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Dance". Please =]? For 9IB english we have to analysis a poem. As you can see I have done it pretty well, but I would like feedback and information to help make it better, thanks kind people =] haha.
And Your Soul Shall Dance
By Garrett Hongo
Walking to school besides fields
of tomatoes and summer squash,
alone and humming a Japanese love song,
you’ve concealed a copy of photoplay
between your algebra and English texts.
Your knee socks, saddle shoes, plaid dress,
and blouse, long sleeved and white
with ruffles down the front,
come from a sears catalogue
and neatly complement your new toni curls.
All of this sets you apart from the landscape:
flat valley grooved with irrigation ditches,
a tractor grinding threw alkaline earth,
the short stands of winderbreak eucalyptus.
shuttering the desert wind
from a small cluster of wooden shacks
where your mother hangs the wash.
You want to go somewhere.
Somewhere far away from all the dust
and sorting machines and acres of lettuce.
Somplace where you might be kissed
by someone with smooth, artistic hands.
When you turn into the school yard,
the flagpole gleams like a knife blade in the sun,
and classmates scatter like chickens,
shooed by the storm brooding on you horizon.
In the poem “And Your Soul Shall Dance” the author, Garrett Hongo tells about a young girl walking to school, unsatisfied with her southern, rural surroundings. You can sense the contrast between her dreams and the commonplace scenery around her. She obviously has plans far beyond this country school and the path to it.
The author shows you in many places that the girl is distinct from the scenes around her. The setting is described as a dusty, dirty farmer community. They live in shacks and are all working to run the farms, which suggests they are working class people struggle to make a living. They describe the girl as a neat and pretty girl who sings Japanese love songs and reads fashion magazines (photoplay). She buys her clothing from a sears magazine, which is known as affordable and bringing new things to remote places. Sears must seem exotic to this girl, and that’s how she sees herself. The magazine is a great glamorous window to the other world, wedged between English and algebra. In line 11 they say it up front: “all of this sets you apart from the landscape:” Making the author’s tone hopeful and encouraging to the girl .
The “storm” in the last line is a powerful metaphor. It symbolizes want brewing in the girl’s head. A want for her wildest dreams, bigger and better plans. Is poem about her desire to transcend her surroundings and become something greater? In lines 18-22 Garrett suggests, “You want to go somewhere. Somewhere far away from all the dust and sorting machines and acres of lettuce. Somewhere you might be kissed by someone with smooth, artistic hands.” She has dreams she cannot ignore. She wants to get out of this rut of a town and follow those dreams.
Garrett Hongo uses many similes and metaphors draw this girl’s portrait. At the end of the poem, two great similes emerge: “ the flagpole gleams like a knife blade in the sun”, and classmates scatter like chickens, shooed by the storm brewing on your horizon.” These complete the idea that her world is more dramatic than the real one. It also shows how she is an outcast as she enters her piers might be avoiding her since she’s different.
Garrett Hongo’s poem “And Your Soul Shall Dance” tells of a young girl who is unhappy with her surroundings but determined to be satisfied with them in later life. It tells of one rural girls hopes and dream of overcoming her small hometown and living her dreams.
Write what you think? Was my analysis accurate? Was it what you thought of the poem to? Any feedback helps!
And Your Soul Shall Dance
By Garrett Hongo
Walking to school besides fields
of tomatoes and summer squash,
alone and humming a Japanese love song,
you’ve concealed a copy of photoplay
between your algebra and English texts.
Your knee socks, saddle shoes, plaid dress,
and blouse, long sleeved and white
with ruffles down the front,
come from a sears catalogue
and neatly complement your new toni curls.
All of this sets you apart from the landscape:
flat valley grooved with irrigation ditches,
a tractor grinding threw alkaline earth,
the short stands of winderbreak eucalyptus.
shuttering the desert wind
from a small cluster of wooden shacks
where your mother hangs the wash.
You want to go somewhere.
Somewhere far away from all the dust
and sorting machines and acres of lettuce.
Somplace where you might be kissed
by someone with smooth, artistic hands.
When you turn into the school yard,
the flagpole gleams like a knife blade in the sun,
and classmates scatter like chickens,
shooed by the storm brooding on you horizon.
In the poem “And Your Soul Shall Dance” the author, Garrett Hongo tells about a young girl walking to school, unsatisfied with her southern, rural surroundings. You can sense the contrast between her dreams and the commonplace scenery around her. She obviously has plans far beyond this country school and the path to it.
The author shows you in many places that the girl is distinct from the scenes around her. The setting is described as a dusty, dirty farmer community. They live in shacks and are all working to run the farms, which suggests they are working class people struggle to make a living. They describe the girl as a neat and pretty girl who sings Japanese love songs and reads fashion magazines (photoplay). She buys her clothing from a sears magazine, which is known as affordable and bringing new things to remote places. Sears must seem exotic to this girl, and that’s how she sees herself. The magazine is a great glamorous window to the other world, wedged between English and algebra. In line 11 they say it up front: “all of this sets you apart from the landscape:” Making the author’s tone hopeful and encouraging to the girl .
The “storm” in the last line is a powerful metaphor. It symbolizes want brewing in the girl’s head. A want for her wildest dreams, bigger and better plans. Is poem about her desire to transcend her surroundings and become something greater? In lines 18-22 Garrett suggests, “You want to go somewhere. Somewhere far away from all the dust and sorting machines and acres of lettuce. Somewhere you might be kissed by someone with smooth, artistic hands.” She has dreams she cannot ignore. She wants to get out of this rut of a town and follow those dreams.
Garrett Hongo uses many similes and metaphors draw this girl’s portrait. At the end of the poem, two great similes emerge: “ the flagpole gleams like a knife blade in the sun”, and classmates scatter like chickens, shooed by the storm brewing on your horizon.” These complete the idea that her world is more dramatic than the real one. It also shows how she is an outcast as she enters her piers might be avoiding her since she’s different.
Garrett Hongo’s poem “And Your Soul Shall Dance” tells of a young girl who is unhappy with her surroundings but determined to be satisfied with them in later life. It tells of one rural girls hopes and dream of overcoming her small hometown and living her dreams.
Write what you think? Was my analysis accurate? Was it what you thought of the poem to? Any feedback helps!