Victoria+Yarbrough

 **An introductory quote from another poet about poetry** : "Poetry...is...a speaking picture, with this end. to teach and delight." Sir Philip Sydney **A statement about my own poetry:** When it comes to writing my own poetry, I don't have a set structure/way to do anything. I write whatever comes to mind. I like the variety, and the idea of having something new bloom inside my head each time I get the urge to create a new piece. I find it harder to write about things when I am assigned to do it. I feel like the works of art that I created with out being prompted to do it are stronger on an exponential scale. One thing I did notice about myself while writing is that I like to keep the tone mellow and relaxed. I feel like it's a sure fire way to soothe the reader while having them understand the meaning of each and every line I create. **The sun** By: Victoria Yarbrough I was raised by the sun. She is golden. "Be tall, be brave, be bright" She says. She is wise. I was raised by it's grace. And even now my back is to her. For her beauty is too bold and luminescent. Like her love. Infinite, like her knowledge. I aspire to be in equivalence with the sun. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Her rays cut through my soul and enlighten me. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">She is golden <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">She raised me.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Four works of my own: **

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**?** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">By: Victoria Yarbrough <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">We breathe the same air right? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">We learn the same things right? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">We're both //human// right? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">So then why? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Why are you so superior? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Why can't I reach you? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">What is it that you have that I'm scrounging for? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Is it intellect? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">No. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Is it street smarts? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Still no. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">I don't know what it is. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">But I know why I don't have it. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">If souls really do exist, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Then yours emits light. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">A light so bright, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">So bright, that I can't even look at you. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Look at you to find what it is that I'm missing. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">In fact, that light creates a reflection against myself. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">One that I'm too afraid to look at. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">One that would give me the answers to my questions. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">But until I find the courage to look at that reflection, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">I'll keep you in question.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Ideas** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">By Victoria Yarbrough <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Let me just say that with out you, the world would be nothing. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">You are the mother of all objects. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">But not the Grandmother. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">We are the creators. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">But we need our right hand man. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">To build our dreams. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">I thank you <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Thank you for being there. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Who would be, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Scratch that <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Who would //we be?// <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Why, I have no Idea.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Iambic Failure** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">By: Victoria Yarbrough <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Will you go to the prom with me at 3? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">I picked out your dress doesn't it look great? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">It fits and is the color of a pea. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">If you say no I will sit by your gate. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">I want to give you all you need and more. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">I am in love with you so love me too. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">If they see us, they will think I have scored. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Say yes and I'll do what you want me to. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">At the end you and I can share a kiss. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Come now it is time to get in the car. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Too late to try and fight me over this. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">I don't want to give you an ugly scar. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">I knew getting you to go would be tough. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">If you still say no the loving me will just be enough.

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 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">** Robert Frost **

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">** To Earthward ** ||||  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**by [|Robert Frost]** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That crossed me from sweet things, The flow of--was it musk From hidden grapevine springs Downhill at dusk? I had the swirl and ache From sprays of honeysuckle That when they're gathered shake Dew on the knuckle. I craved strong sweets, but those Seemed strong when I was young; The petal of the rose It was that stung. Now no joy but lacks salt, That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the after mark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove. When stiff and sore and scarred I take away my hand From leaning on it hard In grass and sand, The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength To feel the earth as rough To all my length.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That crossed me from sweet things, The flow of--was it musk From hidden grapevine springs Downhill at dusk? I had the swirl and ache From sprays of honeysuckle That when they're gathered shake Dew on the knuckle. I craved strong sweets, but those Seemed strong when I was young; The petal of the rose It was that stung. Now no joy but lacks salt, That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the after mark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove. When stiff and sore and scarred I take away my hand From leaning on it hard In grass and sand, The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength To feel the earth as rough To all my length.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Analyzing Robert Frost's "To Earthward"-** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Inside of Frost's "To Earthward", there is a constant rhyme scheme. This is a simple component of just about every poem that has ever been written. However, when tied in with enjambments and succinct lines, the reader can't help but stop, slow down and become captured by every metaphor. The poet uses these descriptive metaphors like "The petal of the rose it was that stung." and "Now no joy but lacks salt" to describe the bitter sweet trials of love. This makes the tone of the poem amorous which can put a reader at ease. It also gives them a feeling of lightheartedness, which ultimately was the poet's goal. Having only for lines per stanza is another technique that works here. By having spaced out one idea, it becomes easier to understand. The overall structure of this poem along with the text itself bind together to make a concise poem. ||

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Bond and Free** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**by Robert Frost**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about— Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Thought has need of no such things, For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings. On snow and sand and turf, I see Where Love has left a printed trace With straining in the world’s embrace. And such is Love and glad to be. But Thought has shaken his ankles free. Thought cleaves the interstellar gloom And sits in Sirius’ disc all night, Till day makes him retrace his flight, With smell of burning on every plume, Back past the sun to an earthly room. His gains in heaven are what they are. Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Analytical Paragraph for Robert Frost's "Bond and Free"** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">The idea of having two contrasting concepts works well inside of this poem. It keeps the reader enticed, wondering what makes the two so different. Having clear and concise punctuation let's the reader find the meaning and the end of the poem quite easily. This isn't necessarily a good or bad thing though. Some readers look for a challenge in trying to find out what a poem truly means. There is a simple rhyme scheme that goes: A,B,B,A throughout all four stanzas, another tactic that hand holds the reader. There is a pensive yet romantic tone which (like many of Frost's other poems) put the reader in subliminal ease. That in turn makes them read a more calm pace. Descriptive personification reminds the reader that this is still a poem and not a manifesto of feelings and thoughts; which then gives a natural feel to the poem.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**by Robert Frost**
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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ||

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Analytical Paragraph for Robert Frost's "The road not taken"** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Robert Frost uses choppy enjambments to tell the story of life and how it can take one through difficult paths. This gives a natural vibe to the reader who then has to slowdown and read it at relaxed pace to get the deeper understandings weaving in and out of each stanza. The uniform rhyme scheme that continues on throughout all five stanzas keep the reader interested and eager to find out just what word the author uses to complete said rhyme scheme. There is a central tone of nostalgia and tranquility that can keep a reader focused on the poem. It lets a reader reminisce about their own paths in life while still grasping and reading the poem. Each stanza is short and to the point which helps convey the meaning of the poem while not trying to be too difficult.