Service Learning So Far

So far in our service learning group Ms. Morson congratulated us and on the job well done on handing out the flyers at 8th Street Station and gave us buttons as a way of good job. Then after that she stared handing out cardboard to fold into boxes for our “Pennies for Patients” campaign giving each advisory one to put spare change in for kids with leukemia so they can find a cure. Next she started to focus on the smoking and carbon monoxide projects to see how far we got. My group the carbon monoxide group was just I and Ryan Prasetyo had just finished making our brochure on carbon monoxide and was testing to see how it would look printed so we could print more for Ms. Morson. And that was all we did so far in our group.

The Poem I Chose Is The Rebel By Mari Evans...

What makes a poem a poem? Its use of wordplay, its phrases? Maybe the rhyme scheme and the paper it’s published on. According to me, a poems worth can be found in its use words, which are barely more than a standard paragraph. Connecting to the first reason I liked her poem, being the simplicity that she used when writing the poem keeping her readers hooked on her every word. Lastly the final thing that hooked me to Mari Evans poem “The Rebel” was thinking about the character’s ordeal “Will they have a Big Funeral when they die?”

The first thing that drew me to “The Rebel” by scanning the poems use of few words. Evans use of few words to get her point across was astounding by just saying enough and nothing more. Even though we can’t confirm this unless by an interview, the way Mari sums up all she needs to say in this poem in fewer than 27 words more or less I believe is a skill that more poets should exercise.

Another reason I enjoyed reading “The Rebel” is because it’s a simple poems with no long-winded metaphors of the moon, nature, or even love. Knowing that you don’t need a dictionary for this poem to fully understand its meaning (one of the other two reasons it caught my attention). Overlooking that it doesn’t use thespian level wordplay to get its point across, another reason I liked this poem.

My last reason for liking this poem is because it will leave you the reader thinking, even if for a brief instant wondering what happens next to the character. Does the character think of committing suicide, dying, or does the character plan to do a crazy or dangerous stunt to see the outcome. Befuddling to the readers of this poem just like the poem “Beware: Do Not Read This Poem” just with fewer words, metaphors and similes perhaps and the somewhat scary story behind it on missing people.

So in conclusions one think that this poem, one of the few poems out there that could make or break a poets career. Of course with its few words and simplicity will draw you to this poem with its low-key, unseen wordplay leaves you wondering one thing. What happens to the character? Do they live, die, does their wish of a Big Funeral come to fruition? I believe the author left us with that to wonder as a sort of tease to buy her next poetry book to find out. So what’s the point of this essay you ask yourself? Go to your library and pick this poem and compare it to a random long poem you find there read it… and see which poem you think is better.