Destiny Geddis February 27, 2012

I chose this poem because it made sense to me. I can understand it and easily learn something from it. It makes me think about winning and how people seem to romanticize it, and how we always seem to change our ideas of what success would be.

I chose this one because it seemed interesting. I like how it flowed. Some of the poems I found are hard to make actually sound like a poem. This one was also easy for me to picture. I could close my eyes and see an old man sitting in a rocking chair, recounting the story, while the children sit there listening intently.

I enjoyed this one because I could actually understand what it meant. Poems are rather mysterious and a lot of them feel more like puzzles then literature. This one wasn’t to hard to figure out. It also made me feel kind of proud. Even when people are hurt, they will still try to do all they can to survive.

Glee! the great storm is over! Four have recovered land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand.

Ring, for the scant salvation! Toll, for the bonnie souls, - Neighbors and friends and bridegrooms, Spinning upon the shoals!

How they will tell the shipwreck When winter shakes the door, Till the children ask, “But the forty? Did they come back no more?”

Then a silence suffuses the story, And a softness the teller’s eyes; And the children no further question, And only the waves reply.

 Dickinson, Emily. “I. Success.” Favorite Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York: Avenel Books, Print  Dickinson, Emily. “V. Untitled.” Favorite Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York: Avenel Books, Print  Dickinson, Emily. “VIII. Untitled.” Favorite Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York: Avenel Books, Print