Germany Poem Analysis

My personal Germany poem incorporates a lot of ideas that we have learned in class. When analyzing it, we can clearly see that the text is about Germany's pros and con's. It talks about its size, technological advancements, taxation ideas, army, wealth status and its impacts on the citizens, and its geographical features. The 'voice' heard in this text is a narrators voice. The Poem is structured in a famous way, it’s a 'villanelle'. It could be spread into sections, basically each stanza is a topic for itself, and the last stanza sums it all up and reviews the pervious context. In addition, most of the lines have a direct connection to another line in the poem, so a diversity of lines could be plugged together and divided up into groups, ex. ‘It's as big as Shaquille O'Neill’, and ‘it doesn’t have a prominent basketball Hooper’. The main idea embedded below the surface of the text is to persuade. It may seem as a descriptive poem in the beginning but actually it is very persuasive and should convince the reader of Germany's greatness. I would describe the writers 'tone of voice' as pretty persuasive and patriotic. It evokes feeling of Germany being an absolutely great country but in an un-obvious way; it also includes not so great things, but the reader still keeps Germany in mind as a great country. He doesn’t think, oh what a biased and patriotic poem, he thinks: "what a nice analysis of Germany". The overall setting and description of the place creates this effect. A lot of imagery is presented in this poem. Starting in the first line a simile is used: 'Germany is as famous as the computer", draws the conclusion that the country Germany is extremely famous and nearly everyone in the world knows it just like the computer; it is a simile because it uses the work "as" to compare two things. The next line talks about it being as big as the famous basketball player Shaquille O'Neill in a simile again. Throughout the whole poem, the similes continue like this from line to line. They make the poem sound very much like a compare and contrast essay, which gives the reader a feeling of what Germany is like in all possible ways: size, geography, economy, etc. This poem could be given to a person that has never seen Germany before, and he would a pretty good sense of what it is like. It is a very descriptive poem; there are no lines that are only there to make the poem rhyme; every line is there for a meaning. The two lines: "Germany is as famous as the computer", and "It charges as many taxes as a stupor" recur all the time. The repeated lines stay in the head of the reader because they are heard over and over again. There are no words which seem unexpected or out of place because I didn’t think it would match the topic nor the theme of the poem. The poem follows a very precise rhyme scheme. It is a poem of nineteen lines. It has five stanzas, each three lines, with a final one of four lines. The first line of the first stanza is repeated as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas. These two refrain lines follow each other to become the second-to-last and last lines of the poem. The rhyme scheme is ava. The rhymes are repeated according to the refrains. In addition, my lines have a variation in length and flow. It changes depending on what I am saying in a line or even stanza. Overall though, the poem flows very well. The effects of other sound effects or aural images through the use of devices like alliteration are betraying. The reader completely falls for the poem and has no chance to resist, if it is made in a very good way. The entire poem works very well. The reader gets influenced to think that Germany is the greatest country in the world, without him/her even recognizing. It rhymes very well, and seems harmonic. The images presented can be visualized very nicely so the reader gets a good feel of the country. It offers a way of making something positive, including negative things. I think it is very hard to make a poem persuasive, without making it very obvious; probably the only way to do this is my also mentioning negative things, but not too negative because else they overweigh the positive.

Germany Poem

Germany is as famous as the computer,

It's as big as Shaquille O'Neill,

It charges as many taxes as a stupor.

Its army consists of a famous state trooper,

Every citizen has this certain fashion feel,

Germany is as famous as the computer.

Not everyone in the country is super,

But still, no one is scared of not receiving a meal,

It charges as many taxes as a stupor.

In the water surrounding Germany the most famous fish is the grouper,

Because the ocean is close bye, the boats need a Kiel,

Germany is as famous as the computer.

It's been visited by people such as Marissa Cooper,

No one has eyes that Scheele,

It charges as many taxes as a stupor.

It doesn’t have a prominent basketball Hooper,

Still, no one in the nation has to squeal,

Germany is as famous as the computer,

It charges as many taxes as a stupor.