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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 @ 5:10 PM
Lesson 3: Analyzing and Composing a Poem The Son is in Secondary School by Affran Sa’at My badge has a Latin motto Hope for the future The future is hope Or something At times black crows try to interrupt When we sing the National Anthem It is difficult to maintain The whiteness of my shoes Especially on Wednesdays I must admit there is something quite special About the bare thighs of hardworking scouts The Malay chauffeurs Who wait for my schoolmates Sit on the car park kerb Telling jokes to one another Seven to the power of five is unreasonable On Chinese New Year Mrs Lee dressed up in a strong kebaya and sang Bengawan Solo The capital of Singapore is Singapore My best friend did a heroic thing once Shaded all A’s For his Chinese Language Multiple-choice paper In our annual yearbook There is a photograph of me Pushing a wheelchair and smiling They caught me At the exact moment When my eyes were actually closed Analysis In this poem, the poet is reminiscing his past when he was in secondary school. He specifically picks out significant events from his school life and wrote it in his poem, indicating memories of his past are still fresh in his mind. He probably wanted to write this poem to try to experience life as a school boy again. This poem has 10 stanzas in it, each stanza going from one scene to another. Most of them are either couplets, triplets, quatrain or quinrain. The poet has arranged two lines to be individual as he wanted emphasize them and give them a dramatic effect. It has no particular rythm to it, thus it is a free verse. Alliteration is present in a couple of lines. For instance, in stanza 3, the consonant 'w' is repeated twice in "The whiteness of my shoes Especially on Wednesdays", repetition of 's' in stanza 4, "I must admit there is something quite special" and in stanza when 's' is repeated thrice, "in a strong kebaya and sang Bengawan Solo". The poet uses imagery a few times for us to visualise the scene and hence, bring us into his memories. For example, "black crows", "bare thighs" and "strong kebaya". Personification, has been used in the poem, though only once. It occurs when the poet writes "At times black crows try to interrupt", giving the crows human personalities to think and want to interrupt when they were singing the national anthem. I feel that this poem wants to convey the message to live life happily and at its fullest. In the first stanza, the motto to hope for the future instead of dreading it. In fact, we should never forget our childhood, because childhood means fun. Poem - Good days, Bad days New books. New teachers. New life. Mind in a mess Where was I? School. I was a lone island, Like an exile from the gang. Felt like crying. Where was I? School. Finally, I was accepted. A friend found me. Yellow roses danced around me. Where was I? School. A frown in the morning. A smile in the afternoon. A laugh in the evening. Where was I? School. Soon, swarms of friends came knocking at my door. More merry. We studied together, we played together. We ran. We jumped. We joked. SCREEK! Scratched a teacher's car. Escaped easily! Where was I? School. Joy, however, does not ever last. If time was in my hands, I would turn it back to the past. Where do I want to be? School. Comment | 1 Comments |