"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" By:Dylan Thomas

This poem, about death is telling those who are dying to fight death and to not give up easily. The speaker says to live your life to the fullest and to "rage" against death or "the dying of the light." In the line, "old age should burn and rave at close of day," the speaker is saying that when a person grows older, they are fighting everyday against death and should live out their last days and life so they can be happy. The different stanzas speak of different situations and people who are close to death. The speaker tells the people not to let in to death and "rage against the dying of the light." The light is symbolic of the end of life. When the "light" dies, the person's life has ended. In the end, the speaker incorporates his own personal experience with death, telling his father to "not go gentle into that good night." He prays that his father keeps fighting death.

"Delight in Disorder" By: Robert Herrick

The title of this poem essentially captures the entire theme of the poem. The speaker talks of all of the disorder in life and says how his art is disorder. The broken rhyme scheme and oxymoron's help incorporate disorder into the structure and language of the poem. The oxymoron's in the poem include "wild civility", "fine distraction," and "flow confusedly." I agree with the speaker of this poem. I would take disorder over perfection any day. The world is made for disorder as almost nothing is perfect. Their is disorder with nature, disorder in houses, and disorder when there are wrecks. Disorder is a natural event and without it, the world would not be the same.

"Edward" By:Anonymous

While reading this poem, I was unsure of what it was about at first. I believed that the central theme was death because at first, I thought Edward had killed all three of the things. Through discussion, I realized that this poem is a conversation between Edward and his mother and his mother is questioning him about his "sword" that "drip(s) with blood." He first says that he killed his hawk, but his mother calls him out on his lie. Next, he claims he killed his steer," but his mother also knows this is a lie. Finally Edward admits to killing his father. I found it odd that the mother was not upset or angry about her son killing her husband. Through this and discussion I came to the conclusion that Edward's mother knew that he was going to kill his father. She even went as far as to give him "counsels." I realized that the central theme of this poem was greed and death. The mother was greedy and wanted the money that she knew she would get from the death of her husband, but only if her son killed him. When she finds out that he killed her husband, she asks "what will ye leave to your children and wife." She knows that if Edward doesn't leave his wife and children anything she will get the money. This poem is centered around greed and death.

"Lonely Hearts" by: Wendy Cope

While reading this poem, I noticed that every stanza was the same length and every stanza alternated endings. I associated the uniform length of every stanza with how these types of dating searches would be submitted into a magazine. Every stanza was a separate ad submitted to a newspaper in search of a date. The endings of the stanzas alternated, ending with either "Do you live in North London? Is it you?" or "Can someone make my simple wish come true?" until the last stanza which ends with both of these lines. This repetition and uniformity lead me to realize that the author is satirizing people who write in to papers in search of dates. I was also lead to believe this because the speaker only chooses people who are usually viewed as outcasts to write about, such as "gay vegetarian," "executive in search of bisexual women," "straight and solvent, attractive Jewish lady," and "Libran, inexperienced." Even if the person is not an outcast, the speaker causes them to be viewed as an outcast or as an odd person because of their uncommon or unaccepted preferences. The speaker causes the people writing the ads to sound desperate by incorporating the questions and repetition between each stanza/ad.