get it now.
We are all in class, nobody is attending we can’t pass the exam.
The boss, we don’t know. Rascal people everywhere briefcase with money there.
It is blue and deep, has a lot of animals a place I like.
Javi's Poem Rudyard Kipling
He was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics of children's literature; Rudyard quotes: “Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.” “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” “Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”
IF If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
In this stanza, the father
says to his daughter that
it's very
important to trust in yourself when nobody is doing it. Even though people lie you or hate you, you shouldn't lie or hate them If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools:
If you can make your mind fly, but always with your foots on the ground, and you can reason but you aren't blind to other people’s arguments
You
need
to
distinguish
between
triumph
anddisaster.You need the ability to begin again to do all what life gave to you.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitchandtoss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!
You need to be able to bet all what you have and risk it all and lose it and you don't stay sunken, you start without say anything about your mistake you continue working without self pity about your fail , and force your body to work harder when you are depressed If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
If you can stay with the best or the worst people and you continue being yourself and don't let others manipulate you. If you can be strong when the world hurts you and people can have faith on you. If you can enjoy every moment of your life you will be a Man
My object: I choose this object because some years ago my mother was sick and she wasn't healthy until this last year. She took a lot of pills during these 3 years. Because of that, I chose this package, It makes me remember when I had to take care of her. I want to give her this poem because when she educated me it was similar to what the boy's father does.
Agustin´s Poem
The biography of Franco Fortini. (September 10, 1917 – November 28, 1994). Franco Fortini was , an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual.
Communism I was a communist throughout. Justly though, the other communists looked askance at me. I was a communist despite their certainties, despite my doubts. Justly they did not see themselves in me.
Here the author defines himself like a real communist. They would not admit my discipline. My centralism seemed anarchy to them. My selfcriticisms contradicted theirs. Special communists cannot be: to think so is not to be so.
His camarades don't admit his critics. Here Fortini also says that to be a communist you need to reflect it with acts. Justly they did not see themselves in me, my comrades. Like them, I too was enslaved. Even more so: I tended to forget it. They did their work, I followed my inclination. Exactly that: I was a communist throughout.
He says he was under pressure as his comrades, I think this sounds annoying because his comrades didn’t recognize him as a real communist. Despite their certainties, despite my doubts I always wanted this world ended. Myself ended too. And it was that exactly which estranged us. My hopes had no point for them. My centralism seemed anarchy to them.
In that paragraph the author wants to finish Stalin’s USSR
As if I wanted more, more truth, more for me to give them, more for them to give me. Thus living, dying thus. I was a communist throughout. I always wanted this world ended. I have survived enough to see comrades who bruised me broken by intolerable truths.
Here, Fortini wants to put an end to the URSS , and he also wants people to know the atrocities of Stalin's acts. Now tell me: you knew very well I was with you? Was that why you hated me? My truth is truly needed, breathed in through space and time, heard patiently
Here, he asks questions as if people know that he was next to the people , to end saying that the truth will be known by everyone. In this phrase Fortini refers to the atrocities done by the USSR
My object: I
dedicate
this poem
to
Лев
Давидович
Бронштейн (Trotsky ) because he defended his ideals against Stalin's ideals, because of defending his ideals he needed to exile in 1929 to end assassinated by an agent of Stalin. Trotsky (1879-1940) was an important bolshevik that left us another marxist point of view, he supported the Russian revolution.
Conclusion: In this project we learned how to analyze poetry, but we did this because other years we learned how to analyze newspaper articles, novels, photographs and we think that this was a really nice project to finish our work on the ESO.
References: Cover page: 大家谈论《纸牌屋》，究竟谈些什么:
http://www.wehangzhou.cn/sh/cz/czjl/201406/W0201406 19619714997221.jpg Taringa, Un poema de amor escrito por mi. http://k38.kn3.net/taringa/2/1/3/1/1/4/9/odiseorey/0ED.jpg?7624 Medio tiempo, Puyol y Vicente se pelearon en el entrenamiento de 'La Furia Roja' http://www.mediotiempo.com/futbol/ligaespanola/noticias/2005/10/ 10/puyolyvicentesepelearonenelentrenamientodelafuriaroja Viveros; Javier, Ventana abierta, http://javierviveros.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/laventanaabierta.html El reflejo, With a little help of my friends http://elreflejo.blogspot.com.es/2005/12/withlittlehelpofmyfriends .html The telegraph, Mariano Rajoy hits out at corruption 'lies and manipulation' http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02633/MarianoRajoy_26 33119b.jpg Ciencia al día, El Atlántico absorbe menos CO2 por la ralentización de la circulación oceánica
http://cienciaaldia.com/wpcontent/uploads/2013/01/Oceanoatlantic o.jpg Rudyard quotes: Brain y quote: Rudyard Kipling, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rudyardkip137107.html León Trotsky, Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky
Franco Fortini, Wikipedia http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Fortini