Poetry Project

poetry project

Iván Casal, Pablo Vázquez, Ainhoa García and Patricia García

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction

2

Individual Poems

3

Dada

3

Patricia

3

Iván

4

Pablo

5

Ainhoa

6

Acrostic

7

Patricia

7

Iván

8

Pablo

9

Ainhoa

10

Haiku

11

Ainhoa

11

Patricia

12

Iván

13

Pablo

14

Ca​l​ligram

15

Pablo

15

Ainhoa

17

Iván

18

Patricia

19

Poem

20

Poem Introduction

22

Poem themes

22

Biography

23

Conclusion

24

Bibliography

26

Introduction In this project, we are going to talk about poetry. First, we are going to show some poems written by ourselves and then, to comment the beautiful poem “​If you forget me” ​by Pablo Neruda. We chose this poem because it is a different story. A story of true love, true people and true feelings. because, there isn’t anything more beautiful than let her go. Because, in these years people in general don’t want to learn that the other person needs freedom.

Individual Poems Dada

Patricia

Ivรกn

Pablo

Ainhoa

Acrostic Patricia

K​orean angel.

A​ctor, singer, dancer…

I ​love him.

Iván

M​essi, that person E​veryone wants to be like​, S​prints like a lion​, S​hots like a sniper​, I​s the real God, and no one can deny that.

Pablo

P​lay football in a team A​ttack the ball in the area B​ack-heel to pass the ball L​ine judge lifts the flag O​ne-two is my speciality to stop the ball

Ainhoa

S​wim​, W​ake up!

I​mposible?

M​eters and meters up​ ​to 500 M​uch faster​.

I​mposible?

N​o!

G​o, go, go!

Haiku Ainhoa

I love taking baths with water, bubbles and drops.

It is relaxing

Patricia

I am so afraid.

There is someone at the door.

It was my mother.

Iván

The ball in the ground​.

Try to dribble everyone​.

Score all goals you can.

Pablo

The ball in the field the referee in the field and the great match starts

Ca​l​ligram Pablo

Ainhoa

Ivรกn

Patricia

Gadgets

Ivรกn

Ainhoa

Pablo

Poem If You Forget Me​ by Pablo Neruda I want you to know one thing.

You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land.

But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine

Poem Introduction The poem shows us the story of a boy that is totally in love. He realizes that all things he does ends on his crush. Afterwards, the first character wants that the relationship will be common, but if it’s not like that, he isn't going to be angry or sad, if she doesn’t have interest on him, he will not become obsessed and he will forget her. However, if she loves him too, they will be an inseparable couple for a very long time.

Poem themes In this poem the author wants to show us the different feelings that he or the character feels when he does something like if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, ​He wants that you and we think about the feeling that only feels with that person.

First, the author makes you think that the character loves the other person with madness.

But then, the author makes us see that the character, although he hurts him, lets free the other person if she doesn’t love him. We can see this in that fragment; ​Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. ​Also, we can see personification in some fragments. For example, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ​And, maybe if you read the poem with attention, we can see a beautiful metaphor of a island and a boat ( the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots,) In that fragment the boat represents the relationship that the two characters become part of. And the first character represents a flower or plant that is tied​ ​in the boat for his roots.

Biography Pablo Neruda was born in the Chilean town of Parral in 1904. At age 13, he began his literary career as a contributor to the daily ​La Mañana​. In 1920, he contributed to the literary journal Selva Austral with the name of ​Pablo Neruda​. Some of Neruda's early poems are found in his first book, Crepusculario (Book of Twilight), published in 1923, and one of his most important and famous poems, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair)​, was published next year.

In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began and Neruda ​wrote about the horror that he saw in this moment of the Spain’s history, including the execution of his friend Federico García Lorca.

For the next 21 years, Pablo Neruda continued to write, rising in the ranks of ​20th century poets​. He also received numerous prestigious awards, including the International Peace Prize in 1950​, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953​, and the ​Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

Conclusion In this project we learnt a lot of things of poetry, like how to write poems in English or to analyze them. It was great fun doing this project because it is a thing that we had never done before and we think it is a curious thing to learn English this way. We admit that to understand the meaning of the poem has some difficulties because the author uses a cultivated language. So, we had to look for the meaning and other things to understand the poem.

Bibliography Pablo Neruda - ​ ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda Biography of Pablo Neruda - ​https://www.biography.com/people/pablo-neruda-9421737​ https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/neruda-bio.html ordReference - ​https://www.wordreference.com/es/