I am a little boy who likes to play badminton.
I wonder someday I can be an acknowledgeable badminton player.
I hear the audiences acclaiming for my arrival.
I see the bird zooming in the court.
I want to be a professional badminton player.
I am a little boy who likes to play badminton.
I pretend to be an absolute badminton player.
I feel the blessedness deep inside my heart.
I touch my racket in a courageous manner.
I worry about missing the birds.
I cry when I got defeated.
I am a little boy who likes to play badminton.
I dream I was play badminton during the Olympic.
I try to outright my dream.
I am a little boy who likes to play badminton.
-Johnny Zhang
Personification Poem
Creating and recreating
Shapes of desire
A cunning way to rest
My tired brain, painting
Coloured to aspire
A curve to be hugged
A corner to be embraced.
Murmuring song of Past remembrance
Mind ravaged in situ.
Energising the hand
To ask for spirit’s favour
Setting up an arrangement
To trap myself aflame
Within a creative frame
-Johnny Zhang
Action Poem Chlorine may ruin my hair
And irritate my eyes
I may not be as quick
I may not have the perfect stroke
Or the perfect glide
I may forget to count my breaths or the meters along the way
If I still had a coach - he'd definitely have something to say
But after seven years
It feels as if I've never left
How I went this long without?
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postmodernism, particularly within the area of postmodernist poetry. There has been a critical interest in political and cultural issues of race, difference and identity in the African-American poetry since the late eighties of the twentieth century. However, little attention has been given to James Baldwin's poetry and its aesthetical side. My PhD project underpins the issues of race, difference, identity and technique in Baldwin's poetry. In the recent years, race, difference, and identity have become…
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was one of the most influential poets of all time in both the English and Spanish languages. His poetry has inspired many poets of todays age to begin writing. However one must wonder where a man like this was able to find such inspiration. Well that can be traced back to one of the fathers of modern day poetry, Walt Whitman. Whitman played a massive role in Neruda’s poetry and his life outside of poetry. In fact Whitman so heavily influenced Neruda, that he had numerous paintings of him around his…
experiences with English helped me to appreciate literature and poetry significantly more. One of my English teaches in my sophomore year of high school had us pick any song we wanted and find all of the literary devices the song had and explain them. My choice was Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne. This project helped me to understand the lyrics of sings and encouraged me to find the meaning in poems and other songs. I have always since enjoyed poetry because of all the different symbols and meanings one can…
Literature Sherman Alexie Reaction Paper This interview describes cultural diversity as a Native American where with his poetry touches on his visual aspect of what he feels. The poetry is the life of ones story of what words are put into the truth of his words that explain the way socialism and the behavioral way to see the through his poetry. He said that every Native American has a bipolar belief that we tend to see two sides as anger and happiness that focuses on his own weakness…
feelings in general. In the poems “Harlem”, written by Langston Hughes, and “Introduction to Poetry”, written by Billy Collins, both authors force the reader to examine themselves as the poem is being read. In the poem “Harlem”, the author allowed me to visualize what could happen to a dream that wasn’t utilized. On the other hand, the poem “Introduction to Poetry” symbolizes how the majority of people torture poetry. Langston Hughes does a better job with forcing the reader to examine themselves. His self-…
